February 25: Day Of The Week
February 25, 2013 is the 56th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.
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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| February | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
February 25 Historical Events
- 1570 –Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- 1797 –Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
- 1843 –Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
- 1901 –J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- 1933 –The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
- 1945 –World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 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.
- 1971 –The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
- 1980 –The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation’s capital, Paramaribo
- 2009 –BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters.
Who were born on February 25?
- 1643 –Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
- 1873 –Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
- 1888 –John Foster Dulles, American politician, former United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
- 1913 –Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
- 1934 –Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
- 1949 –Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
- 1958 –Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach
- 1966 –Alexis Denisof, American actor
- 1982 –Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
- 1998 –Brendon Baerg, American actor
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