About February 15
February 15, 2021 is the 46th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 351 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.
- 1493 –While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
- 1637 –Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1862 –American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
- 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.
- 1933 –In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
- 1942 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1946 –ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- 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.
- 1965 –A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
- 1970 –A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
- 1971 –The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
- 1972 –Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
- 1991 –The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
- 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.
- 1999 –Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, is arrested in Kenya.
- 2003 –Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
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