February 25th Events |
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| February 25th, 2008 (February 25 2008) | Event | The country of Kosovo declares independence from Serbia. | |
| February 25th, 2006 (February 25 2006) | Event | Heavy rioting takes place in Dublin, Ireland after a "Love Ulster" march is opposed by counter-activists. | |
| February 25th, 2000 (February 25 2000) | Event | The Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt. | |
| February 25th, 1994 (February 25 1994) | Event | Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis. | Abraham Quotes |
| February 25th, 1992 (February 25 1992) | Event | Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan | |
| February 25th, 1991 (February 25 1991) | Event | Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. | |
| February 25th, 1986 (February 25 1986) | Event | People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president. | |
| February 25th, 1980 (February 25 1980) | Event | The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independence from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo | |
| February 25th, 1971 (February 25 1971) | Event | The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. | |
| February 25th, 1969 (February 25 1969) | Event | Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet. | |
| February 25th, 1956 (February 25 1956) | Event | In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| February 25th, 1954 (February 25 1954) | Event | Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt. | |
| February 25th, 1951 (February 25 1951) | Event | The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
| February 25th, 1948 (February 25 1948) | Event | The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. | |
| February 25th, 1945 (February 25 1945) | Event | World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. | |
| February 25th, 1941 (February 25 1941) | Event | February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam) | |
| February 25th, 1933 (February 25 1933) | Event | The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier. | |
| February 25th, 1932 (February 25 1932) | Event | Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprasident. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| February 25th, 1928 (February 25 1928) | Event | Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. | |
| February 25th, 1925 (February 25 1925) | Event | Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska. | |
| February 25th, 1925 (February 25 1925) | Event | The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. | |
| February 25th, 1921 (February 25 1921) | Event | Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia. | |
| February 25th, 1919 (February 25 1919) | Event | Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. | |
| February 25th, 1912 (February 25 1912) | Event | Marie-Adelaide, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. | |
| February 25th, 1901 (February 25 1901) | Event | J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. | |
| February 25th, 1870 (February 25 1870) | Event | Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. | |
| February 25th, 1837 (February 25 1837) | Event | The first practical electric motor in the US is patented by Thomas Davenport. | |
| February 25th, 1836 (February 25 1836) | Event | Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver. | |
| February 25th, 1836 (February 25 1836) | Event | US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth. | |
| February 25th, 1797 (February 25 1797) | Event | Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain | |
| February 25th, 1793 (February 25 1793) | Event | George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States. | George Washington Quotes |
| February 25th, 1570 (February 25 1570) | Event | Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. | Elizabeth I of England Quotes |
| February 25th, 0138 (February 25 0138) | Event | The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. | |
