Famous people with your birthday
* Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder
* Chanté Moore, American singer
* Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor
* Huey P. Newton, American political activist
* Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
* Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
* Michael Jordan, American basketball player
* Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
* Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist
This day in history
* 1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
* 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.
* 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
* 1904 - Madama Butterfly premiers at La Scala in Milan.
* 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
* 1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.
* 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
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