TODAY IN HISTORY 17/2/2019
ON THIS DAY FEBRUARY 17
Independence Day in Kosovo (2008)
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon led a French army to a crushing victory in the Battle of Mormant, nearly destroying a Russian division.
1859 – The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Vietnam.
1904 – Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (Geraldine Farrar in the title role pictured) premiered at La Scala in Milan, generating negative reviews that forced him to rewrite the opera.
1974 – A U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the White House South Lawn.
2006 – A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte killed over 1,000 people.
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