births
February 17, 1919
Joe Hunt, American tennis player (died 1945)
Joe Hunt
Joseph Raphael Hunt was an American tennis player of the late 1930s and early 1940s from Southern California. He was the number one ranked American in 1943 and won the US singles championship in his final match. He died off the coast of Florida in an airplane crash during World War II. To date he is the only man to win the U.S. boys', junior, collegiate, and men's singles championship.
February 17
February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 317 days remain until the end of the year.