Events
197 -
Battle of Lugdunum - Roman Emperor
Septimius Severus defeats and kills his rival Clodius
Albinus, securing full control over the Empire.763 - Shi Chaoyi's head is delivered to
Chang'an, ending the
An Shi Rebellion.
1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 - Philosopher
Giordano Bruno was burnt alive at
Campo de' Fiori in
Rome, charged of
heresy.
1621 -
Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of
Plymouth colony.
1753 - February 17 is followed by
March 1 as
Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the
Julian calendar.
1801 - An
electoral tie between
Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected
President of the United States and Burr
Vice President by the
United States House of Representatives.
1814 -
Battle of Mormans.
1819 - The
United States House of Representatives passes the
Missouri Compromise.
1854 - The
British recognizes the independence of the
Orange Free State.
1864 -
American Civil War:
H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the
USS Housatonic.
1865 -
American Civil War:
Columbia, South Carolina burned as
Confederate forces flee from advancing
Union forces.
1867 - The first ship passes through the
Suez Canal.
1871 - The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris after the end of the
Siege of Paris during the
Franco-Prussian War.
1913 - The
Armory Show opens in
New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early
20th century.
1924 - In
Miami, Florida,
Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle
swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds.
1925 -
Harold Ross and
Jane Grant found
The New Yorker magazine; the debut issue is dated February 21, 1925.
1933 - The
magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.1933 - The
Blaine Act ends
Prohibition in the
United States.
1936 - The world's first
superhero,
The Phantom, makes his first appearance in
comics.
1944 -
World War II:
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on
February 22.1944 -
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.
1947 - The
Voice of America begins to transmit
radio broadcasts into the
Soviet Union.
1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in
Warrenton,
Missouri kills 72 people.
1958 -
Pope Pius XII declares
Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the
patron saint of
television.
1959 -
Project Vanguard:
Vanguard 2 - The first
weather satellite launched to measure
cloud-cover distribution.
1962 - A storm kills more than 300 people in
Hamburg,
West Germany.
1964 - In
Wesberry v. Sanders the
Supreme Court of the United States rules that
congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1968 - In
Springfield, Massachusetts the
Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 - Sales of the
Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of
Ford Model-T.
1974 -
Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled
U.S. Army private, buzzes the
White House with a stolen
helicopter.
1979 - The
Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1992 - A court in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences
serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
1995 -
Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of
murder for the December
1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence. 1995 - The
Cenepa War between
Peru and
Ecuador ends on a
cease-fire brokered by the
UN.
1996 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion
Garry Kasparov beats the
Deep Blue supercomputer in a
chess match.
2000 - Microsoft releases
Windows 20002003 - The
London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 - Over 1,000 people perished and buried alive in the town of
St. Bernard in
Southern Leyte, Philippines mudslide.
2009 -
Analog television broadcasts are scheduled to end in the United States, as the
Federal Communications Commission will require all stations to send their signals digitally.
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