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is the 48th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 317 days remaining (318 in
leap year
s).
February 17
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays and observances
Liturgical feasts
top
Events
1500
-
Battle of Hemmingstedt
.
1600
- Philosopher
Giordano Bruno
was burnt alive at
Campo de' Fiori
in
Rome
, charged of
heresy
.
1621
-
Miles Standish
is appointed as first commander of
Plymouth colony
.
1753
- February 17 is followed by
March 1
as
Sweden
moves to the Gregorian from the
Julian calendar
.
1801
- An
electoral
tie between
Thomas Jefferson
and
Aaron Burr
is resolved when Jefferson is elected
President of the United States
and Burr
Vice President
by the
United States House of Representatives
.
1814
-
Battle of Mormans
1819
- The
United States House of Representatives
passes the
Missouri Compromise
.
1854
- The
British
recognizes the independence of the
Orange Free State
.
1864
-
American Civil War
:
H. L. Hunley
becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the
USS Housatonic
.
1865
-
American Civil War
:
Columbia, South Carolina
burned as
Confederate
forces flee from advancing
Union
forces.
1867
- The first ship passes through the
Suez Canal
.
1871
- The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris after the end of the
Siege of Paris
during the
Franco-Prussian War
.
1895
-
Swan Lake
, with music by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
, is first performed at full length in
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia
.
1913
- The
Armory Show
opens in
New York City
, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early
20th century
.
1924
- In
Miami, Florida
,
Johnny Weissmuller
sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle
swimming
competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds.
1925
-
Harold Ross
and
Jane Grant
found
The New Yorker
magazine; the debut issue is dated February 21, 1925.
1933
- The
magazine
Newsweek
is published for the first time.
1933 - The
Blaine Act
ends
Prohibition
in the
United States
.
1944
-
World War II
:
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll
begins. The battle ends in an American victory on
February 22
.
1944
-
World War II
:
Operation Hailstone
begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (
Chuuk
), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the
Eniwetok
invasion.
1947
- The
Voice of America
begins to transmit
radio
broadcasts into the
Soviet Union
.
1957
- A fire at a home for the elderly in
Warrenton
,
Missouri
kills 72 people.
1958
-
Pope Pius XII
declares
Saint
Clare of Assisi
(1193~1253) the
patron saint
of
television
1959
-
Project Vanguard
:
Vanguard 2
- The first
weather satellite
launched to measure
cloud
-cover distribution.
1962
- A storm kills more than 300 people in
Hamburg
,
West Germany
.
1964
- In
Wesberry v. Sanders
the
Supreme Court of the United States
rules that
congressional
districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1968
- In
Springfield, Massachusetts
the
Naismith
Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame
opens.
1972
- Sales of the
Volkswagen Beetle
model exceed those of
Ford Model-T
.
1974
-
Robert K. Preston
, a disgruntled
U.S. Army
private, buzzes the
White House
with a stolen
helicopter
.
1979
- The
Sino-Vietnamese War
begins.
1992
- A court in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
sentences
serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer
to life in prison.
1995
-
Colin Ferguson
is convicted of six counts of
murder
for the December
1993
Long Island Rail Road
shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
1995 - The
Cenepa War
between
Peru
and
Ecuador
ends on a
cease-fire
brokered by the
UN
.
1996
- In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, world champion
Garry Kasparov
beats the
Deep Blue
supercomputer
in a
chess
match.
2000
-
Microsoft
released
Windows 2000
.
2006
- Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of
St. Bernard
in
Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide
top
Births
1490
-
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
, Constable of France (d.
1527
)
1519
-
Francis, Duke of Guise
, French soldier and politician (d.
1563
)
1524
-
Charles of Guise
, French cardinal (d.
1574
)
1581
-
Fausto Poli
, Italian Catholic priest (d.
1653
)
1646
-
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
, French economist (d.
1714
)
1653
-
Arcangelo Corelli
, Italian composer (d.
1713
)
1718
-
Matthew Tilghman
, American Continental Congressman (d.
1790
)
1723
-
Tobias Mayer
, German astronomer (d.
1762
)
1752
-
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
, German writer (d.
1831
)
1754
-
Nicolas Baudin
, French explorer (d.
1803
)
1766
-
Thomas Malthus
, English demographer and political economist (d.
