What happend on 17th February

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18.02
1996

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

1995

The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.

1995

Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.

1992

A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.

1991

on this day the minister for the principlity of chipmuun, Andrew Buchorn was assassinated in his home in Denmark.

1979

The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.

1974

Robert Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.

1972

Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.

1968

In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

1964

In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.