On This Day in February

313 entries

• 2013 — The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
• 2012 — At least 72 people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans...
• 2009 — The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the...

246 entries

• 2012 — The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen...
• 2005 — The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would...
• 2004 — Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a...

275 entries

• 2014 — Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in...
• 2007 — A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
• 1998 — Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20...

254 entries

• 2015 — A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese...
• 2004 — Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
• 2003 — The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and...

331 entries

• 2017 — The New England Patriots win Superbowl LI after coming back down 25 to win 34-28 in...
• 2008 — A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
• 2004 — Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of...

377 entries

• 2003 — Father Mustaski is made a bishop.[1]
• 2000 — Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen...
• 1998 — Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

273 entries

• 2016 — North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space.
• 2013 — The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming...
• 2012 — President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of...

300 entries

• 2014 — A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
• 2013 — A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without...
• 2010 — A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least...

311 entries

• 2016 — Two passenger trains collided in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of...
• 1996 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and...
• 1996 — Copernicium is first discovered.

272 entries

• 2016 — South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with...
• 2013 — Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad,...
• 2009 — The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

334 entries

• 2016 — A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
• 2015 — A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey,...
• 2014 — A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in...

306 entries

• 2009 — Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on...
• 2004 — The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in...
• 2002 — The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of...

322 entries

• 2017 — Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
• 2012 — The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket...
• 2011 — For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are...

350 entries

• 2011 — As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
• 2008 — Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the...
• 2005 — Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is assassinated in...

300 entries

• 2013 — A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows...
• 2012 — Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
• 2003 — Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated...

284 entries

• 2013 — A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people...
• 2006 — The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
• 2005 — The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.

292 entries

• 2016 — Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey,...
• 2015 — Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
• 2011 — Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on...

316 entries

• 2014 — At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police...
• 2013 — Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels...
• 2007 — WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents...

292 entries

• 2012 — Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
• 2011 — The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of...
• 2006 — A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

302 entries

• 2016 — Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo...
• 2015 — Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured...
• 2014 — Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many...

272 entries

• 2013 — At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian...
• 1995 — Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make...
• 1975 — Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former...

327 entries

• 2015 — A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
• 2014 — President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine...
• 2012 — A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.

270 entries

• 2017 — The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
• 2012 — A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
• 2010 — Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other...

303 entries

• 2016 — Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed, with 23...
• 2015 — A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck,...
• 2008 — Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32...

338 entries

• 2016 — Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the...
• 2015 — At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
• 2009 — Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka,...

268 entries

• 2013 — A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
• 2012 — A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
• 2008 — The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event...

342 entries

• 2015 — Assassination of Boris Nemtsov occurs.
• 2013 — Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a...
• 2010 — An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of...

304 entries

• 2013 — Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope...
• 2005 — A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
• 2004 — Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a...

211 entries

• 2012 — Tokyo Skytree construction completed. It is, as of 2017, the tallest tower in the...
• 2008 — The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour...
• 2008 — Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust...