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Events
138 – The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
628 – Khosrau II, last great king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1631 – François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
1804 – Thomas Jefferson is nominated for President at the Democratic-Republican caucus.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
1831 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted his first United States patent for a revolver, which would become the first commercially available pistol of its type.
1837 – The first electric printing press is patented by Thomas Davenport.
1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
1848 – Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
1856 – A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1862 – The first one-dollar note is printed by the newly formed U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 – 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.
1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1933 – The USS Ranger (CV-4) is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 – U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 – Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 – Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1997 – Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
2015 – At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Æthelberht of Kent
Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás
Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani, OSB
Tarasius (Traditionalist Roman Catholics)
Walburga
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
John Roberts (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Alexanders and Hypatius, at Marcianopolis in Thracia (c. 305)
Martyr Anthony, by being burned alive
Saint Theodore, Fool-for-Christ
Hieromartyr Reginus of Skopelos, Bishop of the isle of Skopelos (355)
Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Aipeia in Cyprus
Venerables Erasmus and Paphnutius of Kephala, monks, contemporaries
of St. Anthony the Great (4th c.)
Saint Tarasius of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (806)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saints Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions, a group of fifty martyrs
who suffered in North Africa under Decius (3rd c.)
Saint Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)
Saint Aldetrudis (Adeltrudis) of Maubeuge Abbey (c. 696)
Saint Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779)
Saint Victor of St. Gall, a monk at St Gall in Switzerland who became a hermit
in the Vosges in France where he reposed (995)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Vinogradov, Priest (1938)
Virgin-Martyr Mstislava Fokinoi (1938)
New Hieromartyr Leo Korobczuk, Priest, of Laskov (Chełm and Podlasie),
Poland (1944)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Troitsky, Priest (1945)
Other commemorations
Repose of Blessed Pashenka of Nizhny Novgorod (1934)
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