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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochinchina_campaign" title="Cochinchina campaign">Cochinchina campaign</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">French Navy</a> forces captured the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Saigon" title="Citadel of Saigon">Citadel of Saigon</a></b>, defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_dynasty" title="Nguyễn dynasty">Nguyễn dynasty</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904" title="1904">1904</a> – Italian composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini" title="Giacomo Puccini">Giacomo Puccini</a>'s <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly" title="Madama Butterfly">Madama Butterfly</a></b></i> premiered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a> in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1964 Gabonese coup d'état">Gabonese military officers overthrew</a></b> President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_M%27ba" title="Léon M'ba">Léon M'ba</a>, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – A U.S. Army soldier stole a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_UH-1_Iroquois" title="Bell UH-1 Iroquois">Bell <span class="nowrap">UH-1</span></a> helicopter and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_White_House_helicopter_incident" title="1974 White House helicopter incident">landed it</a></b> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Lawn" title="South Lawn">South Lawn</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> in Washington, D.C.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring">Arab Spring</a>: Bahraini security forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Thursday_(Bahrain)" title="Bloody Thursday (Bahrain)">killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid</a></b> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Roundabout" title="Pearl Roundabout">Pearl Roundabout</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama" title="Manama">Manama</a>, while the "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_civil_war_(2011)" title="Libyan civil war (2011)">Day of Rage</a></b>" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>'s government.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian_(emperor)" title="Jovian (emperor)">Jovian</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 364); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Favre" title="Joseph Favre">Joseph Favre</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1849); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_de_las_Mercedes_Barbudo" title="María de las Mercedes Barbudo">María de las Mercedes Barbudo</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1849); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Tallon" title="Don Tallon">Don Tallon</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1916)</p>
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