Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 15
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Flag of Canada
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Wreckage of the USS Maine
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DEW Line radar station
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Kevin Mitnick
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Footage of the Chelyabinsk meteor
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Video of the Chelyabinsk meteor exploding
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Candlemas (Eastern Christianity); | refimprove sections |
| 1954 – The Canadian and American governments agreed to jointly build the Distant Early Warning Line, a line of radar stations running across the high Arctic. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – The British pound sterling and the Irish pound were decimalised on what was called Decimal Day. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan after a nine-year conflict. | Yellow "too long" banner |
| 1994 – Less than four years after declaring its independence from the Soviet Union, Tatarstan officially agreed to become a federal subject of Russia. | refimprove section |
| 2012 – The world's deadliest prison fire took place at the National Penitentiary at Comayagua, Honduras, killing 361 people. | Uncertain date |
| Angella D. Ferguson |b|1925| | Orange "lede too short" banner |
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- 1113 – Pope Paschal II issued the papal bull Pie postulatio voluntatis, formally recognising the establishment of the Knights Hospitaller.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus wrote a letter widely distributed upon his return to Portugal that announced the results of his first voyage to the Americas.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The invasion of Ceylon ended with Johan van Angelbeek, the Batavian governor of the island, surrendering Colombo to British forces.
- 1823 – James McBrien made the first official discovery of gold in Australia at Fish River in New South Wales.
- 1898 – The United States Navy battleship USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana, Cuba, killing more than 260 people and precipitating the Spanish–American War.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: British cavalry led by John French defeated Boer forces to end a 124-day siege of Kimberley in present-day South Africa.
- 1906 – A team of Italian archaeologists led by Ernesto Schiaparelli discovered the tomb of Kha and Merit, an ancient Egyptian foreman and his wife, in the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina.
- 1907 – Japan and the United States signed a gentleman's agreement whereby the former would not permit further emigration to the U.S., while the latter would not limit Japanese immigration.
- 1915 – Sepoys of Indian Muslim background mutinied against their British officers in Singapore.
- 1942 – Second World War: Japanese forces led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita captured Singapore with the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
- 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
- 1961 – All 72 people on board Sabena Flight 548, including the entire U.S. figure-skating team, and one person on the ground were killed when the aircraft crashed on approach to Brussels Airport.
- 1965 – Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign.
- 1976 – The current Constitution of Cuba, providing for a system of government and law based on those of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, was adopted by a national referendum.
- 1982 – Murder of four anti-apartheid student activists by South African government forces, who decades later were the first to be indicted for the crime of apartheid.
- 1995 – Kevin Mitnick, the most wanted computer hacker at the time in the U.S., was arrested and charged with computer fraud and wire fraud.
- 1996 – A Long March 3B rocket carrying the communications satellite Intelsat 708 crashed immediately after launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China, destroying a nearby town and killing an unknown number of inhabitants.
- 1999 – Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militant organization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkish security forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
- 2003 – In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions around the world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests against the impending invasion of Iraq.
- 2010 – Two passenger trains collided in Halle, Belgium, when one driver failed to stop at a red signal, resulting in 19 deaths and 171 injuries.
- 2013 – A meteor exploded (video featured) over Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, producing a shock wave that injured about 1,500 people.
- Born/died: | Oswiu |d|670| Ibn Tabataba |d|815| William Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk |d|1382| Charles-André van Loo |b|1705| Domingo Faustino Sarmiento |b|1811| Charles Lewis Tiffany |b|1812| V. A. Urechia |b|1834| Sophie Bryant |b|1850| Irena Sendler |b|1910| Willy Vandersteen |b|1913| Norman C. Deno |b|1921| Esther Takei Nishio |b|1925|Chin Kung|b|1925| Roger B. Chaffee |b|1935| Hermann Axen |d|1992|
Notes
- Breviary of Aleric appears on February 2, so Codex Theodosianus should not appear in the same year.
February 15: National Flag of Canada Day; Statehood Day in Serbia; Susan B. Anthony Day in some parts of the United States Template:Main page image/OTD
- 438 – The Codex Theodosianus, a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire, was published.
- 1763 – Prussia, Saxony and the Habsburg monarchy signed the Treaty of Hubertusburg, ending the Third Silesian War.
- 1940 – The official premiere of Paul Creston's Saxophone Sonata took place at the Carnegie Chamber Hall, with saxophonist Cecil Leeson, who commissioned the work, and Creston on piano.
- 1979 – Don Dunstan (pictured) resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
- 2018 – Following nationwide protests, Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation as prime minister of Ethiopia, remaining in post as a caretaker until he was succeeded by Abiy Ahmed.