Today: January 17, 2025

On this day: January 17

Events that happened on January 17.

• January 17, 1950: The "Great Brink's Robbery" takes place when armed robbers steal $2.7 million from the Brink's Building in Boston.
• January 17, 1951: Hal Walker's musical comedy film "At War with the Army" is released.
• January 17, 1970: Irish politics: Sinn Féin is formed (current form).
• January 17, 1971: Super Bowl V: The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 at the Miami Orange Bowl.
• January 17, 1972: Seven Provisional IRA members escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• January 17, 1988:
  • "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" premieres on the Disney Channel.
  • The first episode of Australian soap opera Home and Away is aired.
  
• January 17, 1992: The film Juice (1992), starring Tupac Shakur, is released in movie theaters.
• January 17, 1994: 57 people are killed by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles.
• January 17, 1995: The "Great Hanshin earthquake" kills 6,434 people in Japan.
• January 17, 1997: The NBA suspends Dennis Rodman for at least 11 games for kicking cameraman Eugene Amos.
• January 17, 1998: The Lewinsky scandal is first mentioned by The Drudge Report.
• January 17, 2000: NSYNC release the song "Bye Bye Bye".
• January 17, 2003: The first episode of "That's So Raven" is aired on Disney.
• January 17, 2007: There is public outrage when contestants on the UK television show "Celebrity Big Brother" are accused of being racist towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
• January 17, 2013: Retired cyclist Lance Armstrong admits to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
• January 17, 2014: It is reported that actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard are engaged.
• January 17, 2015:
  • It is reported that Nick Cannon has filed for divorce from Mariah Carey.
  • American fitness model Greg Plitt is killed by a train while filming a video.
  
• January 17, 2017:
  • The sentence of Chelsea Manning is commuted by President Barack Obama.
  • The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is suspended after nearly three years.
  
• January 17, 2018: Teletubbies actor Simon Shelton (Tinky Winky) dies from the hypothermia at the age of 52.
• January 17, 2022: Russia-Ukraine crisis: A senior EU diplomat tells BBC that Europe is 'closest to war' in decades.
• January 17, 2023: Greta Thunberg is arrested by the police during a coal mine protest in Luetzerath, Germany.
• January 17, 2024: Arnold Schwarzenegger is held by customs officers at Munich airport after failing to declare a luxury watch.