NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey’]
17 February 2015
Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Haiti_Carnival_stampede’]
16 February 1985
Hezbollah is founded. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah’]
14 February 1966
Australian currency is decimalized. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimalisation’]
13 February 1955
Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls’]
12 February 1961
The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1′]
11 February 1978
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle’]
10 February 1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagalla_massacre’]