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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 310 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 12, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,672 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 339 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 4,083 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.
- 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.
- 1921 –Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- 1947 –The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
- 1948 –The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
- 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.
- 1980 –The 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
- 1992 –Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
Who were born on February 25?
- 1725 –Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
- 1912 –Brenda Joyce, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1934 –Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
- 1940 –Danny Cater, American baseball player
- 1944 –Matt Guokas, American basketball player & head coach
- 1950 –Emitt Rhodes, American singer/songwriter
- 1952 –Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
- 1968 –Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
- 1981 –Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1985 –Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league footballer
Who died on February 25?
- 1522 –William Lilye, English classical scholar
- 1756 –Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
- 1831 –Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
- 1957 –George “Bugs” Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
- 1964 –Mariano Jesús Cuenco, a Filipino Cebuano politician and writer (b. 1888)
- 1975 –Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
- 1983 –Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
- 1993 –Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
- 2006 –Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2008 –Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
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