eso ha pasado un 17 Febrero

1904 : Madame Butterfly at La Scala in Milan


On February 17, 1904 the premiere of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly was held at La Scala in Milan.

1933 : Prohibition


On 17 February 1933, the U.S. Senate voted the Blaine Act which ended Prohibition.

1965 : Independence of Gambia


On February 17, 1965, Gambia became the smallest independent State in Africa, after 300 years of colonial rule.

1968 : 3rd Gold Medal for Jean Claude Killy


On February 17, 1968, Jean Claude Killy won the slalom and thereby its third gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble.

1979 : Beginning of the Sino-Vietnamese war


On February 17, 1979, 90,000 Chinese troops invaded Vietnam. China wanted to punish Vietnam for having taken Phnom Penh to liberate Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge. The conflict lasted one month during which 100,000 people were killed.

1993 : Neptune sank near Haiti


On February 17, 1993, the ferry Neptune,carrying 1,200 people - 2 times the maximum allowed - overturned near Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The vessel had neither lifeboats nor emergency gear. 900 people drowned.

2006 : Mudslide in the Philippines


On February 17, 2006, a mudslide buried the village of Guinsaugonin in the province of Southern Leyte in the Philippines. 1100 people were killed and among them nearly 250 children who were in the local elementary school.

Cita del día : 17 Febrero

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Cumpleaños : 17 Febrero

François dit le Balafré, Duc de Guise, Político francés (1519)
Arcangelo Corelli, Compositor italiano (1653)
Tobias Mayer, Astrónomo alemán (1723)
René Laënnec, Médico francés (1781)
Lola Montez, Bailarina irlandesa (1821)
Louisa Lawson, Escritora australiana (1848)
Thomas J. Watson, Presidente de IBM (1874)
Isabelle Eberhardt, Escritora y exploradora suiza (1877)
André Maginot, Político francés (1877)
Otto Stern, Físico alemán, Premio Nobel (1888)
Arthur Kennedy, Actor americano (1914)
Raf Vallone, Actor italiano (1916)
Kathleen Freeman, Actriz americana (1919)
Margaret Truman, Novelista estadounidense (1924)
Hal Holbrook, Actor americano (1925)
Ruth Rendell, Escritora inglesa (1930)
Alan Bates, Actor Inglés (1934)
Jim Brown, Giocatore di football americano (1936)
Brenda Fricker, Actriz irlandesa (1945)
Rashid Minhas, Piloto paquistaní (1951)
Rene Russo, Actriz americana (1954)
Lou Diamond Phillips, Actor americano (1962)
Michael Jordan, Jugador de baloncesto estadounidense (1963)
Michael Bay, Director de cine americano (1965)
David Douillet, Judoka francés (1969)
Tuesday Knight, Actriz americana (1969)
Tommy Moe, Esquiador estadounidense (1970)
Dominic Purcell, Actor Inglés (1970)
Denise Richards, Actriz americana (1971)
Billie Joe Armstrong, Músico estadounidense (Green Day) (1972)
Philippe Candeloro, Patinador francés (1972)
Raphaël Ibañez, Jugador de rugby francés (1973)
Jerry O'Connell, Actor americano (1974)
Kelly Carlson, Actriz americana (1976)
Jason Ritter, Actor americano (1980)
Paris Hilton, Heredera americana (1981)
Adriano, Futbolista brasileño (1982)
Rebecca Adlington, Nadadora británica (1989)
Meaghan Jette Martin, Actriz y cantante estadounidense (1992)

Nos han dejado un 17 Febrero

Molière, Dramaturgo francés (1673)
Antoine Galland, Arqueólogo francés (1715)
Ferdinando Carulli, Guitarrista italiano (1841)
Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Revolucionario indio (1883)
Geronimo, Jefe de Apache (1909)
Albert Ier, Rey de los Belgas (1934)
Alfred Newman, Compositor de música de cine estadounidense (1970)
Lee Strasberg, Profesor de drama (1982)
Hervé Bazin, Escritor francés (1996)
José López Portillo, Presidente de México (2004)
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