17th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1934
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Alan Bates, award-winning British stage and film actor"
• event
  • 1545
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Ancrum Moor
  • 1859
  • Italy
  • "Verdis opera Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) was performed for the first time, in Rome"
  • 1933
  • United States
  • Newsweek magazine was first published in the USA
  • 1933
  • United States
  • "The Blaine Act was passed, ending Prohibition in the United States ."
  • 1938
  • Great Britain
  • "John Logie Baird demonstrated an experimental large-screen colour TV at the Dominion Theatre, London."
  • 1958
  • Great Britain
  • The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was founded in London
  • 1958
  • Italy
  • Pope Pius XII declared Saint Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television .
  • 1979
  • The Sino-Vietnamese War began. China invaded Vietnam in response to the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia
  • 2003
  • Great Britain
  • Start of Congestion Charge for traffic entering central London
• Death
  • 1609
  • Italy
  • "Death of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany"
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Death of Geronimo, Native American Apache leader"
  • 1934
  • Germany
  • "Death of Siegbert Tarrasch, German doctor and world-class chess player and teacher, noted for his books on chess theory"