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Sunday, February 17, 2019
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| 1495 | The Colonna brothers capture Naples for Charles VIII of France |
| 1495 | French capture Gaeta (invested Dec 16, 1494) from Ferrante II |
| 1559 | Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy |
| 1804 | Stephen Decatur retakes and burns the USS Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor |
| 1815 | USS Constitution takes HMS Susannah |
| 1909 | Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
| 1936 | Popular Front wins Spanish elections |
| 1942 | Japanese secure Palembang. |
| 1942 | German submarine shells Aruba |
| 1942 | Aussie-US convoy bound for Timor is turned back by Japanese air attack. |
| 1943 | U.S. fighters begin using a new airstrip on Amchitka, the Aleutians |
| 1943 | Red Army liberates Kharkov |
| 1944 | Elms of TF 58 conduct air attacks and reconnaissance of Eniwetok. |
| 1945 | Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany |
| 1945 | US airborne forces land on Corregidor (fighting lasts until March 3) |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba |
| 1988 | First combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador |
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| 1451 | Battle of St Albans: Lancastrians defeat the Yorkists |
| 1621 | Miles Standish is appointed the first militia commander of Plymouth colony. |
| 1772 | 1st partition of Poland, by Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria |
| 1854 | British recognize independence of Orange Free State |
| 1864 | CSS H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic, and herself: 1st submarine victory |
| 1865 | Sherman captures Charleston, SC |
| 1879 | Assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander in St Petersburg fails |
| 1913 | The "Armory Art Show" opens at NY's 69th Armory |
| 1915 | Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded |
| 1940 | British DD capture German prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters |
| 1942 | Dutch destroyer Van Ness is sunk by Japanese aircraft in Banka Strait |
| 1943 | HMNZS Moa lands a reconnaissance team on Banika, Russell Islands |
| 1943 | 55th Indian Bde unable to capture Japanese strongpoint in the Arakan |
| 1944 | US forces land on Eniwetok Atoll, secured on Feb 22 |
| 1944 | Elms of TF 58 land on Eniwetok and Engebi. |
| 1944 | Allies complete two day raid on Truk, sink 200,000 tons of shipping. |
| 1945 | Heavy losses among US Navy frogmen clearing beach defenses of Iwo Jima |
| 1947 | Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR |
| 1979 | China invades Vietnam |
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| 1229 | Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II enters Jerusalem |
| 1248 | Parma breaks a siege by Emperor Frederick II |
| 1574 | Spanish-held Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels |
| 1713 | French under Jacques Cassard land on Curacao |
| 1846 | US Navy adopts "port" for left, in place of the traditional "larboard" |
| 1857 | Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo |
| 1861 | King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia becomes King of Italy |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis is inaugurated CSA Prtesident, Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1865 | Union troops occupy Ft Moultrie, Charleston |
| 1865 | Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC |
| 1899 | San Francisco named as Port of Embarkation for Army transports |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg |
| 1915 | Germany proclaims a blockade of England |
| 1932 | Japan declares Manchuria independent under Pu-Yi, "The Last Emperor" |
| 1942 | Dutch ship Soerabaya & a sub destroyed by air attack at Soerabaya, Java. |
| 1943 | Attu: U.S. ships shell Japanese positions for the first time. |
| 1943 | "White Rose" resistance group is broken by the Gestapo in Munich |
| 1943 | HMNS Moa lands a reconnaissance team on Pavuvu, Russell Islands |
| 1943 | Allied intelligence concludes Japanese had evacuated the Russell islands. |
| 1944 | Bismarcks: Allied destroyers shell Japanese bases at Rabaul and Kavieng. |
| 1945 | Burma: British troops land behind Japanese lines in the Arakan |
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