The 15t o Februar is the 46t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 317 days ti come (318 in lowp years).
Events
1764: St. Louis at nicht
2013: Chelyabinsk meteor
- 1764 - St. Louis, Missouri, is foondit.
- 1898 - Battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba, killin 274.
- 1909 - The Flores Theater Fire in Acapulco, Mexico, kills 250 fowk.
- 1923 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1944 - Warld War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, stairts.
- 1952 - The funeral o George VI takes place in Lunnon.
- 1956 - Urho Kekkonen is electit Preses o Finland.
- 1965 - Canadae chooses the Red Maple Leaf as its Banner.
- 1971 - Decimalisation o Breetish currency.
- 1994 - A yirdquauk in Sumatra kills 207 fowk.
- 2003 - Warld-wide protests against the upcomin Iraq War take place.
- 2012 - A fire at a prison in Honduras kills 360 fowk.
- 2013 - A meteor explodes ower Chelyabinsk, Roushie.
- 2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa replaces Jacob Zuma as Preses o Sooth Africae.
- 2020 - A week efter Storm Ciara, Storm Dennis hits the Unitit Kinrick, causin mair fluids durin the kintra's wettest Februar on record.
- 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: New hottle quarantine rules enter intae force for traivellers enterin the Unitit Kinrick - frae aw kintras in Scotland an frae a reid list o kintras in Ingland.
Births
Galileo Galilei
Susan B. Anthony
- 1368 - Sigismund, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1437)
- 1564 − Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer (d. 1642)
- 1710 - Louis XV o Fraunce (d. 1774)
- 1748 - Jeremy Bentham, Inglis philosopher, jurist an social reformer (d. 1832)
- 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American activist (d. 1906)
- 1845 - Elihu Root, American politeecian (d. 1937)
- 1861 - Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss pheesicist (d. 1938)
- 1873 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swadish biochemist (d. 1964)
- 1874 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antairctic splorer (d. 1922)
- 1898 - Hastings Banda, 1st Preses o Malawi (d. 1997)
- 1907 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Miep Gies, helper o Anne Frank (d. 2010)
- 1910 - Irena Sendler, Pols nurse an social wirker (d. 2008)
- 1922 - John B. Anderson, American politeecian (d. 2017)
- 1929 - Graham Hill, Inglis racin driver (d. 1975)
- 1929 - James R. Schlesinger, American politeecian (d. 2014)
- 1935 - Roger Chaffee, American ingineer an pilot (d. 1967)
- 1949 − Ashraf Choudhary, New Zealand politeecian
- 1951 - Jane Seymour, Inglis-American actress
- 1953 − Derek Conway, Inglis politeecian
- 1954 - Matt Groening, creator o TV programmes The Simpsons an Futurama
- 1959 - Adam Boulton, Inglis jurnalist
- 1968 - Gloria Trevi, Mexican sangster-sangwriter an actress
- 1971 - Alex Borstein, American actress
Daiths
Halidays
