February 25

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 309 days remaining, 310 in leap years.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the United States Congress.
1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing a graduated income tax, is ratified.
1919 - Oregon places a 1 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1928 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1933 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier.
1951 - The first Pan American Games are held, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1972 - Terrorism: Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
1986 - President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule.
1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines.
1999 - John William King is sentenced to the death penalty for murdering James Byrd Jr in Jasper, Texas.