What are some February 25th events?

Answer 1

138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.

1095 - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus

1358 - Dalmatie flees Venice

1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France

1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine

1540 - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico

1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I, absolves her subjects from allegiance

1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen

1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts

1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians

1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen

1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)

1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered

1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)

1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain

1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land

1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation

1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

1804 - Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus

1830 - Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris

1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm

1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.

1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

1838 - London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours

1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West

1847 - State University of Iowa is approved

1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence

1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing

1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln

1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act

1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

1892 - James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London

1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea

1901 - George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC

1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan

1904 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society

1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games

1905 - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms

1907 - George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London

1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic

1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies

1911 - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia

1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun

1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)

1921 - Georgian SSR proclaimed

1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark

1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)

1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

1925 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran

1925 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.

1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor

1930 - Check photographing device patented

1930 - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112)

1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger

1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)

1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox

1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister

1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden

1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)

1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)

1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front

1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan

1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)

1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen

1951 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf

1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)

1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament

1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway

1953 - "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs

1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier

1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference

1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres

1960 - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC

1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak

1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10

1962 - India Congress Party wins elections

1962 - Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon

1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands

1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns

1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad

1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus

1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album

1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to

1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.

1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances

1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC

1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise

1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single

1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances

1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

1973 - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC

1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975

1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured

1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts

1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch

1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched

1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins

1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders

1981 - Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29

1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain

1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)

1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames

1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue

1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved

1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs

1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)

1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500

1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins

1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees

1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao

1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse

1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action

1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass

1988 - South Korea adopts constitution

1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career

1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry

1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park

1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)

1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup

1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas

1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long

1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)

1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts

1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28

1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins

1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan

1993 - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances

1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"

1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low

1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron

1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)

1995 - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital

1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead

1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander

1996 - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances

1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is

1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges

1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich

2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.

2011 - In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.

2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama

2012 - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen

2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries

2012 - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79

2013 - Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election

2013 - Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018