Template:On this day/January 17

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

January 17:

• 1806 – James Madison Randolph, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, was born at the President's House, now known as the White House, during daughter Martha's second visit to her father in Washington, D.C.
• 1920 – National Prohibition began when the Volstead Act went into effect. Since 1907, alcohol had been banned in Charlottesville after a local vote to go "dry"
• 1996 – Charles Hunter Brown, building contractor, religious and community leader, died (aged 88)