THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

15 February, 1965 – Canada adopted its current national flag showing a maple leaf

The leaf symbolises the country's forests, the middle white stripe the arctic snow, and the red stripes the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.


16 February, 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect

The global warming pact was ratified by 191 countries to date - excluding the United States.


17 February, 1913 – The Armory Show opened in New York

The art exhibition featured works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh and marked the advent of artistic modernism in the United States.


18 February, 1930 – Pluto discovered

Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet when sifting through photographs taken a month earlier.


19 February, 1878 – Thomas Edison patented the Phonograph

It was the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound.


20 February, 1913 – Works to build Australia's capital city commenced

Canberra is an entirely planned city and was chosen as the Australian capital as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.


21 February, 1958 – Peace symbol designed by Gerald Holtom

The symbol was commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and combines the semaphore symbols for the letters N and D - an abbreviation of “Nuclear Disarmament”.

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