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February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... Birthday of King Harald V ; Christian feast day: Felix of Hadrumetum; Pepin of Landen;
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Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...
February 12. Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. Hug Day. National Lost Penny Day. National Plum Pudding Day. February 13. ... February 21. Language Day. National Grain Free Day. National Sticky Bun Day.
February 10: Feast day of Saint Scholastica (Christianity); Chinese New Year (2024); National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in Italy Delegates at the Inter-Allied Women's Conference 1355 – A tavern dispute between University of Oxford students and townspeople became a riot that left about 90 people dead.
The February 28 Incident began in Taiwan when Chinese law enforcement killed a bystander during an argument with a woman selling untaxed cigarettes. This was the boiling over point for a populace harboring many feelings of frustration over economic problems and corruption. Born: Gidon Kremer, classical violinist, in Riga, Latvia, USSR
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
21 February 21, 1981 (Saturday) 22 February 22, 1981 (Sunday) ... Born: The Rev (James Owen Sullivan), American drummer for metal band Avenged Sevenfold; ...