1801<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.<\/p>\n 1817<\/strong> – The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n 1865<\/strong> – Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in.<\/p>\n 1876<\/strong> – Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.<\/p>\n 1878<\/strong> – In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.<\/p>\n 1897<\/strong> – The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – The Armory Show opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. The full-scale exhibition was of contemporary paintings and was organized by the Association of Painters and Sculptors.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2\/5 seconds in Miami, FL.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – “Newsweek” was first published.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young\u2019s popular strip first debuted.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The first high school automobile driver\u2019s education course was introduced in State College, PA.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – During World War II, the Battle of Eniwetok Atoll began. U.S. forces won the battle on February 22, 1944.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders)<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on ” The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson” on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – U.S. Postage stamp prices were raised from 20 cents to 22 cents for first class mail.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director.<\/p>\n 2006 <\/strong>\u2013 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.<\/p>\n 2008 <\/strong>\u2013 Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.<\/p>\n 2011 <\/strong>\u2013 Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.<\/p>\n 2015 <\/strong>\u2013 Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.<\/p>\n 2016 <\/strong>\u2013 Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History Of 17 February 1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president. 1817 – The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD. 1865 – Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in. 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