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Events on February 25

• 1147 The term Austria for Austria is used for the first time in a document signed by the German King Conrad III.
• 1634 At a banquet in the castle of Eger, Wallenstein's followers Count Trčka, Christian von Ilow, Count Kinsky, and Rittmeister Neumann are murdered. Subsequently, Wallenstein himself is killed in the house of the city commander John Gordon.
• 1836 Samuel Colt receives a patent for his invention of the revolving-cylinder revolver.
• 1932 Adolf Hitler receives German citizenship. The native Austrian had been stateless since 1925.
• 1947 The Allied Control Council of the victorious powers of World War II dissolves the state of Prussia definitively through Control Council Law No. 46.
• 1948 Under pressure from the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš accepts the resignation of the non-communist cabinet members. With the reshuffled cabinet under Klement Gottwald, the Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia.
• 1956 In his secret speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU, Nikita Khrushchev settles accounts with Stalinism as part of de-Stalinization; the Thaw period begins.
• 1964 With his victory over Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay, who adopts the name Muhammad Ali the same year, becomes world heavyweight champion in boxing for the first time.
• 1975 The Federal Constitutional Court declares the adopted deadline regulation for abortion in § 218 a StGB unconstitutional.
• 1986 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos flees abroad after the peaceful EDSA Revolution. Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines with the support of Army Chief Fidel Ramos.
• 2004 The feature film The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson premieres in North American cinemas and becomes a controversial box-office success. Critics accuse the film of antisemitism and glorification of violence.
• 2018 In South Korea, the Winter Olympics conclude with the traditional closing ceremony. German athletes place second in the nation ranking with 31 medals won, behind Norway (39 medals).

Born on February 25

• 1873 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer
• 1882 B. Traven, English German-language writer
• 1901 Zeppo Marx, US-American actor
• 1932 Hans Apel, German politician
• 1943 Gerhard Cromme, German manager
• 1950 Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian politician
• 1961 Hermann Gröhe, German jurist and politician
• 1962 Birgit Fischer, German canoeist
• 1971 Sean Astin, US-American actor, director, author, and producer
• 1991 Markus Frohnmaier, German politician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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