Historical Events in February, Month of February Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| February 24, 1981 | The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812 million. |
| February 10, 1906 | HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened. |
| February 24, 1538 | Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia. |
| February 11, 1997 | Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| February 16, 1936 | The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election. |
| February 12, 1894 | Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20. |
| February 2, 2012 | The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead. |
| February 25, 1947 | The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932. |
| February 4, 1758 | The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral. |
| February 18, 1930 | While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. |
| February 14, 842 | Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages. |
| February 6, 1579 | The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. |
| February 20, 1991 | In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters. |
| February 10, 2009 | The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. |
| February 21, 1921 | Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. |
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