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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14" title="February 14">February 14</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" title="Ash Wednesday">Ash Wednesday</a></b> (Western Christianity, 2024)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1655" title="1655">1655</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War" title="Arauco War">Arauco War</a>: A series of coordinated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> attacks <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_uprising_of_1655" title="Mapuche uprising of 1655">took place</a></b> against Spanish settlements and forts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Chile" title="Colonial Chile">colonial Chile</a>, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1779" title="1779">1779</a> – Native Hawaiians <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Cook" title="Death of James Cook">killed</a></b> the English explorer Captain <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a></b> after he attempted to kidnap <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalani%CA%BB%C5%8Dpu%CA%BBu" title="Kalaniʻōpuʻu">Kalaniʻōpuʻu</a>, the ruling chief of the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_(island)" title="Hawaii (island)">Hawaii</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing-Tabulating-Recording_Company" title="Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company">Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company</a> was renamed as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">International Business Machines</a></b> (IBM), later growing into one of the world's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization" title="List of public corporations by market capitalization">largest companies by market capitalization</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s from a record distance of 40.5 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit" title="Astronomical unit">au</a> (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a> – The first of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Zahedan_bombings" title="2007 Zahedan bombings">several bombings</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahedan" title="Zahedan">Zahedan</a>, Iran, killed 18 members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Revolutionary Guards</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Friedland" title="Valentin Friedland">Valentin Friedland</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1490); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanora_Atherton" title="Eleanora Atherton">Eleanora Atherton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1782); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Krupskaya" title="Nadezhda Krupskaya">Nadezhda Krupskaya</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1869); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Genovese" title="Vito Genovese">Vito Genovese</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1969)</p>
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