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25 Feb 1095
Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
25 Feb 1502
Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
25 Feb 1605
Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
25 Feb 1623
Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
25 Feb 1634
Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills Duke Wallenstein
25 Feb 1667
Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
25 Feb 1746
The Duke of Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
25 Feb 1751
1st performing monkey exhibited in America NYC (admission 1 cent)
25 Feb 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 citizens capacities for judgment.
25 Feb 1797
Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend to Welsh women in tall black hats mistaken for elite guards regiment)
25 Feb 1799
1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
25 Feb 1799
US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
25 Feb 1803
1800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
25 Feb 1836
US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth claiming she was 161 year-old nursemaid to George Washington
25 Feb 1837
1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
25 Feb 1838
London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
25 Feb 1839
Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida to the West
25 Feb 1863
Congress creates national banking system comptroller of currency
25 Feb 1875
Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
25 Feb 1879
US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
25 Feb 1885
US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
25 Feb 1892
James Barries Walker London premieres in London
25 Feb 1896
Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
25 Feb 1901
George Cohans musical Governors Son premieres in NYC
25 Feb 1904
J M Synges Riders to the Sea opens at Irish National Theater Society
25 Feb 1904
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
25 Feb 1905
The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingenwas a Dutch social-democratic trade union forms
25 Feb 1907
US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
25 Feb 1908
1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
25 Feb 1910
Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
25 Feb 1911
Victor Herberts opera Natoma premieres in Philadelphia
25 Feb 1912
Marie-Adlade the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
25 Feb 1913
The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax
25 Feb 1916
German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
25 Feb 1919
Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
25 Feb 1921
Tbilisi capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia
25 Feb 1921
The Living Buddha Hutuktu is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
25 Feb 1924
Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
25 Feb 1925
Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
25 Feb 1925
US Womens Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
25 Feb 1925
Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
25 Feb 1926
Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
25 Feb 1927
Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
25 Feb 1930
George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112)
25 Feb 1933
1st genuine US aircraft carrier named USS Ranger
25 Feb 1933
Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in posts on goal line)
25 Feb 1938
Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
25 Feb 1939
1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
25 Feb 1940
1st televised (W2XBS NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
25 Feb 1941
Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
25 Feb 1941
February strike against persecution of Jews in Amsterdam
25 Feb 1948
Communists seize Czechoslovakia and C Gottwald becomes premier
25 Feb 1949
WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
25 Feb 1951
Michael Todds Peep Show closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
25 Feb 1951
1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
25 Feb 1953
Wonderful Town opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances
25 Feb 1957
US Supreme Court decides 6-3 baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
25 Feb 1960
John Cages Music for Amplified Toy Pianos premieres
25 Feb 1960
Lillian Hellmans Toys in the Attic premieres in NYC
25 Feb 1961
Niagara ends St Bonaventuras 99-game home basketball win streak
25 Feb 1961
Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 1410
25 Feb 1963
Beatles release their 1st single in US Please Please Me
25 Feb 1966
Syrian military coup under General Hafiz al-Assad
25 Feb 1968
10th Daytona 500 Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins by less than a second from LeeRoy Yarbrough grid set exclusively by qualifying times
25 Feb 1969
West Germany gives 5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet
25 Feb 1971
Oh Calcutta opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1316 performances
25 Feb 1971
P Zindels And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little premieres in NYC
25 Feb 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
25 Feb 1972
Lopsided trade Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
25 Feb 1972
Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)
25 Feb 1973
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
25 Feb 1973
Steven Sondheims musical Little Night Music premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)
25 Feb 1974
Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18020 miles around the world completed on August 27 1975
25 Feb 1975
Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
25 Feb 1977
Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
25 Feb 1979
Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
25 Feb 1980
British political comedy Yes Minister written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn starring Paul Eddington Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds premieres on BBC Two
25 Feb 1981
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo elected premier of Spain
25 Feb 1981
NHL most penalized game Bruins vs Northstars 84 penalties (392 mins)
25 Feb 1981
NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
25 Feb 1981
Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
25 Feb 1981
Exec Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
25 Feb 1982
Final episode of The Lawrence Welk Show airs
25 Feb 1986
28th Grammy Awards We Are the World Sade Phil Collins wins
25 Feb 1986
Thousands of Egyptian military police riot destroy 2 luxury hotel
25 Feb 1987
LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for due to drug abuse
25 Feb 1987
US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
25 Feb 1989
1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
25 Feb 1989
Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
25 Feb 1990
Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win crickets World Series Cup
25 Feb 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
25 Feb 1991
Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100)
25 Feb 1991
US barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia hit by scud missile kills 28
25 Feb 1992
34th Grammy Awards Unforgetable Marc Cohn wins
25 Feb 1992
Khojaly massacre about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
25 Feb 1993
Fool Moon opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
25 Feb 1993
Florida Marlins introduce their mascot Billy
25 Feb 1993
Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies world one-day int record low
25 Feb 1994
Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
25 Feb 1994
Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria kills 31
25 Feb 1995
Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
25 Feb 1995
British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
25 Feb 1995
Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
25 Feb 1995
PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
25 Feb 1996
Father closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
25 Feb 1996
Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
25 Feb 1998
Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
25 Feb 1998
Switzerlands 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
25 Feb 1998
40th Grammy Awards Sunny Came Home best song Paula Cole best new artist
25 Feb 2001
54th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS) Gladiator Best Film Ang Lee Best Director
25 Feb 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.
25 Feb 2011
In the Irish general election the Fianna Fil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921
25 Feb 2011
French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris
25 Feb 2012
Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
25 Feb 2012
Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla Yemen
25 Feb 2012
World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
25 Feb 2013
Italy Common Good a centre left alliance wins the Italian general election
25 Feb 2014
50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni Nigeria
25 Feb 2014
Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimeas independence
25 Feb 2016
Tenth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN held in Houston Texas
25 Feb 2017
Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee
25 Feb 2018
Russian national team competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang beat Germany 4-3 in overtime in the final
25 Feb 2018
Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjrgen wins gold in womens 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics brings her total Games medal haul to 15 most won by any athlete in Winter Games history
25 Feb 2018
2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team
25 Feb 2018
XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang Korea Norway wins a record 39 medals 14 gold
25 Feb 2018
China briefly bans the letter N as part of widespread censorship efforts
25 Feb 2018
Winter Olympics Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country
25 Feb 2018
68th Berlin International Film Festival Romanian film Touch Me Not wins the Golden Bear
25 Feb 1643
Pavonia Massacre Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)
25 Feb 1803
In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganization
25 Feb 1916
Battle of Verdun German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
25 Feb 1927
Gdask and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
25 Feb 2019
Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target Captain Marvel film
25 Feb 2019
James Hardens scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston 2nd longest mark in NBA history
25 Feb 1911
Victor Herberts opera Natoma premieres at Metropolitan Opera House Philadelphia Pennsylvania
25 Feb 1930
Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley completes twin tons (114 & 112) in 3rd Test win against England at Georgetown British Guiana
25 Feb 1973
Stephen Sondheims musical Little Night Music premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)
25 Feb 1992
34th Grammy Awards Unforgettable Marc Cohn wins
25 Feb 1994
New York Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
25 Feb 2020
147 murders occurred during a five day police strike in Cear Brazil despite army patrolling the streets according to authorities
25 Feb 2020
Iran emerges as a newCOVID-19 hotspot recording 95 cases and 11 deaths as a deputy health minister that appeared on TV confirmed as also infected
25 Feb 1814
Australias first currency - the holey dollar introduced made of Spanish pieces of eight with the centers stamped out for the colony of New South Wales [1]
25 Feb 1944
Alexander Gretchaninovs Missa Oecumenica (Ecumenical Mass) premieres in Boston with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra the composer wrote the work in memory of the conductors wife Natalie (1880-1942)
25 Feb 1948
Communists seize control of Czechoslovakian government and Klement Gottwald becomes premier
25 Feb 1973
Mexican serial killer Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders in California
25 Feb 1986
Thousands of Egyptian military police riot destroy 2 luxury hotels
25 Feb 2021
More than 200 prisoners escape and 25 people are killed at Croix-des-Bouquets prison near Port-au-Prince Haiti
25 Feb 1601
Robert Devereux English 2nd Earl of Essex executed for treason against the Crown of England
25 Feb 1933
New York industrialist Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox for 1.25 million
25 Feb 1951
Michael Todds Peep Show closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
25 Feb 1963
Beatles release their 1st US single - Please Please Me
25 Feb 1969
Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album at Abbey Road Studio london
25 Feb 1973
Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Womens Allround World Champion at Strmsund Sweden her second consecutive title and third in 4 years
25 Feb 1976
Educational series The Letter People concludes on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis Missouri
25 Feb 1992
34th Grammy Awards Unforgettable Marc Cohn win
25 Feb 1910
13th Dalai Lama (Thupten Gyatso) flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
25 Feb 1940
1st televised hockey game in US - New York Rangers defeat visiting Montreal Canadians 6-2 at Maison Square Garden W2XBS broadcasts to up to 300 receivers in NYC
