Friday, February 17, 2012

February 17 - Ready to Go




Ready to Go


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Time to go to Camp yet?


This Day In History
1801
An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1864
The  H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1904
Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
1913
First avant-garde art show (the Armory Show) in America opens in New York City.
1933
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1959
Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1965
The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1972
Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
1996
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.


Famous Birthdays
1844
Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
1854
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
1874
Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
1912
Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1924
Margaret Truman, American novelist (d. 2008)
1936
Jim Brown, American football player
1957
Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1963
Michael Jordan, American basketball player
1970
Dominic Purcell, English/Australian actor
1974
Bryan White, American singer
1991
Bonnie Wright, English actress


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