Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/February 17

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• 1753 - Feb. 17 is followed by Mar. 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• 1933 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• 1996 - World champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.