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1547 – King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII . 1872- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. 1935- Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman …
February, 2015
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19 February
Feb 19, Brazilian footballer Socrates born
1919 – Louis Cottin attempts to assassinate French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. 1959 – Establishment of the Republic of Cyprus. 1986 – Soviet Union launches Space Station Mir, which …
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18 February
Feb. 18, five cities of the Mayan civilization discovered in Mexico
1846 – Agricultural Revolution in Europe begins. 1913 – Raymond Poincare becomes President of France. 1914 – British explorer Captain Camille Paisley declares that he found three of the Inca …
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17 February
Feb. 17, Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, born
1934 – Hundreds of protesters killed in Austria. 1956 – Gambia gains independence from Britain. 1959 – First satellite for monitoring the weather, named Vankard, was launched. 1972 – British …
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16 February
Feb. 16, Former Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Abbas Musawi passes away
1785- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier discovers that water was a compound made of hydrogen and oxygen. 1815- Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to Elba Island. 1863- Swiss businessman, Henry Dunant, established the International Committee of the Red Cross . 1923- …
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15 February
Feb. 15, Part of road leading to Al-Maghariba Gate collapsed due to Israeli excavations underneath
1898 – United States declares war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor after suffering a massive explosion. 1920 –Berlin U-Bahn (for underground railway) …
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14 February
Feb. 14, Abdul-Salam Aref becomes President of Iraq
1900- 20,000 of the British troops invade South Africa’s Orange Free State. 1905- An earthquake measuring 7.3 at Richter magnitude scale hits Andreanof Islands, Alaska. 1908- Mohammad Farid elected as …
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13 February
Feb.13, cornerstone laid for UN Headquarters in New York
1917- British government allows women to work as taxi drivers. 1920 – League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland. 1942- Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s operation Sealion (invasion of England) …
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12 February
Feb. 12, Martyr Imad Mughniyeh, top commander in Lebanese National Resistance assassinated
1919 – Mutiny in Romania, King Ferdinand gets injured. 1934- Civil war in Austria begins. 1941 – German troops reach North Africa in Second World War. 2002 – Trial sessions …
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11 February
Feb. 11, Victory of Islamic Revolution in Iran
1920 – League of Nations holds first meeting in London and approves establishment of International Court of Justice. 1945 – Yalta agreement signed by US President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet …