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ASDA

**ASDA** is a cheen o supermairts  in the Unitit Kinrick fendin fuid, cleidin an general products. It is a subseediarie o ane o the warld's muckle maist supermercat cheens Wal-Mart an is nou the seicont lairgest cheen in the UK, efter Tesco.

## References
Thomas Campbell Eyton

**Thomas Campbell Eyton** (10 September 1809 - 25 October 1880) wis an Inglis naituralist.

Eyton wis born at Eyton Haw, naur Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at Cambridge Varsity wi his freend Charles Darwin. Efter succeedin tae the estate in 1855 Eyton biggit a lairge naitural historie museum at Eyton Haw.

Eyton set furth *History of the Rarer British Birds* (1836), *A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe* (1838), *A History of Oyster and Oyster Fisheries* (1858) an *Osteologia Avium* (1871-78).

## Fremmit Airtins
*Biography
29 Mairch

The **29t o Mairch** is the 88t day o the year (89t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 277 days ti come.

## Events

* 1549 - The ceety o Salvador, Bahia, Brazil is foondit.
* 1792 - Gustav III o Swaden dies efter he wis shot at a masquerade ball.
* 1849 - The Unitit Kinrick annexes the Punjab.
* 1871 - The Royal Albert Hall in Lunnon opens.
* 1930 - Heinrich Brüning becomes Chancellor o Germany.
* 1971 - William Calley is foond guilty o the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
* 1974 - Mariner 10 passes the planet o Mercur.
* 1998 - The Vasco da Gama Brig across the River Tagus in Lisbon opens.
* 2004 - NATO expands eastward - Bulgarie, Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, Romanie, Slovakie an Slovenie jyn.
* 2004 - The Republic o Ireland bans smokin in aw public places.
* 2006 - A solar eclipse is seen ower the Northren Brazil, the Atlantic Ocean, Africae, Europe an Asie.
* 2010 - Around 40 fowk are kilt in suicide bombins on the Moscow Metro.
* 2014 - The first same-sex marriages in Ingland an Wales take place.
* 2017 - Theresa May triggers "Airticle 50" o the European Union Treaty tae stairt the Brexit process.

## Births

* 1790 - John Tyler, 10t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1862)
* 1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
* 1899 - Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Soviet politeecian (d. 1953)
* 1929 - Lennart Meri, Preses o Estonie (d. 2006)
* 1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., American astropheesicist
* 1943 - John Major, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
* 1943 - Vangelis, Greek componer
* 1943 - Eric Idle, Inglis actor an sangster
* 1955 - Henry Bellingham, Inglish politeecian
* 1957 - Christopher Lambert, French-American actor
* 1960 - Jo Nesbo, Norse writer an muisicker
* 1964 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model an actress
* 1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress
* 1970 - Ruth England, Inglish televeesion presenter
* 1972 - Rui Costa, Portuguese fitbawer
* 1972 - Priti Patel, Inglis politeecian
* 1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
* 1984 - Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian fruit seller (d. 2011)
* 1987 - Dimitri Payet, French fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1792 - Gustav III o Swaden (b. 1746)
* 1891 - George Seurat, French penter (b. 1859)
* 1912 - Robert Falcon Scott, Inglis splorer (b. 1868)
* 1982 - Carl Orff, German componer (b. 1895)
* 2016 - Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
* 2017 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Roushie-American theoretical pheesicist (b. 1928)

## Halidays
* Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
* Youth Day (Republic o Cheenae)
25 Mairch

The **25t o Mairch** is the 84t day o the year (85t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 281 days ti come.

## Events

* 1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King o Scots.
* 1655 - Saturn's muin Titan is discoverit bi Christiaan Huygens.
* 1807 - The Breetish Pairlament bans the Slave trade.
* 1821 - Greece declares unthirldom frae the Ottoman Empire. The Greek War o Unthirldom stairts.
* 1924 - Greece declares itself a republic.
* 1941 - Warld War II: The Kinrick o Yugoslavie jyns the Axis Pouers.
* 1957 - The European Economic Community is foondit - Its members are Wast Germany, Fraunce, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium an Luxembourg.
* 1975 - King Faisal o Saudi Arabie is shot deed bi his nephew.
* 2001 - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norawa an Swaden implement the Schengen Agreement.
* 2002 - A yirdquauk in Afghanistan kills ower 2,000 fowk.
* 2014 - The first cases o the Ebola virus epidemic in Wast Africae are offeecially reportit in Guinea.

## Births

* 1479 - Vasili III o Roushie (d. 1533)
* 1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
* 1881 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian componer (d. 1945)
* 1908 - David Lean, Inglis film director (d. 1991)
* 1911 - Jack Ruby, assassin o Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
* 1914 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (d. 2009)
* 1920 - Patrick Troughton, Inglis actor (d. 1987)
* 1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
* 1934 - Gloria Steinem, American activist
* 1940 - Mina, Italian sangster
* 1942 - Aretha Franklin, American sangster
* 1947 - Elton John, Inglis sangster
* 1952 − Stephen Dorrell, Inglis politeecian
* 1962 - Marcia Cross, American actress
* 1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
* 1972 - Phil O'Donnell, Scots fitbawer (d. 2007)
* 1974 - Kseniya Rappoport, Roushie actress
* 1982 - Danica Patrick, American racin driver

## Daiths
* 1005 - Kenneth III o Scotland
* 1751 - Frederick I o Swaden (b. 1676)
* 1801 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
* 1860 - James Braid, Scots surgeon an physeecian (b. 1795)
* 1914 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet (b. 1830)
* 1918 - Claude Debussy, French componer (b. 1862)
* 1975 - King Faisal o Saudi Arabie (b. 1902)

## Halidays

* Christian Feast Day o the Annunciation
** Lady Day - Auld Ne'er's Day unner the Julian calendar
** Mither's Day (Slovenie)
* Naitional Day o Greece
* Freedom Day (Belarus)
* Maryland Day
24 Mairch

The **24t o Mairch** is the 83t day o the year (84t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 282 days ti come.

