February 17<\/p>\n
1621 \u2013 Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.<\/p>\n
1801 \u2013 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
1819 \u2013 The House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state and declaring a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36\u00b030\u2032 parallel.<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013 A group of citizens of Geneva found an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later becomes known as the International Committee of the Red Cross using the reverse of the colors of the Swiss flag in honor of that nation.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 The CSS H. L. Hunley<\/em> becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic <\/em>in Charleston harbor.<\/p>\n 1867 \u2013 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 Goyaa\u0142\u00e9 of the Bedonkohe Chiricahua Apache, known as Geronimo and still held as a Prisoner of War, dies at the Fort Sill Hospital, age 79.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 The Ukrainian People’s Republic asks the Triple Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 U.S. forces invade Eniwetak atoll in the Marshall islands supported by attacks against Truk Lagoon, 700 miles to the southwest, Japan’s main base in the central Pacific.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 In the case of Wesberry v. Sanders<\/em> the Supreme Court rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 The Ranger 8<\/em> probe is launched on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private buzzing the White House in a stolen helicopter, is shot and wounded by Secret Service agents and arrested on landing.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Ryan International Airlines Flight 590, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 cargo jet, crashes during takeoff from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, killing both pilots, the aircraft’s only occupants.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 17 1621 \u2013 Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America. 1801 \u2013 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the House of Representatives. 1819 \u2013 The House … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90138,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64905\/revisions\/90138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}