Date
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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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Feb 1
|
2009
|
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir becomes this country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government
|
Iceland
|
Feb 2
|
1901
|
This queen's funeral is held in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
|
Queen Victoria
|
Feb 3
|
1468
|
This German publisher and inventor of the printing press dies
|
J.Gutenberg
|
Feb 4
|
1794
|
This is abolished by the French legislature throughout all territories
|
Slavery
|
Feb 5
|
1939
|
This generalísimo becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España" (Leader of Spain)
|
F. Franco
|
Feb 6
|
1918
|
British women over the age of 30 get this right
|
voting right
|
Feb 7
|
1992
|
The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of this organization
|
the EU
|
Feb 8
|
1952
|
This young princess is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
|
Elizabeth II
|
Feb 9
|
1996
|
This synthetic chemical element named after a Polish astronomer is discovered
|
Copernicium
|
Feb 10
|
1940
|
The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens to this region
|
Siberia
|
Feb 11
|
2009
|
The EU sets this day as the European ___ Day to promote this emergency phone number
|
112
|
Feb 12
|
1502
|
This explorer sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India
|
Vasco da Gama
|
Feb 13
|
1960
|
With the success of "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the 4th country to possess this
|
a nuclear weapon
|
Feb 14
|
1945
|
The Dresden bombing in navigational errors turns into the bombing of this other city, as well
|
Prague
|
Feb 15
|
1923
|
This country is the last in Europe to adopt the Gregorian calendar
|
Greece
|
Feb 16
|
1918
|
This country sets itself officially free from the German rule (and stays independent until 1940 when it's seized by the USSR)
|
Lithuania
|
Feb 17
|
1600
|
This philosopher and cosmological theorist is burned alive, for heresy, in Rome
|
G. Bruno
|
Feb 18
|
2014
|
Hundreds of people are killed or injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in this city
|
Kiev
|
Feb 19
|
356
|
Roman Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all of these
|
pagan temples
|
Feb 20
|
1877
|
This Tchaikovsky's ballet receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre
|
Swan Lake
|
Feb 21
|
1848
|
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in this city
|
London
|
Feb 22
|
1997
|
British scientists announce that this animal has been successfully cloned
|
Dolly, sheep
|
Feb 23
|
1898
|
This writer is imprisoned after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus
|
Émile Zola
|
Feb 24
|
1920
|
This party is founded by Anton Drexler
|
NSDAP
|
Feb 25
|
1991
|
This organization first created in 1955 by communist countries is declared disbanded
|
Warsaw Pact
|
Feb 26
|
1815
|
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from this island
|
Elba
|
Feb 27
|
2015
|
Assassination of this Russian politician occurs in central Moscow
|
Boris Nemtsov
|
Feb 28
|
2013
|
This pope of the Catholic Church resigns
|
Benedict XVI
|
Feb 29
|
1644
|
This Dutch explorer begins his second Pacific voyage
|
Abel Tasman
|