February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)
Edvard Beneš
- 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
- 1843 – Captain Lord George Paulet of the British Royal Navy began a five-month occupation of land in the Hawaiian islands.
- 1901 – U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.
- 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control over the government to the Communist Party.
- 2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutinied at its headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths.
George Harrison (b. 1943) · Don Bradman (d. 2001)
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