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Today is Day 17 of 2024
1706 
Journalist, publisher, printer, author,
philanthropist, public servant, scientist, diplomat, and inventor Benjamin
Franklin born in Boston.
1851
Painter and
illustrator A. B.
Frost born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1880
Actor,
director, and producer Mack Sennett born in
Richmond, Quebec, Canada.
Known as the King of Comedy, Sennett
founded the Keystone Studios in Edendale, California in 1912 which
produced many silent slapstick comedies.
1899
Gangster Al Capone born in
Brooklyn, New York.
1904
The
Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov premieres in
Moscow.
1914
Poet William
Stafford born in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Mr. Stafford served as the
Poet Laureate of the United States from
1970-1971.
1929
Popeye makes his first
appearance in the comic strip Thimble Theatre.
1938
Author John Anthony
Bellairs born in Marshall, Michigan.
1942
Boxer and
conscientious objector Muhammad Ali born in
Louisville, Kentucky.
1949
Comedian Andy Kaufman born in
New York.
1961
Former
Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is
murdered by firing squad.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a farewell address to the nation, in which he warns against the dangers of the " military–industrial complex".
1971 
Super
Bowl V - Baltimore Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 in the Miami
Orange Bowl.
1977
Convicted
murderer Gary
Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in the Utah State Prison in
Draper, Utah.
He became the first person executed in the United
States after a ten year moratorium.
1998
The Drudge Report
breaks the story of the Lewinsky affair
2008
The death of
Bobby Fischer,
world chess champion 1972 to 1975, while living in Reykjavík,
Iceland.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” –New England proverb
