WE THE PEOPLE
February 17, 1774 - United States
WE, the PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
February 17, 0 - United States
Benjamin Franklin (American politician, scientist, and publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence), John Stanley (English organist and composer), Anne Brontë (English author and poet), Eugene Augustin Lauste (French-American inventor), George Joseph Stigler (American economist, Nobel Prize laureate)