What happened this day in history February 15

What are the important events that happened on February 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 15 is the 46th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 2, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 483,216 hours 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 ‘tetracontahexagon’ day.

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Aquarius 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 367 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 4,439 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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February 15 Historical Events

  • 1637
    Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
  • 1906
    The British Labour Party is organised.
  • 1944
    World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
  • 1954
    Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
  • 1972
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
  • 1972
    Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
  • 1979
    Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
  • 2001
    First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
  • 2003
    Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

Who were born on February 15?

  • 1825
    Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
  • 1849
    Sir Rickman Godlee, English surgeon (d. 1925)
  • 1873
    Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1964)
  • 1905
    Harold Arlen, American composer (d. 1986)
  • 1931
    Claire Bloom, British actress
  • 1937
    Gregory Mcdonald, American author (d. 2008)
  • 1945
    Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
  • 1949
    Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
  • 1951
    Jane Seymour, British actress
  • 1984
    Doda, Polish singer (Virgin)

Who died on February 15?

  • 1145
    Pope Lucius II
  • 1781
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
  • 1924
    Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (b. 1861)
  • 1928
    H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
  • 1932
    Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
  • 1939
    Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
  • 1961
    Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
  • 1966
    Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group (b. 1929)
  • 1996
    Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
  • 2002
    Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)

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