01-16-2014, 08:58 PM
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Location: Maryland
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January 17th
1893 ~ Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate.
1929 ~ Popeye the Sailor Man first appeared in the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip.
1942 ~ Birthday of Muhammad Ali, the world's greatest heavyweight Boxer.
1964 ~ Death of T.H. White, author.
1977 ~ Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.
1984 ~ Birthday of Sophie Dee, Porn Actress.
1995 ~ A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the city of Kobe, Japan; more than 6,000 people were killed.
1997 ~ Death of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto.
2001 ~ Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.
2008 ~ Death of Bobby Fischer, chess player extraordinaire.
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