About February 17
February 17, 2025 is the 48th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 365 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 17
- 364 –Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
- 1600 –The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
- 1621 –Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
- 1753 –In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
- 1809 –Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio.
- 1819 –The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
- 1838 –Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- 1931 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 1933 –The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan’s main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
- 1959 –Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
- 1964 –Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
- 1972 –Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
- 1978 –The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
- 1979 –The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
- 1996 –NASA’s Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
- 1998 –Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops kill 70–90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
- 2011 –Libyan protests begin
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