What are the important events that happened on February 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 15 is the 46^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 2, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,707,955,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontahexagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 349 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,073 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 15 Historical Events

• 590 –
  Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
• 1113 –
  Pope Paschal II issued a bull sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.
• 1949 –
  Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 1952 –
  King George VI is buried in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
• 1954 –
  Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
• 1961 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Ox in Chinese astrology.
• 1970 –
  A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
• 1976 –
  The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
• 1982 –
  The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
• 1991 –
  The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.

Who were born on February 15?

• 1620 –
  François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702)
• 1748 –
  Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (d. 1832)
• 1841 –
  Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)
• 1899 –
  Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1927 –
  Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
• 1943 –
  Griselda Blanco, Colombian drug queen, Medellín Cartel
• 1948 –
  Tino Insana, American voice actor
• 1957 –
  Gul Mohammed, shortest mature human ever, at 22.5 in. (d. 1997)
• 1959 –
  Ali Campbell, British singer and songwriter (UB40)
• 1971 –
  Renée O'Connor, American actress and director

Who died on February 15?

• 1844 –
  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• 1869 –
  Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
• 1965 –
  Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• 1966 –
  Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
• 1981 –
  Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1988 –
  Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)
• 1996 –
  Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2004 –
  Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
• 2005 –
  Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
• 2007 –
  Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)