February 15

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 15. From 1900 until now. February 15 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Élodie Frégé (1982), Axelle Red (1968) and Brandon Boyd (1976). Several movies were released around February 15 over the years, such as Donnie Brasco in 1997 directed by Mike Newell and The Man Without a Past in 2002 directed by Aki Kaurismäki.
But much more happened on February 15 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

John Frum Day in Vanuatu [1]
Gummy Bear Day in United States
National Day in Serbia
Lupercalia
Candlemas in Russia and other Eastern Orthodox countries
Saint Siegfried of Sweden
Saints Faustin and Jovita
Saint Georgia
Blessed Claude de la ColombiFre
Flag Day in Canada
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Events

2019 2019 Kaduna State massacre: 66 people were killed by gunmen in Nigeria's Kaduna State including 34 victims being either women or children. The attack happened one day before the scheduled election before it was delayed another week. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
2018 War in Afghanistan: The United Nations report that in 2017, more than 10,000 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the war. (Deutsche Welle)
2017 War in North-West Pakistan: Two separate bombings take place in Pakistan, killing at least seven people. A suicide bomber kills five people at the administrative headquarters in the Mohmand Agency tribal district while the other kills two people at a hospital in Peshawar. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claims responsibility for the first attack. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2016 A Turkish soldier is killed following a clash on the Syria–Turkey border with an armed group trying to enter Turkey illegally. The Turkish military says the clash occurred in the Yayladağı district of the Hatay Province. (Reuters)
2015 2015 Copenhagen shootings: Danish Police seek a gunman who fired on three people near a Copenhagen synagogue a day after the shootings at the Free Speech Gathering. One person dies. (PA via The Independent), (The Australian)Danish police kill a man at the Nørrebro train station after an exchange of gunfire. The police believe he was the man responsible for the two previous attacks. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News Australia), (BBC)
2014 A mass grave of Christians is discovered in a neighborhood in Bangui, Central African Republic, formerly occupied by the Muslim Seleka rebels. (Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war:: After intense fighting 40,000 people become displaced in the city of Shadadah, Hasakah, adding to the 3 million people already internally displaced in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
2012 A fire at a prison in Comayagua, Honduras kills 360.
2011 The US Mint launches the 2011 Sacagawea, Native American dollar in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
2010 Norwegian fertilizer-maker Yara agrees to buy American firm Terra for US$4.1 billion, extending Yara's lead as world's biggest maker of nitrogen-based fertilizer.
2009 The United Kingdom confirms the first case of a person contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after receiving contaminated blood plasma. (Telegraph)
2008 Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, Illinois, declares missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett legally dead, five months after the airplane he was flying disappeared over Nevada.
2007 In Ohio, USA, a meteor streaks across the sky, creating a sonic boom.
2006 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse: Australian television network SBS airs video and photographs of what it says are previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis in US military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. (Metronews)
2005 A state of emergency is announced in Samoa and American Samoa as South Pacific cyclones Olaf and Nancy make landfall on Savai'i. (CNN)
2004 Iraqi lawyers say Saddam Hussein is unlikely to stand trial for at least another two years. (Hi Pakistan)
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.
2002 The funeral of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon takes place on the 50th anniversary of her father's funeral.
2001 First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2000 Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
1999 Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, is arrested in Kenya.
1998 Daytona 500 race
1997 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski.
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.
1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti.
1993 Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot, Colombia; kills 14
1992 100th episode of Cops airs on Fox
1991 Troy State sets NCAA Division II record with 103 points in second half routing DeVry Institute 187-117.
1990 Baseball owners lock out players
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting Amerika mini-series
1986 Philippines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq.
1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York.
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 500 metre in 38.03 seconds.
1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes
1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds for world heavyweight crown.
1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election.
1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589 / 200,300 km)
1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros / Tenedos
1971 The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater.
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton.
1963 Ken Lynch records Misery, 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18 dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash.
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Tournament.
1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of the USA
1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister.
1956 Urho Kekkonen is appointed President of Finland.
1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Start of the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute, which lasts for 151 days.
1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1947 Toplitzky of Notre Dame closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
1946 ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1944 Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1941 Duke Ellington 1st records Take the A Train
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1935 The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, ''Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift'', by Gerhard Domagk.
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party.
1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York
1931 1st Dracula movie released
1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in ten overtimes.
1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St, New York City
1925 The Alice Comedy ''Alice Solves the Puzzle'' is released at 6:54 a.m. by Disney Studios, introducing Bootleg Pete (an early prototype for '''Pegleg Pete''') for the first time.
1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex.
1919 American Legion organizes in Paris.
1918 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated.
1916 New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500.
1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1906 The British Labour Party is organised.
1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn).
1900 General French relieves Kimberley / Cecil Rhodes
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