February 17: Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday (2026); Chinese New Year (2026); Korean New Year (2026); Tết (Vietnam, 2026)
Commemorative button of the Armory Show
- 1621 – Myles Standish was elected the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony.
- 1838 – Great Trek: Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoekhoe, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.
- 1913 – The Armory Show (commemorative button pictured), the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
- 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.
- 1996 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 8.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent) occurred in the New Guinea Trench, which generated a tsunami that killed 108 people.
- Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria (d. 1371)
- Mary Carson Breckinridge (b. 1881)
- Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926)
- Jeremy Allen White (b. 1991)
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