February 25th will be the 56th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Saturday which will be in week 8. We will be the 25th of February 2023 in 6 months.
2016: Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
2015: At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
2009: Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
2009: Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
1997: Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
1987: Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1964: North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1948: The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1947: The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council. The Prussian government had already been abolished in 1934 by the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich.
1866: Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1856: A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1848: Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.