Born:
Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days
More Notable Birthdays on June 17:
1980 - Venus Williams, born in Lynwood, California, tennis star
1946 - Barry Manilow, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/pianist, Mandy, I Write the Songs
1943 - Newt Gingrich, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Georgia 1979 - 1999, Speaker of House 1995 - 1997
1907 - Charles Eames, American Designer
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer, Rite of Spring,
