February 17
QUOTE
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
Betty White
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BIRTHDAYS
1762 – John Cooke, English captain
1925 – Hal Holbrook, Actor and director
1936 – Jim Brown, Football player and actor
IN MEMORY
1982 – Lee Strasberg, Actor and director
2021 – Rush Limbaugh, Talk show host and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1600 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him from speaking.
1864 – The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on a mission to photograph regions of the Moon for the Apollo landings