25 Feb 1947
Allied Control Council the governing body of post-World War II occupied Germany and Austria. abolishes the State of Prussia
25 Feb 1968
Archbishop Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
25 Feb 1981
Rita Jenrette wife of US Abscam congressman appears on Donahue TV talk show
25 Feb 1991
Gulf War Iraqi Scud missile hits US barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia kills 28
25 Feb 1993
David Shiner and Bill Irwins comedy revue Fool Moon opens at the Richard Rodgers Theater NYC runs for 207 performances
25 Feb 1994
Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres at least 55 Palestinians at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque with an assault style rifle
25 Feb 2007
An Inconvenient Truth featuring Al Gore wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary
25 Feb 2019
Caitlin Clark sets the Class 5A state tournament single-game scoring record with 42 points in a game for Dowling Catholic High School against Waukee High School
25 Feb 1961
Niagara ends St Bonaventuras 99-game home college basketball win streak
25 Feb 1961
Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record altitude of 1410m
25 Feb 1987
Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovers royal tombs of Sipan from Moche culture (A.D. 100 to 800) in northern Peru after a police tip off - richest archaeological find of the New World [1]
25 Feb 2018
2-man bobsled champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team
25 Feb 2022
Untitled 1969 painting by Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde sets a new record for the most expensive work of Modern Indian art at 420m rupees (nearly 5m 3.9m) in Mumbai [1]
25 Feb 2023
Turkey widens probe into buildings that collapsed during the Feb 6 earthquakes arresting 184 people as the death toll passes 44128 (including Syria more than 50000) with nearly two million people left homeless [1]
25 Feb 2024
The Great Mosque of Algiers is opened by Algerias President Abdelmadjid Tebboune - third largest mosque in the world able to hold 120000 worshippers [1]
25 Feb 1095
Council of Rockingham King of England William II clashes with Archbishop of Canterbury Anselm over papal allegiance leading to Anselms eventual exile until Williams death in 1100
25 Feb 1601
Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex is executed for treason against the Crown of England
25 Feb 1751
First performing monkey exhibited in New York City USA (admission 1 cent)
25 Feb 1791
First Bank of the United States is chartered by the United States Congress for a term of 20 years
25 Feb 1799
First federal forestry legislation authorizes the purchase of timberland
25 Feb 1814
Australias first currency the holey dollar is introduced made from Spanish pieces of eight with the centers stamped out for the colony of New South Wales [1]
25 Feb 1837
First US electric printing press is patented by Thomas Davenport
25 Feb 1908
First tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
25 Feb 1919
Oregon becomes the first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
25 Feb 1939
First Anderson bomb shelter in Britain is erected in an Islington garden
25 Feb 1940
First televised ice hockey game in US - New York Rangers defeat visiting Montreal Canadiens 6-2 at Madison Square Garden W2XBS broadcasts to up to 300 receivers in NYC
25 Feb 1963
The Beatles release their first US single Please Please Me
25 Feb 1974
Veronica and Colin Scargill of England begin a tandem bicycle ride of a record 18020 miles around the world and complete it on August 27 1975
25 Feb 1987
Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovers the royal tombs of Sipn from the Moche culture (A.D. 100 to 800) in northern Peru after a police tip-off considered the richest archaeological find of the New World [1]
25 Feb 1989
First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
25 Feb 1992
An estimated 200-613 Azerbaijani civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces in the Khojaly Massacre during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh
25 Feb 2009
Bangladesh Rifles stage a mutiny in Pilkhana Dhaka taking over the Border Guards headquarters and killing 57 army officers and 17 civilians
25 Feb 2018
China briefly bans the letter N as part of widespread censorship efforts [1]
25 Feb 2018
Marit Bjrgen of Norway wins gold in the 30k cross-country and becomes the most successful Winter Olympic athlete of all time with 15 medals
25 Feb 2018
Two-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their second gold medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of Germanys four-man team
25 Feb 2020
Iran emerges as a new COVID-19 hotspot recording 95 cases and 11 deaths as a deputy health minister that appeared on TV confirmed as also infected
25 Feb 2025
Missouri woman Lisa Jeanine Findley pleads guilty to a brazen scam to steal the Graceland estate from Elvis Presleys family [1]