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On and February
On February 16
, Steele took his seat in Parliament
.
On these bonds
, price rises since
February 21 easily outnumber price declines
.
On February 27
, 1860
, New York party leaders invited Lincoln
to give a speech at Cooper Union
to a group of powerful Republicans
.
On December 20
, 1860
, South Carolina took
the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by
February 1
, 1861
, Florida
, Mississippi
, Alabama
, Georgia
, Louisiana
, and Texas followed
.
On February 23
, 1861
, he arrived in disguise in Washington
, D
. C., which was placed under substantial military guard
.
On February 7
, 1837
, he fought in a duel with Texas Brig
.
On February 6
, 1862
, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced
the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry
, inflicting 21 casualties
on the small remaining Confederate force
.
On 22
February 1945
, " speaking from London
, Agatha Christie introduced
the initial broadcast of
the Poirot series via shortwave
.
On 18
February a " confession " was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends
, and he then publicly renounced
the succession
to the throne in favour of
the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich
.
On 22
February 896
, Formosus led
the king into
the church
, anointed
and crowned him
, and saluted him as Augustus
.
On 6
February 1890
, an underground explosion at Llanerch Colliery killed 176
.
On April 22
, 1971
, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances
to four female students when he was invited
to speak at
the University of Alabama in
February 1968
.
On 9
February 2012
, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud
.
On February 15
, 1993
, Clinton made his first address
to the nation
, announcing his plan
to raise taxes
to cap
the budget deficit
.
On February 11
, 2010
, he was rushed
to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains
, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart
.
On February 8
, 2010
, Edward Sazonov
, Physical Activity Innovations LLC
, was awarded
the title of Bluetooth Innovator of
the Year for 2009
.
On February 8
, 2006
, Borland announced
the divestiture of their IDE division
, including Delphi
, JBuilder
, and InterBase
.
On 9
February 1953
, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong
.
On February 4
, the Orioles signed free agent Vladimir Guerrero
to be
the team's designated hitter
.
On February 5
, 2002
, George W
. Bush visited
the RODS laboratory
and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal
to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems
.
On 22
February 2006
, the channel was named News Channel of
the Year at
the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for
the first time in its history
.
On February 14
, 1899
the name " Broadway " was extended
to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road
.
On February 18
, 1964
, J
. Armand Bombardier died of cancer at age 56
.
On 15
February 2007
, the first issue of a monthly comic entitled BeanoMAX was published
.
On and 17
On April
17, 1610
, the sturdy little three-masted bark
, Discovery
, weighed anchor in St. Katherine's Pool
, London
, and floated down
the Thames toward
the sea
.
On January
17, 2008
, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire
the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ;
on October 1
, 2008
, NYSE Euronext completed
the acquisition
.
On December 21
, 2008
, Atlanta beat
the Minnesota Vikings 24 –
17 to clinch a wild card spot
, earning a trip
to the playoffs for
the first time since 2004
.
On May 8
, after going 12 –
17 in 29 games
, the Diamondbacks released manager Bob Melvin
and hired A
. J
. Hinch
.
On 17 October 1967
, Korner interviewed The Jimi Hendrix Experience for
the BBC radio showTop Gear
.
On 17 August 2008 club chairman
and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at
the chairmanship of
the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella
.
On December
17, however
, Bradley observed that
the star was moving southwards
, a motion further shown by observations
on the 20th
.
On 15 September /
17 September 1815 in Weilburg
, Charles married Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1797 – 1829 ).
On March
17, 1955
, she married him at Quartzsite
, Arizona
, returning with Pole
to live in California
.
On July
17, 1996
, Clinton issued Executive Order 13011 – Federal Information Technology
, ordering
the heads of all federal agencies
to utilize information technology fully
to make
the information of
the agency easily accessible
to the public
.
On 17 / 30 May a peace treaty was signed between Turkey
and the Balkan Alliance
.
On 17 May
the Duke concentrated his Dutch
and English troops at Tongeren
, near Maastricht
.
On 17 July 2010
, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years
to a crowd of around 30
, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park
, Southwold
.
On January
17, 2008
, Selig's contract was extended through 2012
, after which he planned
to retire
, but then decided
to stay as commissioner until
the end of
the 2014 season
, a move approved by
the owners
on January 12
, 2012
, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday
.
On 17 July 2003
, Kelly
, an employee of
the Ministry of Defence
, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government
had knowingly " sexed up "
the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq
and weapons of mass destruction
.
On September
17, 1923
, a major fire swept down
the hills toward
the University campus
and the downtown section
.
On November
17, 1858
, Emperor Napoleon III annexed Clipperton as part of
the French colony of Tahiti
.
On 17 August 1990
, the Serbs began what became known as
the Log Revolution
, where barricades of logs
were placed across roads throughout
the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia
.
On June
17, 2009
, NME reported that Hole would be reuniting
.
On January
17, 1725
, the Province of Massachusetts Bay
, which then claimed territories west of
the Merrimack River
, granted
the Concord area as
the Plantation of Penacook
.
On 17 November 2007 Australia beat Nigeria 1 – 0 in an international friendly at Craven Cottage
.
On November
17, 2011
, Dale Sveum agreed
to a three year contract with an option for a fourth
to become new manager of
the Cubs
.
On April
17, 1994
, the Rockies beat Montreal 6 – 5
, moving
the team's record
to 6 – 5 —
the first time in franchise history that
the club
had a winning record
.
On April
17, 2008
, Colorado beat
the San Diego Padres
, 2 – 1
, in a 22-inning road game that spanned 6 hours
and 16 minutes
.
0.093 seconds.