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February 12: Red Hand Day; Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2024) Edvard Munch's The Scream. 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII. 1924 – George Gershwin 's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
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)
1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871) 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912) February 4: 1508 - Death of Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1814 – Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, ...
February. February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day. It is the first of five months not to have 31 days (the other four being April, June, September, and November) and the only one to have fewer than 30 days.
February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... It triggers a 100 m (330 ft) megatsunami which drowns over 2,300 people. [6]