17th January anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1933
  • United States
  • "Birth of Shari Lewis, American puppeteer and ventriloquist (’Lamb Chop’) ."
• event
  • 1929
  • United States
  • "Cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man first appeared in Elzie Crisler Segars Thimble Theatre comic strip, syndicated throughout the USA"
  • 1959
  • Senegal and the French Sudan joined to form the Federal State of Mali
  • 1983
  • Great Britain
  • Breakfast television was launched in the UK .
  • 1984
  • United States
  • The US Supreme Court ruled that the private use of video cassette recorders (VCRs) to record TV programmes did not break copyright laws
  • 1994
  • United States
  • "The Los Angeles earthquake killed 72 people, injured 11,000, and caused $12.5 billion worth of damage"
• Death