Construction starts on the Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot monument in St. Louis in the U.S. state of…
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11 February 1823
About 110 boys are killed at a carnival during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta. The last day of…
10 February 1967
The 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified. Twenty-fifth Amendment, amendment (1967) to the Constitution of the United States that set forth succession…
9 February 1951
Geochang massacre occurs during the Korean War. The Geochang massacre was a massacre conducted by the third battalion of the 9th regiment of the 11th…
8 February 1950
The secret police of East Germany, the Stasi, is established. The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi, was the official state security…
7 February 1935
The board game Monopoly is invented. On this day 81 years ago Charles Darrow’ popular board game, Monopoly, based on the streets of Atlantic City,…
6 February 1833
Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece. Otto of Greece (Othon, Vasileus tis Ellados) was made the first modern king of Greece in 1832,…
5 February 1971
Apollo 14 astronauts land on the moon. Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land…
4 February 1859
The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. On this day in 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in Egypt, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine,…
3 February 1897
The Greco-Turkish War starts. The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days’ War and known in Greece as the Black ’97 or the…