17th January

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1746 ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ and his Highlanders were defeated at Culloden.

1773 Captain Cook's ship and his crew, aboard 'Resolution', became the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.

1863 Birth of David Lloyd George, Welsh politician.

1896 The Daimler Motor Company (Coventry) registered as the first British car manufacturer.

1907 Birth of Alfred Wainwright, author of the guide books on walking, in Blackburn, Lancashire.

1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, beaten by Norwegian Roald Amundsen by one month.

1966 Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.

1968 The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed; from the merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd.

1986 The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britons and other foreign nationals from Aden during their civil war.

1998 The Monica Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.

2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash landed just short of London Heathrow Airport with no fatalities. It was the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777, the world's largest twin jet aircraft.

For more what happened on this day ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17

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