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Events on the 17th of February in history

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17 Feb 0364 Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
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17 Feb 1370 Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
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17 Feb 1370 Battle at Rudau Germany beats Lithuania
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17 Feb 1411 Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
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17 Feb 1500 Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
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17 Feb 1568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace
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17 Feb 1598 Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
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17 Feb 1600 The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.
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17 Feb 1621 Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
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17 Feb 1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
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17 Feb 1634 William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
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17 Feb 1670 France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
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17 Feb 1676 Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
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17 Feb 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
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17 Feb 1714 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
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17 Feb 1753 In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
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17 Feb 1772 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
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17 Feb 1776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published
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17 Feb 1791 Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
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17 Feb 1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
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17 Feb 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.
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17 Feb 1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr
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17 Feb 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
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17 Feb 1817 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
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17 Feb 1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
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17 Feb 1819 The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
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17 Feb 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
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17 Feb 1838 Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
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17 Feb 1841 Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de W
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17 Feb 1848 Toscane gets liberal Constitution
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17 Feb 1854 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
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17 Feb 1854 British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
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17 Feb 1859 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres at the Apollo Theatre in Rome
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17 Feb 1863 A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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17 Feb 1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
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17 Feb 1864 American Civil War: The  H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
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17 Feb 1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" (1st submarine to sink an enemy ship)
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17 Feb 1865 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
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17 Feb 1865 Columbia SC burns down during the Civil War
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17 Feb 1865 Battle of Charleston SC
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17 Feb 1867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal
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17 Feb 1867 Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
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17 Feb 1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state re-admitted to US after Civil War
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17 Feb 1870 Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
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17 Feb 1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
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17 Feb 1876 Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
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17 Feb 1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones
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17 Feb 1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
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17 Feb 1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
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17 Feb 1883 A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
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17 Feb 1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
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17 Feb 1896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
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17 Feb 1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
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17 Feb 1897 National Congress of Parents & Teachers (PTA) organizes (Washington DC)
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17 Feb 1904 Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
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17 Feb 1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan
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17 Feb 1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st woman honored in National Statuary Hall
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17 Feb 1906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
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17 Feb 1911 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
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17 Feb 1911 1st amphibian flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego
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17 Feb 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.
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17 Feb 1913 New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
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17 Feb 1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
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17 Feb 1915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded
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17 Feb 1916 Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1919 The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
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17 Feb 1921 Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'
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17 Feb 1923 Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
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17 Feb 1924 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
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17 Feb 1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
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17 Feb 1926 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham UT, 40 die
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17 Feb 1930 French government of Tardieu, falls
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17 Feb 1931 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
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17 Feb 1931 Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
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17 Feb 1932 Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music" premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1933 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
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17 Feb 1933 Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in the comic Blondie
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17 Feb 1933 Newsweek magazine is first published.
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17 Feb 1933 The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
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17 Feb 1933 Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him
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17 Feb 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam
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17 Feb 1933 US Senate accept Blaine Act ending prohibition
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17 Feb 1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
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17 Feb 1936 "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
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17 Feb 1936 "The Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
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17 Feb 1936 -58
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17 Feb 1936 S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "End of Summer" premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
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17 Feb 1939 Katwijk soccer team forms
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17 Feb 1940 Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for South Africa vs West Australia
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17 Feb 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
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17 Feb 1941 Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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17 Feb 1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
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17 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Washington DC
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17 Feb 1943 Hitler visits field marshal von Mansteins headquarters in Zaporozje
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17 Feb 1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
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17 Feb 1944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on February 22
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17 Feb 1944 World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
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17 Feb 1944 World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
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17 Feb 1944 US begins night bombing of Truk
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17 Feb 1946 Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
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17 Feb 1947 Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
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17 Feb 1947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
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17 Feb 1947 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
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17 Feb 1949 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy / Ede Kiraly of HUN
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17 Feb 1949 Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris
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17 Feb 1949 Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
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17 Feb 1949 Chaim Weizman elected 1st President of Israel
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17 Feb 1949 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea K
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17 Feb 1949 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of Czechoslovakia
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17 Feb 1949 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
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17 Feb 1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York
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17 Feb 1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
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17 Feb 1953 DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven
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17 Feb 1955 KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
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17 Feb 1955 Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
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17 Feb 1955 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy Great Britain
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17 Feb 1955 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN
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17 Feb 1955 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US
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17 Feb 1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas Great Britain
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17 Feb 1956 Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of Austria
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17 Feb 1956 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
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17 Feb 1957 Suez Canal reopens
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17 Feb 1957 Fire in Warreton MO, kills 72
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17 Feb 1957 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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17 Feb 1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
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17 Feb 1958 WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Feb 1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
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17 Feb 1959 Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
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17 Feb 1959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
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17 Feb 1962 Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
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17 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
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17 Feb 1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
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17 Feb 1963 Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2 15 15.8
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17 Feb 1964 Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
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17 Feb 1964 In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
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17 Feb 1964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
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17 Feb 1964 US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
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17 Feb 1964 US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs Sanders)
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17 Feb 1964 WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
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17 Feb 1965 Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
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17 Feb 1965 US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
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17 Feb 1965 US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
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17 Feb 1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
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17 Feb 1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" and"Strawberry Fields"
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17 Feb 1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
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17 Feb 1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit
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17 Feb 1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
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17 Feb 1968 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield MA, opens
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17 Feb 1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
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17 Feb 1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
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17 Feb 1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
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17 Feb 1970 Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
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17 Feb 1970 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play" premieres in New York NY
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17 Feb 1971 England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
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17 Feb 1972 Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
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17 Feb 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
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17 Feb 1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
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17 Feb 1973 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut vs Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
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17 Feb 1974 Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
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17 Feb 1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
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17 Feb 1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
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17 Feb 1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
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17 Feb 1976 Organic statute makes Macao autonomous
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17 Feb 1976 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
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17 Feb 1976 New Zealand scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs India
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17 Feb 1976 Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 vs India, his 1st match-winning spell
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17 Feb 1978 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
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17 Feb 1979 The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
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17 Feb 1979 China invades Vietnam
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17 Feb 1979 Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
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17 Feb 1980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 mph / 285.8 km/h)
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17 Feb 1980 Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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17 Feb 1980 Mount Everest, 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
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17 Feb 1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
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17 Feb 1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, vs England
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17 Feb 1983 Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
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17 Feb 1983 Netherlands adopts constitution
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17 Feb 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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17 Feb 1985 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
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17 Feb 1985 1st day / night game at the MCG, Australia vs. England
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17 Feb 1985 1st class postage rises from 20
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17 Feb 1985 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
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17 Feb 1985 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
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17 Feb 1985 Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
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17 Feb 1986 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
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17 Feb 1986 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sells capsule drugs
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17 Feb 1986 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
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17 Feb 1986 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
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17 Feb 1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
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17 Feb 1987 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
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17 Feb 1988 Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
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17 Feb 1988 US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed
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17 Feb 1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
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17 Feb 1989 Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
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17 Feb 1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
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17 Feb 1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
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17 Feb 1989 Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
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17 Feb 1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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17 Feb 1991 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
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17 Feb 1992 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
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17 Feb 1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
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17 Feb 1993 Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter free style (21.60 seconds)
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17 Feb 1995 The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
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17 Feb 1995 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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17 Feb 1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Railroad in New York
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17 Feb 1995 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
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17 Feb 1995 Tiger manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
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17 Feb 1996 NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
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17 Feb 1996 In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
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17 Feb 1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands vs New Zealand, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
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17 Feb 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena, California
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17 Feb 1997 Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
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17 Feb 1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
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17 Feb 1998 Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
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17 Feb 2003 The London congestion charge is introduced.
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17 Feb 2006 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
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17 Feb 2008 Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo.
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17 Feb 2011 Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
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17 Feb 2015 18 people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
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