17. February
of the 17. February is the 48. Day of the Gregorian calendar, thus still 317 days (in leap years 318 days) up to the year end remain.
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of events
- 1370: The Litauer defeated by the German knight medal under Vienna-smell by Kniprode.Monument Dusendüwelswarf (battle call that Dithmar)
- 1500: The destroying defeat of the attack armyin the battle with Hemmingstedt terminates the Danish conquest course against the farmer republic Dithmar.
- 1753: Because of of Sweden transition to the Gregorian calendar follows there that 17. February of the 1. March.
- 1801: The house of representatives selects in 36. Ballot Thomas Jefferson to the third president of the USA.
- 1820: The US house of representatives adopts the Missouri compromise.
- 1854: Great Britain recognizes the independence of the Oranje Free State in South Africa on.
- 1864: American civil war: The konföderierte submarine C.S.S. Hunley is the first submarinethe world, the one opposing ship, which sinks U.S.S Housatonic. With the action the Hunley is lost however.
- 1865: Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, becomes of the Konföderierten on their escape before the moving forward forces that North states down-burned.
- 1900: William II. explains the Samoa islands as the German protected area.
- 1923: The grave chamber Tutanchamuns is opened in the Egyptian valley of the kings.
- 1933: The magazine Newsweek appears for the first time.
- 1933: The Blaine act terminates the Prohibition in the USA.
- 1934: Belgium. Death by king Albert I..
- 1935: End of the French tariff system in the Saargebiet.
- 1944: The battle around the Eniwetok atoll (operation Catchpole) begins and ends to 22. February with a victory of the Americans.
- 1947: The Voice OF America begins its radio endings into the Soviet Union.
- 1964: The highest court of the USA decides that the American congress districts must have in each case into same population numbers.
- 1972: Italy. Giulio Andreotti becomes a new head of the government.
- 1978: Ramón Rubial becomes a president of the first autonomous government in the Basque country.
- 1979: China marches into Viet Nam .
- 1986: In Luxembourg the uniform European document is signed.
- 1994: Belgium becomes by a constitutional amendment the Federal State.
- 1996: In Philadelphia chess world champion Garri Kasparow defeats the supercomputer „Deep Blue “in a game of chess.
- 1997: Bulgaria places the request for full membership in NATO.
- 1997: Germany. The Jordanian king Hussein meets in Bonn with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl .
- 1999: Denmark. Jonathan Motzfeldt becomes a head of the government.
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economics
- 1867: The first ship passes the Sueskanal.
- 1935: The eight hours' working day becomesintroduced to Germany as an obligatory work time.
- 1972: The sales VOLKSWAGEN beetle exceeds that one Ford of the Model t with 15 million.
- 2003: Australia and Singapore sign a free trade agreement.
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science and technology
- 1897: Afterthe technical University of Munich takes from Rudolf the Diesel detailed to examination in engine works Augsburg developed 10 HP strong engine off (first attempt diesel engine).
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culture
- 1776: Emperor Joseph II. explains Viennese the theatre next to thatCastle to the Teut national theatre.
- 1802: The opera „IL Cid della Spagna “ of Giuseppe Farinelli is uraufgeführt in the Teatro La Fenice.
- 1859: The opera „Un Ballo in Maschera “ („a Maskenball “) of Giuseppe Verdi is uraufgeführt in the Apollo theatre in Rome.
- 1865: Premiere of the opera „the deserter “ of Ferdinand Hiller in Cologne.
- 1892: Premiere of the opera „Winkelried “ of Louis Lacombe at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva.
- 1904: Premiere of the opera „Madama Butterfly “ of Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan.
- 1913: The Armory show opens town center in New York.
- 1914: The play „the elbow of theOdysseus “ of Gerhart captain is uraufgeführt in Berlin.
- 1927: Premiere of the opera „Hanneles Ascension Day “ of Paul Graener in Dresden.
- 1952: Premiere of the lyric drama „boulevard Solitude “ of Hans's Werner Henze at the national theatrein Hanover.
