FEB
17
Today's Special
Revolution Day (Libya)
Revolution Day (Libya)
Today's Quotes
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
- Michelangelo
Historical Events on February 17.
● 1698, 17th February: Aurangzeb captured the fort of Jinji after an eight-year siege.
● 1801, 17th February: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of votes in the US presidential election. The House of Representatives elected Jefferson as the President and Barr as Vice President.
● 1882, 17th February: First Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground.
● 1933, 17th February: US embargo ended. The embargo was imposed in 1920.
● 1966, 17th February: NASA’s Discovery Program began as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifted off on the first mission ever to orbit and landed on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
● 2007, 17th February: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on February 17.
● 1854: Friedrich Krupp, a German steel manufacturer.
● 1874: Thomas John Watson Sr., an American businessman.
● 1899: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist, and essayist in the Bengali language.
● 1954: K. Chandrashekhar Rao, an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana.
● 1957: Praful Patel, an Indian politician, and businessman.
● 1963: Jen-Hsun Huang, a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia.
● 1991: Ed Sheeran, an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.
Death Anniversaries of famous people on February 17.
● 1600: Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher.
● 1883: Vasudev Balwant Phadke, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.
● 1986: Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian speaker, and writer.
● 1988: Karpoori Thakur, an Indian politician.
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