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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/1562" title="1562">1562</a> – Representatives of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de%27_Medici" title="Catherine de' Medici">Catherine de' Medici</a>, the regent of France, drew up the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Saint-Germain" title="Edict of Saint-Germain">Edict of Saint-Germain</a></b>, providing limited tolerance to the Protestant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots" title="Huguenots">Huguenots</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1773" title="1773">1773</a> – On <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a>'s <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook" title="Second voyage of James Cook">second voyage</a></b>, his vessel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(1771)" title="HMS Resolution (1771)">HMS <i>Resolution</i></a> became the first vessel to cross the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Circle" title="Antarctic Circle">Antarctic Circle</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912" title="1912">1912</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott" title="Robert Falcon Scott">Robert Falcon Scott</a>'s ill-fated <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_Expedition" title="Terra Nova Expedition">Terra Nova Expedition</a></b> reached the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole" title="South Pole">South Pole</a>, only to find that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen" title="Roald Amundsen">Roald Amundsen</a>'s team had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%27s_South_Pole_expedition" title="Amundsen's South Pole expedition">beaten them by 33 days</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961" title="1961">1961</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba" title="Patrice Lumumba">Patrice Lumumba</a></b>, a former prime minister of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_(L%C3%A9opoldville)" title="Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)">Congo-Léopoldville</a>, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo" title="Mount Nyiragongo">Mount Nyiragongo</a></b>, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, began an eruption that killed hundreds and left about 120,000 people homeless in the nearby town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goma" title="Goma">Goma</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_of_Asti" title="Henry of Asti">Henry of Asti</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1345); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jaggar" title="Thomas Jaggar">Thomas Jaggar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1953); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang" title="Zhao Ziyang">Zhao Ziyang</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2005)</p>
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