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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidan_casualties" title="Maidan casualties">Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes</a></b> in Ukraine (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Day_(Canada)" title="Family Day (Canada)">Family Day</a></b> in Canada (2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents%27_Day" title="Presidents' Day">Washington's Birthday / Presidents' Day</a></b> in the United States (2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Monday" title="Shrove Monday">Shrove Monday</a></b> (Western Christianity, 2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1816" title="1816">1816</a> – Italian composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino_Rossini" title="Gioachino Rossini">Gioachino Rossini</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_buffa" title="Opera buffa">opera buffa</a></i> <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville" title="The Barber of Seville">The Barber of Seville</a></b></i> premiered at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_Argentina" title="Teatro Argentina">Teatro Argentina</a> in Rome to jeers from the audience.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissure_vent" title="Fissure vent">fissure</a> opened in a cornfield in the Mexican state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michoac%C3%A1n" title="Michoacán">Michoacán</a> and continued to erupt for nine years, forming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinder_cone" title="Cinder cone">cinder cone</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin" title="Parícutin">Parícutin</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Autonomous_Oblast" title="Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast">Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast</a> voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="First Nagorno-Karabakh War">First Nagorno-Karabakh War</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992" title="1992">1992</a> – Appearing on the talk show <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King_Live" title="Larry King Live">Larry King Live</a></i>, U.S. industrialist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot" title="Ross Perot">Ross Perot</a> announced that he would begin <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_1992_presidential_campaign" title="Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign">a presidential campaign</a></b> if "ordinary people" wanted him to run for office.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi" title="Laura Bassi">Laura Bassi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1778); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Burnham" title="Forbes Burnham">Forbes Burnham</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1923); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiah_Khan" title="Jiah Khan">Jiah Khan</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1988)</p>
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