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Events on January 17

• 1328 Louis IV of Bavaria, advised by Marsilius of Padua, has himself crowned emperor by representatives of the Roman people rather than by the pope, due to his dispute with John XXII, becoming the first emperor in the history of the Holy Roman Empire to be crowned in this way.
• 1685 Johannes Diodato is the first to receive an imperial privilege for the public sale of coffee and subsequently opens the first Viennese coffeehouse.
• 1773 James Cook is the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle during his second voyage.
• 1929 Popeye, a character designed by Elzie Segar for the King Features Syndicate, first appears as a supporting character in a comic strip in the New York Journal newspaper.
• 1939 Under the Eighth Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law, one of the Nuremberg Race Laws, which gradually deprived Jews in National Socialist Germany of their civil rights, they are prohibited from working as dentists, pharmacists, or veterinarians.
• 1945 Because of the advancing Red Army, the occupation authorities under Richard Baer begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
• 1955 A carnival session from Mainz wie es singt und lacht is broadcast on television for the first time.
• 1988 In East Berlin, demonstrators who quote Rosa Luxemburg with the slogan “Freedom is always also the freedom of those who think differently” are arrested on the edge of an official demonstration by the SED party leadership.
• 1991 Following his election victory in the 1990 Bundestag election, the German Bundestag elects Helmut Kohl as Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany for the third time and for the first time after reunification.
• 1991 The film Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci, is playing in German cinemas.
• 1998 The Drudge Report website begins speculating about an affair in the White House in which US President Bill Clinton is supposedly involved. When the Washington Post picks up the story four days later, the Lewinsky affair develops.
• 2025 The Lufthansa Group takes over the Italian ITA Airways, initially with a 41 percent stake.

Born on January 17

• 1863 David Lloyd George, British politician
• 1863 Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor, acting teacher, and director
• 1867 Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer
• 1891 Walter Eucken, German economist
• 1931 James Earl Jones, American actor
• 1931 Lolita, Austrian pop singer, actress, and television presenter
• 1940 Hans-Werner Hector, German mathematician and co-founder of SAP
• 1940 Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
• 1980 Zooey Deschanel, American actress and singer
• 1981 Ray J, American singer and actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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