Today In History
Today is Friday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2020. There are 349 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On Jan. 17, 1995, more than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 devastated the city of Kobe (koh-bay), Japan.
On this date:
In 1806, Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House…