On this day: 25 February

Selected events and births on 25 February, from Wikipedia’s “On this day”.

Events

• 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II. Read more: Khosrow II Sasanian Empire Kavad II
• 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg. Read more: George Frideric Handel Handel's lost Hamburg operas Hamburg
• 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved. Read more: Calaveras County, California Calaveras Skull Pliocene
• 1870 – Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress. Read more: United States Senate Hiram R. Revels List of African-American United States senators
• 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin. Read more: On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev

Born on this day

• 1953 – José María Aznar, Spanish politician; Prime Minister of Spain, 1996–2004 Read more: José María Aznar Prime Minister of Spain
• 1957 – Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean economist and politician; 5th Senior Minister and 9th President of Singapore Read more: Tharman Shanmugaratnam Senior Minister of Singapore President of Singapore
• 1967 – Ed Balls, English politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Read more: Ed Balls Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1974 – Dominic Raab, English politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Read more: Dominic Raab First Secretary of State Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)
• 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress Read more: Isabelle Fuhrman
• 1999 – Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer Read more: Gianluigi Donnarumma
• 1999 – Matvey Safonov, Russian footballer Read more: Matvey Safonov
• 1999 – Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter Read more: Rocky (singer)
• 2000 – Bo Nix, American football player Read more: Bo Nix
• 2001 – Vernon Carey Jr., American basketball player Read more: Vernon Carey Jr.
• 2003 – Brandin Podziemski, American basketball player Read more: Brandin Podziemski
• 2005 – Noah Jupe, English actor Read more: Noah Jupe

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