Anniversaries on February 17: historical events and commemorations of eminent personalities.

Today we commemorate various historical events that marked a February 17th in the world. In 1810, Napoleon Bonaparte declared Rome as the second capital of the Empire, where he would later be crowned for the second time. On the other hand, in 1899, the municipality of Los Reyes La Paz was founded in the State of Mexico. In 1824, the Congress of Peru appointed Simón Bolívar as the highest political and military authority. Meanwhile, in 1905, Grand Duke Sergei of Russia was assassinated in Moscow in a terrorist attack. In 1933, the first issue of the magazine "Newsweek" was published in the United States. Thomas Edison presented the first public demonstration of sound cinema in New York in 1913, and in 1936, Colonel Rafael Franco overthrew the president of Paraguay. In 1959, the Vanguard space program of the United States launched a weather satellite into orbit. In 1986, the member countries of the EEC signed the Single European Act, the first reform of the Treaty of Rome. Meanwhile, in 2008, the regional Parliament of Kosovo proclaimed its unilateral independence from Serbia. Additionally, in 2000, Microsoft released the Windows 2000 operating system. Regarding personalities, today we remember the birth of figures such as basketball player Michael Jordan in 1963, Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt in 1957, and American musician Billie Joe Armstrong in 1972. We also commemorate the death of prominent figures such as German poet Heinrich Heine in 1856 and jazz pianist Thelonious Monk in 1982.