| 1454 |
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At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the "vow of the pheasant," by which he swears to fight the Turks. |
| 1598 |
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Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tarar origin, is elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor. |
| 1720 |
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Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718. |
| 1801 |
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The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr. |
| 1864 |
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The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. |
| 1865 |
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The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through. |
| 1909 |
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Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. |
| 1919 |
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Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland. |
| 1925 |
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The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hits the stands, selling for 15 cents a copy. |
| 1933 |
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The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast. |
| 1935 |
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Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard. |
| 1938 |
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The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London. |
| 1944 |
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U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific. |
| 1945 |
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Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines. |
| 1951 |
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Packard introduces its "250" Chassis Convertible. |
| 1955 |
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Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs. |
| 1959 |
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The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II. |
| 1960 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott. |
| 1963 |
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall. |
| 1969 |
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Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord. |
| 1973 |
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President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI. |
| 1975 |
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Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gough, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan. |
| 1979 |
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China begins a "pedagogical" war against Vietnam. It will last until March. |
| 1985 |
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Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart. |
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Born on February 17 |
| 1774 |
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Raphaelle Peale, U.S. painter |
| 1864 |
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A(ndrew) B(arton) "Banjo" Paterson, Australian poet and journalist. |
| 1874 |
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Thomas J. Watson Sr., U.S. industrialist. |
| 1902 |
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Marian Anderson, American singer. |
| 1908 |
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Walter Lanier "Red" Barber, baseball announcer for the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees. |
| 1929 |
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Chaim Potok, novelist (The Chosen, The Promise). |
| 1963 |
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Michael Jordan, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls. |
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