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.
