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Today is January 17th, 2025 and is a Friday.

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2008: British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.

2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.

2002: Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

2001: U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain.

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