## Events

* 1603 - James VI o Scotland becomes Keeng o Ingland an Ireland as James I.
* 1707 - The Act o Union atween Scotland an Ingland an Wales is signed.
* 1902 - New Zealand adopts its current banner.
* 1944 - Warld War II: German troops murther 335 Italian civilians in Roum.
* 1976 - A military junta takes pouer in Argentinae.
* 1989 - The Exxon Valdez tanker runs aground off Prince William Sound in the Sooth o Alaska, causin a big oil spill.
* 1998 - A cyclone in Bangladesh kills around 250 fowk.
* 1999 - A fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel kills 39 fowk.
* 2002 - Denzel Washington wins the Academy Awaird for Best Actor an Halle Berry wins the Academy Awaird for Best Actress - the first time that twa African Americans win the main awairds at the same time.
* 2008 - Bhutan haulds its first elections.
* 2015 - The co-pilot o Germanwings Flicht 9525 deliberately crashes the plane in the sooth o Fraunce en-route frae Barcelona tae Düsseldorf, killin aw 150 fowk on baird.
* 2016 - Voters in New Zealand decide tae keep the current banner in a referendum.

## Births

* 1494 - Georgius Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
* 1733 - Joseph Priestley, Inglis theologian, chemist an philosopher (d. 1804)
* 1874 - Luigi Einaudi, Italian statesman (d. 1961)
* 1874 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician an actor (d. 1926)
* 1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch-American pheesicist (d. 1966)
* 1893 - Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
* 1911 - Joseph Barbera, American animator, director an producer (d. 2006)
* 1921 - Vasily Smyslov, Roushie chess player (d. 2010)
* 1926 - Dario Fo, Italian writer an playwricht (d. 2016)
* 1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
* 1935 - Mary Berry, Inglis cookery writer an presenter
* 1947 - Archie Gemmill, Scots fitbawer
* 1957 - Michael Weir, Scots politeecian
* 1960 - Nena, German sangster
* 1961 - Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist an politeecian
* 1963 - Eric Vloeimans, Dutch jazz muisicker an record producer
* 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
* 1973 - Jim Parsons, American actor
* 1974 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
* 1977 - Jessica Chastain, American actress
* 1986 - Nathalia Dill, Brazilian actress
* 1987 - Ramires, Brazilian fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1455 - Pape Nicholas V (b. 1397)
* 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I o Ingland (b. 1533)
* 1844 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Dens sculptor (b. 1770)
* 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (b. 1807)
* 1905 - Jules Verne, French writer (b. 1828)
* 1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Roushie chess player (b. 1892)
* 1953 - Mary o Teck (b. 1867)
* 2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
* 2012 - Jocky Wilson, Scots darts player (b. 1950)
* 2016 - Johan Cruyff, Dutch fitbawer (b. 1947)
* 2016 - Garry Shandling, American actor an comedian (b. 1949)

## Halidays
* Warld Tuberculosis Day
* Day o Remembrance for Truth an Justice (Argentinae)
* Auld Ne'er's Even unner the Julian calendar (until 1599 in Scotland, until 1752 in the rest o the Breetish Empire)
23 Mairch

The **23rd o Mairch** is the 82nt day o the year (83rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 283 days ti come.

## Events

*1708 &ndash; James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth o Forth.
*1801 &ndash; Tsar Paul I o Roushie is struck wi a swuird, then strangled, an finally trampled tae daith inside his bedruim at St. Michael's Castle.
*1888 &ndash; The Inglis Fitbaa League is foondit.
*1933 &ndash; The *[[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]* passes the Enablin Act o 1933, makin Adolf Hitler dictator o Germany.
*1935 &ndash; The Constitution o the Commonweel o the Philippines is signed.
*1956 &ndash; Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the warld.
*1965 &ndash; NASA launches the Gemini 3 spacecraft.
*1982 &ndash; Guatemala's govrenment, heidit bi Fernando Romeo Lucas García is owerthrown in a militar coup bi richt-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
*2001 &ndash; Roushie space station Mir is disposed o.
*2003 &ndash; Voters in Slovenie approve o entry tae the European Union an NATO.
*2013 &ndash; Pape Francis an umwhile Pape Benedict XVI meet at Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

## Births

* 1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathemateecian an astronomer (d. 1827)
* 1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (d. 1941)
* 1881 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (d. 1958)
* 1881 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (d. 1965)
* 1882 - Emmy Noether, German-American mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 1935)
* 1887 - Juan Gris, Spaingie penter (d. 1927)
* 1900 - Erich Fromm, German social psychologist an philosopher (d. 1980)
* 1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
* 1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director an producer (d. 1998)
* 1912 - Wernher von Braun, German-American aerospace ingineer (d. 1977)
* 1929 - Roger Bannister, Inglis runner
* 1952 - Rex Tillerson, American ile executive an 69nt Unitit States Secretar o State
* 1953 - Chaka Khan, American sangster
* 1953 - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Inglish politeecian
* 1956 - José Manuel Barroso, Portugusese politeecian
* 1960 - Nicol Stephen, Scots politeecian
* 1962 - Steve Redgrave, Inglis rower
* 1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1970 - Gianni Infantino, 9t Preses o FIFA
* 1971 - Gail Porter, Scots televeesion presenter
* 1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
* 1973 - Jerzy Dudek, Pols fitbawer
* 1976 - Chris Hoy, Scots cyclist
* 1978 - Walter Samuel, Argentine fitbawer
* 1983 - Mo Farah, Somali-born Inglis runner
* 1990 - Princess Eugenie o York

