Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17
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Giordano Bruno—See Giordano Bruno#A note on the Bruno "portraits": "Its authenticity is doubtful". -
London congestion charging, outbound sign -
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Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza -
Chaim Weizmann -
Damage caused by the 2006 Southern Leyte landslide -
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Tanis Diena | Tanis Diena and date not mentioned in article |
| Independence Day in Kosovo (2008); | expansion |
| 1600 – Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake as a heretic for his denial of several core Catholic doctrines by the Roman Inquisition. | lots of CN tags |
| 1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election. | lots of CN tags |
| 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South Carolina, from the Confederacy, while a large fire of unknown origin destroyed much of the city. | Some dispute about verifiability and sourcing, see ERRORS 17/2/20 |
| 1872 – Three priests collectively known as Gomburza were executed in Manila, Philippines, by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the Cavite mutiny. | refimprove |
| 1933 – The American weekly news magazine Newsweek was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1936 – The Phantom, one of the first modern comic book superheroes with the hallmark skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils, made his first appearance in a daily newspaper comic strip. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – Chaim Weizmann began his term as the first President of Israel. | lots of CN tags |
| 1959 – Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution. | refimprove |
| 1979 – About 120,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army of China crossed into northern Vietnam, starting the Sino-Vietnamese War. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1995 – In the presence of the four guarantor countries of the Rio Protocol, Ecuador and Peru signed a peace declaration confirming a ceasefire, leading to the official end of the Cenepa War eleven days later. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – The London congestion charge, a fee that is levied on motorists travelling within designated parts of Central London, came into effect. | outdated |
| Billie Joe Armstrong (b. 1972) | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon led a French army to a crushing victory in the Battle of Mormant, nearly destroying a Russian division.
- 1859 – The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was defended by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Vietnam.
- 1913 – In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and modern art.
- 1944 – World War II: The United States Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands.
- 1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.
- 2006 – A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte killed over 1,000 people.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: Bahrain security forces launched a pre-dawn raid on protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, killing four of them, and in Libya, a "Day of Rage" took place with protests across the country against the government of Muammar Gaddafi.
- Born/died this day: Jovian (d. 364) · María de las Mercedes Barbudo (d. 1849) · Don Tallon (b. 1916) · Karen O'Connor (b. 1958) · Ed Sheeran (b. 1991) · Amber Merritt (b. 1993)
Notes
- Bahraini uprising of 2011 appears on February 14 and March of loyalty to martyrs appears on February 22, so Bloody Thursday should not be used in the same year.
February 17: Family Day in parts of Canada (2020); Washington's Birthday / Presidents' Day in the United States (2020)
- 1621 – Myles Standish was elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony militia.
- 1838 – Zulu impis massacred at least 530 Voortrekkers, Khoikhoi, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.
- 1904 – Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (title character shown) premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.
- 1964 – Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but France, honoring a 1960 treaty, would forcibly reinstate him two days later.
- 1974 – A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House.
Al-Tabari (d. 923) · Lola Montez (b. 1821) · Wally Pipp (b. 1893)