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February 17
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'''
February 17''' is the 48th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining (318 in
leap years).
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, Massachusetts Plymouth colony.
*
1753 - February 17 is followed by
March 1 as
Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the
Julian calendar.
*
1801 - An
U.S. Electoral College electoral tie between
Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected
President of the United States and Burr
Vice President of the United States 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
United Kingdom British recognizes the independence of the
Orange Free State.
*
1864 -
American Civil War:
CSS H. L. Hunley is the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the
USS Housatonic.
*
1865 -
American Civil War:
Columbia, South Carolina burns as
Confederate States of America Confederate forces flee from advancing
United States Union forces.
*
1867 - The first ship passes through the
Suez Canal.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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 Warrenton,
Missouri kills 72 people.
*
1958 -
Pope Pius XII declares
Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the
patron saint of
television
*
1959 - The first
weather satellite,
Vanguard 2, was 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
Congress of the United States congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
*
1968 - In
Springfield, Massachusetts the
James Naismith 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.
*
2003 -
Baltimore Orioles pitching prospect
Steve Bechler dies in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one day after collapsing during a spring-training workout; doctors later link the 23-year-old’s sudden death to the dietary supplement
ephedra.
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 -
André Maginot, French politician (d.
1932)
*
1888 -
Otto Stern, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1969)
*
1887 -
Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d.
1947)
*
1908 -
Red Barber, baseball announcer (d.
1992)
*
1910 -
Marc Lawrence, American actor (d.
2005)
*
1912 -
Andre Norton, American author (d.
2005)
*
1914 -
Arthur Kennedy (actor) 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
*
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 politicial activist (d.
1989)
*
1944 -
Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
*
1945 -
Zina Bethune, American actress
*1945 -
Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
*
1949 -
Fred Frith, British musician
*
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, singer, and songwriter
*
1959 -
Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
*
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
*
1966 -
Luc Robitaille, Canadian
ice hockey player
*
1967 -
Chanté Moore, American singer
*
1969 -
Tuesday Knight, American actress
*
1970 -
Dominic Purcell, English Born Actor
*1970 -
Tim Mahoney, American musician (
311 (band) 311)
*
1971 -
Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician and composer (d.
2005)
*1971 -
Denise Richards, American actress
*
1972 -
Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer and musician (
Green Day)
*1972 -
Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
*
1973 -
Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
*
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
*
1980 -
Jason Ritter, American actor
*
1981 -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
*1981 -
Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
*
1982 -
Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
*
1991 -
Bonnie Wright, British child actress
*
1996 -
Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress
Deaths
*
197 -
Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
*
364 -
Jovian,
Roman Emperor
*
1339 - Duke
Otto of Austria (b.
1301)
*
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 (painter) John Martin, English painter (b.
1789)
*
1856 -
Heinrich Heine, German writer (b.
1797)
*
1883 -
Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b.
1806)
* 1883 -
Vasudeo Balwant Phadke,
Indian revolutionary (b.
1845)
*
1909 -
Geronimo, Apache leader (b.
1829)
*
1919 -
Wilfrid Laurier, seventh
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 (violinist) Willy Hess, German violinist (b.
1859)
*
1943 -
Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b.
1888)
*
1961 -
Nita Naldi, American actress (b.
1897)
*
1962 -
Bruno Walter, German conductor (b.
1876)
*
1970 -
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature 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)
Holidays and observances
*
Roman Empire -
Quirinalia in honor of
Quirinus.
*Ancient
Latvia -
Tanis Diena observed.
*World
Cabbage Day.
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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February 16 -
February 18 -
January 17 -
March 17 --
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