Tukuk-OS📅 February 25
15 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on February 25? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2020 — Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
- 2009 — At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
Pilkhana, BangladeshBorder Guard BangladeshBangladesh Rifles revolt
- 1994 — Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
- 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.
- 1980 — The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron (pictured), was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
- 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.
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionNikita Khrushchev
- 1951 — After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1948 — Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, President Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control of the government to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Edvard Beneš1948 Czechoslovak coup d'étatCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia
- 1933 — USS Ranger (pictured), the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, was launched.
- 1870 — Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress.
United States SenateHiram R. RevelsList of African-American United States senators
- 1866 — Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
- 1843 — Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1705 — George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg.
- 628 — Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
- 138 — Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor following the death of Hadrian's first adopted son Lucius Aelius.
Births
- 2005 — Noah Jupe, English actor
- 2004 — Tyler Sanders, American actor (died 2022)
- 2003 — Brandin Podziemski, American basketball player
- 2001 — Vernon Carey Jr., American basketball player
- 2000 — Bo Nix, American football player
- 1999 — Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer
- 1999 — Matvey Safonov, Russian footballer
- 1999 — Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter
- 1997 — Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
- 1997 — Thon Maker, South Sudanese-Australian basketball player
- 1997 — Brock Boeser, American ice hockey player
- 1995 — Mario Hezonja, Croatian basketball player
Deaths
- 2025 — Henry Kelly, Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist (born 1947)
- 2025 — Roberto Orci, Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (born 1973)
- 2025 — Jane Reed, UK Magazine editor and media executive (born 1940)
- 2023 — Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1930)
- 2022 — Farrah Forke, American actress (born 1968)
- 2022 — Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (born 1927)
- 2020 — Dmitry Yazov, last Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1924)
- 2017 — Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker (born 1955)
- 2015 — Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (born 1930)
- 2015 — Ariel Camacho, Mexican musician and singer-songwriter; (born 1992)
- 2015 — Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (born 1922)
- 2012 — Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast days: Æthelberht of Kent
- Christian feast days: Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
- Christian feast days: Gerland of Agrigento
- Christian feast days: John Roberts, writer and missionary (Anglican Communion)
- Christian feast days: Hamburg Matthiae-mahl, feast of Hanseatic League cities on the mediaeval first day of spring
- Christian feast days: Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani
- Christian feast days: Blessed Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud Abbey
- Christian feast days: Saint Walpurga (she was canonised on 1 May c. 870 and Walpurgis Night is celebrated 30 April)
- Christian feast days: February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Kitano Baika-sai or "Plum Blossom Festival" (Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine, Kyoto, Japan)
- Memorial Day for the Victims of the Communist Dictatorships (Hungary)
- National Day (Kuwait)
- People Power Day (Philippines)
- Revolution Day in Suriname
- Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)
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