What day is February 25?

The question of what day is today was one of the most curious topics of the day. February 25 is a day when many events took place in world history and in Turkey. So, "What day is February 25?" Here are the events and special days that took place on February 25...

WHAT DAY IS FEBRUARY 25?

1836 - Samuel Colt patented the gun he produced (the Colt revolver).

1921 - Red Army invades Georgia: The Red Army enters Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

1925 - The Treason Law was amended: Religion could not be used as a political instrument and this crime would be considered treason.

1932 - Adolf Hitler was granted German citizenship, enabling him to participate in the 1932 presidential elections of the Weimar Republic.

1933 - Reaction was shown to the Turkish ban imposed by the Belgian Director of the French Wagon-Li Company. (See Wagon-Li Incident)

1933 - The first U.S. naval ship built as an aircraft carrier, the USS Ranger, was launched.

1943 - Talaat Pasha's body, embalmed in Germany, was brought to Istanbul. He was buried on the Hürriyet-i Ebediye Hill on the same day.

1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser became Prime Minister of Egypt.

1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida to become the heavyweight boxing champion.

1968 - The second "Awakening Rally" was held in Taksim Square, Istanbul. The aim of the rally was to condemn the attack on the Turkish Workers' Party MPs in the Parliament.

1970 - The Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-14M accident occurred.

1984 - The screening of the film "A Season in Hakkari" was banned by the Martial Law Command.

1986 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos fled the country after 20 years in power. Corazon Aquino came to power.

1990 - Sandinista leader President Daniel Ortega loses the election in Nicaragua to Violeta Chamorro.

1991 - Iraq announced its decision to withdraw from Kuwait. This ended Operation Desert Storm, conducted jointly by American and Allied Forces. A ceasefire agreement was signed on February 28.

1991 - The Warsaw Pact was dissolved.

1994 - Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre: In the West Bank city of Hebron, 29 Palestinians were killed and 125 were injured when a Jew named Baruch Goldstein opened fire. Goldstein was lynched by an angry mob. In the ensuing riots, 26 Palestinians and 9 Israelis were killed.

1994 - Germany launched an investigation into the money sent to Germany by the Welfare Party under the name of "aid to Bosnia".

1994 - The Democracy Party (DEP) decided not to participate in the local elections.

2000 - Carlos Santana wins 8 Grammy Awards, tying the record for most Grammys won by an artist at once, previously held by Michael Jackson for his album "Thriller".

2003 - The Prime Ministry's Memorandum regarding the Iraq crisis, authorizing the government to send the Turkish Armed Forces to foreign countries and to have foreign armed forces in Turkey, was submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

2009 - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951: The plane, which took off from Istanbul at 8.22 am, crashed into three pieces before landing at Schipol Airport.