MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · January 17

THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 17

January 17 in history

1935 — The Zunyi conference

15–17 Jan 1935 — In a merchant’s house in occupied Zunyi, the surviving leadership turns on its Comintern-backed commanders; Mao Zedong, sidelined for two years, joins the military triumvirate. The march changes style at once — feint, double-back, split. The party has found the commander it will keep for forty years.

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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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