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