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February 17
1600 - Italian philosopher, alchemist and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.
1801 - The electoral college tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives, who selected Jefferson to serve as the third president of the United States; Burr became vice president.
1815 - The United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
1817 - Baltimore became the first U.C. city to be lit by gas.
1863 - The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
1864 - The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.
1865 - Columbia, South Carolina burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union troops moved in.
1874 - Thomas J. Watson, the American industrialist who built IBM, was born.
1933 - Newsweek magazine was first published.
1947 - "The Voice of America" began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1964 - In Wesberry v. Sanders, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.
1972 - President Richard Nixon left on his historic trip to China.
1986 - Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell over-the-counter medications in capsule form, following the death of a woman who had taken a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule.
1992 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings that also wounded 19 others.
1996 - Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM super computer "Deep Blue", winning the six-game match.
2002 - The new Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration.
2005 - President George W. Bush named John Negroponte to be the first national intelligence director.
2008 - Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
2009 - President Barack Obama signed a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.
2010 - President Barack Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying it had staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden opened a White House summit on countering extremism and radicalization, saying the United States needed to ensure that immigrants were fully included in the fabric of American society to prevent violent ideologies from taking root at home.
2019 - In an interview airing on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said a “crime may have been committed” when President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI and tried to publicly undermine an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Birthdays
24 - Sasha Pieterse (actress)
28 - Meaghan Martin (actress)
28 - Val Mercado (model)
29 - Ed Sheeran (singer)
29 - Bonnie Wright (actress)
31 - Chord Overstreet (actor)
34 - Daphne Oz (TV host)
39 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor)
39 - Paris Hilton (reality TV star)
40 - Jason Ritter (actor)
41 - Conrad Ricamora (actor)
42 - Ashton Holmes (actor)
49 - Denise Richards (actress)
50 - Dominic Purcell (actor)
53 - Chante Moore (singer)
56 - Michael Bay (director)
57 - Rene Syler (TV personality)
57 - Larry the Cable Guy (actor/comedian)
57 - Michael Jordan (basketball player)
58 - Lou Diamond Phillips (actor)
64 - Richard Karn (actor)
66 - Rene Russo (actress)
67 - Becky Ann Baker (actress)
75 - Brenda Fricker (actress)
84 - Jim Brown (football player)
85 - Christina Pickles (actress)
86 - Barry Humphries (actor/comedian)
95 - Hal Holbrook (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 17
1943 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) joined the U.S. Army as a voluntary inductee.
1951 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 100th career goal.
1955 - Mike Souchak sets a PGA 72-hole record score of 257 (would not be broken until 2001).
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points against the St. Louis Hawks.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors began an NBA record streak of 35 consecutive field goals made without a miss.
1968 - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1974 - Richard Petty becomes the first driver to win back-to-back Daytona 500 titles.
1979 - The Chicago Bulls retired Jerry Sloan's #4.
1989 - Pitcher Orel Hershiser signs a record three-year, $7.9 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1998 - The U.S. women's ice hockey team wins the gold medal over Canada at the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.
2003 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) and owner Jerry Jones agreed that releasing Smith from the team was a "win-win situation." The formal announcement was made on February 27.
2008 - Ryan Newman wins the 50th running of the Daytona 500.
2019 - Joe Gibbs racing goes 1-2-3 in the Daytona 500, with Denny Hamlin holding off reigning Cup Series champion Joey Logano and teammate Kyle Busch.
1600 - Italian philosopher, alchemist and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.
1801 - The electoral college tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives, who selected Jefferson to serve as the third president of the United States; Burr became vice president.
1815 - The United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
1817 - Baltimore became the first U.C. city to be lit by gas.
1863 - The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
1864 - The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.
1865 - Columbia, South Carolina burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union troops moved in.
1874 - Thomas J. Watson, the American industrialist who built IBM, was born.
1933 - Newsweek magazine was first published.
1947 - "The Voice of America" began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1964 - In Wesberry v. Sanders, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.
1972 - President Richard Nixon left on his historic trip to China.
1986 - Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell over-the-counter medications in capsule form, following the death of a woman who had taken a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule.
1992 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings that also wounded 19 others.
1996 - Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM super computer "Deep Blue", winning the six-game match.
2002 - The new Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration.
2005 - President George W. Bush named John Negroponte to be the first national intelligence director.
2008 - Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
2009 - President Barack Obama signed a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.
2010 - President Barack Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying it had staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden opened a White House summit on countering extremism and radicalization, saying the United States needed to ensure that immigrants were fully included in the fabric of American society to prevent violent ideologies from taking root at home.
2019 - In an interview airing on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said a “crime may have been committed” when President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI and tried to publicly undermine an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Birthdays
24 - Sasha Pieterse (actress)
28 - Meaghan Martin (actress)
28 - Val Mercado (model)
29 - Ed Sheeran (singer)
29 - Bonnie Wright (actress)
31 - Chord Overstreet (actor)
34 - Daphne Oz (TV host)
39 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor)
39 - Paris Hilton (reality TV star)
40 - Jason Ritter (actor)
41 - Conrad Ricamora (actor)
42 - Ashton Holmes (actor)
49 - Denise Richards (actress)
50 - Dominic Purcell (actor)
53 - Chante Moore (singer)
56 - Michael Bay (director)
57 - Rene Syler (TV personality)
57 - Larry the Cable Guy (actor/comedian)
57 - Michael Jordan (basketball player)
58 - Lou Diamond Phillips (actor)
64 - Richard Karn (actor)
66 - Rene Russo (actress)
67 - Becky Ann Baker (actress)
75 - Brenda Fricker (actress)
84 - Jim Brown (football player)
85 - Christina Pickles (actress)
86 - Barry Humphries (actor/comedian)
95 - Hal Holbrook (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 17
1943 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) joined the U.S. Army as a voluntary inductee.
1951 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 100th career goal.
1955 - Mike Souchak sets a PGA 72-hole record score of 257 (would not be broken until 2001).
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points against the St. Louis Hawks.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors began an NBA record streak of 35 consecutive field goals made without a miss.
1968 - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1974 - Richard Petty becomes the first driver to win back-to-back Daytona 500 titles.
1979 - The Chicago Bulls retired Jerry Sloan's #4.
1989 - Pitcher Orel Hershiser signs a record three-year, $7.9 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1998 - The U.S. women's ice hockey team wins the gold medal over Canada at the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.
2003 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) and owner Jerry Jones agreed that releasing Smith from the team was a "win-win situation." The formal announcement was made on February 27.
2008 - Ryan Newman wins the 50th running of the Daytona 500.
2019 - Joe Gibbs racing goes 1-2-3 in the Daytona 500, with Denny Hamlin holding off reigning Cup Series champion Joey Logano and teammate Kyle Busch.