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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 - Kobe earthquake — 34 / 41

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1995: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing more than $100 billion in property damage and killing 6,434 people.

OTD January 17 - George Bancroft

OTD January 17 - Queen Lili'uokalani

OTD January 17 - Rutherford B Hayes

OTD January 17 - Al Capone

OTD January 17 - Anton Chekhov

OTD January 17 - Robert Scott South Pole

OTD January 17 - JC Penney

OTD January 17 - Betty White

OTD January 17 - Eartha Kitt

OTD January 17 - Vidal Sassoon

OTD January 17 - Popeye

OTD January 17 - James Earl Jones

OTD January 17 - Muhammad Ali

OTD January 17 - Warsaw

OTD January 17 - Nazi concentration camp

OTD January 17 - UN Security Council

OTD January 17 - The Goldbergs

OTD January 17 - Andy Kaufman

OTD January 17 - Steve Earle

OTD January 17 - Susanna Hoffs

OTD January 17 - Eisenhower

OTD January 17 - Jim Carrey

OTD January 17 - Michelle Obama

OTD January 17 - Palomares incident

OTD January 17 - Kid Rock

OTD January 17 - Gary Gilmore

OTD January 17 - Zooey Deschanel

OTD January 17 - Ray J

OTD January 17 - Dwyane Wade

OTD January 17 - Patrick Purdy

OTD January 17 - Simon and Garfunkel

OTD January 17 - Operation Desert Storm

OTD January 17 - Northridge earthquake

OTD January 17 - Kobe earthquake

OTD January 17 - Bowie RnR HOF

OTD January 17 - Paula Jones

OTD January 17 - Monica Lewinsky

OTD January 17 - Meriwether Lewis

OTD January 17 - Richard Crenna

OTD January 17 - Bobby Fischer

OTD January 17 - Don Kirshner

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