By The Related Press
As we speak is Monday, Feb. 17, the forty eighth day of 2025. There are 317 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Feb. 17, 1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life imprisonment after being discovered responsible of 15 counts of first-degree homicide.
Additionally on this date:
In 1801, the U.S. Home of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr grew to become vp.
In 1863, 5 appointees of the Public Welfare Society of Geneva introduced the formation of an “Worldwide Committee for the Reduction of Wounded Combatants,” which might later be renamed the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross.
In 1864, through the Civil Warfare, the Union ship USS Housatonic was rammed and sank in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, by the Accomplice hand-cranked submarine HL Hunley, within the first naval assault of its form; the Hunley additionally sank.
In 1897, the Nationwide Congress of Moms, the forerunner of the Nationwide PTA, convened its first assembly in Washington with over 2,000 attendees.
In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, in Wesberry v. Sanders, dominated that congressional districts inside every state have to be roughly equal in inhabitants.
In 1995, Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of homicide within the December 1993 Lengthy Island Rail Highway shootings; he was later sentenced to 315 years in jail.
In 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia.
In 2013, Danica Patrick received the Daytona 500 pole, changing into the primary lady to safe the highest spot for any Dash Cup race.
In 2014, Jimmy Fallon made his debut as host of NBC’s “Tonight Present.”
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Actor Brenda Fricker is 80.
- Actor Rene Russo is 71.
- Actor Richard Karn is 69.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist and commentator Rowdy Gaines is 66.
- Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is 63.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Michael Jordan is 62.
- Movie director Michael Bay is 60.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Luc Robitaille is 59.
- Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Tommy Moe is 55.
- Actor Denise Richards is 54.
- Musician Billie Joe Armstrong (Inexperienced Day) is 53.
- Actor Jerry O’Connell is 51.
- Actor Jason Ritter is 45.
- Media persona Paris Hilton is 44.
- Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 44.
- Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is 34.
- Actor Jeremy Allen White is 34.
- Tennis participant Madison Keys is 30.