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On February 25, 138: Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.

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Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.

Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Born on February 25

Noah Jupe 2005– English actor (born 2005)
Tyler Sanders 2004– American actor (2004–2022)
Brandin Podziemski 2003– American basketball player (born 2003)
Vernon Carey Jr. 2001– American basketball player (born 2001)
Bo Nix 2000– American football player (born 2000)
Gianluigi Donnarumma 1999– Italian footballer (born 1999)
Matvey Safonov 1999– Russian footballer (born 1999)
Rocky 1999– South Korean rapper and singer (born 1999)
Isabelle Fuhrman 1997– American actress (born 1997)
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Thon Maker 1997– South Sudanese-Australian basketball player (born 1997)
Mario Hezonja 1995– Croatian basketball player (born 1995)
Viktoriya Tomova 1995– Bulgarian tennis player (born 1995)
Fred VanVleet 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Erick Fedde 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Lukáš Sedlák 1993– Czech ice hockey player (born 1993)
Joakim Nordström 1992– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Jorge Soler 1992– Cuban baseball player (born 1992)
Félix Peña 1990– Dominican baseball player (born 1990)

People

Died on February 25

Henry Kelly Irish broadcaster (1946–2025)
Roberto Orci American screenwriter and producer (1973–2025)
Jane Reed UK Magazine editor and media executive (born 1940)
Gordon Pinsent Canadian actor and writer (1930–2023)
Farrah Forke American actress (1968–2022)
Shirley Hughes English illustrator and author (1927–2022)
Dmitry Yazov Soviet minister of defence (1924–2020)
Bill Paxton American actor (1955–2017)
Harve Bennett American screenwriter, producer (1930–2015)
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Ariel Camacho Mexican musician (1992–2015)
Eugenie Clark American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
Louisiana Red American blues singer-songwriter and musician (1932–2012)
Ihsan Dogramaci Turkish pediatrician and medical academic (1915–2010)
Hans Raj Khanna Indian judge (1912–2008)
Peter Benenson British lawyer and human rights activist (1921–2005)
A. R. Ammons American poet (1926–2001)
Don Bradman Australian cricketer (1908–2001)
Glenn T. Seaborg American chemist (1912–1999)

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Every February 25 on record

  1. 138 Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.

    Calendar year

    Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 628 Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.

    Emperor of the Sasanian Empire from 590 to 628

    Khosrow II, commonly known as Khosrow Parviz, is considered to be the last great monarch of pre-Islamic Iran, ruling the Sasanian Empire from 590 to 628, including an interruption of one year.

  3. 1705 George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premieres in Hamburg.

    German-British composer (1685–1759)

    George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.

  4. 1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm.

    American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)

    Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.

  5. 1843 Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet affair.

    British admiral (1803–1879)

    Lord George Paulet CB was a British officer of the Royal Navy.

  6. 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  7. 1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
  8. 1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  9. 1916 World War I: In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
  10. 1918 World War I: German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
  11. 1921 Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  12. 1932 Adolf Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
  13. 1933 Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.
  14. 1939 As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
  15. 1941 The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
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  1. 1947 The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
  2. 1947 Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.
  3. 1948 In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
  4. 1951 The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
  5. 1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
  6. 1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
  7. 1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president.
  8. 1991 Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.
  9. 1994 American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.
  10. 1999 Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.
  11. 2009 Soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.
  12. 2009 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashes during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
  13. 2015 At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
  14. 2016 Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
  15. 2026 Four people are killed and several more are injured when Cuban Border Guard Troops confront and open fire on a US-registered speedboat violating Cuban waters.

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