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Antoninus Pius
Pope Pius V
Samuel Colt
A Colt Single Action Army revolver
Edvard Beneš
Hiram Rhodes Revels
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius. | refimprove section |
| 1836 – American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver. | refimprove, Colt featured on January 4 |
| 1870 – Representing Mississippi in the Senate, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to serve in the United States Congress. | needs more footnotes |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed 613 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojali in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. | source may be unreliable |
Eligible
- 1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.
- 1901 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
- 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.
- 2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths.
- 2011 – The Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
Notes
- 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines appears on February 24, so People Power Revolution should not appear in the same year
February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)
- 628 – Khosrau II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
- 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof (later disproven) that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.
- 1956 – In his speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" to the 20th Party Congress, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
- 1986 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino (pictured) taking over the government.
- 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.
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