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02/17/1882
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1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
Type: Event
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02/17/1882
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Kurt Schindler, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1882
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Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1883
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A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
Type: Event
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02/17/1883
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Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/17/1884
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Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1885
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Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
Type: Event
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02/17/1887
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Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1888
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Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1888
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Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1888
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Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1889
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H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
Type: Birth
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02/17/1891
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Georg Britting, writer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1892
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Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1895
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Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1895
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Edna Park Edwards, PA
Type: Birth
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02/17/1896
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London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
Type: Event
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02/17/1897
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National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
Type: Event
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02/17/1897
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Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1898
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Tom Lowry, cricketer (NZ batsman in seven Tests and their 1st Test capt)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1901
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Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38
Type: Death
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02/17/1902
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Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto (banned by D.A.R.)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1903
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Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen
Type: Birth
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02/17/1903
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Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61
Type: Death
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02/17/1904
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Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
Type: Event
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02/17/1904
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Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1905
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Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
Type: Event
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02/17/1905
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Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
Type: Death
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02/17/1906
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Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
Type: Event
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02/17/1906
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Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1906
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Ramon Tapales, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1907
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Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1907
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Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1907
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Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), dies
Type: Death
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02/17/1907
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Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74
Type: Death
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02/17/1908
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Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1908
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Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1908
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Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79
Type: Death
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02/17/1909
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Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
Type: Birth
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02/17/1909
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Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannh„user)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1910
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Ai Qing, poet
Type: Birth
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02/17/1910
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Marc Lawrence, NYC, actor (Man With Golden Gun)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1911
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1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
Type: Event
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02/17/1911
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Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1912
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Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57
Type: Death
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02/17/1912
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L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
Type: Death
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02/17/1913
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1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
Type: Event
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02/17/1913
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NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
Type: Event
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02/17/1913
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Jos‚phine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director
Type: Birth
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02/17/1913
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Oskar Danon, composer
Type: Birth
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