1819: Spain sold Florida to the United States for 5 million.
1845: Serampore and Balasore were bought by the British East India Company from the Dutch East India Company.
1942: World War II- US President Roosevelt ordered the withdrawal of General Douglas MacArthur, as defeat by the Japanese forces in the Philippines seems inevitable.
1948: Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1978: Yashwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the 16th Chief Justice of India.
1979: St. Lucia gained independence from Britain.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries – February 22.
1732: George Washington, an American political leader and the first president of the United States.
1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher.
1857: Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist.
1857: Robert Baden-Powell, the Founder of the worldwide Scout Movement.
1863: Maharaja Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore.
1884: Bhopal Singh, the ruler of the Indian princely state of Udaipur.
1885: Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, an Indian revolutionary.
1889: Sahajanand Saraswati, an ascetic, a nationalist, and a peasant leader of India.
1892: Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik, an Indian independence activist.
1902: Friedrich Strassmann, a German chemist.
1906: Sohan Lal Dwivedi, an Indian poet, Gandhian, and freedom fighter.
1913: Mirza Hameedullah Beg, the 15th Chief Justice of India.
1922: Sayed Haider Raza, an Indian painter.
1964: Sooraj Barjatya, an Indian film director.
1964: Ed Boon, an American video game programmer.
1975: Drew Barrymore, an American actress.
Death anniversaries ay – February 22.
1512: Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator, from whose name the terms America and Americas are derived.
1815: Smithson Tennant, an English chemist.
1827: Charles Willson Peale, an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician, and naturalist.
1944: Kasturba Gandhi, an Indian political activist, and wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
1958: Maulana Abul Kalam, an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, independence activist, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.
Historical events in Indian and world history on February 21.
1842: George Greeno received a patent for a sewing machine.
1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.
1849: The Battle of Gujrat – a decisive battle in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, fought between the forces of the East India Company, and a Sikh army in rebellion against the Company’s control of the Sikh Empire, represented by the child Maharaja Duleep Singh who was in British custody in Lahore.
1878: The first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut.
1915: Armed revolutionary uprisings took place in Lahore, Benaras, and Meerut.
1948: Second draft of constitution of India was placed before the constituent assembly on this day.
1952: Demonstration of official language status to the Bengali language at Dhaka University in East Pakistan (present-Day Bangladesh)
1959: Establishment of Press Club of India in New Delhi.
1972: Soviet Unmanned spacecraft Luna 20 landed on the moon.
1999: Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration.
2013: At least 17 people were killed and 119 injured in a series of bomb blasts in Hyderabad.
2018: Indian film star Kamal Haasan launched a new political party – Makkal Needhi Mayyam in Tamil Nadu state.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries – February 21.
1703: Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, an Islamic scholar.
1829: Ameer Minai, a 19th-century Indian poet.
1878: Mirra Alfassa, a spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.
1894: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator.
1899: Suryakant Tripathi, Nirala, an Indian poet, novelist, essayist, and story-writer.
1924: Gulab Khandelwal, an Indian poet.
1911: Bhabatosh Datta, a noted Indian economist, academic, and writer.
1943: David Lawrence Geffen, an American business magnate, and co-founder of DreamWorks Pictures.
Death anniversaries of famous– February 21.
1677: Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher.
1829: Kitturu Chennamma, the Queen of the Nayakas of the kingdom of Kittur.
1965: Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister, and human rights activist.
1991: Nutan, an Indian film actress.
1998: Om Prakash Bakshi, an Indian character actor.
2011: Dwayne McDuffie, an American writer of comic books.
Historical events in Indian and world history on February 20.
1846 : British captured Lahore.
1847: Royal Calcutta Turf Club was established.
1921: The Nankana massacre (or Saka Nankana) took place in Nankana Sahib gurdwara on this day, at that time a part of the British India but today in modern-day Pakistan.
1947: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Britain would leave India by June 1948.
1947: Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.
1968: First-time heart transplant was done at K E M Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. P K Sen performed this complex surgery.
1976: Bombay High Field commenced the production of crude oil for commercial use.
1987: Mizoram became the 23rd state of India.
2014: Telangana became the 29th state of India.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– February 20.
1844: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist, and philosopher.
1900: Rattanbai Jinnah, the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
1901: Mohamed Naguib, an Egyptian politician and the first President and Prime Minister of Egypt.
1917: Kaif Bhopali, an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
1956: Annu Kapoor, an Indian film actor and television presenter.
1988: Rihanna, a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman.
Death anniversaries of famous people – February 20
1895: Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
1950: Sarat Chandra Bose, an Indian barrister, and independence activist.
1960: Kothainayaki Ammal, a Tamil writer, novelist, and journalist.
1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian industrialist. He created an Automobile Lamborghini.
2015: Govind Pansare, a left-wing Indian politician of the Communist Party of India.
1905 : Shyamji Krishnavarma founded the India Home Rule Society in London.
1930: Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system for a long time, was discovered by Clyde Tombamg. Later on, Pluto withdrew the status of the planet.
1946: The Royal Indian Navy revolt in Mumbai.
1965: the Gambia gained independence from England.
1971: India established the first satellite contact with Britain through the Arvi satellite station.
1979: Snow falls in southern Algeria in the Sahara Desert. This is the only record of snowfall in the Sahara Desert.
1998: Senior Gandhian leader, former Union Minister and former Governor of Maharashtra C. Subramanian was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor of India.
2007: Samjhauta Express bombings – a terrorist attack that occurred around midnight on this day on the Samjhauta Express, a twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi, India, and Lahore, Pakistan.
2019: Gun battle in Pulwama, Indian-controlled Kashmir, killed nine with Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad held responsible.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries18th February
1745: Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, the inventor of the electric battery, and the discoverer of methane.
1823: Gopal Hari Deshmukh, an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer, and writer.
871: Vitthalbhai Patel, a political leader and the first Indian President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India.
1883: Madan Lal Dhingra, an Indian revolutionary, and pro-independence activist.
1886: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, an Indian Hindu mystic, saint, and religious leader.
1894: Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, an Indian independence activist and a socialist.
1898: Enzo Ferrari, an Italian motor racing driver, and entrepreneur, the founder of the Ferrari automobile marque.
1914: Jan Nisar Akhtar, an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms.
1927: Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi, an Indian music director, and background score composer.
1933: Nimmi, an Indian screen actress.
1957: Rajat Sharma, an Indian journalist and the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV.
1966: Sajid Nadiadwala, an Indian film producer, and director.
Famous people who died on this day on 18th February
1294: Kublai Khan, the fifth khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1405: Taimur, the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty.
1564: Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist.
2016: Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, an Indian vocalist of Hindustani music.
