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Cyclone Winston on February 20

In motorsport, Denny Hamlin wins the Daytona 500 by 0.01 seconds, the closest margin in the race's history.
Cyclone Winston (satellite image pictured), the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike Fiji, kills at least forty-two people.
an election
some international observers have criticised as flawed.
A bombing in Ankara, Turkey, kills at least twenty-eight people and injures more than sixty others.
The Revenant wins five awards, including Best Film and Best Director, at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Swaminarayan Mandir

Italian War of 1521–26
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1711 – George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered.
Swaminarayan Mandir (pictured) in present-day Ahmedabad
, India, was inaugurated.

President of Argentina

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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a state of emergency
in an attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

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magician from Columbus, Ohio. After an unhappy childhood, he ran away to join the circus, where his future partner Harry Kellar also performed. Thurston was deeply impressed after he attended magician Alexander Herrmann

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Lithograph: Strobridge Litho. Co.; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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