Historical events February 17.

1698: Aurangzeb captured the fort of Jinji after an eight-year siege.

1801: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of votes in the US presidential election. The House of Representatives elected Jefferson as the President and Barr as Vice President.

1882: First Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground.

1933: US embargo ended. The embargo was imposed in 1920.

1966: NASA’s Discovery Program began as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifted off on the first mission ever to orbit and landed on an asteroid, 433 Eros.

2007: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

 

Famous people born on this day on 17th February

1854: Friedrich Krupp, a German steel manufacturer.

1874: Thomas John Watson Sr., an American businessman.

1899: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist, and essayist in the Bengali language.

1954: K. Chandrashekhar Rao, an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana.

1957: Praful Patel, an Indian politician, and businessman.

1963: Jen-Hsun Huang, a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia.

1991: Ed Sheeran, an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. 

 

Famous people who died on this day on 17th February

1600: Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher.

1883: Vasudev Balwant Phadke, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.

1986: Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian speaker, and writer.

1988: Karpoori Thakur, an Indian politician.