Daily Calendar for Saturday, February 17, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-02-17T00:00:00
End: 2029-02-17T23:59:59

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Arcangelo Corelli (composer) – 1653
Raphaelle Peale (American painter Raphaelle Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland.) – 1774
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (author) – 1879
Marjorie Lawrence (opera singer) – 1909
Michiaki Takahashi (virologist best know for inventing first chickenpox vaccine ) – 1928
Rene Russo (actress) – 1954
Richard Karn (actor, game show host) – 1956
Michael Jordan (basketball player) – 1963
Jerry O'Connell (actor) – 1974
Jason Ritter (actor) – 1980
Paris Hilton (heiress) – 1981
Ed Sheeran (musician) – 1991

Myles Standish appointed commander of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts – 1621
Tie broken: Thomas Jefferson to be U.S. president; Aaron Burr, Vice President – 1801
Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patented draisine (bicycle precursor) – 1818
Confederate H. L. Hunley was first submarine to sink a warship (USS Housatonic) – 1864
Columbia, South Carolina, burned by Union Army (U.S. Civil War) – 1865
First sardines canned in Maine – 1876
The National Congress of Mothers, later known as the PTA, founded – 1897
Marcel Duchamp’s painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, outraged viewers – 1913
First publication of Newsweek magazine – 1933
Elvis Presley awarded his first gold album for Elvis”“ – 1960
9-pound 6-ounce chain pickerel caught near Homerville, Georgia – 1961

McIntosh, South Dakota, recorded a low temperature of -58 degrees F – 1936
Record low of 60 degrees below zero F, Labrador – 1973
The temperature dipped to -60F in Esker, Labrador – 1973
Blizzard dumped more snow in Boston than any other storm in the state’s history— including the Blizzard of 1978—Logan International Airport measured 27.5 inches – 2003