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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