Mamlktik

On this day

February 25: Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity, 2020); Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)            


** 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.

**1870 – Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels (pictured) became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

** 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.

** 1986 – Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.

** 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed at least 161 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan