This Day in History - What Happened This Day in History?

[Alnamvet68]

2/17/67 - The Beatles release Strawberry Fields & Penny Lane

2/17/69 - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female Prime Minister

 

[686_was_my_first]

According to Historynet.com

On February 17, the following occurred:

1801 - The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr.

1864 - The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

1865 - The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through.

1909 - Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

1919 - Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland

1944 - U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific.

1945 - Gen. MacArthur's troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.

 

[rakstr]

This Day in Browns History - Feb. 17

 

[Bruce51]

2-17-1933 Passage of the Blaine Act ends prohibition.

I'll drink to that!

1959 The Vanguard 2 is launched. Our first weather satellite.

BLM

 

[Alnamvet68]

Today in history, in 1930, the Planet Pluto was discovered.

 

[Alnamvet68]

On this day in 1945, the US Marines storm the shores of Iwo Jima.

On this day in 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn" was published for the first time in the U.S.

 

[DCWilson]

Beware the ides of February.

Actually, the Ides of February fall on the 13th. The Ides always fall exactly eight days after the Nones, which fall on the fifth for eight months out of 12. Keep track this way:

March, July October, May,
The Nones are on the seventh day.

This is deadly important and serious stuff, folks!

BTW, the word "Nones" (rhymes with "bones") is connected the number nine. What's up with that? I guess if you are the Romans, you count the way you want to and everybody else falls in line if they know what's good for them.

They weren't complete calendar jerks, though. The Kalends (whence "Calendar") always fall on the first of the month. Any month. No matter how many days it has in it.

 

[DCWilson]

1947 april 15.....Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

Test time!

Who broke the color line for the last all white pre-expansion team in major league ball, and when did he do it?

Just to make a passing nod to the original focus of this thread, this event did not occur in February, and not on the 15th -- Ides or not.

 

[kozmic]

2/18/2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr. dies in crash at the Daytona 500.

 

[Alnamvet68]

On this day 2/20/62, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.

 

[Sven]

Feb 19, 1934, my wife's aunt was born. Auntie's older sister (who was a teenager at the time) wrote in her daily email yesterday, that she remembered the 12 mile sleigh ride into town. It was 30 below.

 

[Alnamvet68]

Feb 19, 1934, my wife's aunt was born. Auntie's older sister (who was a teenager at the time) wrote in her daily email yesterday, that she remembered the 12 mile sleigh ride into town. It was 30 below.

That's nice Sven....be sure to re-post that next Feb 19th, 2014.

 

[Alnamvet68]

Just so were all on the same page, the current Julian Date is:

24566344.0...that would be FEB 20th, 2013, 0927

 

[Alnamvet68]

TODAY IS FEB 21st, 2013​

Today in history, Feb 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon becomes the first sitting CIC to visit China.

 

[Alnamvet68]

Today is February 22nd, 2013​

Today in history, in 1965, "This Diamond Ring" by Gary Lewis and The Playboys was the number one single hit.

 

[Alnamvet68]

Today in history, in 1945, the flag was raised over Iwo Jima.

Semper Fi brothers....

 

[Alnamvet68]

Today, in 1994, the Brady Law imposing a wait period to buy a handgun went into effect.

 

[max]

On this date in 1970 I got married in Des Plaines, Il. The following Monday I flew to Vietnam. Yes, we are still married and live in the town where we met and went to college.

 

[rwsmith]

February 28th

In 1991 the Gulf War ended

In 1983 the final episode of "MASH" became the most watched TV program ever.

In 1932 the Ford Model A was first produced.

In 1993 the ATF tried to serve warrants to the 'Branch Davidians' in Waco, Texas

In 1918 US War Materials Bill made destruction of any war related material or building a major crime, punishable by $10,000 fine and 30 years in prison.

In 1954 the DNA 'double helix' was discovered

In 1963 JFK asked that voting rights be protected from discrimination.

In 1968 General Wheeler asked LBJ for more troop in Vietnam.

In 1994 US fighter planes shot down four Serbian planes that had bombed an area in a 'no fly' zone.

In 2008 Germany is the first nation to recognize Kosovo.

 

[ditrina]

Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!

The USS Maine exploited and sank in the Havana Harbor on this date in 1898.



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