February 17th, 1944

Born on February 17th, 1944

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What happened on February 17th, 1944?

February 17th, 1944

World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

February 17th, 1944

World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

What else happened on February 17th?

February 17th, 2011

Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.

February 17th, 1978

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a bombing of a restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.

February 17th, 1974

A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.

February 17th, 1964

Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.

February 17th, 1959

Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.

February 17th, 1913

The Armory Show, the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.

February 17th, 1904

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.

February 17th, 1894

Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute.

February 17th, 1859

Cochinchina campaign: French Navy forces captured the Citadel of Saigon, defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the Nguyễn dynasty.

February 17th, 1838

Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoekhoe, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.

February 17th, 1815

The United States ratifies the Treaty of Ghent – signed in late 1814 – formally ending the War of 1812.

February 17th, 1621

Myles Standish was elected the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony.

February 17th, 2016

Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 17th

Born on February 17th, 1944

80

Karl Jenkins

Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944)

*February 17th, 1944, Penclawdd

80

Wolfgang Mieder

Scholar of proverbs (born 1944)

*February 17th, 1944, Nossen

80

Dick Bosman

American baseball player and coach

*February 17th, 1944, Kenosha

80

Patricia Morrow

American actress

*February 17th, 1944, Los Angeles

80

Nick Hewer

English television presenter and former public relations consultant

*February 17th, 1944, Swindon

63

Marjatta Raita

Finnish actress

*February 17th, 1944, Pori †September 27th, 2007, Helsinki

80

Bruce Fogle

Veterinarian and author

*February 17th, 1944, Toronto

80

Robert Dessaix

Australian novelist, essayist and journalist

*February 17th, 1944, Sydney

80

Eva Nowotny

Diplomat

*February 17th, 1944, Wiener Neustadt

80

Karl Noonan

American football player

*February 17th, 1944, Dubuque

80

James M. Adovasio

American archaeologist

*February 17th, 1944, Youngstown

80

Francisco Armando Meza Castro

Mexican politician

*February 17th, 1944, La Paz

80

Idriz Hošić

Yugoslav association football player (1944-)

*February 17th, 1944, Prijedor

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 17th?

68

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

62

Sarah Wollaston

British Liberal Democrat politician

*February 17th, 1962, Woking

87

Rita Süssmuth

German politician

*February 17th, 1937, Wuppertal

41

Bao Chunlai

Chinese badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

61

Michael Jordan

American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)

*February 17th, 1963, Brooklyn

37

Megan Sweeney

American luger

*February 17th, 1987, Portland

83

Julia McKenzie

British actress, presenter, director, writer

*February 17th, 1941, Enfield

47

Wong Choong Hann

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1977, Kuala Lumpur

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

69

Mo Yan

Chinese novelist and screenwriter

*February 17th, 1955, Gaomi

24

Freja Ravn

Danish badminton player

*February 17th, 2000, Copenhagen

79

Les Brown

American politician and motivational speaker

*February 17th, 1945, Miami

69

Alan Bates

British actor

*February 17th, 1934, Allestree †December 27th, 2003, City of Westminster

96

Ásmundur Bjarnason

Icelandic sprinter

*February 17th, 1927, Húsavík †February 1st, 2024, Húsavík

89

Barry Humphries

Australian comedian and actor (1934–2023)

*February 17th, 1934, Kew †April 22nd, 2023, Darlinghurst

40

Magnus Sahlberg

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1984, Gothenburg

71

Pertti Karppinen

Finnish rower

*February 17th, 1953, Vehmaa

62

Lou Diamond Phillips

American film, television, and stage actor

*February 17th, 1962, Naval Base Subic Bay

95

Hal Holbrook

American actor (1925–2021)

*February 17th, 1925, Cleveland †January 23rd, 2021, Beverly Hills

64

Fausto Mesolella

Italian composer

*February 17th, 1953, Caserta †March 30th, 2017, Macerata Campania

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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