Talk:February 17

I do not believe a "Caitlin Sutton's" birthday is particularly news worthy, especially when it's put with no year before the year 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt -- Alison —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.60.91.189 (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Marian Anderson was born on the 27th, not the 17th. -- Zoe

Could someone please verify the 2006 events entry. I heard nothing in the news about it. ~jazzdude

Why revert the 2009 entry? The WikiProject prohibits the posting of speculation on future events, but the television transition is at this point not speculation. The only thing left to happen is for the date to actually pass. - Cg-realms (talk) 02:09, 4 January 2008 (EST)
 * The date articles are meant to list events of the past. It is speculation until it actually happens.  Scheduled or not, it is a future event and therefore does not belong.  Another thing is that events can't be judged as globally notable until after they have taken place.  They are not historically significant until they are history.  For all we know there might be some massive uprising that causes the event to be delayed.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 20:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

There is a reference to Ford Model-T in the year 1972. This might supposed to be the year 1927. Can someone check the reference? --130.207.87.197 (talk) 20:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

"Now Kosovo is a free country. Kosovo is not Serbia!" It does not sound very "encyclopedic" to me! --GVasil (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It has been changed back already. Lectonar (talk) 14:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Sino-Vietnamese War
I think that the beginning of the Sino-Vietnamese War, which started 30 years ago in 1979, is a much more important event than any of those currently listed. See these articles commemorating the event. DHN (talk) 18:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Date of Noah's Flood
Removed this: "In Christianity, this is the predicted date for the beginning of the flood, of Genesis", which is referring to Genesis 7:11: "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Per King James Bible in Wikisource - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Genesis#Chapter_7 ) This is misleading and badly linked: The date given in the Bible text is of the "actual" rather than "predicted" date, and the link is to flood (about floods in general), rather than to the better Great_Flood_(Biblical). But more importantly, the authors of Genesis would not have been using the modern Gregorian calendar, so the date referred to would presumably have been the 17th of Iyar. (See http://www.google.com/search?q=noah+iyar )-- Writtenonsand (talk) 16:35, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

President's day?
Isn't presidents day on the 17th? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickmxp (talk • contribs) 11:49, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Not every year. Presidents' day is always the third Monday in February. Sometimes this is the 17th. Not always.

Birth and death entries
Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. Deb (talk) 11:09, 30 July 2015 (UTC)