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February 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Earliest day on which Family Day can fall, while February 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in February. (parts of Canada) Earliest day on which Washington's Birthday can fall, while February 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in February. (United States)
1939 – In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word "dord" was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor. 1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.
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)
February 8, 1924: 101 years, 22 days: Chinese: Olympic basketball player [225] Woody Woodbury: M: February 9, 1924: 101 years, 21 days: American: Comedian, actor, television personality and talk show host [226] Juan Ponce Enrile: M: February 14, 1924: 101 years, 16 days: Filipino: President of the Senate of the Philippines [227] Jose Petrick: F ...
Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
Here are some of the most notable playmates Hugh Hefner made famous: Jayne Mansfield was Playmate of the Month in June 1963 and was considered a sex symbol in the 50's and 60's. Mansfield was ...
15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered; 18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach's birthday; 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison's birthday; 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss's death; 22 February 1875 – Heinrich Hertz's birthday; 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling's birthday; 18 February 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer's death
The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front was created to fight for the rights of the Tigre people in Ethiopia. [45] The Constitutional Court of Italy ruled that abortion was legal if the physical or psychological health of the mother was threatened by an early pregnancy. Born: Gary Neville, English footballer, in Bury