February 17·Every year

Lunar New Year

Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) — also celebrated as Seollal in Korea and Tết in Vietnam. The biggest holiday of the year across much of East and Southeast Asia. Date is the second new moon after the winter solstice.

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Arab Spring: Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while the "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.

2016Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.
2015Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
2011Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin.