TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Today is Tuesday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2017. There are 313 days left in the year.

1574 — Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders

1583 — Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar

1598 — Boris Godunov crowned tsar

1613 — Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar

1673 — Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet

1675 — Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland

1764 — John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for “Essay on Women”

1777 — English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag