On February 25th in world history: 138 — The Emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1570 — Pope Pius V excommunicated Englands Queen Elizabeth I. 1778 — Jose de San Martin, Argentine general and liberator of South America, was born (d. 1850). 1797 — Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrendered after the Last Invasion of Britain. [Chef de brigade (colonel) William Tate was the Irish-American commander of the French forces known as La legion noire which invaded Britain in 1797, resulting in the Battle of Fishguard. The 1200- to 1400-strong force landed at Carregwastad Point, near the Welsh port of Fishguard, on February 22 but surrendered three days later. This was the last invasion of the British mainland by foreign forces. He disliked the British because his family was murdered by pro-British Native Americans in the American War of Independence, and advocated Irish republicanism.] 1890 — Vlacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin, foreign minister for the Soviet Union who took the revolutionary name Molotov, was born in Kurkaka, Russia. 1912 — Marie-Adelaide, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, became the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. 1916 — German troops seized Fort Douaumont, the most formidable of the forts guarding the walled city of Verdun, France, four days after launching their initial attack. The Battle of Verdun became the longest and bloodiest conflict of World War I, lasting 10 months and resulting in over 700,000 total casualties. 1921 — Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, was occupied by Bolshevist Russia. 1925 — The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. 1932 — Adolf Hitler obtained German citizenship by naturalization, which allowed him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspresident. 1941 — In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike was declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. 1943 — Forty-eight Japanese prinsoners and one guard were killed in the Featherston Prinsoner of War riot. 1943 — Beatles guitarist George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England. 1945 — Turkey declared war on Germany. 1948 — Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia. 1951 — The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires. 1954 —Gamal Abdul Nasser was made premier of Egypt. 1956 — Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow. In a sensational speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party Mr. Khrushchev painted a graphic picture of a regime of suspicion, fear, and terror built up under the former dictator who died three years previously. He said he wanted to break the Stalin cult that held Soviet citizens in its thrall for 30 years. The prime minister described the purges during the period of 1936-38. He implied that one of Stalins most trusted aides Kirov had been assassinated in 1934 at the leaders behest. 1980 — The Suriname government was overthrown by a military coup initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nation’s capital; Paramaribo. 1984 — A huge explosion destroyed a shantytown in Brazil, killing at least 500 people, mostly young children. An investigation into the disaster later revealed that the true death count was impossible to know because so many bodies had in effect been cremated in the intense blaze. 1986 — President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines fled after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino became the first Filipino woman president. 1990 — Nicaraguans voted in an election that led to victory for opponents of the ruling Sandinistas. 1992 — During the Khojaly massacre, about 613 civilians were killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. 1994 — Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and nine Israelis. 2006 — In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner in the central African countrys first multiparty election in 25 years. 2009 — BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People were killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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