February 17 in History
What happened on February 17 in history?
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on february 17 in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened on february 17 in history.
?>1985
Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart.
1979
China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March.
1975
Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan.
1973
President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI.
1969
Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord.
1963
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.
1960
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.
1959
The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II.
1955
Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1951
Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible.
1945
Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1944
U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific.
1938
The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London.
1935
Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard.
1933
The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast.
1925
The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy.
1919
Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland.
1909
Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
1865
The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through.
1864
The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
1801
The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr.
1720
Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718.
1598
Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tarar origin, is elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor.
1454
At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the “vow of the pheasant,” by which he swears to fight the Turks.