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
- 364 –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.
- 1370 –Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
- 1600 –The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
- 1814 –War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
- 1854 –The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Ship becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- 1904 –Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
- 1933 –The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 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.
- 1964 –Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
- 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.
- 1978 –The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
- 1979 –The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
- 1988 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1998 –Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops kill 70–90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
- 2003 –The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
- 2011 –Libyan protests begin
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