Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 25

February 25: National Day in Kuwait (1950)

Official portrait of President Corazón Aquino of the Philippines

• 1570 - Pope Pius V 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.
• 1921 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia was occupied by the Soviet Red Army.
• 1951 - The first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1986 - EDSA Revolution: Corazón Aquino (pictured) was inaugurated as President of the Philippines, as Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after 20 years of rule.

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