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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:23:26 EST

February 17, 1848 Toscane gets liberal Constitution
February 17, 1841 Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont
de W‚gimont
February 17, 1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
February 17, 1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine"
(early bicycle)
February 17, 1817 Baltimore is the 1st U.S. city lit by gas
February 17, 1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson
President over Burr
February 17, 1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden
Chester, England
February 17, 1791 Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
February 17, 1776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire"
published
February 17, 1772 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by
Austria
February 17, 1714 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's
"Unigenitus" degree
February 17, 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal
service
February 17, 1676 Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
February 17, 1670 France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
February 17, 1634 William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing
"Histrio-masti"
February 17, 1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
February 17, 1598 Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
February 17, 1568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for
peace
February 17, 1370 Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania

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