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Events
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the Julian calendar.
1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television
Births
1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves to the Gregorian from the Julian calendar.
1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television
Births
1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (killed in battle)
1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist