January 17

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1773	Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.	Antarctica	Tektur the Water	81:03
2	1893	The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.	Joy Division	From Safety to Where	Substance
3	1904	Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.	Neil Diamond	Cherry, Cherry	The Feel of Neil Diamond
4	1929	Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.	The Album Leaf	The Sailor	One Day I'll Be on Time
5	1950	The Great Brinks Robbery	9 Shocks Terror	The Heist	Zen and the Art of Beating Your Ass
6	1982	"Cold Sunday" - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.	The Books	A Cold Freezin' Night	The Way Out
7	2001	President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.	Handsome Furs	Sing! Captain	Plague Park
8	N/A	Martin Luther King Jr. Day	New Order	Dreams Never End	Movement

(Historical facts about January 17 are from Wikipedia.)