Talk:February 17

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February 17

Helicopter stolen in the 1974 White House incident

1859 – Cochinchina campaign: French Navy forces captured the Citadel of Saigon, defended by 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers of the Nguyễn dynasty.
1904 – Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan to poor reviews, forcing him to revise the opera.
1964 – Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but French forces, honouring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated him two days later.
1974 – A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter (pictured) and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
2011 – Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.

Jovian (d. 364)
Joseph Favre (b. 1849)
María de las Mercedes Barbudo (d. 1849)
Don Tallon (b. 1916)

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I do not believe a "Caitlin Sutton's" birthday is particularly news worthy, especially when it's put with no year before the year 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt -- Alison —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.60.91.189 (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Marian Anderson was born on the 27th, not the 17th. -- Zoe

Could someone please verify the 2006 events entry. I heard nothing in the news about it. ~jazzdude

Why revert the 2009 entry? The WikiProject prohibits the posting of speculation on future events, but the television transition is at this point not speculation. The only thing left to happen is for the date to actually pass. - Cg-realms (talk) 02:09, 4 January 2008 (EST)

The date articles are meant to list events of the past. It is speculation until it actually happens. Scheduled or not, it is a future event and therefore does not belong. Another thing is that events can't be judged as globally notable until after they have taken place. They are not historically significant until they are history. For all we know there might be some massive uprising that causes the event to be delayed. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 20:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a reference to Ford Model-T in the year 1972. This might supposed to be the year 1927. Can someone check the reference? --130.207.87.197 (talk) 20:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Now Kosovo is a free country. Kosovo is not Serbia!" It does not sound very "encyclopedic" to me! --GVasil (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It has been changed back already. Lectonar (talk) 14:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sino-Vietnamese War[edit]

I think that the beginning of the Sino-Vietnamese War, which started 30 years ago in 1979, is a much more important event than any of those currently listed. See these articles commemorating the event. DHN (talk) 18:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Noah's Flood[edit]

Removed this: "In Christianity, this is the predicted date for the beginning of the flood, of Genesis", which is referring to Genesis 7:11: "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Per King James Bible in Wikisource - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Genesis#Chapter_7 )
This is misleading and badly linked: The date given in the Bible text is of the "actual" rather than "predicted" date, and the link is to flood (about floods in general), rather than to the better Great_Flood_(Biblical)#Jewish.
But more importantly, the authors of Genesis would not have been using the modern Gregorian calendar, so the date referred to would presumably have been the 17th of Iyar. (See http://www.google.com/search?q=noah+iyar )-- Writtenonsand (talk) 16:35, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

President's day?[edit]

Isn't presidents day on the 17th? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickmxp (talk • contribs) 11:49, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not every year. Presidents' day is always the third Monday in February. Sometimes this is the 17th. Not always.

Birth and death entries[edit]

Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. Deb (talk) 11:09, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]