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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17" title="January 17">January 17</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1377" title="1377">1377</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XI" title="Pope Gregory XI">Gregory XI</a></b>, the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy" title="Avignon Papacy">Avignon pope</a>, entered Rome after a four-month journey from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon" title="Avignon">Avignon</a>, returning the papacy to its original city.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893" title="1893">1893</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrin_A._Thurston" title="Lorrin A. Thurston">Lorrin A. Thurston</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Safety_(Hawaii)" title="Committee of Safety (Hawaii)">Citizens' Committee of Public Safety</a> led the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom" title="Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom">overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom</a></b> and the government of Queen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani" title="Liliʻuokalani">Liliʻuokalani</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Australian troops advanced along the northern part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island" title="Bougainville Island">Bougainville Island</a> (in present-day Papua New Guinea) and began fighting Japanese forces in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsimba_Ridge" title="Battle of Tsimba Ridge">Battle of Tsimba Ridge</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renville_Agreement" title="Renville Agreement">Renville Agreement</a></b> between the Netherlands and Indonesian republicans was ratified, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes arising from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linggadjati_Agreement" title="Linggadjati Agreement">Linggadjati Agreement</a> of 1946.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999" title="1999">1999</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saigon,_Orange_County" title="Little Saigon, Orange County">Little Saigon, California</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Tek_incident" title="Hi-Tek incident">a series of protests</a></b> began when the owner of a video rental store displayed an image of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Wood_(author)" title="Ellen Wood (author)">Ellen Wood</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1814); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Lincoln_Harris" title="Abram Lincoln Harris">Abram Lincoln Harris</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1899); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama" title="Michelle Obama">Michelle Obama</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1964); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunanda_Pushkar" title="Sunanda Pushkar">Sunanda Pushkar</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2014)</p>