Historical Events In February - 25
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1994 On February - 25 jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52), dies in Camden, NJ, at age 80.
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 on February - 25.
1994 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42 on February - 25.
1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) on February - 25.
1995 On February - 25 moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 on this day in history.
1996 Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45 on this day in history.
1997 On February - 25 andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71
1998 On this day in history pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich on this day in history.
1998 Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 on February - 25.
2005 60th anniversary of Radio Canada International2006 Police officers, and protesters injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot on this day in history.
2005 American police apprehended the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader 31 years after his first murder on this day in history.
2005 On this day in history terrorists killed 5 people and wounded 50 people in Tel Aviv, Israel. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for attack.
2006 Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters on this day in history.
2006 On this day in history police officers, and protesters injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot.
2007 On February - 25 the 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The Departed wins Best Picture.
2007 The European Space Agency confirms Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory fly-by on February - 25.
2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more an 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boaer Guas inside its headquarter on February - 25.
2012 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama on February - 25.
2013 On this day in history italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election
2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria on February - 25.
2017 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee on February - 25.
2018 On February - 25 winter Olympics end in Pyeongchang, Korea with Norway winning a record 39 medals, 14 gold
2018 On this day in history china briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts
2018 On this day in history winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country
2021 On February - 25 chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency [1]
2021 On February - 25 cOVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 2.5 million.
2021 The Armenian military calls for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign. Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.[40] on February - 25.
2023 On February - 25 nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria's president, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
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