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February 12: Red Hand Day; Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2024) Edvard Munch's The Scream. 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII. 1924 – George Gershwin 's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
February 1: Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland; the Fajr decade begins in Iran; Black History Month begins in Canada and the United States. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. 1329 – The Teutonic Knights successfully besieged the hillfort of Medvėgalis in Samogitia, Lithuania, and baptised the defenders in the Catholic rite.
January 24. January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 341 days remain until the end of the year (342 in leap years ).
February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 318 days remain until the end of the year (319 in leap years ).
February 13. February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 321 days remain until the end of the year (322 in leap years ).
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 229 days remain until the end of the year.
1920 – The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history. [6] [7] [8] 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany. 1939 – The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi) of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969) February 18: