Historical Events on 25th February ◀ Jan February Mar ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Events 1 - 180 of 180 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1095 - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus 1358 - Dalmatie flees Venice 1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France 1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine 1540 - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico 1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I, absolves her subjects from allegiance 1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen 1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts 1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein 1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians 1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River 1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen 1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent) 1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered 1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washingtons home) 1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain 1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land 1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation English Monarch Queen Elizabeth IEnglish Monarch Queen Elizabeth I 1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1804 - Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus 1830 - Victor Hugos Hernani premieres in Paris 1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm 1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth. 1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1838 - London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours 1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West 1847 - State University of Iowa is approved 1859 - 1st use of insanity plea to prove innocence 1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing 1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln 1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency 1870 - Hiram R. Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS) 1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill Minister and US Senator Hiram R. RevelsMinister and US Senator Hiram R. Revels 1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act 1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds 1892 - James Barries Walker London, premieres in London 1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea 1901 - George Cohans musical Governors Son, premieres in NYC 1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan 1904 - J M Synges Riders to the Sea opens at Irish Natl Theater Society 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games 1905 - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms 1907 - George Bernard Shaws Philanderer, premieres in London 1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic 1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens 1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1911 - Victor Herberts opera Natoma, premieres in Philadelphia 1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Playwright George Bernard ShawPlaywright George Bernard Shaw 1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun 1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) 1921 - Georgian SSR proclaimed 1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia. 1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark 1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3) 1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska 1925 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran 1925 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. 1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords 1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor 1930 - Check photographing device patented Spanish Dictator Francisco FrancoSpanish Dictator Francisco Franco 1930 - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112) 1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line) 1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox 1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden 1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians) 1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8) 1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam 1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front 1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo 1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. 1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) 1950 - Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen 1951 - Michael Todds Peep Show closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf 1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) 1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament 1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway 1953 - Wonderful Town opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs 1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record Thatll Be the Day 1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport 1960 - John Cages Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, premieres 1960 - Lillian Hellmans Toys in the Attic, premieres in NYC 1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventuras 99-game home basketball win streak 1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10 Singer-songwriter Buddy HollySinger-songwriter Buddy Holly 1962 - India Congress Party wins elections 1962 - Mike OHara completes record 97th marathon 1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands 1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US Please Please Me 1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns 1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title 1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad 1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea 1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus 1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars 1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to 1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet. 1971 - Oh! Calcutta! opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances 1971 - P Zindels And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, premieres in NYC Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad AliHeavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali 1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise 1972 - Paul McCartney releases Give Ireland back to the Irish single 1973 - Little Night Music opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders 1973 - Steven Sondheims musical Little Night Music, premieres in NYC 1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured 1977 - New Orleans Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts 1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth 1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch 1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched 1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname 1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins The Pianoman Billy JoelThe Pianoman Billy Joel 1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders 1981 - Exec Board of Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain 1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins) 1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames 1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved 1982 - Final episode of The Lawrence Welk Show airs 1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph) 1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins 1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees 1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao 1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse 1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action 1988 - Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love Tour, begins in Worcester Mass 1988 - South Korea adopts constitution 1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career 1989 - Dallas Cowboys new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry 1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park 1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt) Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup 1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas 1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long 1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*) 1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFLs Toronto Argonauts 1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28 1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins 1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan 1993 - Fool Moon opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances 1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot Billy 1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low 1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron 1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) 1995 - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital 1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead 1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander 1996 - Father closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances 1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is 1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges 1998 - Switzerlands 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich 1998 - 40th Grammy Awards: Sunny Came Home, Paula Cole wins 2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter. 2011 - In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921. 2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama 2012 - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen 2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries 2012 - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79 2013 - Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election 2013 - Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
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