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447 Events for 'February 17' in the Database.

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02/17/1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
Type: Event
02/17/1882 Kurt Schindler, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1882 Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro)
Type: Birth
02/17/1883 A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
Type: Event
02/17/1883 Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76
Type: Death
02/17/1884 Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
Type: Birth
02/17/1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
Type: Event
02/17/1887 Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1888 Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)
Type: Birth
02/17/1888 Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)
Type: Birth
02/17/1888 Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
Type: Birth
02/17/1889 H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
02/17/1891 Georg Britting, writer
Type: Birth
02/17/1892 Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
Type: Birth
02/17/1895 Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
Type: Birth
02/17/1895 Edna Park Edwards, PA
Type: Birth
02/17/1896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
Type: Event
02/17/1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
Type: Event
02/17/1897 Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady)
Type: Birth
02/17/1898 Tom Lowry, cricketer (NZ batsman in seven Tests and their 1st Test capt)
Type: Birth
02/17/1901 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38
Type: Death
02/17/1902 Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto (banned by D.A.R.)
Type: Birth
02/17/1903 Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen
Type: Birth
02/17/1903 Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61
Type: Death
02/17/1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
Type: Event
02/17/1904 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe)
Type: Birth
02/17/1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
Type: Event
02/17/1905 Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
Type: Death
02/17/1906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
Type: Event
02/17/1906 Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
Type: Birth
02/17/1906 Ramon Tapales, composer
Type: Birth
02/17/1907 Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
Type: Birth
02/17/1907 Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
Type: Birth
02/17/1907 Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), dies
Type: Death
02/17/1907 Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74
Type: Death
02/17/1908 Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
Type: Birth
02/17/1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
Type: Birth
02/17/1908 Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79
Type: Death
02/17/1909 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
Type: Birth
02/17/1909 Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannh„user)
Type: Birth
02/17/1910 Ai Qing, poet
Type: Birth
02/17/1910 Marc Lawrence, NYC, actor (Man With Golden Gun)
Type: Birth
02/17/1911 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
Type: Event
02/17/1911 Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising)
Type: Birth
02/17/1912 Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57
Type: Death
02/17/1912 L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
Type: Death
02/17/1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
Type: Event
02/17/1913 NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
Type: Event
02/17/1913 Jos‚phine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director
Type: Birth
02/17/1913 Oskar Danon, composer
Type: Birth

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