What happened on February 17?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺 🇳 Global tourism sustainability day.
🌏 World pangolin Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮 🇹 Italy, 🇵 🇱 Poland-National Cat Day.
🇺 🇸 USA – National Cabbage Day.
🇱 🇧 Libya – Revolution Day.
🇽 🇰 Kosovo – independence day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1370-Battle of Rudau.
– 1600-Jordano Bruno is burned in a bonfire in Rome.
– 1720-the Treaty of The Hague was signed between Spain and the countries of the league of four, ending the war of the league of four.
– 1776-for the first time in the United States, public lighting through natural gas began in the city of Baltimore.
– 1814-Napoleon I defeats a Russian army under the command of Count Palen at the Battle of Morman.
– 1852-The Hermitage is opened to the general public.
– 1854-Great Britain recognizes the independence of the Republic of Orange.
– 1855-Crimean War: Russian troops carried out an unsuccessful attack on Yevpatoria.
– During the 1859-Cochin campaign, after a two-day siege, Franco-Spanish troops occupied Saigon.
– 1863-the International Committee of the Red Cross is founded in Geneva.
– 1878-for the first time a telephone network of 18 telephones was launched in San Francisco, USA.
– 1880-a fifth unsuccessful assassination attempt was made on Alexander II.
– 1938-in London, the Scottish John Beard presented color television to the public.
– 1947-the radio station” Voice of America ” began broadcasting in Russian.
– 1956-Clare d’assisi is described as a television legend.
– 1959-for the first time the weather observer satellite “Vankard-2” was launched.
– 1972-the British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.
-1979-the Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
– 1983 – “birthday”of the Ada programming language.
– 1993-Gazprom Joint Stock Company of Russia is established.
– 1996-a magnitude 8.2 earthquake in the Irian Jaya region of Indonesia killed 108 people and injured hundreds.
– 2008-Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
– 2011-karshi protests to the authorities of Muammar Kazzofiy, the leader of the Libyan revolution and head of jamahiriya, began in Libya.
– 2011-Al Khalifa security forces in Bahrain forcibly disperse protesters gathered in Lu’lua square. In this incident, 4 people were killed and 250 people received body injuries.
– 2012 – German president Christian Wolf resigns from office due to his involvement in a financial scandal before taking office.