1834
)
1781
-
René Laënnec
, French physician (d.
1826
)
1792
-
Karl Ernst von Baer
, German biologist (d.
1876
)
1796
-
Philipp Franz von Siebold
, German physician (d.
1866
)
1817
- King
William III of the Netherlands
(d,
1890
)
1820
-
Henri Vieuxtemps
, Belgian composer (d.
1881
)
1821
-
Lola Montez
, Mexican dancer, actress, friend of monarchs (d.
1861
)
1836
-
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
, Spanish poet (b.
1870
)
1844
-
Aaron Montgomery Ward
, American department store founder (d.
1913
)
1848
-
Louisa Lawson
, Australian feminist, suffragist, and writer (d.
1920
)
1854
-
Friedrich Alfred Krupp
, German industrialist (d.
1902
)
1864
-
Banjo Paterson
, Australian poet (d.
1941
)
1874
-
Thomas J. Watson
, American computer manufacturer (d.
1956
)
1877
-
Isabelle Eberhardt
, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (d.
1904
)
1877 -
André Maginot
, French politician (d.
1932
)
1885
-
Steve Evans
, baseball player (d.
1943
)
1887
-
Leevi Madetoja
, Finnish composer (d.
1947
)
1888
-
Otto Stern
, German physicist,
Nobel Prize Laureate
(d.
1969
)
1908
-
Red Barber
, baseball announcer (d.
1992
)
1910
-
Marc Lawrence
, American actor (d.
2005
)
1911
-
Oskar Seidlin
, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (d.
1984
)
1912
-
Andre Norton
, American author (d.
2005
)
1914
-
Arthur Kennedy
, American actor (d.
1990
)
1919
-
Kathleen Freeman
, American actress (d.
2001
)
1920
-
Ivo Caprino
, Norwegian animated film director
1922
-
Marshall Teague
, American race car driver (d.
1959
)
1924
-
Margaret Truman
, American novelist
1925
-
Ron Goodwin
, English composer and conductor (d.
2003
)
1925 -
Hal Holbrook
, American actor
1929
-
Chaim Potok
, American author (d.
2002
)
1929 -
Patricia Routledge
, English actress
1930
-
Ruth Rendell
, English writer
1930 -
Roger Craig
, baseball player
1932
-
Buck Trent
, American banjo player
1934
-
Alan Bates
, English actor (d.
2003
)
1934 -
Barry Humphries
, Australian actor and comedian
1935
-
Christina Pickles
, British actress
1936
-
Jim Brown
, American football player
1939
-
Mary Ann Mobley
, American actress and beauty queen
1941
-
Gene Pitney
, American singer (d.
2006
)
1942
-
Huey P. Newton
, American political activist (d.
1989
)
1944
-
Karl Jenkins
, Welsh composer
1945
-
Zina Bethune
, American actress
1945 -
Brenda Fricker
, Irish actress
1949
-
Fred Frith
, British musician
1952
-
Karin Janz
, East German gymnast
1953
-
Janice Dickinson
, American model
1953 -
Norman Pace
, British actor and comic
1954
-
Rene Russo
, American actress
1956
-
Richard Karn
, American actor
1957
-
Loreena McKennitt
, Canadian musician
1959
-
Aryeh Deri
, Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 -
Neil Lomax
, American football player
1962
-
Alison Hargreaves
, British mountaineer (d.
1995
)
1962 -
Lou Diamond Phillips
, American actor
1963
-
Michael Jordan
, American basketball player
1963 -
Larry the Cable Guy
, American Comedian
1964
-
Buster Olney
, American sports columnist
1966
-
Luc Robitaille
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
1966 -
Quorthon
, Swedish musician (
Bathory
) (d.
2004
)
1967
-
Chanté Moore
, American singer
1969
-
Tuesday Knight
, American actress
1970
-
Dominic Purcell
, English Born Actor
1970 -
Tim Mahoney
, American musician (
311
)
1971
-
Martyn Bennett
, Canadian composer (d.
