Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter. Date: January 17, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 2013 π On This Day (Today)
President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement intended to limit Iran's nuclear program. Date: January 17, 2016 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 2016 π On This Day (Today)
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended. Date: January 17, 2017 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 2017 π On This Day (Today)
An avalanche strikes Nyingchi, Tibet, killing 28 people. Date: January 17, 2023 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 17 π Events on this day in 2023 π On This Day (Today)
The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. Date: January 16, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 16 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today)
Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. Date: January 16, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 16 π Events on this day in 1909 π On This Day (Today)
Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first letter to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, stating without proof various formulae involving integrals, infinite series, and continued fractions, beginning a long correspondence between the two as well as widespread recognition of Ramanujan's results. Date: January 16, 1913 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January…
Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later. Date: January 16, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 16 π Events on this…
The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. Date: January 16, 1920 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 16 π Events on this day in 1920 π On This Day (Today)
The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Δ½ubochΕa. Date: January 16, 1921 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 16 π Events on this day in 1921 π On This Day (Today)