On this day: February 17

February 17: Independence Day in Kosovo (2008)

Gomburza

• 1621 – Myles Standish was elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony militia, a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
• 1872 – Three priests collectively known as Gomburza (pictured) were executed in Manila, Philippines, by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the Cavite mutiny.
• 1913 – In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and modern art.
• 1964 – Gabonese military officers overthrew President Léon M'ba, but France, honoring a 1960 treaty, forcibly reinstated M'ba the next day.
• 2006 – A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte killed over 1,000 people.

Wally Pipp (b. 1893) · Geronimo (d. 1909)

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