Editing February 17 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1905]] &ndash; [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]: [[Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia]] is assassinated in the [[Moscow Kremlin]] by [[Socialist Revolutionary Party|Socialist Revolutionary]] [[Ivan Kalyayev]].<ref name="Grand Duke">[https://books.google.com/books?id=YzUbvTmYVcYC ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews''] (April 1905) p. 284</ref> 
*[[1913]] &ndash; The [[Armory Show]] opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite book|author=Eva Weber|title=Art Deco in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BDniArslTkC|year=1985|publisher=Exeter Books|isbn=978-0-671-80804-4|page=25|access-date=2021-06-21|archive-date=2021-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203952/https://books.google.com/books?id=-BDniArslTkC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1919]] &ndash; The [[Ukrainian People's Republic#Winter 1918.E2.80.9319|Ukrainian People's Republic]] asks the [[Triple Entente|Entente]] and the United States for help fighting the [[Bolsheviks]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Eniwetok]] begins. The battle ends in an American victory on [[February 22]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Pimlott|title=The Viking Atlas of World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKt-AAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-85373-1|page=170|access-date=2021-06-21|archive-date=2021-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422155243/https://books.google.com/books?id=fKt-AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1944   &ndash; World War II: [[Operation Hailstone]] begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against [[Truk Lagoon]], Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the [[Battle of Eniwetok|Eniwetok invasion]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; The [[Al-Waziri coup]] briefly ousts the ruling Hamidaddin dynasty of [[Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen|Yemen]]; [[Imams of Yemen|Imam]] [[Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din]] is killed.<ref name="Yahya">{{cite book|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|pages=845–846|isbn=9781134264902|access-date=2023-08-22}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Chaim Weizmann]] begins his term as the first [[President of Israel]].<ref>{{cite book | last = LastName | first = FirstName | title = A political chronology of the Middle East | publisher = Europa | location = London | year = 2001 | isbn = 9781857431155 | page=93}}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Project Vanguard]]: [[Vanguard 2]]: The first [[weather satellite]] is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
*  1959   &ndash; A [[Turkish Airlines]] [[Vickers Viscount]] [[1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash|crashes]] near [[Gatwick Airport]], killing 14; [[Prime Minister of Turkey|Turkish prime minister]] [[Adnan Menderes]] survives the crash.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 794D Viscount TC-SEV London-Gatwick Airport (LGW)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19590217-0|access-date=2022-02-16|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-date=2022-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114061205/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19590217-0|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; In ''[[Wesberry v. Sanders]]'' the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that [[United States congressional district|congressional districts]] have to be approximately equal in population.
*  1964   &ndash; Gabonese president [[Léon M'ba]] is toppled by [[1964 Gabon coup d'état|a coup]] and his rival, [[Jean-Hilaire Aubame]], is installed in his place.
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Ranger program|Project Ranger]]: The [[Ranger 8]] probe launches on its mission to photograph the ''[[Mare Tranquillitatis]]'' region of the Moon in preparation for the crewed [[Apollo program|Apollo]] missions. ''Mare Tranquillitatis'' or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the [[Apollo 11]] lunar landing.
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 065]] crashes during take-off from [[Sheremetyevo International Airport]], killing 21.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 114D СССР-76491 Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660217-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103105929/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660217-0 |archive-date=3 November 2012 |access-date=25 April 2018 |website=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; American aquanaut [[Berry L. Cannon]] dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair a leak in the [[SEALAB III]] underwater habitat. The SEALAB project was subsequently abandoned.<ref name="San Diego">{{cite journal|journal=[[San Diego Magazine]]|last1=Bunton|first1=Bill|last2=Heglar|first2=Mary|url=http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/March-1999/Death-of-an-Aquanaut/|title=Death of an Aquanaut &ndash; San Diego Magazine &ndash; March 1999 &ndash; San Diego, California|date=March 1999|publisher=SDM, LLC|access-date=February 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118031524/http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/March-1999/Death-of-an-Aquanaut/|archive-date=January 18, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; the family of [[Jeffrey R. MacDonald]], [[United States Army]] captain, is found murdered in their home in [[Fort Liberty|Ft. Bragg]], North Carolina.  Eventually, MacDonald himself was charged with and convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters.<ref>[https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article249836233.html Jeffrey MacDonald again seeks release from prison. A primer on the infamous NC crime.][https://allthatsinteresting.com/jeffrey-macdonald]</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; Cumulative sales of the [[Volkswagen Beetle]] exceed those of the [[Ford Model T]].
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[1974 White House helicopter incident|Robert K. Preston]], a disgruntled [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] private, buzzes the [[White House]] in a stolen [[helicopter]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] detonates an [[incendiary bomb]] at the [[La Mon restaurant bombing|La Mon restaurant]], near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
*[[1979]] &ndash; The [[Sino-Vietnamese War]] begins.
*[[1980]] &ndash; First winter ascent of [[Mount Everest]] by [[Krzysztof Wielicki]] and [[Leszek Cichy]].
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Ryan International Airlines Flight 590]] crashes during takeoff from [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport]], killing both pilots, the aircraft's only occupants.<ref name="ASN">{{cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15RC N565PC Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, OH (CLE)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19910217-2|access-date=2020-12-01|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-date=2020-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130020813/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19910217-2|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]: [[Armenia]]n troops massacre more than 20 [[Azerbaijanis|Azerbaijani]] civilians during the [[Capture of Garadaghly]].
*[[1995]] &ndash; The [[Cenepa War]] between [[Peru]] and [[Ecuador]] ends on a [[ceasefire]] brokered by the [[United Nations|UN]].
*[[1996]] &ndash; In [[Philadelphia]], world champion [[Garry Kasparov]] beats the [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]] [[supercomputer]] in a [[chess]] match.
*  1996   &ndash; [[NASA]]'s [[Discovery Program]] begins as the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, [[433 Eros]].
*  1996   &ndash; The 8.2 {{M|w}} [[1996 Biak earthquake|Biak earthquake]] shakes the [[Papua (province)|Papua]] province of eastern [[Indonesia]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''). A large tsunami followed, leaving 166 people dead or missing and 423 injured.
*[[2006]] &ndash; A [[2006 Southern Leyte mudslide|massive mudslide]] occurs in [[Southern Leyte]], Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Kosovo]] [[2008 Kosovo declaration of independence|declares independence]] from [[Serbia]].
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Arab Spring]]: [[Libyan civil war (2011)|Libyan protests]] against [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Muammar Gaddafi's regime]] begin.
*  2011   &ndash; Arab Spring: In [[Bahrain]], [[Special Security Force Command|security forces]] launch a deadly [[Police raid|pre-dawn raid]] on protesters in [[Pearl Roundabout]] in [[Manama]]; the day is locally known as [[Bloody Thursday (Bahrain)|Bloody Thursday]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a [[2015 Haiti Carnival stampede|stampede]] at a [[Mardi Gras]] parade in [[Haiti]].
*[[2016]] &ndash; Military vehicles [[February 2016 Ankara bombing|explode]] outside a [[Turkish Armed Forces]] barracks in [[Ankara]], Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.