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February 25, or today, is a Tuesday. Here’s some important things that have happened on February 25 in history:Historical Events on February 25“138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successorRoman EmperorHadrianRoman EmperorAntoninus Pius1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus1358 Dalmatie flees Venice1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machineExcommunication1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. Also absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown.Queen of England and IrelandElizabeth I1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills Duke Wallenstein1643 Pavonia Massacre: Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River1746 The Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)1791 1st Bank of US charteredEvent of Interest1793 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's homeFirst US PresidentGeorge Washington1795 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1,000-1,500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend, to Welsh women in tall black hats, mistaken for elite guards regiment)1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land1799 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation1803 In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire, more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganizationPresidential Convention1804 Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus3rd US PresidentThomas JeffersonEvent of Interest1830 Victor Hugo's play "Hernani" premieres in ParisAuthorVictor HugoHistoric Invention1836 Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloadingInventor/IndustrialistSamuel ColtEvent of Interest1836 Showman P. T. Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth, claiming she was the 161 year-old nursemaid to George WashingtonCircus Showman and BusinessmanP. T. Barnum1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West1847 State University of Iowa is approvedEvent of Interest1855 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole "Bill the Butcher" shot in the back by gang of archrival John Morrissey in New York (dies 8th March)Gang LeaderBill the Butcher1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence1st US One-Dollar Notes1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States NotesLearn More >>Image of the first US one-dollar note (United States Note) issued in 1862Event of Interest1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States Note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America16th US PresidentAbraham Lincoln1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currencyEvent of Interest1870 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)Minister and US SenatorHiram R. Revels1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill1879 US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in NYCEvent of Interest1901 US Steel Corporation organized under J. P. Morgan, Sr.Industrialist and BankerJ. P. Morgan1904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games1905 The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingenwas, a Dutch social-democratic trade union, formsEvent of Interest1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in LondonPlaywrightGeorge Bernard Shaw1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma" premieres in Philadelphia1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg1913 The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia1921 The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska1925 US Women's Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran1925 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles1925 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union establishedEvent of Interest1926 Francisco Franco becomes Spain's youngest general at 33Spanish Dictator and GeneralFrancisco Franco1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords1927 Gdańsk and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor1930 Check photographing device patented1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112)Event of Interest1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenshipDictator of Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler1933 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox1938 Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia and C Gottwald becomes premier1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)Event of Interest1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody AllenActor & DirectorMel BrooksPlaywright and screenwriterNeil Simon1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)1952 VI Winter Olympic Games close at Oslo, Norway1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premierConference of Interest1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet First SecretaryNikita KhrushchevSoviet General SecretaryJoseph StalinEvent of Interest1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"Singer-songwriterBuddy Holly1957 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in NYC1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,101962 India Congress Party wins elections1962 Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathonEvent of Interest1962 Robert F. Kennedy visits NetherlandsUS Attorney GeneralRobert F. KennedyEvent of Interest1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY Knicks for the second year in a rowNBA LegendWilt Chamberlain1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resignsBoxing Title Fight1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for his first world heavyweight championship titleHeavyweight Boxing ChampionMuhammad AliBoxer and World Heavyweight ChampionSonny Liston1966 Syrian military coup under General Hafiz al-Assad1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea1968 Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus1968 10th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough driving for Wood Brothers Racing wins by less than a second from LeeRoy Yarbrough; grid set exclusively by qualifying times1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to1969 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jetOh! Calcutta! - The Bare Facts1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" moves to Belasco Theater in NYC for 1,316 performancesRead the Article >>A brief cover-up by the cast of "Oh! Calcutta!"1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in NYC1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 19211972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick WiseMusic Single1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" singleMusician and BeatlePaul McCartney1972 Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders1973 Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances)1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 19751975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injuredNBA Record1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 ptsNBA GuardPete Maravich1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons1977 Soyuz 24 returns to EarthEvent of Interest1978 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham scores first Test century, 103 v New Zealand in ChristchurchCricketerIan Botham1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname1980 British political comedy "Yes Minister" written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds premieres on BBC TwoGrammy Awards1981 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel winsPianist, songwriter, and composerBilly Joel1981 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo elected premier of Spain1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)1981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 5001986 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins winsEvent of Interest1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country11th President of the PhilippinesCorazon Aquino1986 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative actionEvent of Interest1988 Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" Tour begins in Worcester, MassachusettsSinger-SongwriterBruce Springsteen1988 South Korea adopts constitution1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)Boxing Title Fight1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing titleHeavyweight Boxing ChampionMike TysonBoxerFrank Bruno1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup1990 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)Event of Interest1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto ArgonautsIce Hockey GreatWayne GretzkyActor and ComedianJohn Candy1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 281992 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of AzerbaijanGrammy Awards1992 Muddy Waters wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy AwardsBlues MusicianMuddy Waters1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"1993 Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 311994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)1995 British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital1995 Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich1998 40th Grammy Awards: "Sunny Came Home" best song, Paula Cole best new artist2001 54th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "Gladiator" Best Film, Ang Lee Best DirectorAcademy Awards2007 79th Academy Awards: "The Departed", Forest Whitaker & Helen Mirren winActorForest WhitakerFilm DirectorMartin ScorseseActressHelen Mirren2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 19212011 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris2012 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama2012 Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countriesEvent of Interest2013 Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018President of CubaRaúl Castro2013 Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria2014 Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independenceMusic Awards2015 BRIT Awards: Best Single "Uptown Funk", Best Album "X" by Ed SheeranSinger-SongwriterEd Sheeran2016 Tenth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Houston, TexasEvent of Interest2016 Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller are honoured by unite4:humanity for their work promoting awareness of and fundraising for Alzheimer's researchActor & WriterSeth Rogen2017 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee2018 Russian national team, competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang; beat Germany, 4-3 in overtime in the final2018 Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen wins gold in women's 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; brings her total Games medal haul to 15, most won by any athlete in Winter Games history2018 2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team2018 XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold2018 China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts2018 Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all time (15 medals) with gold in the 30k cross country2018 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film "Touch Me Not" wins the Golden Bear2019 Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target "Captain Marvel" film2019 James Harden's scoring streak of games with at least 30 points ends at 32 as he scores 28 in the Rockets' 119-111 win over Atlanta in Houston; 2nd longest mark in NBA history”