About February 17
February 17, 2024 is the 48th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 347 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 17
- 1600 –The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
- 1621 –Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
- 1819 –The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- 1871 –The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1904 –Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
- 1924 –In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100 meters freestyle swimming competition with a time of 57.4 seconds.
- 1931 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
- 1959 –Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
- 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 exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
- 1979 –The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
- 1996 –In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
- 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.
- 2003 –The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
- 2008 –Kosovo declares independence.
- 2011 –Libyan protests begin
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