Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17

February 17: Tết Nguyên Ðán (2007).

Thomas Jefferson

• 1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson (pictured) as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President of the United States, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election.

• 1854 - Britain recognized the independence of the Orange Free State in the present-day Free State Province, South Africa.

• 1959 - Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

• 1995 - The United Nations brokered a ceasefire between Ecuador and Peru, leading to the official end of the Cenepa War eleven days later.

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