21 February - History and Importance of the Day

International Mother Language Day

I maintain Learn Languages Blog to support Mother Languages

1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery.
1431 - Joan of Arc's first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy
1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass)
1887 - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)





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21 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

22 February - History and Importance of the Day

World Thinking Day

St Lucia National day

Birthdays

1732 - George Washington (1732-1799)
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell (Guide movement)
1889 - Olave Baden-Powell (Guide movement)

22 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

17 February - History and Importance of the Day

Kosovo National day

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18328859

International Crumpet Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet



1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
           http://www.britannica.com/biography/Maximilian-II-Holy-Roman-emperor
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy.
1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1882 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
1883 - A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London







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1781 - Rene Laennec - Inventor of Stethoscope

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17 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

17 February - History of India


Google Doodle Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrYHlDr5mShQ8uJxkpgJDRA

14 February - History and Importance of the Day

Valentine's Day

The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off Saint Valentine's Malady.

The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni.

1743 - Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury
1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia
1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania
1849 - Photographer Mathew Brady took the first photograph of a U.S. President in office, James Polk.

1929 - Pencillin was discovered
            http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/penicillin-discovered

2003 Dolly the cloned sheep died - six years old
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2005 - YouTube.com domain was registered.



Birthdays

1859 - George Ferris Junior

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14 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

14 February - History of India

13 February - History and Importance of the Day

World Radio Day

1945 - During World War II in Europe, British and American planes began massive bombing raids on Dresden, Germany.

2013 -  Ash Wednesday - Starting day of Lent - 40 Day austerity period before Easter
2015 - First day of Rio De Janeiro Carnival
           http://www.rio-carnival.net/rio_carnival/rio_carnival_programs.php


Birthday
American artist Grant Wood (1892-1942). Best known for his painting American Gothic featuring a farm couple.
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13 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

13 February History of India

11 February - History and Importance of the Day

USA National Inventors' Day

660 BC - Founding Japan by Emperor Jimmu


385 AD - Siricius, bishop of Tarragona, elected as Bishop of Rome; first to style himself Pope.
1531 - Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England following the schism with Rome
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
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1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted;
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1929 - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
1990 - Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa


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Birthdays

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison

11 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

8 February - History and Importance of the Day

2013 Starting Day of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Carnival
http://www.rio-carnival.net/




1600 - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1849 - New Roman Republic established.
1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
1915 - D. W. Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA - first 12-reel film in America
1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York
1994 - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432

2006 - Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. became a blogger. Made his first post.
http://kvssnrao.blogspot.com/2006/02/became-blogger.html

2013 - Starting Day of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Carnival
http://www.rio-carnival.net/




Birthdays

1883 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1897 – Zakir Hussain, Indian politician, 3rd president of India (d. 1969)



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8 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

6 February - History and Importance of the Day

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation



1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

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6 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

6 February History of India

5 February - History and Importance of the Day

Mexico Constitution Day

1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia

1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1922 - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.

1969 - US population reaches 200 million

Birthdays

1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo,  Portuguese footballer
1992 - Neymar [da Silva Santos Júnior],  Brazilian footballer 

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5 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

4 February - History and Importance of the Day

World Cancer Day

History Events

 960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
2003 – The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Birthdays

4 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

4 February - Day in History of India and Importance

1 February - History and Importance of the Day

National Freedom Day in USA

February 1, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the resolution that proposed 13th amendment to the constitution outlawing slavery.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/national-freedom-day





1793 - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1814 - Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the resolution that proposed 13th amendment to the constitution outlawing slavery.
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/national-freedom-day
1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co

1908 Portuguese King Carlos I and his eldest son Lius Filipe were assasinated in Lisbon.
        http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/portuguese-king-and-heir-assassinated
1948 - Federation of Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)

2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia exploded while reentering the atmosphere of Earth after spending planned time in space.
           http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbia-mission-ends-in-disaster

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1 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Day in History of India 1 February



Updated 1 Feb 2016, 24 Nov 2014

10 February - History and Importance of the Day

2013 Second Sunday of February - World Marriage Day



1635 - Academie Francaise forms in Paris

1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1952 - India holds its first general election: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power
1996 - IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov

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10 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

9 February - History and Importance of the Day

1554 - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed

1674 - English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.


Birthdays

1922 – Jim Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986)
1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

1970 - Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer (1993-2007), born in Dubbo, New South Wales

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9 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

26 February - History and Importance of the Day

Kuwait Liberation Day



1848 - The Communist Manifesto pamphlet was published by  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It advocated the abolition of all private property and a system in which workers own all means of production, land, factories and machinery.


Birthday
American "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917).  He became world famous through his Wild West show which traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe for 30 years.

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26 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

7 February - History and Importance of the Day

1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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7 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

3 February - History and Importance of the Day

1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.

1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.

1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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3 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

3 February - Day in History of India 




Updated   3 Feb 2016,  24 Nov 2014

2 February - History and Importance of the Day

World Wetlands Day
http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-activities-/main/ramsar/1-63-78_4000_0__








1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the No. 1 ranked men's singles player and he held the position  for a record 237 weeks.

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2 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

24 February - History and Importance of the Day

Estonia National day

1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain
1868 - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson. But Senate rejected it by one vote.
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1918 - Estonia declares independence from Russia
1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina



Birthday
Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966), USA. He commanded Allied naval, land and air forces in the South Pacific during World War II, and signed the Japanese surrender document on September 2, 1945.

24 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

19 February - History and Importance of the Day

356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples

1634 - Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated


Birthdays

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Considered the founder of modern astronomy, he theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.


19 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

18 February - History and Importance of the Day

National Days Gambia, Nepal

3102 BC - Starting Day of the Kali Yuga.

1129 - Jerusalem re-taken by Christians in peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil

1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama
1885 - Mark TWain published The Adventures of  Huckleberry Finn
http://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/February-18

1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

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1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama
1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.


18 February Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management