# What happened on February 25 in history?

**Date:** February 25  
**Events recorded:** 30  
**Years spanned:** 138 – 2026  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/february/25/

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## Featured Event

**2026** — Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba)

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## Events on this date

- **138** — Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_138))
- **628** — Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrow_II))
- **1705** — George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premieres in Hamburg. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel))
- **1836** — Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Colt))
- **1843** — Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_George_Paulet))
- **1870** — Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_R._Revels))
- **1875** — Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxu_Emperor))
- **1912** — Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde%2C_Grand_Duchess_of_Luxembourg))
- **1916** — World War I: In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1918** — World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn))
- **1921** — Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia))
- **1932** — Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler))
- **1933** — Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ranger_(CV-4)))
- **1939** — As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Raid_Precautions))
- **1941** — The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Netherlands))
- **1947** — The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Prussia))
- **1947** — Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD))
- **1948** — In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d'%C3%A9tat))
- **1951** — The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Games))
- **1956** — In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences))
- **1980** — The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname))
- **1986** — People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution))
- **1991** — Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact))
- **1994** — American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to death by survivors. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein))
- **1999** — Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Airlines_Flight_1553))
- **2009** — Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Guard_Bangladesh))
- **2009** — Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_1951))
- **2015** — At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Afghanistan_avalanches))
- **2016** — Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesston_shootings))
- **2026** — Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba))

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## Notable births on February 25

- **2005** — **Noah Jupe** — English actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Jupe))
- **2004** — **Tyler Sanders** — American actor (died 2022) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Sanders))
- **2003** — **Brandin Podziemski** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandin_Podziemski))
- **2001** — **Vernon Carey Jr.** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Carey_Jr.))
- **2000** — **Bo Nix** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Nix))
- **1999** — **Gianluigi Donnarumma** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi_Donnarumma))
- **1999** — **Matvey Safonov** — Russian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Safonov))
- **1999** — **Rocky** — South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_(singer)))
- **1997** — **Isabelle Fuhrman** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Fuhrman))
- **1997** — **Thon Maker** — South Sudanese-Australian basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thon_Maker))

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## Notable deaths on February 25

- **2025** — **Henry Kelly** — Irish radio and television broadcaster, actor and journalist (born 1947) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kelly))
- **2025** — **Roberto Orci** — Mexican-American screenwriter and producer (born 1973) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Orci))
- **2025** — **Jane Reed** — UK Magazine editor and media executive (born 1940) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Reed))
- **2023** — **Gordon Pinsent** — Canadian actor, director and screenwriter (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pinsent))
- **2022** — **Farrah Forke** — American actress (born 1968) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Forke))
- **2022** — **Shirley Hughes** — English author and illustrator (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hughes))
- **2020** — **Dmitry Yazov** — last Marshal of the Soviet Union (born 1924) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Yazov))
- **2017** — **Bill Paxton** — American actor and filmmaker (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Paxton))
- **2015** — **Harve Bennett** — American screenwriter and producer (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harve_Bennett))
- **2015** — **Ariel Camacho** — Mexican musician and singer-songwriter; (born 1992) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Camacho))

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