WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. FEBRUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 25. February

Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia. (25. February 1921)

Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. (25. February 1928)

Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. (25. February 1932)

The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. (25. February 1933)

February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. (25. February 1941)

World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. (25. February 1945)

The State of Prussia ceases to exist. (25. February 1947)

The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. (25. February 1948)

The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (25. February 1951)

Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt. (25. February 1954)

In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. (25. February 1956)

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. (25. February 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. (25. February 1964)

Vietnam War: 135 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. (25. February 1968)

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. (25. February 1971)

The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated by the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo (25. February 1980)

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. (25. February 1986)

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. (25. February 1987)

Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. (25. February 1991)

The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded. (25. February 1991)