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This day in history: 25 February

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Key facts

261 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 25 February.
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2026: Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days: Æthelberht of Kent

Christian feast days: Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás

Christian feast days: Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani

Christian feast days: Blessed Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud Abbey

Christian feast days: February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast days: Gerland of Agrigento

Christian feast days: Hamburg Matthiae-mahl, feast of Hanseatic League cities on the mediaeval first day of spring

Christian feast days: John Roberts, writer and missionary (Anglican Communion)

Christian feast days: Saint Walpurga (she was canonised on 1 May c. 870 and Walpurgis Night is celebrated 30 April)

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)

Events

2026Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters.

2016Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.

2015At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.

2009Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.

2009Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.

1999Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.

1994American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.

1991Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.

1986People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president.

1980The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.

1956In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.

1951The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.

1948In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.

1947Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of H

1947The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.

1941The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.

1939As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.

1933Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.

1932Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.

1921Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1918World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.

1916World War I: In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.

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

1875Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.

1870Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.

1843Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair.

1836Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm.

1705George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premieres in Hamburg.

628Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.

138Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.

Born on this day

2005Noah Jupe, English actor

2004Tyler Sanders, American actor (died 2022)

2003Brandin Podziemski, American basketball player

2001Vernon Carey Jr., American basketball player

2000Bo Nix, American football player

1999Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer

1999Matvey Safonov, Russian footballer

1999Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter

1997Brock Boeser, American ice hockey player

1997Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress

1997Thon Maker, South Sudanese-Australian basketball player

1995Mario Hezonja, Croatian basketball player

1995Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgarian tennis player

1994Fred VanVleet, American basketball player

1993Erick Fedde, American baseball player

1993Lukáš Sedlák, Czech ice hockey player

1992Joakim Nordström, Swedish ice hockey player

1992Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player

1990Félix Peña, Dominican baseball player

1989E'Twaun Moore, American basketball player

1989Jimmer Fredette, American basketball player

1989Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer

1988Gerald McCoy, American football player

1988Tom Marshall, English photo colouriser and artist

1987Justin Abdelkader, American ice hockey player

1986Jameela Jamil, English actress and presenter

1986James Phelps, English actor

1986Justin Berfield, American actor, writer, and producer

1986Oliver Phelps, English actor

1985Joakim Noah, French-American basketball player

1982Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player

1982Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player

1982Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler, actress, and model

1981Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer

1980Kash Patel, American lawyer, former federal prosecutor and official

1979Napoleon Harris, American football player and politician

1976Rashida Jones, American actress and writer

1976Samaki Walker, American basketball player

1975Chelsea Handler, American comedian, actress, author, and television host

1974Dominic Raab, English politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Died on this day

2025Henry Kelly, Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist (born 1947)

2025Jane Reed, UK Magazine editor and media executive (born 1940)

2025Roberto Orci, Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (born 1973)

2023Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1930)

2022Farrah Forke, American actress (born 1968)

2022Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (born 1927)

2020Dmitry Yazov, last Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1924)

2017Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker (born 1955)

2015Ariel Camacho, Mexican musician and singer-songwriter; (born 1992)

2015Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (born 1922)

2015Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (born 1930)

2012Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)

2010Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (born 1915)

2008Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (born 1912)

2005Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded Amnesty International (born 1921)

2001A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (born 1926)

2001Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (born 1908)

1999Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

1998W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (born 1914)

1997Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (born 1925)

1996Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (born 1940)

1983Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (born 1911)

1980Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (born 1913)

1978Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (born 1920)

1975Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (born 1897)

1972Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (born 1889)

1971Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)

1970Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (born 1903)

1964Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (born 1887)

1964Grace Metalious, American author (born 1924)

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