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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47815)2/17/2005 1:31:12 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Today in history-February 17:

1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President of the United States, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election.

1854 - Britain recognized the independence of the Orange Free State in the present-day Free State Province, South Africa.

1895 - The ballet Swan Lake was first performed at full length with music by Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

1959 - Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

1979 - About 120,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army of China crossed into northern Vietnam, starting the Sino-Vietnamese War.
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