On this day …
February 17, 2015
- In 1600, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned alive for heresy in Rome.
- In 1621, Myles Standish was appointed the first commander of the Plymouth Colony.
- In 1864, the H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
- In 1904, Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan, Italy.
- In 1933, Newsweek magazine was first published.
- In 1949, Chaim Weizmann began his first term as the first president of Israel.
- In 1968, the Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield.
- In 1972, cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceeded those of the Ford Model T.
- In 1996, world champion Garry Kasparov reversed a previous loss and defeated IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
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