Notable Historical Events on February 25th
February 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 Vázquez 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 Washington's home) |
1795 |
French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an "educational utopia" aiming to "put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment." |
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 |
1803 |
1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states |
1804 |
Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus |
1830 |
Victor Hugo's "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 |
1879 |
Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act |
1885 |
US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds |
1892 |
James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London |
1896 |
Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea |
1901 |
George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC |
1901 |
US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan |
1904 |
J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society |
1904 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games |
1905 |
The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingenwas, a Dutch social-democratic trade union, forms |
1907 |
George Bernard Shaw's "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 Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia |
1912 |
Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. |
1913 |
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax |
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 the youngest General in 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 |
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 |
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 Todd's 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 "That'll Be the Day" |
1957 |
Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport |
1960 |
John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres |
1960 |
Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC |
1961 |
Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak |
1961 |
Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10 |
1962 |
India Congress Party wins elections |
1962 |
Mike O'Hara 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 his first world heavyweight championship 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 Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 1921 |
1972 |
Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise |
1972 |
Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single |
1972 |
Attempted assassination of Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility) |
1973 |
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders |
1973 |
Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances) |
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 |
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 |
Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park |
1989 |
Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt) |
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 CFL's 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 |
1992 |
Muddy Waters wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards |
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 |
Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich |
1998 |
40th Grammy Awards: "Sunny Came Home" best song, Paula Cole best new artist |
2007 |
79th Academy Awards - "The Departed," Forest Whitaker & Helen Mirren win |
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 |
2014 |
50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria |
2016 |
Curry Ties NBA Record, Now Has 3s in 127 Consecutive Games |
2016 |
7 killed as tornadoes touch down across US |
2016 |
Apple Asks Court to Vacate Order to Unlock iPhone |
2016 |
3 dead, 14 injured in Kansas shootings |
2017 |
Mexico warns US over border wall funding |
2017 |
White House bans certain news media from briefing |
2018 |
Russia barred from flying flag at Games closing ceremony |
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