Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 25

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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

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1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Template:Nowrap]] 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, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Template:Nowrap]], 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

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• 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| Dominic Raab |b|1974| Shahid Kapoor |b|1981| Kana Hanazawa |b|1989| Yi Han-yong |d|1997| Hans Raj Khanna |d|2008| Ray O'Connor |d|2013

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) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1843 – Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
• 1933 – Template:USS (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.