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- 1500
- The Landgraviate of Hesse is reunified.
- 1720
- Under the Treaty of The Hague, the Kingdom of Sardinia is joined to Savoy and Piedmont.
- 1955
- The first Thriftway store opens at the Loveland Brown Shopping Center in Loveland, Ohio.
- 1964
- In New Jersey, Bridgewater Township cedes a short, dead-end street to Somerville.
- 1975
- In São Paulo, Brazil, Line 1 of the São Paulo Metro opens between Vila Mariana and Liberdade.
- 1979
- SMP Negeri 5 Ciamis opens in Ciamis Regency, Indonesia.
- 2014
- Century City Mall opens in Makati, Philippines.
- 2023
- Surrey Hills and Mont Albert stations close in Melbourne after 140 and 133 years in operation, respectively.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on February 17, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on February 17 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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