February 17

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Events

197 - Battle of Lugdunum - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats and kills his rival Clodius Albinus, securing full control over the Empire.
763 - Shi Chaoyi's head is delivered to Chang'an, ending the An Shi Rebellion.
1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of Christian heresy.
1621 - Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the Julian calendar.
1801 - An U.S. Electoral College 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 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 recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1864 - American Civil War: H. L. Hunley (submarine) becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic (1861).
1865 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burned as Confederate States of America forces flee from advancing United States 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 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.
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 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll 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, 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 Congress of the United States districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1968 - In Springfield, Massachusetts the James 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 IBM Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
2000 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000
2003 - The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 - Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of St. Bernard, Southern Leyte in Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide.
2009 - Analog television broadcasts are scheduled to end in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all stations to send their signals digitally.

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 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 (d. 1898)
1821 - Lola Montez, Mexican dancer (d. 1861)
1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian 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)
1864 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
1877 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1885 - Steve Evans (baseball), American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (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 American literary scholar (d. 1984)
1912 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1914 - Arthur Kennedy (actor), American actor (d. 1990)
1914 - Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
1916 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002)
1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian 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 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 - Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969)
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), American baseball player and manager
1932 - Buck Trent, American banjo player
1933 - Bobby Lewis, American singer
1933 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
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
1936 - Jim Brown, American football player
1939 - John Leyton, British singer
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
1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 - Neil Lomax, American football player
1962 - Samuel Bayer, American music video director
1962 - Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
1962 - Tyrone "Ty" Jones, American screenwriter
1962 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
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
1965 - Michael Bay, American film director
1966 - Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory (band)) (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 (guitarist), American musician (311 (band))
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
1972 - Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
1974 - Kaoru (musician), 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
1976 - Scott Williamson, American baseball player
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 Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Brian Bruney, American baseball player
1983 - Gérald Cid, French footballer
1983 - Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
1984 - Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu
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
440 - saint Mesrop
1339 - Otto, Duke 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 (b. 1770)
1854 - John Martin (painter), 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 (violinist), 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 Prize in Literature (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 (actor), 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, American professional skateboarder (b. 1974)
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)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus.
Ancient Latvia - Tanis Diena observed.
Random Acts of Kindness Day.

Liturgical feasts

Servite Order
Saint Alexis Falconieri (d. 1310)
Saint Constabilis
Saint Evermodus
Saint Silvinus
February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

February 17 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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