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February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 309 days remain until the end of the year (310 in leap years). Events Pre-1600 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. 1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. 1601–1900 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg. 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm. 1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair. 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. 1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. 1901–present 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning 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. 1918 – World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia. 1921 – Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. 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. 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. 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. 1941 – The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews. 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. 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. 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. 1951 – The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón. 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin. 1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse. 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. 1991 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest. 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 was disarmed and beaten to death by survivors. 1999 – Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four. 2009 – Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials. 2009 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed 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. 2015 – At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan. 2016 – Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston. Births Pre-1600 1259 – Infanta Branca of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (d. 1321) 1337 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383) 1475 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (d. 1499) 1540 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English aristocrat and courtier (d. 1614) 1543 – Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, Emir of Bitlis (d. 1603) 1591 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and author (d. 1635) 1601–1900 1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1695) 1663 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author, playwright and translator (d. 1718) 1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720) 1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (d. 1771) 1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and composer (d. 1793) 1714 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, French lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 1792) 1728 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect, designed the Royal Crescent (d. 1782) 1752 – John Graves Simcoe, English-Canadian general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806) 1755 – François René Mallarmé, French lawyer and politician (d. 1835) 1778 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (d. 1850) 1806 – Emma Catherine Embury, American author and poet (d. 1863) 1809 – John Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of South Australia (d. 1873) 1812 – Carl Christian Hall, Danish lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1888) 1816 – Giovanni Morelli, Italian historian and critic (d. 1891) 1833 – John St. John, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Kansas (d. 1916) 1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919) 1842 – Karl May, German author, poet, and playwright (d. 1912) 1845 – George Reid, Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918) 1855 – Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet and author (d. 1886) 1856 – Karl Gotthard Lamprecht, German historian and academic (d. 1915) 1856 – Mathias Zdarsky, Czech-Austrian skier, painter, and sculptor (d. 1940) 1857 – Robert Bond, Canadian politician; first Prime Minister of Newfoundland (d. 1927) 1860 – William Ashley, English historian and academic (d. 1927) 1865 – Andranik, Armenian general (d. 1927) 1866 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1952) 1869 – Phoebus Levene, Russian-American biochemist and physician (d. 1940) 1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. 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