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Events on February 17

• 1600 After eight years in prison, the 52-year-old philosopher and former Dominican friar Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake as a heretic on the Campo de’ Fiori in Rome.
• 1673 During the performance of his play The Imaginary Invalid, the French playwright and actor Molière suffers a collapse and dies shortly thereafter.
• 1897 After thorough testing, the Technical University of Munich approves the 10-horsepower engine developed by Rudolf Diesel at Maschinenfabrik Augsburg, the first experimental diesel engine.
• 1904 The original two-act version of the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, based on the novella Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti, is premiered at La Scala in Milan. The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.
• 1924 In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmüller swims the 100 m freestyle in a new world-record time of 57.4 seconds.
• 1955 The Conference of Ministers of Education agrees on standardizations for the German school system in the Düsseldorf Agreement. Among other things, all secondary schools are generally designated Gymnasium, and English becomes a compulsory foreign language.
• 1962 The German North Sea coast and Hamburg are hit by the most severe storm surge in more than 100 years.
• 1968 The Socialist German Students' Union (SDS) organizes the two-day International Vietnam Congress, which ends with the largest German protest rally against the Vietnam War to date.
• 1972 With a 1302 S in light-blue metallic paint, which rolls off the line as the 15,007,032nd vehicle, the VW Beetle overtakes the Ford Model T as the world's most-produced car.
• 2000 Microsoft launches its operating system Windows 2000.
• 2008 The parliament of the Serbian region of Kosovo unilaterally declares the country independent and adopts a new national flag on the same day. Serbia had already declared the planned declaration of independence null and void by invoking Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council.
• 2012 German Federal President Christian Wulff resigns amid continuing criticism and corruption allegations. President of the Bundesrat Horst Seehofer temporarily assumes the duties of office.

Born on February 17

• 1854 Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist and politician
• 1862 Mori Ōgai, Japanese physician, novelist and translator
• 1890 Ronald Aylmer Fisher, British geneticist, evolutionary theorist and statistician
• 1921 Herbert Köfer, German actor, presenter, audio drama narrator and voice-over artist
• 1940 Willi Holdorf, German track and field athlete
• 1970 Dominic Purcell, Australian actor
• 1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
• 1981 Bernhard Eisel, Austrian racing cyclist
• 1991 Ed Sheeran, British singer-songwriter
• 1991 Bonnie Wright, British film actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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