^B{^#!16!17 January^N! Feast day of St Sabinus of Piacenza, St Julian Sabas, St Antony the Abbot, St Geulf or Genou, St Richimir, St Sulpicius II or Sulpice of Bourges, and Saints Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus.
^B{1377^B} The Papal See was transferred from Avignon back to Rome. ^B{1773^B} Captain Cook's Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. ^B{1852^B} The independence of the Transvaal Boers was recognized by Britain. ^B{1912^B} English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole; Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. ^B{1959^B} Senegal and the French Sudan joined to form the Federal State of Mali. ^B{1966^B} A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refueling tanker, killing eight of the crew and releasing the bombs. ^B{1977 ^B}US double murderer Gary Gilmore became the first to be executed in the US in a decade; he chose to be executed by firing squad. ^B{1991^B} US, British and Saudi forces launched a combined attack against Iraq, beginning Operation Desert Storm. ^B{1992^B} An IRA bomb, placed next to a remote country road in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, killed seven building workers and injured seven others. ^B{1994^B} An earthquake in Los Angeles, measuring 6.6 on Richter scale, left 61 dead and thousands injured and homeless. ^B{1995^B}Over 3,500 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit the city of Kobe, Japan.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Benjamin Franklin, US statesman and scientist, ^B{1706^B}; David Lloyd George, English statesman, ^B{1863^B}; Nevil Shute, English novelist, ^B{1899^B}; Al Capone, US gangster, ^B{1899^B}; Muhammad Ali, US boxer, ^B{1942^B}; Paul Young, English singer, ^B{1956^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Italian composer, ^B{1751^B}; Quintin Hogg, English merchant and philanthropist, ^B{1903^B}; Francis Galton, English anthropologist and explorer, ^B{1911^B}; T W White, English writer, ^B{1964^B}; Ruskin Spear, British artist, ^B{1990^B}.
