Portal:United States/Anniversaries/February/February 17
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- 1819 - The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1933 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
- 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
- 1992 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
