Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17

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• Giordano Bruno—See Giordano Bruno#A note on the Bruno "portraits": "Its authenticity is doubtful".
  Giordano Bruno—See Giordano Bruno#A note on the Bruno "portraits": "Its authenticity is doubtful".
• London congestion charging, outbound sign
  London congestion charging, outbound sign
• Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson
• Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza
  Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, collectively known as Gomburza
• Geraldine Farrar as Madama Butterfly
  Geraldine Farrar as Madama Butterfly
• Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Weizmann
• Damage caused by the 2006 Southern Leyte landslide
  Damage caused by the 2006 Southern Leyte landslide
• Armory Show poster
  Armory Show poster
• Ruins of the Citadel of Saigon
  Ruins of the Citadel of Saigon
• United States bombers fly over Param Island in Chuuk Lagoon during Operation Hailstone.
  United States bombers fly over Param Island in Chuuk Lagoon during Operation Hailstone.

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Blurb	Reason
Tanis Diena	Tanis Diena and date not mentioned in article
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 (9)
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.	bare URLS, lots of CN tags (5, mostly in one section)
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.	See this WP:ERRORS report
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 (21)
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
2008 – The declaration of independence of the Republic of Kosovo was adopted by the Kosovan parliament in Pristina.	refimprove section
Lola Montez |b|1821|	tagged with {ref improve} & {In popular culture}
Billie Joe Armstrong |b|1972	refimprove

Eligible

• 1621 – Myles Standish was elected the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony.
• 1815 – The United States ratifies the Treaty of Ghent – signed in late 1814 – formally ending the War of 1812.
• 1838 – Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoekhoe, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.
• 1894 – Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute.
• 1913 – The Armory Show, the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
• 1944 – World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.
• 1959 – Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
• 1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out a bombing of a restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.

• Born/died this day: | Al-Tabari |d|923| Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria |d|1371| Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles |d|1680| Mary Carson Breckinridge |b|1881| Arthur Cumming |d|1893| Wally Pipp |b|1893| Margot Heuman |b|1928| Karen O'Connor |b|1958| Jensen Huang |b|1963| Harisu|b|1975| Nestor Chylak |d|1982| Jeremy Allen White |b|1991| 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: Chinese New Year (2026); Presidents' Day in the United States (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1859 – Cochinchina campaign: French Navy forces captured the Citadel of Saigon, defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the Nguyễn dynasty.
• 1904 – Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly 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 French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.
• 1974 – A U.S. Army soldier stole a [[Bell UH-1 Iroquois|Bell Template:Nowrap]] helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.