About February 15
February 15, 2023 is the 46th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun 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 360 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 15
- 590 –Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
- 1113 –Pope Paschal II issued a bull sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.
- 1637 –Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1764 –The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
- 1804 –The Serbian revolution begins.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
- 1909 –The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
- 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 –Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members.
- 1970 –A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
- 1972 –José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
- 1972 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1972 –Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
- 1979 –Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
- 1982 –The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
- 1989 –Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
- 1994 –Standard of the President of Russia is established.
- 1996 –At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
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