What are the important events that happened on February 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 25 is the 56th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 12, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,740,441,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontahexagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 357 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,449 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 25 Historical Events
- 1836 –Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
- 1843 –Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
- 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.
- 1921 –Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- 1933 –The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
- 1945 –World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 1951 –The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
- 1964 –U.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.
- 1968 –Vietnam 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.
Who were born on February 25?
- 1398 –Emperor Xuande of China (d. 1435)
- 1950 –Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (d. 2010)
- 1960 –Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
- 1961 –Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
- 1962 –Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
- 1962 –Faron Moller, Canadian-born British computer scientist
- 1964 –Luigi Troiani, Italian rugby player
- 1976 –Rashida Jones, American actress and musician
- 1977 –Horace Mui, Chinese vocalist
- 1989 –E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player
Who died on February 25?
- 1558 –Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
- 1715 –Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
- 1723 –Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
- 1912 –Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
- 1922 –Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
- 1964 –David Logan (politician), a British Labour Party politician (b. 1871)
- 1964 –Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1970 –Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (b. 1903)
- 2006 –Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (b. 1944)
- 2007 –William R. Anderson, American Naval Officer and Congressman (b. 1921)
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