Australian currency is decimalized. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimalisation’]
13 February 1955
Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls’]
12 February 1961
The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_1′]
11 February 1978
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle’]
10 February 1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagalla_massacre’]
9 February 1986
Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet’]
8 February 1250
Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Crusade’]
7 February 1992
The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty’]
6 February 1840
Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi’]
5 February 1924
The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal’]