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January 17th, 2038	Event	Octavian marries Livia Drusilla.
January 17th, 2007	Event	The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
January 17th, 2002	Event	Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
January 17th, 2001	Event	President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
January 17th, 1998	Event	Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
January 17th, 1997	Event	A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
January 17th, 1996	Event	The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
January 17th, 1995	Event	The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
January 17th, 1994	Event	1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
January 17th, 1991	Event	Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

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