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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 ).
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt .
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome , charged of heresy .
1621 - Myles 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 .
1848 - In Italy, Charles Albert of Savoy with the "Lettere Patenti" recognize to the Waldensians political and civil rights .[citation needed ] 1854 - The British recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State .
1864 - American Civil War : H. L. Hunley 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 .
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 1933 - The magazine Newsweek 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States .
1936 - The world's first superhero , The Phantom , makes his first appearance in comics .
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 the Windows 2000 computer operating system.
2006 - Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of St. Bernard in Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide .
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 )
1818 - Frederick Douglass , American abolitionist (d. 1895 )
1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian composer (d. 1881 )
1820 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau , Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec City (d. 1898 )
1821 - Lola Montez , Mexican dancer, actress, friend of monarchs (d. 1861 )
1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish poet (d. 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 )
1863 - Fyodor Sologub , Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927 )
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 , American baseball player (d. 1943 )
1887 - Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (d. 1947 )
1888 - Otto Stern , German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969 )
1908 - Red Barber , American baseball announcer (d. 1992 )
1908 - Bo Yibo , Chinese politician (d. 2005 )
1910 - Marc Lawrence , American actor (d. 2005 )
1910 - Arthur Hunnicutt , American actor (d. 1979 )
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 )
1914 - Wayne Morris , American actor (d. 1959 )
1916 - Raf Vallone , Italian actor (d. 2002 )
1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi , Egyptian existentialist philosopher (d. 2002 )
1917 - Guillermo González Camarena , Mexican inventor (d. 1965 )
1919 - Kathleen Freeman , American actress (d. 2001 )
1920 - Ivo Caprino , Norwegian animated film director
1922 - Marshall Teague , American race car driver (d. 1959 )
1922 - Tommy Edwards , American singer (d. 1969 )
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 , American baseball player and manager
1932 - Buck Trent , American banjo player
1933 - Bobby Lewis , American singer
1934 - Alan Bates , English actor (d. 2003 )
1934 - Barry Humphries , Australian actor and comedian
1935 - Christina Pickles , British actress
1935 - Michel Aoun , Lebanese prime minister and army commander
1936 - Jim Brown , American football player
1939 - Mary Ann Mobley , American actress and beauty queen
1940 - 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
1948 - Rick Majerus , American basketball coach
1948 - José José , Mexican singer and actor
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 - Daniel Whitney, aka Larry the Cable Guy , American comedian
1964 - Buster Olney , American sports columnist
1965 - Michael Bay , American film director
1966 - Luc Robitaille , Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Quorthon , Swedish musician (Bathory ) (d. 2004 )
1966 - Ioannis Kalitzakis , Greek footballer
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
1971 - Jeremy Edwards , British actor
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 - Harisu , South Korean singer, model and actress
1975 - Todd Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Vaclav Prospal , Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Kelly Carlson , American actress
1978 - Jacob Wetterling , American kidnapping victim
1979 - Josh Willingham , American baseball player
1980 - Jason Ritter , American actor
1980 - Al Harrington , American basketball player
1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt , American actor
1981 - Paris Hilton , American actress and heiress
1981 - Lupe Fiasco , American Rapper
1982 - Adriano , Brazilian footballer
1982 - Brian Bruney , American baseball player
1983 - Marios Kaperonis , Greek boxer
1984 - AB de Villiers , South African cricketer
1986 - Joey O'Brien , Irish footballer
1991 - Bonnie Wright , British 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 )
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 , Indian revolutionary (b. 1845 )
1890 - Christopher Sholes , American inventor (b. 1819 )
1909 - Geronimo , Apache leader (b. 1829 )
1912 - Edgar Evans , Welsh naval officer (b. 1876 )
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 )
1958 - Hugh McCrae , Australian writer (b. 1876 )
1961 - Nita Naldi , American actress (b. 1897 )
1962 - Bruno Walter , German conductor (b. 1876 )
1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888 )
1970 - Alfred Newman , American film composer (b. 1901 )
1977 - Janani Luwum , Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922 )
1982 - Nestor Chylak , American baseball umpire (b. 1922 )
1982 - Thelonious Monk , American jazz pianist (b. 1917 )
1982 - Lee Strasberg , Austrian-born actor (b. 1901 )
1989 - Lefty Gomez , American baseball player (b. 1908 )
1990 - Erik Rhodes , American actor (b. 1906 )
1990 - Hap Day , Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901 )
1994 - Randy Shilts , American author and activist (b. 1951 )
1996 - Hervé Bazin , French writer (b. 1911 )
1997 - Zein Isa , Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
1998 - Ernst Jünger , German author (b. 1895 )
1998 - Bob Merrill , American composer and lyricist (b. 1921 )
2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed , American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948 )
2001 - Bob Geary , Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933 )
2004 - José López Portillo , President of Mexico (b. 1920 )
2005 - Dan O'Herlihy , Irish actor (b. 1919 )
2005 - Omar Sivori , Argentine footballer (b. 1935 )
2006 - Ray Barretto , Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929 )
2006 - Harold Hunter , Professional Skateboarder
2006 - Bill Cowsill , American singer (The Cowsills ) (b. 1948 )
2007 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė , Lithuanian writer (b. 1961 )
2007 - Mike Awesome , American professional wrestler (b. 1965 )
2007 - Dermot O'Reilly , Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943 )
2007 - Maurice Papon , French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910 )
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