TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Today is Tuesday, February 28, the 59th day of 2017. There are 306 days left in the year.

1646 — Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church

1667 — English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

1692 — Salem witch hunt begins

1730 — Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy

1749 — First edition of Henry Fieldings’ “Tom Jones” published

1759 — Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages

1778 — Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

1784 — John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1794 — U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania’s election of Abraham Gallatin

1810 — First U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized