February 17

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 17. From 1900 until now. February 17 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Paris Hilton (1981), Michael Jordan (1963) and Michael Jordan (1963). Several movies were released around February 17 over the years, such as Donnie Brasco in 1997 directed by Mike Newell and The Man Without a Past in 2002 directed by Aki Kaurismäki.
But much more happened on February 17 over the years: find out below

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Historical Events

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Holidays

Saint Evermodus
Saint Alexis Falconieri (d. 1310)
Saint Seven Founders of the Servites
Random Acts of Kindness Day.
Ancient Latvia - Tanis Diena observed.
Saint Silvinus
Roman Empire - Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus.
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Events

2019 Hundreds of airline passengers are left stranded throughout Europe following British airline Flybmi's bankruptcy filing. (AP via The Washington Times)
2018 Earthquakes in 2018: 2018 Oaxaca earthquake: A military helicopter surveying the damage, carrying the Governor of Oaxaca Alejandro Murat Hinojosa and Mexico's Secretary of the Interior Alfonso Navarrete Prida, crashes over Jamiltepec, killing 13 people on the ground. These deaths are the only known ones related to the earthquake reported so far. (CNN)Earthquakes in the British Isles: A magnitude 4.4 earthquake, the strongest in the United Kingdom for ten years, occurs at Swansea. (BBC)
2017 Boko Haram insurgency: Up to seven suicide bombers blow themselves up after failing in an attempt to attack a camp for displaced people near Maiduguri, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
2016 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): A suicide bomber kills at least 13 recruits at a Yemeni Army base run by forces loyal to ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in the southern port city of Aden. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claim responsibility for the attack. (Reuters)
2015 War in Donbass: The office of the President of Ukraine calls on the European Union and NATO to condemn the Russian-backed rebels for military action in Debaltseve. The self-proclaimed rebel government officials claim the town was not part of the recently established ceasefire. (AP) (New York Times)
2014 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: At least 25 people are killed and dozens wounded in bombing attacks across Baghdad; three bombs exploded in public markets and a fourth outside a Shiite mosque. (The New York Times)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A series of car bombs kill at least 37 people and injure more than 130 others in mostly Shiite areas of the capital Baghdad. (BBC) (AP) (Los Angeles Times)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 2011 Bahraini protests:
2010 500,000 residents of Mexico City have been vaccinated against the A/H1N1 flu. (Xinhuanet)
2009 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies with fraudulently selling US$8 billion in high-yield certificates of deposit. Stanford International Bank is based in Antigua with 30,000 clients in 131 countries and US$8.5 billion in assets.
2008 Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company recalls 143 million pounds of beef, the USA's largest meat recall in California, due to the slaughter of cattle unfit for human consumption.
2007 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Iraq for talks. (Reuters Alertnet)
2006 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2005 A car bomb explodes in southern Thailand near the Marina Hotel in Sungai Kolok, a popular tourist town close to the Malaysian border. Five people are killed and more than 40 injured. The car bomb is believed to be the first to explode in the Muslim-dominated region. (Yahoo!) (Boston Globe) (BBC)
2004 Bishop Thomas O'Brien, the former head of Arizona's largest Roman Catholic diocese, is convicted of a hit and run making him the first Catholic bishop in the United States to be convicted of a felony. (Washington Post)
2003 The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2001 Iraq disarmament crisis: Baghdad is bombed by US and UK war planes, killing three people.
2000 In San Francisco, California, Microsoft unveils the Windows 2000 operating system. 1.5 million copies are sold in the first two months.
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena, California
1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1995 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1994 Randy Shilts, American journalist (And the band played on), dies of AIDS at age 41 (born 1951).
1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, killing approximately 1,215 out of 1,500 passengers.
1992 A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
1991 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge.
1989 Former baseball player / manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1988 Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
1986 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
1985 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 mph / 285.8 km/h)
1979 China invades Vietnam
1978 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
1976 Rockabye Hamlet opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic.
1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife and daughter
1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album (never released).
1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit.
1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
1965 US Ranger 8 launched; will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures.
1964 US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
1963 Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8).
1962 Storm in Hamburg, Germany, kills 265.
1959 First weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8kg.
1958 Comic strip BC first appears.
1957 Suez Canal reopens
1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas of Great Britain.
1955 KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 The Detroit Auto Show opens for press previews, in Michigan. The Ford Motor Company shows its new two-seat convertible, calling it a "personal car", with the name "Fairlane".
1953 Baseball star / pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York.
1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st President of Israel
1947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR.
1946 Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam.
1944 US begins night bombing of Truk.
1943 General Major Bradley flies to Washington DC
1942 US Army General Douglas MacArthur reaches Australia and takes command of Allied forces.
1941 Joe Louis knocks out Gus Dorazio in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
1939 Katwijk soccer team forms.
1936 Phantom cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
1934 First high school auto driving course offered (State College, Pennsylvania).
1933 Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in the comic Blondie
1930 French government of AndrT Tardieu falls.
1926 Avalanche buries 75 people in Sap Gulch in Bingham, Utah, USA; 40 die.
1924 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds).
1920 A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
1915 Edward Stone, first US combatant to die in WWI, is mortally wounded.
1913 New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public.
1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
1904 Madama Butterfly receives its premiere at La Scala in Milan.
1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1900 Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers.
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