On this day: January 17

POSTED: 12:10 PM PST Jan 16, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 16, 2013 

Hawaii's monarchy is overthrown, Popeye makes his comic strip debut, Muhammad Ali is born, Operation Desert Storm begins, and news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks online, all on this day.

OTD January 17 - Rutherford B Hayes
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1893: Rutherford B. Hayes, who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, dies of complications from a heart attack at the age of 70 in Fremont, Ohio.

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