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Birthday February 17, 1723 Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination |
Birthday February 17, 1774 Raphael Peale, American painter |
Birthday February 17, 1781 Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope |
Birthday February 17, 1844 A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business |
Birthday February 17, 1857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher |
Birthday February 17, 1874 Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM |
Birthday February 17, 1888 Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943) |
Birthday February 17, 1902 Marian Anderson, operatic contralto |
Birthday February 17, 1908 Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer |
Birthday February 17, 1924 Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S |
Birthday February 17, 1925 Hal Holbrook, Actor |
Birthday February 17, 1929 Chaim Potok, novelist |
Birthday February 17, 1934 Alan Bates, Actor (Zorba the Greek) |
Birthday February 17, 1936 Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns) |
Birthday February 17, 1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader |
Birthday February 17, 1945 Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place |
Birthday February 17, 1947 Dodie Stevens |
History February 17, 1600 Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic |
History February 17, 1782 French and British battle in the Indian Ocean |
History February 17, 1801 Thomas Jefferson is elected |
History February 17, 1801 Deadlock over presidential election ends |
History February 17, 1820 Senate passes Missouri Compromise |
History February 17, 1854 British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
History February 17, 1865 Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina |
History February 17, 1870 Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War |
History February 17, 1876 Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine |
History February 17, 1878 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones |
History February 17, 1906 The first Trial of the Century |
History February 17, 1908 Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown) |
History February 17, 1915 Zeppelin L-4 crashes into North Sea |
History February 17, 1944 U.S. troops land on Eniwetok atoll |
History February 17, 1947 Voice of America begins broadcasts to Russia |
History February 17, 1957 Gromyko becomes foreign minister |
History February 17, 1966 Brian Wilson rolls tape on Good Vibrations, take one |
History February 17, 1966 Taylor testifies on Operation Rolling Thunder |
History February 17, 1968 U.S. casualty rate reaches record high |
History February 17, 1972 Beetle overtakes Model T as world's best-selling car |
History February 17, 1979 China invades Vietnam |
History February 17, 1982 Lee Strasberg dies |
History February 17, 1993 Ferry sinks near Haiti |
History February 17, 1996 Kasparov defeats chess-playing computer |
History February 17, 2000 Dave Eggers' Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius debuts |