The February 17th is the 48e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 317 days before the end of the year (318 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

  • 1332 : Philippe VI émancipe his son, Jean, heir to the throne, and the fact duke of Normandy.

  • 1405 : Samarkand: Tamerlan, the founder of the IIème worsens Mongolian, deceased the January 19th, is deposited in a sumptuous tomb.
  • 1454 : Lille: “the Wish of the pheasant” . The year which follows the catch of Constantinople, the pope and the emperor call with a news Croisade: it is, for the lords of Burgundy and Flandres, the occasion of sumptuous meetings.
  • 1568 : The Turkish sultan Soliman II makes peace with the Germanic emperor Maximilien II.
  • 1596 : The Duc of Own way prevents the catch of Marseilles by the Spaniards.
  • 1600 : Rome: Driven out Church like “heretic unrepentant” and given to a secular court, Giordano Bruno is burned alive.
  • 1661 : Kangxi becomes emperor of China.
  • 1670 : The France sign a defensive alliance with the Bavaria for an joint action with died of the one of the monarchs, Léopold Ier of Germany or Charles of Spain.
  • 1676 : Louis XIV concludes a secret alliance with the king Charles II from England.
  • 1772 : Poland: The first division of the country is decided. It will be confirms by a second treaty the August 5th of the same year between the Prussia, the Austria and the Russia.
  • 1773 : The navigator James Cook observes his first Northern light in the Indian Ocean.
  • 1776 :
    • First publication of the book of the historian Edward Gibbon “The Declines and Fall off the Roman Empire”.
    • Baltimore is the first city of the the United States to light its streets with the natural Gaz.
  • 1797 : After sièces of Spanish domination, the Trinité falls to the hands from English.
  • 1800 : France: Adoption of the law presented by Chaptal on “the new division of the territory and the establishment of the prefectures”. Officials appointed by the capacity occupy from now on all the stations with responsibilities for various administrative divisions. The district, the old district, is restored. Centralization is increased.
  • 1807 : Paris: The type-setter Etienne Nicolas Méhul presents his opera Joseph .
  • 1810 : Italy: The Papal States are annexed to the Empire and are transformed into two departments.
  • 1813 : The Prussia declares the war with the France.
  • 1822 : France: The republican and liberal opposition is organized clandestinely while being posted with the Charbonnerie. The capacity discovers conspiracies in province. This day, a plot in a regiment transferred from Paris to La Rochelle is revealed. Its protagonists, the “four sergeants”, will be carried out the September 21st.
  • 1834 : The United States and the Spain sign convention “Van Ness” regulating the territorial conflicts.
  • 1852 : France: Suspended the shortly after the coup d'etat, the press is monitored and controlled more narrowly than ever by a set of measures preventive, obligations and sanctions envisaged by the decree of this day.
  • 1859 :
    • Première with the Apollo Theater of Rome of the lyric drama a ballo in will maschera (the masked Ball) of Giuseppe Verdi.
    • Vietnam: A French fleet goes up the river of Saigon, destroying the forts which border it, and penetrates in Gia Dinh .
  • 1863 : Geneva: Deeply made indignant by the spectacle from the thirty-six thousand wounded Battle of Solferino (June 24th 1859), Switzerland Henri Dunant calls with Geneva a conference in order to found a international committee intended to help the war wounded impartialement.
  • 1864 : The unionistic battleship US Housatonic is run outside the wearing of Charleston in South Carolina by the submarine confederated CS H.L. Hunley, which is him even cast.
  • 1865 :
  • 1870 : Esther Morris becomes the first woman judges in the United States.
  • 1871 : France: Adolphe Thiers, the future torturer of Paris, is named chief of the executive power of the Republic and form a government of national union which will sit at Versailles.
  • 1878 :
    • Thomas Edison makes patent his Phonographe with cylinder.
    • the first phone network in the United States begins with San Francisco with 18 telephones.
  • 1897 : Rudolf Diesel tests its engine with Augsburg: conclusive test.
  • 1900 : Mary Hamilton von Derbeck becomes owner of the team of Baseball of Detroit of American League.

20th century

  • 1903 : the Belgian government founds an important rise of the taxes on the Eau-de-vie.

  • 1904 :
  • 1905 : Russia: Assassination of the large-duke Serge, uncle of the tsar and governor of Moscow.
  • 1913 :
    • Beginning of the mandate of president of the French Republic of Raymond Poincaré.
    • 1st exposure of modern art to New York: 1600 fabrics, of Ingres to Picasso.
  • 1914 : The project of income tax of Joseph Caillaux is rejected by the Sénat because " opposite with the mœurs".
  • 1915 : Second offensive of Champagne and reconquest of the massive of Éparges.
  • 1916 : The French and British troops occupy the German colony of the Cameroun.
  • 1917 : France: The Room vote the attribution of a franc per day with the soldiers of the trenches.
  • 1919 : A law prohibiting to the women and to the children to work in the hotels and the restaurants is voted in Belgium.
  • 1931 : The first maintenance enters the Mahatma Gandhi and the viceroy of the the Indies, Lord E.W.Irving
  • 1932:
    • Left the film " Mr. the maudit" of Fritz Lang with the studio of the Ursulines with Paris.
    • In Ethiopia, the emperor Hailé Sélassié proclaims the abolition of slavery.
    • with the Yukon, Albert Johnson, known as Mad Trapper , is killed in a shooting with agents of the royal Gendarmerie of Canada.
  • 1934 :
    • In Belgium, the king Albert Ier, finds death during a climbing of rocks, with Walk-the-Ladies (Belgium).
    • Léopold III becomes king of the Belgian .
  • 1935 : Introduction of the 8 hours day in Germany.
  • 1938 : John Baird, already inventor of the mechanical television set, organizes the first experimental demonstration of television colors.
  • 1939 : Ferdinand Porsche presents the Volkswagen (car of the people).
  • 1944 : The American forces attack the Japanese garrison of the atoll of Eniwetok, in the Pacifique.
  • 1945 : the Russian drive out the Nazis site of Peenemünde, at the edge of the Baltique, from where the missiles V-2 were launched; the engineer Wernher von Braun will be recruited by the Americans.
  • 1948 : At the time of revolts to the Yemen, the Iman Sayia Abd Allah Al-Wazir , Head of the State, is assassinated.
  • 1949 : Chaïm Weizmann, first president of the State of Israel, lends oath.
  • 1952 : With Paris, first with the theater of the Workshop, " the head of the others " of Marcel Aymé.
  • 1958 : In France, publication of the book of Henri Alleg " the Question " on torture in Algeria.
  • 1959 : The the United States launch the meteorological satellite " Vanguard II ".
  • 1965 :
    • the American probe " To arrange 8" is launched of Cap Canaveral (Florida) in direction of the the Moon, on which it will be crushed three days later, after having transmitted more than 7.000 photographs.
    • Canada: The Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson announces that the age to touch the federal pension will pass little by little from seventy to sixty-five years.
  • 1966 : Mission accomplished for Tuning fork , the 2nd space engine French has turned for a few hours around the Ground, on an orbit very close to that which had been envisaged.
  • 1968 :
    • With the Mozambique, for the first time, a catholic priest preaches in a mosque.
    • Jean-Claude Killy gains the third of its three gold medals of the OJ of winters of Grenoble (Descent, Giant slalom and Special slalom).
  • 1969: A conference of French-speaking countries, from which the Quebec, begins with the Niger.
  • 1970 :
    • Aba Eban, with $the Hague, proposes an international meeting to examine the problem of the Palestinian refugees.
    • the 23.000 minors of the Limbourg, Belgium, resume work after six weeks of strikes, without new advantages.
  • 1971 : Meet Henry Kissinger and of Mao Tsé-Toung for the standardization of the relations between the the United States and the China.
  • 1972 :
    • Richard Nixon starts the first visit of an US president in communist China.
    • the 15.007.034e Volkswagen leaves the factory… thus beating the record of sale of the Ford " CHOCK LIZZY".
    • the House of Commons adopts in the majority simple, the protocol of adhesion of the the United Kingdom to the EEC.
  • 1974 : With the the United States, the author of the removal of Patricia Hearst, want that the ransom is used with the purchase of foodstuffs for the old men and the needy ones of California.
  • 1976 :
  • 1978 : With Paris, an escape in a gas pipeline causes an explosion: 12 died and 100 wounded.
  • 1979 : Beginning of the armed conflict sino-Vietnamese: Chinese troops, supported by aviation and of the armoured tanks, penetrate with the Vietnam.
  • 1982 :
    • with London, where is kept since 1867 the Acte of British North America, the Parliament accepts the principle of a news Canadian Constitution, according to the request for Ottawa.
    • Fine of a wave of forty attacks asserted by F.L.N.C
    • In Syria, the capacity alouite represses wildly the insurrection of Hama. The city is bombarded and destroyed. One counts 10.000 dead.
    • In Poland, 3.500 people are stopped into 48 H, for non-observance of the martial Loi.
    • has Moscow, Soviet Union, the fall of an escalator in the corridor of the subway results in the death of 30 people.
  • 1984 : Violent ones engagements continue between the Iraqi and Iranian forces with 160km in the east of Baghdad, where the battle made, in two days, more than 4.000 dead.
  • 1986 :
    • Signature of the bearing Single act on the reform of the European institutions (abstention from the Denmark, the Greece and the Italy).
    • Beginning of the first Summit of the Francophonie with Versailles.
    • Alain Pichavent and Stephan Peyron makes a success of the crossing of the Atlantique in board with two-seater veil of 24 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes.
  • 1987 :
    • the French government decides to launch a vast campaign of information on the AIDS in the schools.
    • With the Brazil, the collision between 2 suburban trains kills 51 people, wounds 160 others of them.
    • Of the engagements opposes to Beirut - Western Chiites with militiamans Druzes and Communists for the control of the Moslem sector.
  • 1989 : The Morocco, the Algeria, the Libya, the Tunisia and the Mauritania create the Union of the Arab Maghreb.
  • 1990 : The Provincial Committee of Tourism of Agadir, with the Morocco, prepares for 4000 guests a Couscous of 1,5 ton of Semoule, 200 chickens, 20 sheep and 750 kg of vegetables: World records.
  • 1992 : an attack in Northern Ireland, asserted by the WILL GO, makes seven dead.
  • 1993 :
    • Michel Rocard proposes " a big bang politique" who would allow " to build, as of the legislative last ones, a mouvement" opened with the ecologists, the centrists and the renovating Communists.
    • the ferry Neptune capsizes with broad of Haiti, and the number of dead could exceed the thousand. The boat, on board of which had taken seat between 800 and 2000 people, had neither list of passengers apparently, neither waistcoats and lifeboats, nor radio. With the result that one will undoubtedly know never the exact number of the victims.
    • Left the October 30th 1992 Honolulu, Kenichi Horie arrives at Noha , with the Japan, in Pédalo: 75.000 km of walk.
  • 1994 : The chief of the Serb Bosnians Radovan Karadzic commits himself withdrawing, before the expiry of the Ultimatum of NATO, his heavy weapons of the area of Sarajevo in exchange of the sending of Russian blue helmets.
  • 1996 :
    • a Seism, magnitude 7 on the open scales of Richter, shakes is Indonesia and part of the New Guinea: 90 dead.
    • the world champion with the failures, Garry Kasparov, has gained by a pointing from 4 to 2 with Philadelphia the match the opponent for one week with the supercomputer Deep Blue of IBM. Deep Blue is able to calculate from 50 to 100 billion blows in three minutes.
  • 1997 :
  • 1999 :
    • NASA announces that the probe Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is to ten billion kilometers of the Ground. It continues its race with 17,4 km/s.
    • with Berlin, four Kurdish denouncing the capture by the Turkey of Abdullah Öcalan are killed by the guards armed with the consulate of Israel.
  • 2000 : with Seattle, Microsoft lance its new operating system Windows 2000.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • a cargo liner, the “ East Sea ”, transporting 908 clandestine immigrants, for the majority of the Kurdish Iraqi, is failed on a beach of Saint-Raphaël after seven days of crossing under inhuman conditions.
    • at eighty-three years, Henri Salvador is crowned better male interpreter with the Victoires of the music. Helene Ségara is the best female interpreter and Québécois the Isabelle Boulay, discovered year.
    • Stacy Dragila carries the world records of female jump to the pole in room to 4,70 Mr.
  • 2002:
    • Fine of the legal tender of the French franc after 641 years of existence.
    • the guerilla Maoist with the Nepal lance its more violent offensive since the beginning of the insurrection in 1996, against a police station and an airport in the North-West of the country, making 137 dead.
  • 2003 :
    • the bankruptcy court of Creteil (the Valley-of-Marne) pronounces the liquidation of the private airline company Air Lib, involving the dismissal of 3.200 paid and marking the end of a économico-social serial which lasted since nearly two years.
    • Installation of a toll to reach the center of London.
  • 2004 :
    • Of the American astronomers announces to have discovered a Celestial body cold to seven billion kilometers of the Ground, which would represent approximately half of the size of the planet Pluton, that is to say largest " planétoïde" in our Solar system since Pluton was located for the first time in 1930. Located at the periphery external of the Belt of Kuiper, it was named (90482) Orcus and would spend 252 years to make the full rotation of the Sun.
    • the airline company Littoral Air is placed in compulsory liquidation.
    • With the Portugal, 17 people are discharged loads of Avortement at the end of a very media lawsuit which starts again the debate on an easing of the law on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Festivals (First names)

Alexis, Alexa, Alexane, Alexia, Alexiane, Aliocha, Lexane, Fintan, Théodule

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Anastase of Antioche († 599) patriarch of Antioche.
  • Auxibe de Solès († 112), bishop with Cyprus.
  • Bonose of Trier († 381), bishop and confessor.
  • Fintan d' Ednech († 603), patriarch of the Irish monks.
  • Fulrade of Saint-Denis († 784), Alsatian, abbot of Saint-Denis.
  • Guirec of the Leon or Kireg, or Guevroc († 547), monk.
  • Loman de Trim († 450), bishop
  • Marcien († 457), emperor and his wife Pulchérie, confessors.
  • Marianne or Mariamne (1st S.), virgin, sister of the Philippe apostle.
  • Polychrone of Babylon († 251), bishop and martyr in Chaldée.
  • Sylvain d' Auchy († 718), confessor, missionary in Artois.
  • Theodore the Conscript or Theodore Tiron († 303), martyr with Euchaïta in the Bridge (date in the East, celebrated in Occident on November 9th).
  • Théodule of Palestine († 309), martyr with Julien with Césarée of Palestine.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Alexis Monrolin
  • Alexis de Falconieri († 1310) and seven founders of the servites.
  • Constable († 1124), Confessor
  • Happy Evermode de Ratzebourg († 1168), bishop of Ratzebourg, disciple of saint Norbert de Xanten
  • Jean-François Clet († 1820), lazarist, martyr in China
  • Pierre Ryou († 1866), martyr in Korea

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Hermogène of Moscow († 1611), bishop and confessor.
  • Michel d' Andrinople († 1490), néo-martyr
  • Theodore de Byzance († 1795), néo-martyr with Mytilène.
  • Théodose the Silencer of the Caves of Kiev (XIIIe S.)
  • Théodose de Tirnovo (XIIIe S.)

See too

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