## Daiths
*1555 &ndash; Pape Julius III (b. 1487)
*1801 &ndash; Paul I o Roushie (b. 1754)
*1842 &ndash; Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
*2011 &ndash; Elizabeth Taylor, Inglis-American actress (b. 1932)
*2014 &ndash; Adolfo Suarez, Prime meenister o Spain (b. 1932)
*2015 &ndash; Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime meenister o Singapore (b. 1923)

## Halidays

* Pakistan Day
* Seicont-earliest possible date for Pace (last in 2008)
* Earliest-possible date for Pace Monday
22 Mairch

The **22nt o Mairch** is the 81st day o the year (82nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 284 days ti come.

## Events

*238 - Gordian I an Gordian II become Roman Emperors.
*1818 - Maist recent occurence o Pace on this date in Wastren Christianity.
*1829 - The Lunnon Protocol establishes the borders o Greece.
*1912 - In Indie, the state o Bihar is creatit.
*1944 - Warld War II: A bombin raid on the ceety o Frankfurt kills 1,001 fowk.
*1945 - The Arab League is foondit.
*1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow an Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for lasers.
*1995 - Valeri Polyakov returns tae the Yird efter a record-417 consecutive days in space.
*1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp maks the closest approach tae the Yird.
*2014 - Ower 251 fowk die when a boat capsizes on Loch Albert in East Africae.
*2014 - A mudslide in Oso, Washington, US, kills 43 fowk.
*2016 - 2016 Brussels bombins: Bombs are detonatit at the airport an main metro station in Brussels, Belgium, killin at least 34 fowk.
*2017 - 2017 Wastmeenster attack: 5 fowk (incluidin the attacker) are kilt in a car-rammin an stabbin attack in Wastmeenster.

## Births

*1394 &ndash; Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler (d. 1449)
*1459 &ndash; Maximilian I, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
*1599 &ndash; Anthony van Dyck, Flemish penter (d. 1641)
*1728 &ndash; Anton Raphael Mengs, German penter (d. 1779)
*1797 &ndash; William I, German Emperor (d. 1888)
*1857 &ndash; Paul Doumer, Preses o Fraunce (d. 1932)
*1868 &ndash; Robert Andrews Millikan, American pheesicist (d. 1953)
*1869 &ndash; Emilio Aguinaldo, Preses o the Philippines (d. 1964)
*1912 &ndash; Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
*1923 &ndash; Marcel Marceau, French mime airtist (d. 2007)
*1930 &ndash; Stephen Sondheim, American componer
*1931 &ndash; Burton Richter, American pheesicist (d. 2018)
*1931 &ndash; William Shatner, Canadian actor
*1934 &ndash; Orrin Hatch, American politeecian
*1948 &ndash; Andrew Lloyd Webber, Inglis componer
*1950 &ndash; Jocky Wilson, Scots dairts player (d. 2012) 
*1955 &ndash; Valdis Zatlers, umwhile Preses o Latvie
*1963 &ndash; Martin Vizcarra, Preses o Peru
*1969 &ndash; Robert Halfon, Inglis politeecian
*1976 &ndash; Reese Witherspoon, American actress
*1992 &ndash; Simon Murray, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
*1687 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Lully, French componer (b. 1632)
*1832 &ndash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author and politeecian (b. 1749)
*1875 &ndash; Alexander Thomson, Scots airchitect an airchitectural theorist (b. 1817)
*1924 &ndash; William Macewen, Scots surgeon (b. 1848)
*2009 &ndash; Jade Goody, Inglish reality shaw contestant on *[[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]* (b. 1981)
*2010 &ndash; James W. Black, Scots medicinar an medical researcher (b. 1924)

## Halidays
* Warld Watter Day
* Earliest possible date for Pace - last in 1818, next in 2285
19 Mairch

The **19t o Mairch** is the 78t day o the year (79t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 287 days ti come.

## Events

*1279 &ndash; A Mongolian victory at the Battle o Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in Cheenae.
*1861 &ndash; The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
*1865 &ndash; American Ceevil War: Battle o Bentonville.
*1915 &ndash; The dwarf planet Pluto is photographed.
*1932 &ndash; Sydney Harbour Brig opens.
*1944 &ndash; Warld War II: German forces occupy Hungary.
*1970 &ndash; Wast German chancellor Willy Brandt an East German politeecian Willi Stoph meet for talks.
*1982 &ndash; Argentine forces land on the Breetish territory o Sooth Georgie in the Sooth Atlantic.
*2002 &ndash; Zimbabwe is suspendit frae the Commonweel o Naitions ower human richts concerns.
*2013 &ndash; Inauguration o Pape Francis.
*2017 &ndash; Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes Preses o Germany.

