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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Hiram Rhodes Revels
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius. | refimprove section |
| 1836 – American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver. | refimprove, Colt featured on January 4 |
| 1870 – Representing Mississippi in the Senate, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to serve in the United States Congress. | needs more footnotes |
| 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, became the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. | unreferenced section |
| 1921 – The Soviet Red Army took over the Georgian capital Tbilisi after heavy fighting and declared the new Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof (later disproven) that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.
- 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš ceded control over the government to the Communist Party.
- 1951 – After being postponed since 1943 due to World War II, the first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1956 – In his speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" to the 20th Party Congress, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
- 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed 613 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojali in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
- 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim Arabs praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
- 2011 – The Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
February 25: Shushan Purim in Jerusalem and Susa (Judaism, 2013); Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961);
- 1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.
- 1901 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
- 1933 – USS Ranger, the first ship of the United States Navy designed as an aircraft carrier, was launched.
- 1986 – In the Philippines, the non-violent People Power Revolution culminated with the removal of Ferdinand Marcos from power and the inauguration of Corazon Aquino (pictured) as the nation's first female President.
- 2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths.