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February 17

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.

1938 The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London.

1945 Gen. MacArthur's troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.

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

1963 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.


Born on February 17

1963 Michael Jordan, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls.


JOTD

Give a man a gun and he’ll rob a bank,

Give a man a bank and he’ll rob the world.