## Births

*1813 &ndash; David Livingstone, Scots missionary an splorer (d. 1873)
*1821 &ndash; Richard Francis Burton, Inglis splorer an diplomat (d. 1890)
*1848 &ndash; Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (d. 1929)
*1883 &ndash; Norman Haworth, Inglis chemist (d. 1950)
*1900 &ndash; Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French pheesicist (d. 1958)
*1905 &ndash; Albert Speer, German airchitect an Nazi politeecian (d. 1981)
*1906 &ndash; Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi offeecial (d. 1962)
*1915 &ndash; Patricia Morison, American actress
*1936 &ndash; Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
*1937 &ndash; Egon Krenz, German politeecian
*1943 &ndash; Mario Monti, former Prime meenister o Italy
*1947 &ndash; Glenn Close, American actress
*1949 &ndash; Valery Leontiev, Roushie sangster an actor
*1955 &ndash; Bruce Willis, American actor
*1976 &ndash; Alessandro Nesta, Italian fitbawer
*1981 &ndash; Kolo Touré, Ivorian fitbawer

## Daiths
*1286 &ndash; Alexander III o Scotland (b. 1249)
*1721 &ndash; Pape Clement XI (b. 1649)
*1884 &ndash; Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physeecian an writer (b. 1802)
*1930 &ndash; Arthur Balfour, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1848)
*1950 &ndash; Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (b. 1875)
*1950 &ndash; Norman Haworth, Inglis chemist (b. 1883)
*2008 &ndash; Arthur C. Clarke, Inglis writer (b. 1917)
*2014 &ndash; Fred Phelps, American pastor (b. 1929)

## Halidays
*St. Joseph's Day
**Las Fallas (Valencia, Spain)
**Faither's Day (Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Honduras, Bolivie)
*Unity Day (Kashubie, northren Poland)

## References
30 Mairch

The **30t o Mairch** is the 89t day o the year (90t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 276 days ti come.

## Events
 
* 1296 - Edward I o Ingland sacks Berwick.
* 1856 - The Treaty o Paris ends the Crimean War.
* 1863 - King George I o Greece is electit.
* 1867 - The Unitit States purchases Alaska frae Roushie, for 7.2 million Unitit States Dollars.
* 1870 - Unitit States: Texas is readmittit tae the Union.
* 1900 - The Uruguayan Fitbaa Association is foondit.
* 1912 - Morocco becomes a protectorate o Fraunce.
* 1949 - A riot occurs in Reykjavik's Austurvöllur Square as Iceland jyns NATO.
* 1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. attempts tae assassinate US Preses Ronald Reagan.
* 2001 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's census reveals a population o 1,285,830,000.
* 2008 - Zimbabwe's controversial 2008 Presidential election in held.
* 2017 - SpaceX conducts the warld's first re-flicht o an orbital class rocket.

## Births

* 1432 - Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
* 1746 - Francisco Goya, Spaingie penter (d. 1828)
* 1811 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
* 1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
* 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch penter (d. 1890)
* 1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swadish business magnate (d. 2018)
* 1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor
* 1945 - Eric Clapton, Inglis guitarist an sangster
* 1947 - Dick Roche, Erse politeecian
* 1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scots actor
* 1963 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, 4t Preses o Mongolie
* 1964 - Tracy Chapman, American sangster an sangwriter
* 1967 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese vyce actress, sangster an radio personality
* 1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian sangster-sangwriter
* 1973 - Jan Koller, Czech fitbawer
* 1978 - Chris Paterson, Scots rugby player
* 1979 - Norah Jones, American sangster-sangwriter
* 1979 - Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Ukrainian fitbawer
* 1984 - Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
* 1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spainyie fitbawer
* 1988 - David Gravell, Dutch DJ an record producer
* 1992 - Stuart Armstrong, Scots fitbawer
* 1993 - Anitta, Brazilian sangster, sangwriter an actress

## Daiths
* 1783 - William Hunter, Scots anatomist (b. 1718)
* 1901 - Peter McNeil, Scots fitbawer (b. 1854)
* 1912 - Karl May, German writer (b. 1842)
* 1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrick philosopher (b. 1861)
* 1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (b. 1884)
* 1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor o Germany (b. 1885)
* 1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
* 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mither o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1900)
* 2015 - Helmut Dietl, German director, producer an screenwriter (b. 1944)

## Halidays
* Land Day (Palestine)
* Naitional Doctors' Day (Unitit States)
29 Februar

The **29t o Februar** is the 60t day o a lowp year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 306 days ti come.

## Lowp year

The **29t o Februar** occurs in years divisible bi 4 (sic as 2016 or 2020), acause the year is slichtly langer than 365 days, an in century years divisible bi 400 (sic as 1600 or 2000). The Julian calendar incluidit this date every century year, leadin tae the introduction o the Gregorian calendar in Roman Catholic kintras in 1582, an in the Breetish Empire in 1752. Ither kintras did sae much later.

It is said tae be tradeetional on this date for weemen tae propose marriage tae men. Fowk born on this date are said tae be "leaplings" an celebrate on 28 Februar or 1 Mairch in ither years.

## Events

* 1712 - This date is followed bi 30 Februar in Swaden.
* 1916 - Tokelau is annexed bi the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1936 - The 26 Februar coup attempt in Japan is endit.
* 1940 - Finland stairts Winter War peace negotiations.
* 1952 - The island o Heligoland is returned tae German authority.
* 1960 - A yirdquauk in Agadir, Morocco, kills ower 3,000 fowk.
* 1984 - Pierre Trudeau announces his resignation as Prime meenister o Canadae.
* 1992 - First o Bosnie an Herzegovinae unthirldom referendum.
* 1996 - Offecial end tae the Siege o Sarajevo.
* 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as Preses o Haiti efter a coup in the caipital Port-au-Prince.
* 2012 - The Tokyo Skytree Touer in Japan is completit wi a hicht o 634 metres.

## Births

* 1468 - Pape Paul III (d. 1549)
* 1792 - Gioachino Rossini, Italian componer (d. 1868)
* 1812 - James Milne Wilson, Scots-born Premier o Tasmanie (d. 1880)
* 1896 - Morarji Desai, Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1995)
* 1928 - Joss Ackland, Inglis actor
* 1936 - Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
* 1960 - Khaled, Algerian raï sangster an sangwriter
* 1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper
* 1984 - Darren Ambrose, Inglis fitbawer
* 1988 - Lena Gercke, German model
* 1988 - Benedikt Höwedes, German fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1868 - Ludwig I o Bavarie (b. 1786)
* 1880 - James Milne Wilson, Scots-born Premier o Tasmanie (b. 1812)
* 1944 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Preses o Finland (b. 1861)
* 2012 - Davy Jones, Inglis muisicker (b. 1945)

## Halidays
* Lowp year Day
* Rare Diseases Day
23 Februar

The **23rd o Februar** is the 54t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 311 days ti come (312 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1836 - The Siege o the Alamo begins in Texas.
* 1883 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the Diesel ingine.
* 1941 - Plutonium is first produced an isolatit bi Glenn T. Seaborg.
* 1945 - Warld War II: Unitit States marines raise the banner on Moont Suribachi efter the Battle o Iwo Jima.
* 1945 - Warld War II: Manila is liberatit bi Filipino an American forces.
* 1970 - Guyana is declarit a republic.
* 1981 - Antonio Tejero stages an attemptit coup in Spain.
* 1982 - Voters in Greenland choose tae leave the European Economic Community.
* 1997 - A fire occurs on baird the Roushie Mir Space Station.
* 1997 - A fire disaster in the state o Orissa, Indie, kills ower 100 fowk. 
* 1999 - An avalanche kills 31 fowk in Galtür, Austrick.
* 2014 - End o the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Sooth o Roushie.
* 2018 - The Germany men's ice hockey team achieve a surprise win ower Canadae in the semi-feenals o the 2018 Olympic competeetion.

## Births

* 1417 - Pape Paul II (d. 1471)
* 1443 - Matthias Corvinus, King o Hungary an Croatie (d. 1490)
* 1633 - Samuel Pepys, Inglis diarist (d. 1703)
* 1685 - George Frideric Handel, German componer (d. 1759)
* 1800 - Sir William Jardine, 7t Baronet, Scots naituralist (d. 1874)
* 1868 - W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian an activist (d. 1963)
* 1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Pols-Roushie penter (d. 1935)
* 1883 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist an philosopher (d. 1969)
* 1889 - Victor Fleming, American film director, cinematographer an producer (d. 1949)
* 1908 - William McMahon, 20t Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1988)
* 1927 - Willie Ormond, Scots fitbawer (d. 1984)
* 1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
* 1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, umwhile Preses o Ukraine
* 1960 - Croun Prince Naruhito o Japan
* 1966 - Alexandre Borges, Brazilian actor
* 1976 - Kelly Macdonald, Scots actress
* 1983 - Emily Blunt, Inglis actress
* 1992 - Casemiro, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress

## Daiths
* 1417 - Pape Eugene IV
* 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, Inglis penter (b. 1723)
* 1821 - John Keats, Inglis poet (b. 1795)
* 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1767)
* 1850 - William Allan, Scots penter (b. 1782)
* 1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathemateecian (b. 1777)
* 1856 - James Maitland Balfour, Scots laund-awner an businessman (b. 1820)
* 1934 - Edward Elgar, Inglis componer (b. 1857)
* 1936 - William Adamson, Scots tred unionist an politeecian (b. 1863)
* 1965 - Stan Laurel, Inglis actor an comedian (b. 1890)
* 1969 - Saud o Saudi Arabie (b. 1902)
* 2000 - Stanley Matthews, Inglis fitbawer (b. 1915)
* 2014 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-born pianist an Holocaust survivor (b. 1903)

## Halidays
* Defender o the Faitherland Day (Roushie)
* Republic Day (Guyana)
* Naitional Day (Brunei)
27 Februar

The **27t o Februar** is the 58t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 307 days ti come (308 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1700 - The island o New Britain, nou pairt o Papua New Guinea, is discovered.
* 1844 - The Dominican Republic gains unthirldom frae Haiti.
* 1900 - The Breetish Labour Pairty is foondit.
* 1900 - German fitbaa club Bayern Munich is foondit.
* 1916 - Breetish passenger ship "SS Maloja"  is sunk bi a German U-boat aff Dover, killin 155 fowk.
* 1930 - Bouvet Island becomes a dependent territory o Norawa.
* 1933 - Reichstag fire: Berlin's Reichstag biggin is set on fire.
* 1939 - Fraunce an the Unitit Kinrick recognise the Naitionalist Govrenment o Francisco Franco in Spain, despite Madrid still bein unner Republican control.
* 1976 - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic declares unthirldom frae Spain.
* 1991 - George H. W. Bush declares a ceasefire in the Gulf War.
* 1994 - End o the 1994 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Lillehammer, Norawa.
* 1995 - A terrorist splosion in a mercat in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan, kills aroond 100 fowk.
* 2002 - Godhra train bombing: A Muslim mob attacks a train frae Ayodhya, Indie, killin 59 Hindu pilgrims.
* 2004 - The bombin a Superferry 14 in the Philippines kills 116 fowk.
* 2010 - Chile is struck bi a magnitude 8.8 yirdquauk, killin ower 500 fowk.
* 2015 - Roushie opposeetion politeecian Boris Nemtsov is assassinatit in Moscow.

