WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. JANUARY
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. (17. January 1912)

Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France. (17. January 1913)

The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. (17. January 1917)

Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard. (17. January 1918)

Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. (17. January 1929)

Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days. (17. January 1929)

Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy. (17. January 1941)

World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew. (17. January 1943)

World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties. (17. January 1944)

World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. (17. January 1945)

The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. (17. January 1945)

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. (17. January 1945)

The UN Security Council holds its first session. (17. January 1946)

The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time. (17. January 1949)

The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. (17. January 1950)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending. (17. January 1961)

Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States. (17. January 1961)

Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. (17. January 1966)

Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. (17. January 1969)

Marinella releases Stalia – Stalia. (17. January 1969)