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                 February 17 
                        Michael Jordan 


                               
                        Considered by many the greatest all-around player in the history of basketball, American Michael (“Air”) Jordan, who was born this day in 1963, led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships (1991–93, 1996–98). 


                             
                              "There's Michael, then there's all the rest of us." 

                              Basketball player Magic Johnson  


                             

                       
                 
                 

                        Vietnam invaded by China 


                               
                        1979: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam bolstered its ties with the Soviet Union rather than with China, and, following a series of anti-Chinese, pro-Soviet maneuvers by Vietnam, China invaded its southern neighbour this day in 1979. 
                       

                       
                       
                       1996: An earthquake and an accompanying tsunami in Indonesia left 108 people dead, 423 injured, and 58 missing. 
                       
                       1955: British Minister of Defense Harold Macmillan announced plans to develop and produce hydrogen bombs. 
                       
                       1897: The National Congress of Parents and Teachers, better known as the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), was founded in Washington, D.C., as the National Congress of Mothers. 
                       
                       1843: The British annexed most of what is now Sindh province in Pakistan after winning the Battle of Miani. 
                 
           
     

 

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