## Births

* 272 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (d. 337)
* 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
* 1861 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrick philosopher, social reformer, airchitect an esotericist (d. 1925)
* 1881 - Sveinn Björnsson, 1st Preses o Iceland (d. 1952)
* 1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (d. 1976)
* 1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer (d. 1968)
* 1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
* 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, Inglis-American actress (d. 2011)
* 1941 - Paddy Ashdown, Breetish politeecian
* 1943 - Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian fitbaa manager
* 1950 - Annabel Goldie, Scots politeecian
* 1971 - Derren Brown, Inglis illusionist
* 1980 - Chelsea Clinton, dochter o Bill an Hillary Clinton
* 1981 - Josh Groban, American sangster
* 1986 - Michel Mulder, Dutch speed skater
* 1992 - Ryan Jack, Scots fitbawer
* 1994 - Hou Yifan, Cheenese chess player

## Daiths
* 1887 - Alexander Borodin, Roushie componer an chemist (b. 1833)
* 1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Roushie scientist (b. 1849)
* 1939 - Nadezhda Krupskaya, Roushie revolutionary an politeecian (b. 1869)
* 1963 - William Auchterlonie, Scots gowfer (b. 1872)
* 1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrick scientist (b. 1903)
* 1997 - William Gear, Scots penter (b. 1915)
* 2014 - Huber Matos, Cuban activist (b. 1918)
* 2015 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
* 2015 - Boris Nemtsov, Roushie politeecian (b. 1959)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Dominican Republic)
* Internaitional Polar beir Day
20 Februar

The **20t o Februar** is the 51t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 314 days ti come (315 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1472 - Orkney an the Shetland Islands are annexed tae the croun o Scotland.
* 1547 - King Edward VI o Ingland is crouned.
* 1872 - New York Ceety's Metropolitan Museum o Airt opens.
* 1877 - Swan Lake, bi Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, premieres at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.
* 1878 - Pape Leo XIII is electit.
* 1913 - Biggin work on Canberra, the new caipital o Australie, begins.
* 1929 - American Samoa becomes a Unitit States Territory.
* 1965 - The Ranger 5 spacecraft crashes intae the Muin.
* 1986 - The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft.
* 1987 - Mizoram becomes a state o Indie.
* 1992 - Fitbaa: The Inglis Premier League is foondit.
* 2010 - Floods an mudslides kill 43 fowk on the Portuguese island o Madeira.
* 2016 - David Cameron announces a 23 Juin referendum tae decide the Unitit Kinrick's membership o the European Union.

## Births

* 1844 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrick pheesicist an philosopher (d. 1906)
* 1901 - Muhammad Naguib, Preses o Egyp (d. 1984)
* 1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
* 1904 - Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politeecian (d. 1980)
* 1926 - Richard Matheson, American film writer (d. 2013)
* 1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor an activist
* 1940 - Jimmy Greaves, Inglis fitbawer
* 1942 - Mitch McConnell, American politeecian
* 1946 - Brenda Blethyn, Inglis actress
* 1949 - Ivana Trump, Czech-American businesswoman an socialite
* 1951 - Gordon Brown, Scots politeecian, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
* 1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model
* 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American muisicker (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
* 1971 - Jari Litmanen, Finnish fitbawer
* 1978 - Lauren Ambrose, American actress
* 1980 - Artur Boruc, Pols fitbawer
* 1988 - Rihanna, Barbadian sangster

## Daiths
* 1431 - Pape Martin V (b. 1368)
* 1790 - Joseph II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
* 1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (b. 1818)
* 1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swadish jurnalist an politeecian (b. 1844)
* 1920 - Robert Peary, American splorer (b. 1856)
* 2010 - Alexander Haig, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1924)
* 2017 - Vitaly Churkin, Roushie diplomat (b. 1952)

## Halidays
* Warld Day o Social Juistice
* Rihanna Day (Barbados)
19 Februar

The **19t o Februar** is the 50t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 315 days ti come (316 in lowp years).

## Events

*1803 &ndash; Thomas Jefferson recognises Ohio as the 17t State o the Unitit States.
*1845 &ndash; Texas is annexed bi the Unitit States.
*1878 &ndash; Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
*1884 &ndash; Ower 60 tornadoes strike the Soothren Unitit States.
*1928 &ndash; The 1928 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Sankt Moritz, Swisserland, end.
*1945 &ndash; Warld War II: 30,000 Unitit States marines land on Iwo Jima, Japan.
*1976 &ndash; Iceland breaks off diplomatic relations wi the Unitit Kinrick, acause o the Cod Wars.
*1985 &ndash; An Iberia Airlines Boeing 747 crashes intae Moont Oiz in Spain, killin 148 fowk.
*1985 &ndash; Telly programme EastEnders is shawn frae the first time.
*2001 &ndash; The Unitit Kinrick's Foot-an-Mooth Disease ootbrak stairts.
*2003 &ndash; An Ilyushin militar aircraft crashes in Kerman, Iran, killin 275 fowk.
*2006 &ndash; A methane splosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
*2008 &ndash; Fidel Castro annoonces his demission as Preses o Cuba.
*2010 &ndash; Amy Williams wins Great Breetain's anly medal o the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, winnin gowd in the skeleton.
*2020 &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Iran records its first COVID-19 case.
*2020 &ndash; 10 fowk are killt in shuitins at Shisha bars in Hanau, Germany.
*2021 &ndash; The Unitit States rejyns the Paris climate accord, 107 days efter leavin.

