February 1 Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day National Freedom Day Black History Month
February 2
Excerpt of the Breviary of Alaric
February 3 Feast day ofSaint Laurence of Canterbury Four Chaplains' Day 1943 )
Painting of the Battle of San Lorenzo
February 4 Lichun World Cancer Day National Girls and Women in Sports Day Rosa Parks Day
London low emission zone sign
February 5
The "Welcome Stranger" gold nugget
February 6 Sámi National Day 1917 );Waitangi Day 1840 )
Battle of San Domingo
February 7 Independence Day inGrenada 1974 )
Contemporary painting of the siege of Gibraltar
February 8 Feast day ofSaint Josephine Bakhita Catholicism );Military Foundation Day 1948 )
Denis Sassou Nguesso
February 9 Feast day ofSaint Apollonia Roman Catholicism andEastern Orthodoxy )
February 10 Saint Scholastica Little New Year National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe
Namdaemun gate during the arson event
February 11 Little New Year National Foundation Day
Location of the Carnival tragedy of 1823
February 12 Lincoln's Birthday Red Hand Day
Depiction of the Café Terminus attack
1894 –Ère des attentats Émile Henry threw a bomb Café Terminus (depicted) in Paris, France, killing one person and injuring 17 more.1935 –USS Macon helium -filledairships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.1993 – Two-year-oldJames Bulger New Strand Shopping Centre inBootle , England, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.2001 – TheNASA space probeNEAR Shoemaker Eros , becoming the first spacecraft to land on anasteroid .2016 – In the first meeting between the leaders of theCatholic Church and theRussian Orthodox Church ,Pope Francis andPatriarch Kirill of Moscow signed theHavana Declaration José Martí International Airport in Cuba.February 13 Carnival
1692 – Members ofClan MacDonald of Glencoe in theScottish Highlands were massacred William III andMary II .1960 – African-American college students staged the first of theNashville sit-ins (protest sign pictured) at threelunch counters inNashville, Tennessee , as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to endracial segregation in the U.S. 1981 –Explosions hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) ofsewer lines inLouisville, Kentucky , United States.1991 –Gulf War : TheUnited States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs " on anair-raid shelter inBaghdad , Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site,killing 2010 –A terrorist bombing Pune , India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.February 14 Valentine's Day
First production ofThe Importance of Being Earnest
1779 –American Revolutionary War : At theBattle of Kettle Creek militia ofPatriots decisively defeated and scattered aLoyalist militia that was on its way to British-controlledAugusta, Georgia .1895 –Oscar Wilde 'sThe Importance of Being Earnest (production pictured) , once described as the second-most quoted English-language play afterHamlet 1916 –World War I : Britain, France and Russia made theDeclaration of Sainte-Adresse Central Powers that failed to ensure the political and economic independence of Belgium.1961 –Lawrencium synthetic element withatomic number 103, was first synthesized at theLawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of theUniversity of California, Berkeley .2011 –Arab Spring : On theDay of Rage an uprising against the government in 55 marches across 25 locations.February 15 National Flag of Canada Day Statehood Day inSerbia Susan B. Anthony Day
1796 –French Revolutionary Wars : Theinvasion of Ceylon Johan van Angelbeek , theBatavian governor of the island, surrenderingColombo to British forces.1906 – A team of Italian archaeologists led byErnesto Schiaparelli discovered thetomb of Kha and Merit ancient Egyptian foreman and his wife, in theworkmen's village ofDeir el-Medina .1961 – All 72 people on boardSabena Flight 548 U.S. figure-skating team, and one person on the ground were killed when the aircraft crashed on approach toBrussels Airport .1976 – The currentConstitution of Cuba Soviet Union andEastern Bloc countries, was adopted by a national referendum.1996 – ALong March 3B rocket carrying the communications satelliteIntelsat 708 (pictured) crashed immediately after launch from theXichang Satellite Launch Center , China, destroying a nearby town and killing an unknown number of inhabitants.February 16 J'ouvert Carnival Chinese New Year's Eve Day of the Shining Star Presidents' Day Elizabeth Peratrovich Day Daisy Gatson Bates Day
Carsten Borchgrevink
1270 –Livonian Crusade : In theBattle of Karuse Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved a decisive victory over theLivonian Order on the frozen surface of theBaltic Sea .1900 – TheSouthern Cross ExpeditionCarsten Borchgrevink (pictured) achieved a newFarthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at theGreat Ice Barrier .1936 – ThePopular Front , a coalition of left-wing parties, came to power inthe Spanish general election Spanish Civil War five months later.1961 – TheDuSable Museum 2013 – At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured aftera bomb hidden in a water tank exploded Hazara Town , Pakistan.February 17 Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday Chinese New Year Korean New Year Tết
February 18 First day of Ramadan Ash Wednesday Tibetan New Year
Protesters during the Revolution of Dignity
February 19
A depiction of the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903
February 20 Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes 2014 )
AvroCF-105 Arrow
February 21
Malcolm X
February 22
Daytona International Speedway
February 23 The Emperor's Birthday 1960 )
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
February 24 Independence Day 1918 )
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse
February 25 Soviet Occupation Day 1921 ); National Day inKuwait 1961 ); Beginning of theNineteen-Day Fast Baháʼí Faith , 2024)
USSRanger
February 26
Nabonassar's name in Akkadian
February 27 Feast day ofSaint Gregory of Narek Catholicism )
Memorial to the victims of the Sumgait pogrom
February 28 Kalevala Day Peace Memorial Day
Ranavalona III of Madagascar
February 29
A damaged building from the 1960 Agadir earthquake
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