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 56^th 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, 483,456 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 ‘pentacontahexagon’ day.

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.

February 25 Historical Events

• 1797 –
  Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
• 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.
• 1912 –
  Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• 1933 –
  The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
• 1941 –
  February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1971 –
  The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
• 2009 –
  BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters.

Who were born on February 25?

• 1643 –
  Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
• 1663 –
  Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
• 1890 –
  Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
• 1942 –
  Karen Grassle, American actress
• 1952 –
  Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
• 1961 –
  Todd Blackledge, American football player and television color commontator
• 1965 –
  Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
• 1977 –
  Josh Wolff, American footballer
• 1977 –
  Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
• 1983 –
  Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer

Who died on February 25?

• 1601 –
  Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
• 1899 –
  Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
• 1966 –
  James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
• 1983 –
  Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
• 1993 –
  Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 1996 –
  Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
• 1998 –
  Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer. (b. 1956)
• 2000 –
  Luce Maced Martinique supercentenarian
• 2001 –
  Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
• 2006 –
  Thomas Koppel, Danish musician (b. 1944)