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February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 327 days remain until the end of the year (328 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 457 – ...
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February 4: Lichun begins in East Asia (2024) Yasser Arafat. 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the eastern coast of Sicily, causing at least 15,000 deaths. 1969 – Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
Jackie McLean (May 17, 1931 –March 31, 2006), American alto saxophonist, would have turned 93 this year. Karl Drewo (May 17, 1929 –October 05, 1995), Austrian tenor saxophonist, would have turned 95 this year. Peter Badie (May 17, 1925 –April 15, 2023), American bass player, would have turned 99 this year. Bob Merrill (May 17, 1921 ...
1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871) 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912) February 4: 1508 - Death of Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
February 29. February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the 60th day of a leap year in both Julian and Gregorian calendars, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is the last day of February in leap years, with the ...
Presidents' Day, officially Washington's Birthday at the federal governmental level, is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring Founding Father George Washington, who led the Continental Army to victory in the American ...