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On this day - February 25
138 — Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, ...
628 — Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), ...
1705 — George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premieres in Hamburg.
1836 — Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver ...
1843 — Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name ...
1870 — Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn ...
1875 — Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under ...
1912 — Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, ...
1916 — World War I: In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures ...
1918 — World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually ...
1921 — Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces ...
1932 — Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains ...
1933 — Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the ...
1939 — As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 ...
1941 — The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a ...
1947 — Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla ...
1947 — The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied ...
1948 — In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist ...
1951 — The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos ...
1956 — In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, ...
1980 — The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup ...
1986 — People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines ...
1991 — Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in ...
1994 — American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass ...
1999 — Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo ...
2009 — Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the ...
2009 — Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters ...
2015 — At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern ...
2016 — Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a ...
2026 — Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban ...