Lee Petty wins the very first Daytona 500. On this day in 1959, Lee Petty defeats Johnny Beauchamp in a photo finish at the just-opened…
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21 February 1918
The last surviving Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Carolina Parakeet was the only parrot species native to the eastern United…
20 February 1877
Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake is first shown at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Swan Lake is ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was composed in 1875–1876….
19 February 1985
EastEnders is broadcast for the first time on the BBC. On the 19th February 1985, the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders was broadcast for the…
18 February 1930
Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. On February 18, 1930, amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered “Planet X” using an astrograph, which is essentially a space camera. Planet…
17 February 1979
The Sino-Vietnamese War starts. China’s relations with Vietnam began to deteriorate seriously in the mid-1970s. After Vietnam joined the Soviet-dominated Council for Mutual Economic Cooperation…
16 February 1985
Hezbollah is founded. The ideology of Hezbollah has been summarized as Shiite radicalism. Hezbollah was largely formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s followers…
15 February 1804
The Serbian Revolution starts. The First Serbian Uprising was an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February…
14 February 2005
YouTube is launched. YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve…
13 February 1990
An agreement is reached on the plan to reunite Germany. The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined…