What happened on February 25? There are more than 291 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About February 25
February 25 is the 56th day of the year 2024. There are 310 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 8th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Scuddy, Kentucky 41760 sunrise occured at 07:07 AM and sunset occured at 06:23 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Pisces. The modern birthstone for this month is Amethyst while the mystical birthstone is Bloodstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 339 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For February 25
- 138The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
- 1570Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- 1797Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
- 1836Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
- 1843Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
- 1866Miners 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.
- 1870Hiram 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.
- 1901J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- 1912Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- 1919Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- 1921Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- 1928Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
- 1932Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
- 1933The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
- 1941February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
- 1945World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 1947The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
- 1948The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- 1951The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1954Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
- 1956In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
- 1964North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
- 1964U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
- 1968Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha 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 Ha My massacre.
- 1971The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
- 1980The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation’s capital, Paramaribo
- 1986People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines’ first woman president.
- 1991Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
- 1992Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
- 1994Mosque 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.
- 2009BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters.
- 2011In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
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Who Were Born On February 25?
- 1398Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435)
- 1591Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
- 1643Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
- 1663Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
- 1682Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
- 1692Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
- 1707Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
- 1714René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
- 1714Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
- 1725Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
- 1752John Graves Simcoe, British territorial lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
- 1778Don José de San Martín, Argentine military commander (d. 1850)
- 1841Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
- 1842Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
- 1845George Reid, Australian politician (d. 1918)
- 1855Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
- 1855George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912)
- 1860Sir William Ashley, British economic historian (d. 1927)
- 1861Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925)
- 1865Zoravar Andranik Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter (d. 1927)
- 1866Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1871Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (d.1913)
- 1873Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
- 1877Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
- 1883Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
- 1885Princess Alice of Battenberg (d. 1969)
- 1885Sylvia Brett, British socialite and wife of Charles Vyner Brooke (d. 1971)
- 1888John Foster Dulles, American politician, former United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
- 1889Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (d. 1982)
- 1890Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
- 1890Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- 1894Meher Baba, Indian spiritual figure (d. 1969)
- 1895Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
- 1897Peter Llewelyn Davies, British namesake of Peter Pan (d. 1960)
- 1901Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1903King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1906Boris Papandopulo, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1991)
- 1908Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)
- 1910Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)
- 1912Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1913Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
- 1913Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1914John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991)
- 1916Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
- 1917Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
- 1918Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
- 1918Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- 1918Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
- 1919Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
- 1919Monte Irvin, American baseball player
- 1920Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
- 1921Andy Pafko, American baseball player
- 1921Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
- 1923Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (d. 2009)
- 1927Dickie Jones, American actor
- 1927Ralph Stanley, American musician
- 1928Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer (d. 2009)
- 1929Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1929Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
- 1930Sister Wendy Beckett, South African-born British art connoisseur
- 1932Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1932Tony Brooks, English race car driver
- 1934Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
- 1934Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
- 1935Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
- 1936Jiří Černý, Czech music critic
- 1937Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
- 1937Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
- 1937Tom Courtenay, English actor
- 1938Diane Baker, American actress
- 1938Herb Elliott, Australian runner
- 1940Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
- 1940Danny Cater, American baseball player
- 1940Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
- 1942John Saul, American author
- 1942Karen Grassle, American actress
- 1943George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
- 1943Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
- 1944Matt Guokas, American basketball player & head coach
- 1945Elkie Brooks, English singer
- 1945Herbert Léonard, French singer
- 1946Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
- 1946Jean Todt, French Formula One executive
- 1947Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
- 1947Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence
- 1947Lee Evans, American athlete
- 1948Aldo Busi, Italian writer
- 1948Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
- 1949Amin Maalouf, Lebanese writer
- 1949Jack Handey, American humorist
- 1949Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
- 1950Emitt Rhodes, American singer/songwriter
- 1950Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
- 1950Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (d. 2010)
- 1950Neil Jordan, Irish director
- 1951César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
- 1951Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
- 1951James Brown, American sportscaster
- 1952Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
- 1952Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
- 1952Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
- 1953José María Aznar, Spanish politician
- 1953Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
- 1954Gerardo Pelusso, Uruguayan football manager
- 1954John Doe, American musician
