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