Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 17

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 * 1621 – Myles Standish was elected the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony.
 * 1815 – The United States ratifies the Treaty of Ghent – signed in late 1814 – formally ending the War of 1812.
 * 1838 – Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoekhoe, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa.
 * 1894 – Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute.
 * 1913 – The Armory Show, the first large modern-art exhibition in the United States, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City.
 * 1944 – World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Chuuk Lagoon in the Caroline Islands.
 * 1959 – Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
 * 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.


 * Born/died this day: | Al-Tabari |d|923| Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria |d|1371| Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles |d|1680|  Mary Carson Breckinridge |b|1881| Wally Pipp |b|1893|  Margot Heuman  |b|1928|  Karen O'Connor |b|1958| Harisu|b|1975| Nestor Chylak |d|1982| Ed Sheeran |b|1991| Amber Merritt |b|1993