Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 25

This is a list of selected February 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Antoninus Pius
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  Pope Pius V
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  Samuel Colt
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  A Colt Single Action Army revolver
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  Hiram Rhodes Revels
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  Corazon Aquino
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  Edvard Beneš
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  Lighting of the 1951 Pan American Games cauldron
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  Henck Arron

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.	unreferenced section
1836 – American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver.	globalize
1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, became the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.	refimprove section
1921 – The Soviet Red Army invaded Georgia, took over the capital Tbilisi after heavy fighting, and declared the new Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.	refimprove section
1992 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed at least 161 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians in the Nagorno-Karabakh village of Khojaly.	quote synth, original research
2011 – The Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting Irish government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.	original research
Quirinus Kuhlmann |b|1651	page numbers needed
John Wood, the Younger |b|1728|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor following the death of Hadrian's first adopted son Lucius Aelius.
• 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
• 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg.
• 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
• 1870 – Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress.
• 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, President Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control of the government to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
• 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
• 1980 – The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron (pictured), was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
• 1986 – Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.
• 2020 – Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
• Born/died this day: | Sharafkhan Bidlisi |b|1543| Andranik |b|1865|Mary Locke Petermann |b|1908| George Harrison |b|1943| Mário de Andrade|d|1945|S. O. Davies |d|1972| Kana Hanazawa |b|1989| Yi Han-yong |d|1997| Hans Raj Khanna |d|2008

Notes

• Constituent Assembly of Georgia appears on February 21, so Red Army invasion of Georgia should not appear in the same year
• 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines appears on February 24, so People Power Revolution should not appear in the same year

February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)

USS Ranger

• 1843 – Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
• 1933 – USS Ranger (pictured), the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, was launched.
• 1951 – After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
• 2009 – At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.

• Emma Catherine Embury (b. 1806)
• Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (d. 1934)
• Divya Bharti (b. 1974)
• Don Bradman (d. 2001)

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