Notable events that happened on this day in history.

2007: President George W. Bush announces in an address to the nation that the U.S. will change its strategy in Iraq and implement a “surge” of 20,000 troops into the fighting. Pictured: A U.S. Army soldier with Delta Company, First Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, takes a position as other soldiers search for a suspect in a Shiite neighborhood in southeast Baghdad, February 17, 2007.

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