On that day...

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• On 17th February 1968 MJ Simpson was born
  
• On 17th February 1980 Neville Hawcock gave MJ Simpson a paperback called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for his birthday
  
• On 16th February 1994 (oh, so close!) MJ Simpson met Douglas Adams for the first time at a reception held prior to a talk Douglas was giving
  
• On 17th February 2004 the first episode of the Tertiary Phase of Hitchhiker’s Guide was originally scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4