## Births

*1473 &ndash; Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician an astronomer (d. 1543)
*1817 &ndash; William III o the Netherlands (d. 1890)
*1865 &ndash; Sven Hedin, Swadish splorer (d. 1952)
*1924 &ndash; Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
*1940 &ndash; Saparmurat Niyazov, Preses o Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
*1953 &ndash; Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Preses o Argentinae
*1957 &ndash; Falco, Austrick sangster (d. 1998)
*1960 &ndash; Prince Andrew, Duke o York
*1967 &ndash; Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
*1993 &ndash; Victoria Justice, American actress

## Daiths
* 1952 &ndash; Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (b. 1859)
* 1972 &ndash; John Grierson, Scots director an producer (b. 1898)
* 1997 &ndash; Deng Xiaoping, leader o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (b. 1904)
* 2016 &ndash; Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Vi Subversa, Inglis muisicker (b. 1935)
* 2016 &ndash; Samuel Willenberg, Pols-Israeli ingineer, penter an sculptor (b. 1923)
* 2016 &ndash; Umberto Eco, Italian writer an philosopher (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Danuta Szaflarska, Pols actress (b. 1915)
* 2019 &ndash; Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
* 2021 &ndash; Arturo Di Modica, Italian-American sculptor an artist (b. 1941)

## Halidays
* Armed Forces Day (Mexico)
* Banner Day (Turkmenistan)
18 Februar

The **18t o Februar** is the 49t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 316 days ti come (317 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1791 - Unitit States Congress  passes a law admittin Vermont as the 14t state on 4 Mairch.
* 1861 - Inauguration o Jefferson Davis as Preses o the Confederatit States o  Americae.
* 1861 - Victor Emmanuel II o Italy becomes King.
* 1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures o Huckleberry Finn" is furthset.
* 1930 - Discovery o the dwarf planet Pluto bi Clyde Tombaugh.
* 1952 - Greece an Turkey jyn NATO.
* 1960 - The 1960 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Squaw Valley, Californie, stairt.
* 1965 - The Gambie gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise flies on a Boeing 747 aircraft.
* 2003 - Nearly 200 fowk are killt in the Daegu Subway fire in Daegu, Sooth Korea.
* 2004 - The Nisharpur train disaster in Iran kills 295 fowk.
* 2005 - The ban on tod huntin in Ingland an Wales enters intae force.
* 2010 - A coup is staged in Niger, remuivin Preses Mamadou Tandja.
* 2014 - Violent clashes occur in central Kiev durin Ukraine's Euromaidan protests; 11 protesters an 7 polis officers are killt.
* 2021 - NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Maurs.

## Births

* 1404 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath (d. 1472)
* 1516 - Queen Mary I o Ingland (d. 1558)
* 1860 - Anders Zorn, Swadish penter (d. 1920)
* 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian racin driver an entrepreneur (d. 1988)
* 1919 - Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer (d. 2019)
* 1954 - John Travolta, American actor
* 1957 - Bruce Rauner, American politeecian
* 1964 - Matt Dillon, American actor
* 1965 - Dr. Dre, American record producer, rapper an entrepreneur
* 1967 - Roberto Baggio, Italian fitbawer
* 1983 - Roberta Vinci, Italian tennis player

## Daiths
* 1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (b. 1215)
* 1405 - Timur, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
* 1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
* 1564 - Michelangelo, Italian airtist (b. 1475)
* 1712 - Louis, Duke o Burgundy, Dauphin o Fraunce (b. 1682)
* 2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American racin driver (b. 1951)
* 2017 - Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)

## Halidays
 
* Independence Day (The Gambie)
* Internaitional Asperger's Syndrome Day
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)
25 Februar

The **25t o Februar** is the 56t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 309 days ti come (310 in lowp years).

## Events

* 138 - Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius.
* 1856 - Stairt o the Paris Congress aimed at endin the Crimean War.
* 1921 - Roushie forces tak ower Tbilisi, Georgie.
* 1945 - Warld War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
* 1947 - Proushie ceases tae exeest.
* 1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes Preses o Egyp.
* 1956 - Nikita Khrushchev denounces the cult o personality o Joseph Stalin.
* 1964 - Muhammad Ali becomes heavyweight Boxin Warld Champion.
* 1986 - Corazon Aquino replaces Ferdinand Marcos as Preses o the Philippines efter the Fowk Power Revolution.
* 1990 - Violeta Chamorro is electit Preses o Nicaragua.
* 2010 - Viktor Yanukovych becomes Preses o Ukraine.
* 2013 - Park Geun-hye becomes the first female Preses o Sooth Korea.
* 2018 - The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Sooth Korea, end.

## Births

* 1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
* 1778 - José de San Martin, Argentine poleetical figure (d. 1850)
* 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French penter (d. 1919)
* 1842 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
* 1845 - George Reid, Scots-born 4t Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1918)
* 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
* 1917 - Anthony Burgess, Inglis writer (d. 1993)
* 1943 - George Harrison, Inglis sangster an guitarist (d. 2001)
* 1950 - Néstor Kirchner, Preses o Argentinae (d. 2010)
* 1953 - José Maria Aznar, umwhile Prime meenister o Spain
* 1967 - Ed Balls, Inglis politeecian
* 1981 - Park Ji-sung, Sooth Korean fitbawer
* 1982 - Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player
* 1990 - Naâman (Martin Mussard), French sangster an reggae muisicker
* 1994 - Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player

## Daiths
* 1713 - Frederick III o Proushie (b. 1657)
* 1850 - Daoguang Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1782)
* 1856 - George Don, Scots botanist (b. 1798)
* 1975 - Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
* 1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwricht (b. 1911)
* 1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912)
* 2017 - Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)

## Halidays
* Soviet Occupation Day in Georgie
12 Februar

The **12t o Februar** is the 43t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 322 days ti come (323 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1541 - Santiago de Chile is foondit.
* 1809 - Charles Darwin an Abraham Lincoln are born on the same day as ilk ither.
* 1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins proclaims Chile's unthirldom.
* 1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
* 1912 - The Republic o Cheenae adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* 1914 - In Washington, D.C., the first stone o the Lincoln Memorial is laid.
* 1961 - The Soviet Union launches the Venera 1 probe tae Venus.
* 1994 - Stairt o the 1994 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Lillehammer, Norawa.
* 1999 - US Preses Bill Clinton's impeachment trial in the Unitit States Senate ends wi his acquittal.
* 2009 - Colgan Air Flicht 3407 crashes in  Clarence Center, New York, killin 50 fowk.
* 2010 - Georgie luger Nodar Kumaritashvili is kilt in trainin for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
* 2010 - Stairt o the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canadae.
* 2017 - Frank-Walter Steinmeier is chosen tae succeed Joachim Gauck as Preses o Germany on 19 Mairch.
* 2019 - The Republic o Macedonie officially chynges its name tae the "Republic o North Macedonie".
* 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: A new five-day lockdoon is imposit in the state o Victoria, Australie.

## Births

* 1768 - Francis II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
* 1809 - Charles Darwin, Inglis naituralist (d. 1882)
* 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1865)
* 1876 - 13t Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
* 1881 - Anna Pavlova, Roushie ballerina (d. 1931)
* 1918 - Julian Schwinger, American theoretical pheesicist (d. 1994)
* 1920 - Pran, Indian actor (d. 2013)
* 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director an producer (d. 2019)
* 1930 - Arlen Specter, American politeecian (d. 2012)
* 1934 - Annette Crosbie, Scots actress
* 1942 - Ehud Barak, umwhile Prime meenister o Israel
* 1948 − Sir Nicholas Soames, Inglis politeecian
* 1965 - Brett Kavanaugh, Unitit States Supreme Coort Juistice
* 1968 - Josh Brolin, American actor
* 1976 − Jenni Falconer, Scots telly presenter
* 1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spainyie tennis player
* 1980 - Christina Ricci, American actress
* 1987 - Jérémy Chardy, French tennis player

## Daiths
* 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant tae the Inglis throne (b. 1537)
* 1804 - Immanuel Kant, Proushie philosopher (b. 1724)
* 1942 - Grant Wood, American penter (b. 1891)
* 2000 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
* 2014 - Sid Caesar, American actor an comedian (b. 1922)
* 2019 - Gordon Banks, Inglis fitbawer (b. 1937)

## Halidays
* Darwin Day
* Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (Unitit States)
* Internaitional Red Hand Day
16 Februar

The **16t o Februar** is the 47t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 318 days ti come (319 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1862 - American Ceevil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
* 1881 - The Canadian Paceefic Railway  is incorporatit.
* 1899 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, the first fitbaw team in Iceland, is foondit.
* 1918 - Lithuanie declares unthirldom.
* 1936 - The Popular Front wins elections in Spain.
* 1952 - Greece an Turkey jyn NATO.
* 1957 - Egyp wins the first Africae Cup o Naitions in fitbaa.
* 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier o Cuba.
* 1961 - Explorer 9 is launched.
* 1983 - The Ash Wadensday bush fires in Victoria an Sooth Australie kill 75 fowk.
* 1985 - Hezbollah is foondit.
* 1990 - Sam Nujoma is electit as the first Preses o Namibie.
* 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes intae force.
* 2013 - A bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, kills 80 fowk.
* 2017 - A bomb attack on a Sufi shrine in Sindh, Soothren Pakistan, kills at least 80 fowk.

## Births

* 1497 - Philip Melanchthon, German reformer (d. 1560)
* 1620 - Frederick William, Elector o Brandenburg (d. 1688)
* 1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist (d. 1919)
* 1848 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (d. 1917)
* 1921 - Hua Guofeng, Cheenese politeecian (d. 2008)
* 1923 - Samuel Willenberg, Pols-Israeli ingineer, penter, sculptor an Holocaust survivor (d. 2016)
* 1926 - Margot Frank, sister o Anne Frank (d. 1945)
* 1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (d. 2011)
* 1954 - Iain Banks, Scots writer (d. 2013)
* 1955 - Bruce Crawford, Scots politeecian
* 1958 - Ice-T, American muisicker an actor
* 1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
* 1964 - Bebeto, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1964 - Christopher Eccleston, Inglis actor
* 1965 - Adama Barrow, Preses o the Gambie
* 1971 - Amanda Holden, Inglis actress an telly personality
* 1979 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
* 1986 - Diego Godín, Uruguayan fitbawer
* 1989 - Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
* 1990 - The Weeknd, Canadian sangster, sangwriter an record producer
* 1994 - Ava Max, American sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths
* 1624 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox, Scots nobleman an politeecian (b. 1574)
* 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer an poet (b. 1835)
* 1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
* 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist (b. 1841)
* 1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
* 1996 - Pat Brown, American politeecian (b. 1905)
* 2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1922)

## Halidays
* Naitional Day o Lithuanie