25 February
Notable Births
Noah Jupe
b. 2005
British actor (born 2005)
Vernon Carey Jr.
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Bo Nix
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Gianluigi Donnarumma
b. 1999
Italian footballer (born 1999)
Rocky (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean rapper and singer (born 1999)
Isabelle Fuhrman
b. 1997
American actress (born 1997)
Thon Maker
b. 1997
South Sudanese-Australian basketball player (born 1997)
Mario Hezonja
b. 1995
Croatian basketball player (born 1995)
Viktoriya Tomova
b. 1995
Bulgarian tennis player (born 1995)
Fred VanVleet
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Erick Fedde
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Lukáš Sedlák
b. 1993
Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Joakim Nordström
b. 1992
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Jorge Soler
b. 1992
Cuban baseball player (born 1992)
Jimmer Fredette
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Kana Hanazawa
b. 1989
Japanese voice actress and singer
E'Twaun Moore
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Tom Marshall (artist)
b. 1988
British model maker and image editor
Gerald McCoy
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Justin Abdelkader
b. 1987
American ice hockey player (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
Henry Kelly
d. 2025
Irish broadcaster (1946–2025)
Roberto Orci
d. 2025
American screenwriter and producer (1973–2025)
Jane Reed
d. 2025
Gordon Pinsent
d. 2023
Canadian actor and writer (1930–2023)
Farrah Forke
d. 2022
American actress (1968–2022)
Shirley Hughes
d. 2022
English illustrator and author (1927–2022)
Dmitry Yazov
d. 2020
Soviet minister of defence (1924–2020)
Bill Paxton
d. 2017
American actor (1955–2017)
Harve Bennett
d. 2015
American screenwriter, producer (1930–2015)
Ariel Camacho
d. 2015
Mexican musician (1992–2015)
Eugenie Clark
d. 2015
American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
Louisiana Red
d. 2012
American blues singer-songwriter and musician (1932–2012)
İhsan Doğramacı
d. 2010
Turkish pediatrician and medical academic (1915–2010)
Hans Raj Khanna
d. 2008
Indian judge (1912–2008)
Peter Benenson
d. 2005
British lawyer and human rights activist (1921–2005)
A. R. Ammons
d. 2001
American poet (1926–2001)
Don Bradman
d. 2001
Australian cricketer (1908–2001)
Glenn T. Seaborg
d. 1999
American chemist (1912–1999)
W. O. Mitchell
d. 1998
Canadian writer and radio personality (1914-1998)
Jung Bahadur Rana
d. 1877
Founder of the Rana dynasty in Nepal
On This Day in History
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2026
Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters.
Cuba
2016
Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
Hesston shootings
2015
At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
2015 Afghanistan avalanches
2009
Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.
Border Guard Bangladesh
2009
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951
1999
Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.
Minerva Airlines Flight 1553
1994
American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.
Baruch Goldstein
1991
Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.
Warsaw Pact
1986
People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president.
People Power Revolution
1980
The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
Suriname
1956
In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
1951
The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
Pan American Games
1948
In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
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.
Abolition of Prussia
1947
Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.
NKVD
1941
The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
Communist Party of the Netherlands
1939
As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
Air Raid Precautions
1933
Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.
USS Ranger (CV-4)
1932
Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
Adolf Hitler
1921
Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Democratic Republic of Georgia