Here’s a chronological timetable of events that occurred on this day in history. Let’s find out what happened today in history.
February 17
1720 Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague
1919 Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland.
1925 The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker.
1933 The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast.
1935 Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard.
1938 The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London.
1944 U.S forces land on Eniewetok Atoll in the South Pacific.
1945 Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1951 Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible.
1955 Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1959 The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II.
1960 Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.
1963 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.
1969 Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord.
1973 President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI.
1979 China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March.
1985 Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart.
Born on February 17
1774 Raphaelle Peale, U.S. painter
1864 A(ndrew) B(arton) “Banjo” Paterson, Australian poet and journalist.
1874 Thomas J. Watson Sr., U.S. industrialist.
1902 Marian Anderson, American singer.
1929 Chaim Potok, novelist (The Chosen, The Promise).
1963 Michael Jordan, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls.
Source: History Net
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