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philosophy/religion
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
- 1600: After eight-year old dungeon detention the 52-jährige philosopher and earlier Dominikaner Giordano Bruno on the Campo is burned dei Fiori in Rome than Ketzer on the heap of failure. ThatDeath sentence against Bruno becomes of Pope Johannes Paul II. to 12. March 2000 in the context of a service for the day of assigning publicly repents.
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disasters
- 1164: With a heavy storm tide at the German North Sea Coast the Jadebusen develops, there are 20,000 dead ones.
- 1962: At the night of 16. to 17. February looks for a heavy storm tide Northern Germany and Hamburg home.
- 1996: An earthquake of the strength 8.2 in the region Irian Jaya, Indonesia. 166 dead ones.
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sport
- 1924: In Miami (Florida) Johnny white Mueller swims with 57.4 seconds a new world record over 100 m freestyle.
Entries from athlete IC world records are under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events inRange formula 1 see there.
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born
- 1444: Rudolf Agricola, Netherlands early human
- 1490: Charles de Bourbon Montpensier, French army leader, duke of Bourbon Montpensier
- 1524: Charles de Lorraine Guise, French diplomat among the kings Heinrich II.and its son Franz II.,
- 1591: Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter
- 1616: Matthias Abele of and to lily mountain, Austrian lawyer and writer
- 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violonist and composer
- 1699: George Wenzeslaus ofKnobelsdorff, German building master, painter and architect in Prussia
- 1717: Adam Friedrich Oeser, German painter and sculptor
- 1723: Tobias Mayer, German Kartograf, geo count, mathematician and astronomer
- 1740: Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Schweizer natural scientist
- 1740: John Sullivan, US-American politician, general
- 1745: Johann Peter Salomon, German Violinist, composer, conductor and Musikimpresario
- 1752: Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German poet, Russian general
- 1754: Nicolas building DIN, French explorers
- 1781: René Théophile HyacintheLaënnec, French physician and inventor of the Stethoskops
- 1794: Heinrich Schmieder, German theologian and honour citizen of joke mountain
- 1796: Frederick William Beechey, English polar researcher and geo count
- 1796: Giovanni Pacini, Italian music paedagogue and composer
- 1796: PhilippFranz of filter old, German physician, Japan and natural scientist and plant hunter
- 1799: Carl Julian of Graba, royally Danish senior counsel
- 1801: August von Voit, German architect
- 1817: Christoph Moufang, bishop Weser of the diocese Mainz
- 1819: Max snail citizen, German poet
- 1820: Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer and Violinist
- 1821: Lola Montez, Irish Hochstaplerin and dancer
- 1822: George Weerth, German buyer and writer
- 1825: Albrecht weber, German Sanskritist andHistorian
- 1827: George von Liebig, German physician and Klimatologe
- 1830: Gerard Krefft, German zoologist and paleontologist in Australia
- 1836: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish writer
- 1838: Friedrich Konrad hatchet stone, GermanRussian chemist
- 1844: Bernadette Soubirous, French girl, who had a Marien feature.