- 1957Sérgio Marques, Portuguese politician
- 1958Jeff Fisher, American football coach
- 1958Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach
- 1958Panagiotis Beglitis, Greek politician
- 1959Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
- 1959Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)
- 1960Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
- 1961Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1961Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1961Todd Blackledge, American football player and television color commontator
- 1962Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
- 1962Faron Moller, Canadian-born British computer scientist
- 1963Joseph E. Duncan III, American convicted serial killer and sex offender
- 1963Paul O'Neill, American baseball player
- 1964Don Majkowski, American football player
- 1964Lee Evans, English comedian
- 1964Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player
- 1965Brian Baker, American guitarist
- 1965Carrot Top, American comedian
- 1965Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
- 1966Alexis Denisof, American actor
- 1966Nancy O'Dell, American television personality
- 1966Samantha Phillips, American actress
- 1966Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
- 1966Téa Leoni, American actress
- 1968Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
- 1968Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
- 1969Paul Trimboli, Australian soccer player
- 1970Julie Hesmondhalgh, English actress
- 1971Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
- 1971Dave Harris, American disc jockey
- 1971Sean Astin, American actor
- 1973Anson Mount, American actor
- 1973Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer
- 1973Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
- 1973Normann Stadler, German triathlete
- 1974Divya Bharti, Indian Actress
- 1975Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
- 1976Rashida Jones, American actress and musician
- 1976Samaki Walker, American basketball player
- 1977Horace Mui, Chinese vocalist
- 1977Josh Wolff, American footballer
- 1977Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
- 1979David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor
- 1979Jennifer Ferrin, American actress
- 1980Antonio Burks, American basketball player
- 1980Christy Knowings, American actress
- 1981Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
- 1981Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1982Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1982Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
- 1982Chris Baird, Irish footballer
- 1982Flavia Pennetta, Italian professional tennis player
- 1982Jamie Lynn, American pornographic actress
- 1982Kimberly Caldwell, American reality television personality
- 1982Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
- 1982Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
- 1983Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
- 1984Dane Swan, Australian rules footballer
- 1984Logan Leistikow, American documentary filmmaker and comedian
- 1984Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
- 1985Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- 1985Joakim Noah, American basketball player
- 1986Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
- 1986James Starks, American football player
- 1986James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
- 1986Justin Berfield, American actor
- 1987Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater
- 1987Eva Avila, Canadian singer
- 1987Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player
- 1987Kwaku Afriyie, Ghanaian footballer
- 1988Jimmy Monaghan, Irish musician
- 1989E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player
- 1989Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player
- 1990Alejandra Andreu, Spanish pageant contestant
- 1990Jefferson Alves Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1991Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
- 1991Tony Oller, American actor
- 1993Christina Kirkman, American actress
- 1994Eugénie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
- 1997Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
- 1998Brendon Baerg, American actor
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Who Died On February 25?
- 1246Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
- 1522William Lilye, English classical scholar
- 1536Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
- 1553Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
- 1558Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
- 1601Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
- 1634Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
- 1643Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
- 1655Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
- 1682Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
- 1713King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
- 1715Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
- 1723Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
- 1756Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
- 1798Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
- 1805Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
- 1831Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
- 1850Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
- 1852Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
- 1860Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
- 1899Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
- 1912Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
- 1919Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
- 1922Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
- 1928William O'Brien, Irish author, journalist and politician (M.P.) (b. 1852)
- 1934John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
- 1945Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
- 1950George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1953Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
- 1957George “Bugs” Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
- 1964Alexander Archipenko, a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1887)
- 1964David Logan (politician), a British Labour Party politician (b. 1871)
- 1964Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1964Hinrich Lohse, a Nazi German politician (b. 1896)
- 1964Johnny Burke (lyricist), (b. 1908)
- 1964Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (b. 1913)
- 1964Mariano Jesús Cuenco, a Filipino Cebuano politician and writer (b. 1888)
- 1964Maurice Farman, French Grand Prix motor racing champion (b. 1877)
- 1966James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
- 1970Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (b. 1903)
- 1970Walter Koch, German astrologer (b. 1895)
- 1971Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
- 1975Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
- 1978Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., American general (b. 1920)
- 1983Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
- 1987James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1993Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
- 1993Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
- 1994Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b. 1956)
- 1994Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
- 1996Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
- 1997Cal Abrams, American major league baseball outfielder (b. 1924)
- 1998Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer. (b. 1956)
- 1999Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 2000Luce Maced Martinique supercentenarian
- 2001Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
- 2003Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
- 2003Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
- 2004Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
- 2005Ben Bowen, Brain Cancer victim (b. 2002)
- 2005Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
- 2006Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
- 2006Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2006Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (b. 1944)
- 2007Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2007William R. Anderson, American Naval Officer and Congressman (b. 1921)
- 2008Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
- 2008Charles Chan, father of Jackie Chan (b. 1914)
- 2008Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
- 2008Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
- 2009Philip José Farmer, American novelist (b. 1918)
- 2010İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish academic and the founder of YÖK (b. 1915)
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