Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 17

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 * 1562 – Representatives of Catherine de' Medici, the regent of France, drew up the Edict of Saint-Germain, providing limited tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots.
 * 1773 – On James Cook's second voyage, his vessel HMS Resolution (1771) became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle.
 * 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them by 33 days.
 * 1920 – The Volstead Act went into effect, beginning the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
 * 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who had saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody during the Siege of Budapest and was never seen in public again.
 * 1961 – Patrice Lumumba (pictured), a former prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments.
 * 1961 – Three days before leaving office, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned about the dangers of the military–industrial complex.
 * 1966 – A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, dropping three hydrogen bombs on land near Palomares, Spain, and a fourth one into the sea.
 * 1989 – Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school in Stockton, California, killing 5 and wounding 32 others.
 * 1998 – The Drudge Report became the first news source to break the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to the public.
 * 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo, 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 Goma.
 * 2010 – The first spate of violence between Muslims and Christians began in Jos, Nigeria, and would end in more than 200 deaths.
 * Born/died: | Henry of Asti |d|1345| Martino Zaccaria |d|1345| William Backhouse |b|1593| Thomas Fairfax |b|1612| Thomas Linley the elder |b|1733|  Anne Brontë |b|1820| Alva Belmont |b|1853| David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty |b|1871| Big Bear |d|1888| Abram Lincoln Harris |b|1899| Gauhar Jaan |d|1930| Mateiu Caragiale |d|1936| Thomas Jaggar |d|1953| Barbara Jordan |d|1996| Zhao Ziyang |d|2005|