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Today in History: February 17

1454 At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the "vow of the pheasant," by which he swears to fight the Turks.

1801 The House of Representatives breaks an electoral college tie and chooses Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr.

1865 The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through.

1909 Apache chief Geronimo dies of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

1960 Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.

1975 Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan.

2008 50th Daytona 500: Ryan Newman wins shootout going into the final turn from Tony Stewart, and the Busch brothers, Kurt and Kyle

2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open

2016 Nike ends endorsement deal with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he made TV comments gay people are "worse than animals."

2021 South Africa, Africa's worst-affected country begins COVID-19 vaccinations with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Cape Town

2022 28,000 women apply for 30 jobs driving trains after they are advertised for women in Saudi Arabia for the first time

Born on February 17

1963 Michael Jordan, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls.

1981 Paris Hilton (42nd Birthday) American actress and heiress (The Simple Life), born in NYC, New York

JOTD
Doctor, I intend to not vaccinate my son. Should I take any precautions?”

“Yes. Don’t get too attached to him”.