About the day » Thursday February 17, 2000Calender converter

• Merijn Kofflard († 2000)
• Jordi Kaya Lambrechts, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)

• Cornelia Maria Laukens (87), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Hugo Korteweg (90), Dirksland-Netherlands
• Adriana Segaar (79), Leiderdorp
• Donald Edgar Coker (71), North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Moes (82)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Jongmans (79), Prinsenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Jan te Kulve (73), Baarn
• Antonius Wilhelmus Jongmans (79), Prinsenbeek
• Arina (Dien) van Zon (89), Capelle aan den IJssel
• Bartha Aleida Karssen (62)

• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1988 » Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1989 » Chord Overstreet, American actor and singer
• 1989 » Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer
• 1990 » Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
• 1991 » Bonnie Wright, English actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1991 » Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1993 » Marc Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1993 » Nicola Leali, Italian footballer

• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1994 » Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
• 1998 » Ernst Jünger, German soldier, philosopher, and author (b. 1895)
• 2003 » Steve Bechler, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2004 » José López Portillo, Mexican lawyer and politician, 51st President of Mexico, 1976-1982 (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 » Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2006 » Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 2006 » Ray Barretto, American drummer (b. 1929)
• 2009 » Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter and journalist (b. 1922)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
• May 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
• July 17 » During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
• September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
• October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by the Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
• November 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

The temperature on February 17, 2000 was between 0.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.