15 Februar

The 15t o Februar is the 46t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 317 days ti come (318 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1764 - St. Louis, Missouri, is foondit.
 1898 - Battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba, killin 274.
 1909 - The Flores Theater Fire in Acapulco, Mexico, kills 250 fowk.
 1923 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
 1944 - Warld War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, stairts.
 1952 - The funeral o George VI takes place in Lunnon.
 1956 - Urho Kekkonen is electit Preses o Finland.
 1965 - Canadae chooses the Red Maple Leaf as its Banner.
 1971 - Decimalisation o Breetish currency.
 1994 - A yirdquauk in Sumatra kills 207 fowk.
 2003 - Warld-wide protests against the upcomin Iraq War take place.
 2012 - A fire at a prison in Honduras kills 360 fowk.
 2013 - A meteor explodes ower Chelyabinsk, Roushie.
 2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa replaces Jacob Zuma as Preses o Sooth Africae.
 2020 - A week efter Storm Ciara, Storm Dennis hits the Unitit Kinrick, causin mair fluids durin the kintra's wettest Februar on record.
 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: New hottle quarantine rules enter intae force for traivellers enterin the Unitit Kinrick - frae aw kintras in Scotland an frae a reid list o kintras in Ingland.

 Births 
 1368 - Sigismund, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1437)
 1564 − Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer (d. 1642)
 1710 - Louis XV o Fraunce (d. 1774)
 1748 - Jeremy Bentham, Inglis philosopher, jurist an social reformer (d. 1832)
 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American activist (d. 1906)
 1845 - Elihu Root, American politeecian (d. 1937)
 1861 - Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss pheesicist (d. 1938)
 1873 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swadish biochemist (d. 1964)
 1874 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antairctic splorer (d. 1922)
 1898 - Hastings Banda, 1st Preses o Malawi (d. 1997)
 1907 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
 1909 - Miep Gies, helper o Anne Frank (d. 2010)
 1910 - Irena Sendler, Pols nurse an social wirker (d. 2008)
 1922 - John B. Anderson, American politeecian (d. 2017)
 1929 - Graham Hill, Inglis racin driver (d. 1975)
 1929 - James R. Schlesinger, American politeecian (d. 2014)
 1935 - Roger Chaffee, American ingineer an pilot (d. 1967)
 1949 − Ashraf Choudhary, New Zealand politeecian
 1951 - Jane Seymour, Inglis-American actress
 1953 − Derek Conway, Inglis politeecian
 1954 - Matt Groening, creator o TV programmes The Simpsons an Futurama
 1959 - Adam Boulton, Inglis jurnalist
 1968 - Gloria Trevi, Mexican sangster-sangwriter an actress
 1971 - Alex Borstein, American actress

 Daiths 
 1637 - Ferdinand II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
 1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer an philosopher (b. 1729)
 1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1852)
 1965 - Nat King Cole, American sangster an jazz muisicker (b. 1920)
 1988 − Richard Feynman, American pheesicist (b. 1918)
 2016 - George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (b. 1917)
 2020 - Caroline Flack, Inglis telly presenter (b. 1979)

 Halidays 
 Day o the Banner o Canadae
 Naitional Day (Serbie)
 Caunlemas (Eastren Orthodox Kirk)

Category:Days o the year
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