- 1847: Charles Webster Leadbeater, priest, Theosoph and Okkultist
- 1847: Mathilde Mallinger, Austrian opera singer and Gesangspädagogin
- 1847: Otto Albert Blehr, Norwegian liberals politicians
- 1850: Alexander Mell, German blind teacher
- 1854: Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German entrepreneur
- 1855: Otto Liman of Sanders, Prussian general and marshal in Turkish services
- 1857: Johannes Abromeit, German Botaniker
- 1862: Mori Ōgai, JapanesePhysician, novelist and translator
- 1864: Andrew bar clay/tone Paterson, Australian lawyer, writer and journalist
- 1865: Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian and politician
- 1872: Alfred trained, mayors of Wiesbaden
- 1876: Hans Bernoulli, Swiss architect andProfessor
- 1877: André magic emergency, French politician
- 1884: Reinier Beeuwkes, Netherlands football national player
- 1885: Emmy Hennings, German authoress, Kabarettistin and life artist
- 1885: Ernst Altstaedt, German internalist
- 1885: Romano Guardini, German theologian andPhilosopher
- 1886: Arnold hearing citizen, Netherlands football player
- 1886: Eduard Stadtler, German journalist and founder of some anticommunist organizations
- 1886: Erich Zeigner, German politician, Prime Minister Sachsens
- 1887: Joseph Bech, Luxemburger statesman and politician
- 1887: Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer
- 1888: Otto star, GermanUS-American physicist, Nobelpreisträger
- 1889: Haroldson Hunt, US-American Ölmillliardär
- 1890: Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Genetiker, Evolutionstheoretiker and Statistiker
- 1891: Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, mathematician
- 1891: George Britting, German writer
- 1892: Jossyf Slipyj, archbishop of Lemberg and cardinal of the Roman-catholic church
- 1893: Theobald Schrems, founder of the music High School of the rain citizens Domspatzen
- 1896: Vladimir Rudolfowitsch bird, Russian composer
- 1897: Marian Anderson one, US-American singer
- 1898: Bruno LED DIN, German politician
- 1904: Hans Morgenthau, German lawyer and politics scientist
- 1905: Rózsa Péter, Hungarian Mathematikerin
- 1910: Gerd Hornberger, German athlete and olympia medal winner
- 1912: Andre Norton, US-American authoress
- 1913: René Leibowitz, French conductor, music paedagogue, writer and composer
- 1914: Arthur Kennedy, US-amerikanischer actor
- 1918: Paul Huber, Schweizer composer
- 1919: Joseph Hunt, US-American tennis player
- 1919: Kathleen Freeman, US-American actress
- 1921: Schnuckenack Reinhardt, German jazz musician
- 1922: Franz Fedier, GermanSwiss painter
- 1923: Kihachi Okamoto, Japanese film director
- 1925: Hal Holbrook, US-American actor
- 1925: Ron Goodwin, English film composer
- 1926: Friedrich Cerha, Austrian composer and conductor
- 1927: Juan Almeida, revolutionary and politician
- 1928: Roll ago penalty of Colbe, German Betriebswirtschaftler
- 1929: Chaim Potok, American-Jewish writer and rabbi
- 1929: Graham Hill,British author driver
- 1930: Ruth Rendell, British authoress
- 1931: Erich sour, German sculptor
- 1934: Alan Bates, British actor
- 1934: Frederik Hetmann, German writer
- 1936: Jim Brown, US-American football player and actor
- 1937: Rita Süssmuth, German politician
- 1937: Willi Koslowski, German football player
- 1940: Kind of hitting a corner value lift oh, president of the federal office for protection of the constitution
- 1940: Karl Hermann Haack, German politician
- 1940: Willi getting village, German athlete and olympia winner
- 1940: Winfried Hassemer, German criminal law scientist, vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1941: Genes Pitney, US-American singer and Songschreiber
- 1941: Heidi Biebl, German Skirennläuferin and Olympiasiegerin
- 1942: Dieter laser, German actor
- 1942: Heinrich Breloer,German film director
- 1942: Konrad white, German film director, journalist and GDR civil rights activist
- 1943: Hans Artur Bauckhage, German politician
- 1944: Karl Jenkins, Keyboarder, Oboist, Saxofonist and composer
- 1945: Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
- 1945: Young Myung seok, Korean sparkling wine leader
- 1946: Wolfgang weighing pool of broadcasting corporations, professor for political economy
- 1946: Dodie of Stevens, US-American child star
- 1949: Anne Lonnberg, US-American actress
- 1949: Doyle Bramhall, US-American Bluesrockgitarrist, - singers and - schlagzeuger
- 1951: Roland Collombin,Swiss ski running runner
- 1952: Karin Büttner Janz, German Kunstturnerin and hospital directress
- 1952: Ludger Volmer, German politician
- 1952: Peter Freund, German writer
- 1953: Alexandra thing Dierig, German politician
- 1954: Lou Ann bar clay/tone, US-American Bluessängerin
- 1954: Rene Russo, US-American film actress
- 1956: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Karn, US-American actor and Showmaster
- 1956: Stephan Hilsberg, German politician, MdV
- 1957: Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician and Komponistin
- 1958: Guillaume de Posch, BelgianTV-manager
- 1961: Ariane Ehrat, Swiss Skirennläuferin
- 1962: Lou dia. moon Phillips, US-amerikanischer actor, director, film script author and film producer.
- 1963: Michael Jordan, US-American basketball player
- 1965: Michael Benjamin Bay, US-American director and producer
- 1965: Peoples angel, German Visual Effects supervisor and film producer
- 1966: Old Skårdal, Norwegian ski running runner
- 1966: Thomas Forsberg, Swedish musician
- 1967: Jewgeni Walerjewitsch Grischkowez, Russian writer, actor and director
- 1968: Giuseppe Signori, Italian football player
- 1968: Inches Kiessling, German light athlete and Olympiateilnehmerin
- 1969: Željko Mavrović, Boxer and ex European champion in the heavyweight
- 1970: Hiroaki Samura, Mangaka
- 1970: Tommy Moe, US-American ski running runner
- 1971: Denise Richards, US-American actress
- 1972: Billie Joe Armstrong, US-American Punkband Leadsänger
- 1973: Stefan Kretzschmar, German hand ball player
- 1974: Bryan White, US-American Country singer
- 1974: Jerry O'Connell, US-American actor
- 1976: Almira Skriptschenko, French Schachspielerin
- 1976: Benjamin Immanuel hope, German politician
- 1979: Alexander Naumann, German chess player
- 1979: Cara Black, professional Tennisspielerin from Zimbabwe
- 1980: Wolfgang Mair, Austrian football player
- 1981: Bernhard Eisel, Austrian wheel running driver
- 1981: Lea Finn, German singerand Songschreiberin
- 1981: Paris Hilton, US-American hotel heiress
- 1982: Adriano, Brazilian football player
- 1982: Slim Thug, US-more American RWSby from Houston, Texas
- 1982: Thimothée Atouba, Cameroon. Football player
- 1991: Bonnie WRIGHT, British film actress
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died
- ,197: Clodius Albinus, Roman Gegenkaiser 193-197
- 364: Jovian, Roman emperor
- ,440: Mesrop, Armenian holy and developers of the Armenian alphabet
- 1238: Heinrich of Thun, bishop prince dioceseBasel and promoter of the city Basel
- 1285: Lukas of Padua, Franziskanermönch
- 1339: Otto the merry one, duke of Austria
- 1504: Eberhard II., as Eberhard VI. of Württemberg Stuttgart count and as Eberhard II. Duke of Württemberg.
- 1575: Cesare I. Gonzaga, son of the imperial field gentleman Ferrante I. Gonzaga
- 1600: Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
- 1612: Ernst von Bayern, Erzbischof of Cologne
- 1652: Gregorio Allegri, Italian priest, composer and tenor singer
- 1654: Michael Lohr, German composer
- 1673: Molière, French comedy poet
- 1711: José Vaquedano, Spanish composer and Kapellmeister
- 1732: Of Louis Mark hand, French organist and Cembalist
- 1803: Louis René Édouard de Rohan Guéméné, last prince bishopof Strasbourg
- 1805: Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Austrian physician, natural scientist
- 1807: Johann Rudolf Dolder, Swiss politician
- 1819: Philippe Louis Mark Antoine de Noailles, prince de Poix, French politician
- 1820: Franz Regis Clet, Missionar in China
- 1823: Friedrich of Kleist, Prussian general field marshal
- 1827: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss paedagogue
- 1841: Ferdinando Carulli, Italian composer and salon guitarist
- 1856: Heinrich Heine, German poet, writer and journalist
- 1867: Alexander Dallas of brooks,US-American physicist
- 1874: Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician, statistician and astronomer
- 1874: Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet, Belgian astronomer and statistician
- 1875: Friedrich William August Argelander, German astronomer
- 1877: Salomon Hermann Mosenthal, German dramatistand dear savingist
- 1883: Napoléon Coste, French guitarist
- 1890: Christopher Latham Sholes, US-American printer, journalist and inventor
- 1891: Theophil EDP pool of broadcasting corporations baron von Hansen, Danish-Austrian building master of historicism
- 1892: Johan Sverdrup, Norwegian liberals politicians
- 1907: Ferdinand Justi, German Orientalist
- 1907: Henry Steel Olcott, joint founder of the Theosophi society
