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Historical Events In February - 15

Friday, 29 March 2024

1845  William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, first uses 72" (183 cm) reflector on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1845  On this day in history william Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1845  On this day in history elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1847  Robert Fuchs, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1848  Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1849  Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1851  On February - 15 black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1851  Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  On February - 15 great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits first patient  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1855  Gustav Hollaender, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1856  Frank Harris, Galway England, writer on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  On February - 15 mikhail Glinka, composer, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1861  Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1861  Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1862  On February - 15 grant's major assault on Ft Donelson TN  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1862  Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1864  On February - 15 fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1864  Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1864  On this day in history israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1865  Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1866  Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1869  On this day in history charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1870  On February - 15 ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth MN  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1870  On February - 15 ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1872  In Victoria British Columbia, the Provincial Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1874  Emilis Melngailis, composer on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1876  On February - 15 historic Elm at Boston blown down  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1879  On February - 15 u.S. President Rutherford Hayes signs a bill enabling female lawyers to argue cases before the Supreme Court.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1879  On February - 15 congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1881  Canadian Pacific Railway Act receives the Royal Assent. A Royal Charter pursuant to the Act was granted on February 16th - this incorporated the company. The principal terms provided for the payment to the railway of a subsidy of $25,000,000 and 25,000,000 acres of land, plus the railways (Port Arthur-Selkirk-Winnipeg-Emerson and Port Moody-Savona) already contracted for by the government, upon their completion on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1882  On February - 15 first cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1882  On this day in history the birth of John Barrymore, American actor.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In February - 15

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1368  Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37) was born on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1458  On this day in history birth of ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1471  On this day in history birth of piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1483  On February - 15 birth of babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1497  On this day in history birth of philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1519  On this day in history birth of pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1524  Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1557  Alfonso Fontanelli, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In February - 15

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1043  On this day in history gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1145  On February - 15 lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1152  Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 on February - 15.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1503  On February - 15 henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1568  On this day in history hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1580  On February - 15 cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1597  On this day in history pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1600  On February - 15 jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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