February 17 in history: • 1621 – Myles Standish was elected the first commander of the militia of Plymouth Colony. → go there • 1838 – Great Trek: Zulu impis massacred about 532 Voortrekkers, Khoekhoe, and Basuto near present-day Weenen, South Africa. → go there • 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. → go there • 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. → go there • 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. → go there Died 1371: Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Wiki link Born 1881: Mary Carson Breckinridge Wiki link Born 1926: Friedrich Cerha Wiki link Born 1991: Jeremy Allen White Wiki link Pictured: Commemorative button of the [[Armory Show]].