Historical Events on February 25, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on February 25th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston. |
| 2015 | At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan. |
| 2009 | Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials. |
| 2009 | Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots. |
| 1997 | Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea. |
| 1994 | Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. |
| 1992 | Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. |
| 1991 | Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. |
| 1991 | Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is abolished. |
| 1987 | Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to be banned from competition by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. |
| 1986 | People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president. |
| 1980 | The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse. |
| 1968 | Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre. |
| 1964 | North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones. |
| 1956 | Cold War: In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. |
| 1954 | Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt. |
| 1951 | The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón. |
| 1948 | Cold War: The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. |
| 1947 | The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council. The Prussian government had already been abolished by the Preuÿenschlag of 1932. |
| 1945 | World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. |
| 1941 | February strike: In the occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. |
| 1939 | The first of 2⿿1ⁿ2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London. |
| 1933 | The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier. |
| 1932 | Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. |
| 1928 | Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission. |
| 1921 | Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia. |
| 1919 | Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. |
| 1918 | World War I: Pernau, Reval, and Pskov are taken by German forces. |
| 1916 | World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun. |
| 1912 | Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. |
| 1901 | J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. |
| 1875 | Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. |
| 1870 | Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
| 1866 | Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. |
| 1856 | A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War. |
| 1848 | Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights. |
| 1843 | Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843). |
| 1836 | Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. |
| 1831 | Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire. |
| 1797 | Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain. |
| 1336 | Four thousand defenders of PilĿnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. |
| 628 | Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. |
| 138 | The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. |
Famous People Born on February 25
Here is a random list who born on February 25. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer |
| 1937 | Tom Courtenay, English actor |
| 1809 | John Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of South Australia (d. 1873) |
| 1965 | Brian Baker, American guitarist and songwriter |
| 1947 | Marc Sautet, French philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1998) |
| 1806 | Emma Catherine Embury, American author and poet (d. 1863) |
| 1986 | Jameela Jamil, American actress and activist |
| 1951 | César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player and coach |
| 1957 | Chuck Strahl, Canadian businessman and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Transport |
| 1928 | A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American judge, author, and activist (d. 1998) |
Famous People Deaths On February 25
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 25. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Friedrich Spielhagen, German author, theorist, and translator (b. 1829) |
| 1558 | Eleanor of Austria (b. 1498) |
| 806 | Tarasios, patriarch of Constantinople |
| 1831 | Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German author and playwright (b. 1752) |
| 2009 | Philip José Farmer, American author (b. 1918) |
| 1964 | Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924) |
| 1798 | Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French poet and diplomat (b. 1716) |
| 1978 | Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1920) |
| 1910 | Worthington Whittredge, American painter and educator (b. 1820) |
| 1805 | Thomas Pownall, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1722) |
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