TODAY IN HISTORY
February 17, 1972 - Us to China
President Richard M. Nixon departed Washington, DC on his historic trip to China. He was the first U.S. president to go to China
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)