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Edvard Beneš
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England. | unreferenced section |
| 1836 – American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver. | globalize |
| 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, became the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. | refimprove section |
| 1921 – The Soviet Red Army invaded Georgia, took over the capital Tbilisi after heavy fighting, and declared the new Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. | refimprove section |
| 2011 – The Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting Irish government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921. | original research |
| Quirinus Kuhlmann (b. 1651) · | page numbers needed |
Eligible
- 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor, after the death of Hadrian's first adopted son Lucius Aelius.
- 1843 – Captain Lord George Paulet of the Royal Navy began a five-month occupation of land in the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof (later disproved) that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.
- 1933 – USS Ranger, the first ship of the United States Navy designed as an aircraft carrier, was launched.
- 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš ceded control over the government to the Communist Party.
- 1951 – After being postponed since 1943 due to World War II, the first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
- 2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquarters in Pilkhana, resulting in 82 deaths.
- Born/died this day: Ibn Battuta (b. 1304) · Andranik (b. 1865) · Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (d. 1934) · George Harrison (b. 1943) · Yi Han-yong (d. 1997) · Don Bradman (d. 2001)
Notes
- Constituent Assembly of Georgia appears on February 21, so Red Army invasion of Georgia should not appear in the same year
- 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines appears on February 24, so People Power Revolution should not appear in the same year
February 25: Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras (Western Christianity, 2020); Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)
- 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
- 1870 – Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels (pictured) became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress.
- 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
- 1986 – Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.
- 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed at least 161 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
John Wood, the Younger (b. 1728) · Mary Locke Petermann (b. 1908) · Hans Raj Khanna (d. 2008)