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February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 317 days remain until the end of the year (318 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 1370 – ...
Microsoft Excel displays the day before January 1, 1900 (the earliest date it can represent) as January 0, 1900. [17] It also treats 1900 incorrectly as a leap year (whereas only centuries divisible by 400 are), so it displays the day before March 1, 1900 as the non-existent February 29 instead of February 28 .
February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day. [17] February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion ...
Start date: June 16, 1999 ... which aired the following day, ... February 17, 2000 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 14,127 / 14,127
February 10: Feast day of Saint Scholastica (Christianity); Chinese New Year (2024); National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in Italy Delegates at the Inter-Allied Women's Conference 1355 – A tavern dispute between University of Oxford students and townspeople became a riot that left about 90 people dead.
February 17: Presidents' Day in the United States (2025) Helicopter stolen in the 1974 White House incident 1859 – Cochinchina campaign : French Navy forces captured the Citadel of Saigon , defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the Nguyễn dynasty .
February 11 – A blast from an improvised explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank, across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, wounds dozens but kills none. February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz. February 17 – Microsoft releases Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, [2] officially released to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, and on September 26, 2000 for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.