17 Feb 07 - Saturday
1844 A Montgomery Ward founded mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
1867 William Cadbury England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)
1919 Kathleen Freeman Chicago IL, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1929 Yasser Arafat PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994)
1932 Buck Trent Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
1933 Bobby Lewis rocker (Tossin' & Turnin')
1950 Rick Medlocke rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot)
1959 Richard Karn Seattle WA, actor (Al-Home Improvement)
1963 Michael "Air" Jordan Brooklyn NY, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
1972 Billie Joe Armstrong singer/musician (Green Day)
1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr
1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
(1st submarine to sink an enemy ship)
1865 Columbia SC burns down during the Battle of Charleston, SC Civil War
1867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal
1876 Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport ME)
1897 National Congress of Parents & Teachers (PTA) organizes (Washington DC)
1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan
1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1933 Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead;
Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him
1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College PA)
1936 "The Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
1947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
1957 Fire in Warreton MO, kills 72
1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
1964 US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs Sanders)
1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1988 US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists
& later killed
1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena CA
1997 Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1998 Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
Every dollar I spend is a vote. Where are you going to put your dollar into? What is worth investing into?
Billie Joe Armstrong
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