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Old January 17th, 2006, 12:56 PM
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January 17, 1940
-U.S. passenger liner Manhattan and freighter Excambion are detained at Gibraltar by British authorities; the former is kept there for only a few hours before being allowed to proceed.
-British Foreign Office replies to U.S. protest on treatment of mail, concluding that "His Majesty's Government find themselves unable to share the views of the United States government that their [the British] action in examining neutral mail in British or neutral shipping is contrary to their obligations under international law."

January 17, 1942
-U.S. freighter San Jose is sunk in collision with freighter Santa Elisa off Atlantic City, New Jersey.

January 17, 1944
-Airship K 36 crashes in a fog on the lee side of Ilha de Cabo Frio, Brazil.

January 17, 1945
-In the Mediterranean Sea, the tank landing ship LST-906, which had been aground at Leghorn, Italy, since 18 October 1944, is refloated.
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