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February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... It triggers a 100 m (330 ft) megatsunami which drowns over 2,300 people. [6]
1979 – About 120,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army of China crossed into northern Vietnam, starting the Sino-Vietnamese War. unreferenced section, refimprove section 1995 – In the presence of the four guarantor countries of the Rio Protocol , Ecuador and Peru signed a peace declaration confirming a ceasefire , leading to the ...
Tommy Edwards (February 17, 1922 –October 22, 1969), American pianist and pop music singer, would have turned 102 this year. Hoppy Jones (February 17, 1905 –October 18, 1944), (born Orville Jones) American bass vocalist and cellist with The Ink Spots, would have turned 119 this year.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
February 17, 1962: 345 West Germans ... [17] Born: Michelle Maenza, ... Floods killed 345 people in West Germany and left 500,000 people homeless, ...
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
17 – Evelyn Irons (1900–2000), Scottish journalist and war correspondent; 17 – Steven Davies (1986–), English cricketer; 17 – Phyllida Lloyd (1957–), English theatre and film director; 17 – Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), American writer and photographer; 19 – Elisabeth Marbury (1856–1933), theatrical/literary agent and author
17 February 17, 1935 (Sunday ... in anticipation of trouble on the one-year anniversary of the 6 February 1934 crisis. [7] Born: ... 14 people were killed in ...