MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · January 17
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 17
January 17 in history
1945
The Red Army enters Warsaw — or what remains of it after the crushed uprising. Perhaps nine in ten buildings are rubble.
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1961 — The murder of Lumumba
17 Jan 1961 — Congo’s first elected premier, ousted with CIA and Belgian connivance, is executed by secessionist forces in Katanga. Africa’s decolonization collides with the Cold War, and loses.
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