What are the important events that happened on February 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 25 is the 56^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 12, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 483,456 hours 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 ‘pentacontahexagon’ day.

Pisces 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 357 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 4,449 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 25 Historical Events

• 1570 –
  Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1843 –
  Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
• 1921 –
  Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
• 1964 –
  North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
• 1968 –
  Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam’s Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
• 1980 –
  The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation’s capital, Paramaribo
• 1991 –
  Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
• 1992 –
  Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
• 1994 –
  Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.

Who were born on February 25?

• 1916 –
  Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
• 1918 –
  Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
• 1932 –
  Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
• 1937 –
  Tom Courtenay, English actor
• 1940 –
  Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
• 1940 –
  Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
• 1946 –
  Jean Todt, French Formula One executive
• 1952 –
  Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
• 1965 –
  Brian Baker, American guitarist
• 1966 –
  Samantha Phillips, American actress

Who died on February 25?

• 1246 –
  Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
• 1831 –
  Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
• 1919 –
  Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
• 1964 –
  Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
• 1966 –
  James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
• 1970 –
  Walter Koch, German astrologer (b. 1895)
• 1993 –
  Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
• 1994 –
  Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b. 1956)
• 2008 –
  Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
• 2010 –
  İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish academic and the founder of YÖK (b. 1915)