Today
Saturday January 17 2026
- Day of the year
- 17/ 365
- Week
- 32,026
- Days left
- 3485%
- Moon
- 1%Waning crescent
Today is Saturday, January 17, 2026. It is day 17 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 348 remain, and 5% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 3.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- January 24International Day of Education
- January 27International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- February 2World Wetlands Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Theodosius IRoman emperor from 379 to 395
- Anthony the GreatEgyptian Christian monk, hermit, and saint (died 356)
- Simeon of Jerusalemhuman biblical figure in Acts 13:1, early bishop of Jerusalem
- Joseph Barsabbasmale human biblical figure in Acts 1:21-26
- Sulpicius the PiousFrench bishop and saint
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:17
- Sunset
- 16:55
- Length of day
- 9h 39m+2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:06
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 62 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. — January 19, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning crescent
Illumination : 1%
Moon age : 28.6 days
- Next full moon
- February 1, 2026
- Next new moon
- January 18, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Capricorn
until January 20, 2026 — Aquarius
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1377
Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. Wikipedia
1562
France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain. Wikipedia
1773
Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle. Wikipedia
1885
A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. Wikipedia
1912
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. Wikipedia
1945
World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw. Wikipedia
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1966
Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. Wikipedia
1991
Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scu Wikipedia
1995
The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced. Wikipedia
2002
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day January 17
- 1501Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566)
- 1504Pope Pius V (died 1572)
- 1560Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician, and academic (died 1624)
- 1706Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (died 1790)
- 1863David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1945)
- 1922Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico (died 2022)
- 1943René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti (died 2017)
- 1964Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist, 44th First Lady of the United Statesturns 62 years
Died on this day January 17
- 395Theodosius I, Roman emperor (born 347)aged 48 years
- 1705John Ray, English botanist and historian (born 1627)aged 78 years
- 1751Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (born 1671)aged 80 years
- 1893Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (born 1822)aged 71 years
- 1933Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (born 1848)aged 85 years
- 1961Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1925)aged 36 years
- 1997Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (born 1906)aged 91 years
- 2002Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)aged 86 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:17 and sets at 16:55, giving 9h 39m of daylight — 2 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 62 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is a waning crescent, 1% illuminated. The next full moon falls on February 1, 2026 and the next new moon on January 18, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches January 17 to Theodosius I, Anthony the Great and Simeon of Jerusalem.
No United Nations international day falls on January 17. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Education, on January 24.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon (1377); France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain (1562). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Leonhart Fuchs was born on January 17, 1501; Theodosius I died on January 17, 395.
342 days remain until Christmas and 349 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — January 17 falls under the sign of Capricorn.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 5%
- of the year elapsed
- 342
- until Christmas
- 349
- until New Year
- 773
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26