2005
)
1971 -
Denise Richards
, American actress
1972
-
Billie Joe Armstrong
, American musician (
Green Day
)
1972 -
Taylor Hawkins
, American musician (
Foo Fighters
)
1972 -
Philippe Candeloro
, French figure skater
1974
-
Kaoru
, Japanese musician
1974 -
Jerry O'Connell
, American actor
1974 -
Bryan White
, American singer
1975
-
Wish Bone
, American rapper
1975 -
Vaclav Prospal
, Czech hockey player
1978
-
Jacob Wetterling
, American kidnapping victim
1979
-
Josh Willingham
, Outfielder/catcher for the Florida Marlins
1980
-
Jason Ritter
, American actor
1981
-
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
, American actor
1981 -
Paris Hilton
, American actress and heiress
1982
-
Adriano Leite Ribeiro
, Brazilian footballer
1982 -
Brian Bruney
, Professional baseball player
1991
-
Bonnie Wright
, British child actress
1996
-
Sasha Pieterse
, South African child actress
top
Deaths
197
-
Clodius Albinus
, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
364
-
Jovian
,
Roman Emperor
1339
- Duke
Otto of Austria
(b.
1301
)
1371
-
Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
.
1596
-
Friedrich Sylburg
, German classical scholar (b.
1536
)
1600
-
Giordano Bruno
, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b.
1548
)
1609
-
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
(b.
1549
)
1624
-
Juan de Mariana
, Spanish historian (b.
1536
)
1659
-
Abel Servien
, French diplomat (b.
1593
)
1673
-
Molière
, French playwright (b.
1622
)
1680
-
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles
, English statesman and writer (b.
1599
)
1680 -
Jan Swammerdam
, Dutch scientist (b.
1637
)
1715
-
Antoine Galland
, French archaeologist (b.
1646
)
1732
-
Louis Marchand
, French organist and harpsichordist (b.
1669
)
1768
-
Arthur Onslow
, English politician (b.
1691
)
1780
-
Andreas Felix von Oefele
, German historian and librarian (b.
1706
)
1841
-
Ferdinando Carulli
, Italian
guitarist
1854
-
John Martin
, English painter (b.
1789
)
1856
-
Heinrich Heine
, German writer (b.
1797
)
1874
-
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet
, Belgian mathematician (b.
1796
)
1883
-
Napoleon Coste
, French guitarist and composer (b.
1806
)
1883 -
Vasudeo Balwant Phadke
,
India
n revolutionary (b.
1845
)
1909
-
Geronimo
, Apache leader (b.
1829
)
1919
-
Wilfrid Laurier
, 7th
Prime Minister of Canada
(b.
1841
)
1934
- King
Albert I of Belgium
(b.
1875
)
1934 -
Siegbert Tarrasch
, German chess player (b.
1862
)
1939
-
Willy Hess
, German violinist (b.
1859
)
1943
-
Armand J. Piron
, American jazz violinist and composer (b.
1888
)
1943 -
Konstantin Bogaevsky
, Russian painter (b.
1872
)
1961
-
Nita Naldi
, American actress (b.
1897
)
1962
-
Bruno Walter
, German conductor (b.
1876
)
1970
-
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
, Israeli writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate
(b.
1888
)
1970 -
Alfred Newman
, American film composer (b.
1901
)
1977
-
Janani Luwum
, Ugandan Archbishop (shot) (b.
1922
)
1982
-
Thelonious Monk
, American jazz pianist (b.
1917
)
1982 -
Lee Strasberg
, Austrian-born actor (b.
1901
)
1990
-
Erik Rhodes
, American actor (b.
1906
)
1994
-
Randy Shilts
, American author and activist (AIDS) (b.
1951
)
1998
-
Ernst Jünger
, German author (b.
1895
)
2001
-
Khalid Abdul Muhammed
, American Nation of Islam spokesman (brain aneurysm) (b.
1948
)
2004
-
José López Portillo
,
President of Mexico
(b.
1920
)
2005
-
Dan O'Herlihy
, Irish actor (b.
1919
)
2005 -
Omar Sivori
, Argentine football player (b.
1935
)
2006
-
Ray Barretto
, Puerto Rican musician (
congas
) (b.
1929
)
top
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire
-
Quirinalia
in honor of
Quirinus
.
Ancient
Latvia
-
Tanis Diena
observed.
Random Acts of Kindness Day
.
top
Liturgical feasts
Saint Seven Founders of the Servites
Saint Alexis Falconieri
(d. 1310)
Saint Evermodus
Saint Silvinus
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