Notable Historical Events on February 17th
February 17th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1370 |
Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania |
1500 |
Battle of Hemmingstedt. |
1568 |
Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace |
1598 |
Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia |
1600 |
Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy. |
1621 |
Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony |
1634 |
William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti |
1670 |
France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty |
1691 |
Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service |
1714 |
Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree |
1772 |
1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria |
1776 |
1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published |
1791 |
Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra) |
1795 |
Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England |
1801 |
US House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie, chooses Thomas Jefferson President over Burr |
1814 |
Battle of Mormans. |
1817 |
1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore) |
1818 |
Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle) |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania |
1837 |
Charles Lyell makes his presidential address to the Geographical Society, London and announces that Richard Owen has concluded from Darwin's fossils that extinct species were related to current species in the same locality |
1848 |
Toscane gets liberal Constitution |
1854 |
Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
1859 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli |
1864 |
Confederate submarine HL Hunley sinks Union ship Housatonic |
1865 |
-18] Battle of Charleston SC |
1865 |
Columbia SC burns down during Civil War |
1867 |
1st ship passes through Suez Canal |
1867 |
Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary |
1870 |
Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge |
1870 |
Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War |
1876 |
Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine) |
1878 |
1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones |
1880 |
Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt |
1882 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground |
1883 |
A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London |
1885 |
Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa |
1896 |
Muzzling Order on the London County Council enforced |
1897 |
National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association) |
1897 |
Emilio Aguinaldo and a group of katipuneros defeat Spanish forces led by General Camilo de Polavieja at the Battle of Zapote Bridge in Cavite |
1902 |
A general strike in Barcelona and nearby towns leads to government-troop reprisals that leave 40 dead |
1904 |
Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan |
1905 |
Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall |
1911 |
1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) |
1913 |
1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon) |
1913 |
NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public |
1915 |
Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded |
1916 |
Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC |
1917 |
In Australia, Nationalist Party takes over a coalition government |
1921 |
Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres |
1923 |
Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals) |
1924 |
Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds) |
1926 |
Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die |
1930 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
1931 |
1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball) |
1931 |
Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game |
1932 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC |
1933 |
1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published |
1933 |
Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam |
1933 |
US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition |
1934 |
1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) |
1936 |
"Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts |
1936 |
-58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record) |
1936 |
SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC |
1936 |
The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics. |
1938 |
1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London) |
1939 |
Katwijk soccer team forms |
1940 |
Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia |
1940 |
Crew of the British destroyer Cossack board German Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, and realised 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass. |
1941 |
Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1943 |
-19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje |
1943 |
Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews |
1943 |
Gen-major Bradley flies to Wash DC |
1943 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army |
1944 |
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22 |
1944 |
US begins night bombing of Truk |
1946 |
Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam |
1947 |
Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism" |
1947 |
Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR |
1949 |
Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel |
1949 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN |
1949 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE |
1949 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA |
1949 |
Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris |
1950 |
31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY |
1953 |
DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven |
1954 |
WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB |
1955 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN |
1955 |
KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US |
1955 |
Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 |
1956 |
Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB |
1956 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT |
1956 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA |
1956 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA |
1957 |
Fire in Warreton, Mo kills 72 |
1957 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
1957 |
Suez Canal reopens |
1957 |
A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people. |
1958 |
Comic strip "BC" 1st appears |
1958 |
WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg |
1962 |
Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin" |
1962 |
Storm in Hamburg kills 265 |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis |
1963 |
Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8 |
1964 |
101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) |
1964 |
US House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights |
1964 |
US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders) |
1964 |
WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures |
1965 |
US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute |
1966 |
French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
1967 |
Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" |
1967 |
Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit |
1968 |
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens |
1969 |
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released. |
1969 |
Golda Meir sworn in as the first female prime minister of Israel |
1970 |
Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter |
1970 |
Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
1970 |
Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in NYC |
1971 |
England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win |
1972 |
British Parliament votes to join European Common Market |
1972 |
President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China |
1972 |
Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T. |
1973 |
Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket |
1974 |
49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt |
1974 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
1974 |
Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter. |
1976 |
"Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances |
1976 |
Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) |
1976 |
NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India |
1976 |
Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell |
1978 |
La Mon restaurant bombing: 11 civilians and 1 RUC officer are killed and 30 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army incendiary bomb at the La Mon Restaurant near Belfast |
1979 |
China invades Vietnam, marking the start of the Sino-Vietnamese War |
1979 |
Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
1980 |
Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph) |
1980 |
Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1981 |
Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history |
1982 |
Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England |
1983 |
Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
1983 |
Netherlands adopts constitution |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985 |
1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents |
1985 |
1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England |
1985 |
3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon) |
1985 |
Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater |
1985 |
Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita |
1986 |
1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles |
1986 |
Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM) |
1986 |
Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs |
1986 |
Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad |
1987 |
Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year) |
1987 |
Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA |
1988 |
Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins |
1988 |
US Lt Col Williamm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed |
1989 |
6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole" |
1989 |
Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash |
1989 |
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market |
1989 |
Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract |
1989 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1991 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
1993 |
Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die |
1993 |
Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec) |
1995 |
11th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1995 |
Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY |
1995 |
Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike |
1995 |
Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked |
1996 |
1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47 |
1996 |
Garry Kasparov defeats Deep Blue 4-2 in chess |
1997 |
Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena Calif |
1997 |
Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sexually abused his daughter |
1998 |
US Naval Academy cadet Diane Zamora, 20, convicted of capital murder |
1998 |
Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax |
1998 |
USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal |
2002 |
Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's 10th UK No.1 single. |
2002 |
'Always On Time' by R&B artist Ja Rule featuring Ashanti starts a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. |
2003 |
The London Congestion Charge scheme begins. |
2006 |
A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. |
2008 |
Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. |
2012 |
The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal |
2012 |
Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece |
2013 |
37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings |
2013 |
5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic |
2013 |
President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory |
2013 |
Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup |
2014 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon premieres on NBC |
2016 |
Apple Chief Calls Court Order to Unlock iPhone 'Unprecedented Step' |
2016 |
Judge Tells Apple to Help Unlock iPhone Used by San Bernardino Gunman |
2016 |
CJ, a German Shorthaired Pointer, Wins Best in Show at Westminster |
2016 |
FDA issues guidelines to keep Zika virus out of donated blood |
2016 |
California Journey wins top prize at Westminster Dog Show |
2016 |
Sandra Day O'Connor: Obama should name Scalia's replacement |
2016 |
Peyton Manning cited in Title IX lawsuit against University of Tennessee |
2016 |
Kanye West's new album pirated over 500000 times |
2017 |
House GOP Leaders Outline Plan to Replace Obama Health Care Act |
2017 |
Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Heir, Is Arrested on Bribery Charges |
2017 |
Pakistan Shrine Bombing Kills Scores in Worst Attack in Months |
2017 |
US Vice President Pence heads to Europe on reassurance tour |
2017 |
US Democrats challenge Republicans to conduct credible Russia probe |
2017 |
Trump dismisses Russia controversy as 'scam' by hostile media |
2017 |
Trump asks black reporter to set up meeting with black lawmakers |
2018 |
Trump visits Florida hospital to pay respects after school shooting |
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