17 Dey 1401

Events

• 49 BC The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
• 1835 (191 years ago) HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• 1959 (67 years ago) The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1984 (42 years ago) Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1991 (35 years ago) Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
• 2015 (11 years ago) A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

Births

• 1502 (524 years ago) Pope Gregory XIII,
• 1800 (226 years ago) Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)
• 1858 (168 years ago) Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)
• 1964 (62 years ago) Nicolas Cage, American actor
• 1970 (56 years ago) Andy Burnham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1971 (55 years ago) Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1985 (41 years ago) Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1991 (35 years ago) Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

Deaths

• 1536 (490 years ago) Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England (born 1485)
• 1655 (371 years ago) Pope Innocent X,
• 1715 (311 years ago) François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and engineer (born 1856)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Hirohito, Japanese emperor (born 1901)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1945)
• 2025 (a year ago) Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (born 1928)

All 302 events, births and deaths of January 7