Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 25

February 25: National Day in Kuwait (1950)

• 1570 - Pope Pius V (pictured) issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.

• 1836 - Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver.

• 1921 - The Soviet Red Army occupied the Democratic Republic of Georgia, annexing it into a new Soviet Socialist Republic.

• 1951 - The first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• 1986 - EDSA Revolution: Corazon Aquino was inaugurated as President of the Philippines, as Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after 20 years of rule.

Recent days: February 24 – February 23 – February 22

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• February 1
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