- 1801] Heads it's Jefferson, tails, it's Burr: The U.S. House of Representatives breaks an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr by picking Jefferson as President and Burr as his VP...
- 1913] Art replaces war: The Armory Show opens at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan with paintings and sculpture on display. This show continues to be held yearly at the same Armory...
- 1933] TIME is not on their side: Newsweek is published for the 1st time...
- 1933] Wedding Bells: Blondie and Dagwood walk down the cartoon aisle, 3 years after they met in the papers. They celebrate their 76th wedding anniversary today...
- 1947] VOA is born: The Voice of America begins its broadcasts to the Soviet Union...
- 1965] Facelift #1: Joan Rivers makes her first guest appearance substituting for Johnny Carson...
- 1968] Hooping it up: The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens to the public for the first time in Springfield (MA)...
- 1986] Oh Howard: Howard Stern takes over the morning show at K-Rock in New York...
- 1992] Murder Inc: In Milwaukee, mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994 he is beaten to death in prison...1995] LIRR killer Colin Ferguson is convicted on six counts of murder in the December, 1993 shootings. Ferguson will later be sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison. No tears are shed on either of these two sentences...
- 1996] Deeply blue: World chess champion Garry Kasparov beats Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer in Philadelphia on what would have been IBM founder Thomas Watson's 122nd birthday. Deep Blue gets revenge when it beats Kasparov in 1997...For more on February 17th:
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