- 1909: Geronimo, war chieftain of the Apachen
- 1913: Edward Stanley Gibbons, English Philatelist, enterprise founder
- 1913: Joaquin Miller, US-amerikanischer writer
- 1915: Francisco Giner de loosely Ríos, Spanish philosopher and paedagogue
- 1919: Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian prime minister
- 1924: Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer
- 1928: George L. Sarauw, Danish archaeologist
- 1934: Albert I., Kingthe Belgian
- 1934: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Zoozmann, German author and editor
- 1934: Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess large master
- 1935: William Kolle, German physician
- 1937: Hugo Meisl, Austrian football national coach
- 1938: Bill Drews, German lawyer
- 1939: Willy Hess, German violin virtuoso and - teachers
- 1942: Tony coffin, German-American doll player and Illustrator
- 1944: Franz buyer, German lawyer and resistance fighter
- 1944: Jean Cavaillès, French philosopher
- 1947: Gustav Leutelt, deutschböhmischer poetand writers
- 1949: Ellery Clark, US-amerikanierscher athlete
- 1958: William Bahlburg, German politician
- 1962: Bruno walter, US-American conductor, pianist and composer
- 1966: Hans's Hofmann, German painter
- 1968: Hertha Sponer, German Physikerin
- 1970: Alfred Newman, US-American film composer
- 1970: Samuel Agnon, Hebrew writer (Literaturnobelpreisträger of the yearly 1966)
- 1971: Karl Meitmann, German politician
- 1973: Pixinguinha, musician
- 1976: Walter chirp in, experts in the realm tag fire lawsuit 1933
- 1977: Blinky Palermo, German painter
- 1980: Oskar Paulini, German writer
- 1982: Lee Strasberg, joint founder of the “Group Theatre”
- 1982: Thelonious Monk, US-American jazz pianist and composer
- 1986: Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosopher
- 1988: Alain Savary, French education politician and Résistant
- 1989: Johannes Sobek, German football player
- 1989: Marguerite Robert, US-American film script authoress
- 1990: Keith Haring, US-American artist
- 1991: Hans Thimig, österreichscher actor and director
- 1994: Gretchen Frazer, US-American Skifahrerin
- 1995: Werner Bruschke, Prime Minister of Saxonia-Anhalt
- 1996: Hervé Bazin, French writer
- 1996: Michel Pablo, Trotzkist from Greece
- 1997: Amha Selassie I., Crown Prince of Ethiopia
- 1997: Bärbel Inhelder, Swiss Entwicklungspsychologin
- 1997: Darcy Ribeiro, Brazilian Anthropologe, politician, and writer
- 1998: Ernst Jünger, German writer and journalist
- 1998: Ernst Käsemann, German lutherischer theologian and university professor
- 1998: Nicolas Bouvier, FrenchWriter, travel author and journalist
- 1998: P. C. Ettighoffer, German writer
- 2001: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations worm fire, Romanian lutherischer minister
- 2002: Heinz fire-place ski, German chemistry engineer and space researcher
- 2004: Karl-Heinz Stienen, German politician
- 2005: César Marcelak, French wheel running driver
- 2005: Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor
- 2005: Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator
- 2005: Jens Martin Knudsen, Danish astrophysicist
- 2006: Sybille Bedford, GermanBritish lady journalist and authoress
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of celebration and anniversaries
- Church anniversaries:
- The sieved holy founders of the Servitenordens (catholic)
- Bonosus of Trier (catholic)
- Evermod of Ratzeburg (catholic)
- Finan of Lindisfarne (catholic)
- Flavian of Konstantinopel (catholic)
- Johann army man (Evangelist)
- Lukas Belludi (catholic)
- Mangoldus of Isny (catholic)
- Mazelin of Salzburg (catholic)
- Silvinusof Auchy (catholic)
- Theodor of Euchaïta (of orthodox)
- name days: Lukas
see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale
