Historical Events in February, Month of February Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| February 27, 1971 | Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions. |
| February 5, 1963 | The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. |
| February 14, 1943 | World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia. |
| February 21, 452453 | Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. |
| February 23, 1763 | Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.[6] |
| February 17, 1600 | On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak. |
| February 13, 1861 | Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
| February 14, 2011 | As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'. |
| February 14, 748 | Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. |
| February 22, 1972 | The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. |
| February 28, 1995 | Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election. |
| February 10, 2016 | South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. |
| February 6, 1934 | Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France. |
| February 5, 1975 | Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. |
| February 16, 1968 | In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. |
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