About February 15
February 15, 2020 is the 46th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 363 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 15
- 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.
- 1764 –The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
- 1879 –Women’s rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1906 –The British Labour Party is organised.
- 1909 –The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
- 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.
- 1952 –King George VI is buried in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
- 1965 –A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
- 1971 –The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
- 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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