February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining until the end of the year (318 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL CABBAGE DAY
1621 – English military officer, Myles Standish, is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony.
1776 – The first volume of Edward Gibbon's the "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" is published.
1801 – The United States House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie, chooses Thomas Jefferson President over Burr.
1817 – Baltimore, MD becomes the first US city to be lit by gas by the Gas Light Company.
1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
1870 – Mississippi becomes the 9th state re-admitted to the U.S. following the Civil War.
1885 – Then German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, gives German colonial explorer and politician, Carl Peters, firm management of German East-Africa.
1906 – Union leaders Bill Hayward, Charles Moyer, and George Pettibone are taken into custody by Idaho authorities and the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They are put on a special train in Denver, Colorado, following a secret, direct route to Idaho because the officials had no legal right to arrest the three union executives in Colorado. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), of which Hayward was president, tried in vain to stop the unofficial arrests.
1936 – The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics..
1947 – With the words, "Hello! This is New York calling," the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) begins its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union. The VOA effort was an important part of America's propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
1957 – The Suez Canal reopens after repairs are make following fighting during the "Tripartite Aggression".
1964 – The U.S. Supreme court rules "one man one vote" in Wesberry v Sanders decision.
1966 – Brian Wilson rolled tape on take one of "Good Vibrations". Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he finally completed his three-minute-and-thirty-nine-second symphony, pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during literally hundreds of sessions.
1968 – American officials in Saigon report an all-time high weekly rate of U.S. casualties―543 killed in action and 2,547―wounded in the previous seven days. These losses were a result of the heavy fighting during the communist Tet Offensive.
1972 – President Richard Nixon leaves Washington, DC for China.
NATIONAL CABBAGE DAY
1621 – English military officer, Myles Standish, is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony.
1634 – English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure, William Prynne, is tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histriomastix".
1776 – The first volume of Edward Gibbon's the "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" is published.
1801 – The United States House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie, chooses Thomas Jefferson President over Burr.
1817 – Baltimore, MD becomes the first US city to be lit by gas by the Gas Light Company.
1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
1870 – Mississippi becomes the 9th state re-admitted to the U.S. following the Civil War.
1885 – Then German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, gives German colonial explorer and politician, Carl Peters, firm management of German East-Africa.
1906 – Union leaders Bill Hayward, Charles Moyer, and George Pettibone are taken into custody by Idaho authorities and the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They are put on a special train in Denver, Colorado, following a secret, direct route to Idaho because the officials had no legal right to arrest the three union executives in Colorado. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), of which Hayward was president, tried in vain to stop the unofficial arrests.
1936 – The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics..
1947 – With the words, "Hello! This is New York calling," the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) begins its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union. The VOA effort was an important part of America's propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
1964 – The U.S. Supreme court rules "one man one vote" in Wesberry v Sanders decision.
1966 – Brian Wilson rolled tape on take one of "Good Vibrations". Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he finally completed his three-minute-and-thirty-nine-second symphony, pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during literally hundreds of sessions.
1968 – American officials in Saigon report an all-time high weekly rate of U.S. casualties―543 killed in action and 2,547―wounded in the previous seven days. These losses were a result of the heavy fighting during the communist Tet Offensive.
1972 – President Richard Nixon leaves Washington, DC for China.
1972 – On this day in 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle comes off the assembly line, breaking a world car production record held for more than four decades by the Ford Motor Company's iconic Model T, which was in production from 1908 and 1927.
1981 – Chrysler Corporation reports the largest corporate losses in U.S. history.
1985 – United States first-class postage increases from 20 cents to 22 cents.
1985 – Laffit Pincay, Jr. becomes the third jockey of all-time to ride 6,000 winners with mounts at Santa Anita race track.
1989 – A 6-week study of the Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole".
1995 – A federal judge allows the lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked.
2008 – Kosovo declares its independence from Serbia.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1781 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826)
1844 – Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, founded Montgomery Ward (d. 1913)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German businessman (d. 1902)
1874 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman, IBM (d. 1956)
1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
1981 – Chrysler Corporation reports the largest corporate losses in U.S. history.
1985 – United States first-class postage increases from 20 cents to 22 cents.
1985 – Laffit Pincay, Jr. becomes the third jockey of all-time to ride 6,000 winners with mounts at Santa Anita race track.
1989 – A 6-week study of the Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole".
1995 – A federal judge allows the lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked.
2008 – Kosovo declares its independence from Serbia.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1781 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826)
1844 – Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, founded Montgomery Ward (d. 1913)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German businessman (d. 1902)
1874 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman, IBM (d. 1956)
1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
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