Today is Tuesday, February 14, the 45th day of 2017. There are 320 days left in the year.
1601 — Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
1641 — United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
1659 — Battle at Elvas Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 — Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany
1699 — Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1717 — German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1724 — Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1739 — England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 — Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army leaves Glasgow