Thursday 17 February 2011

On This Day - 17th February


1908 - Red Barber born
1914 - Arthur Kennedy born
1925 - Hal Holbrook born
1934 - Alan Bates born
1936 - Jim Brown born
1954 - Rene Russo born
1959 - Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survives an air crash near London that killed 12 people.
1963 - Michael Jordan born
1965 - The Duke and Duchess of Kent celebrate the end of 300 years of colonial rule in Gambia with 35 chiefs.
1972 - Denise Richards and Billie Joe Armstrong born
1974 - Bryan White and Jerry O'Connell born
1979 - China sends hundreds of troops into Vietnam after weeks of tension and a military build-up along the border.
1981 - Paris Hilton and Joseph Gordon-Levitt born
1987 - A group of Tamils seeking asylum in Britain protest at Heathrow airport by removing their clothes as they are about to be deported.
1992 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is jailed for life in the US for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys.

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