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●.The first day of spring in the Celtic calendar. It is the feast day of St. Brigid ( or Bridget),abbess of Kildare (Ireland) in the early 6th century, whose identity is associated with that of a Celtic goddess
● Don Vicente Sos Baynat can see the passing of Halley’s Comet in Canton, Ohio, USA in 1986.
●.The US space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere killing its crew of seven astronauts, in 2003.
●.This is the Christian festival of Candlemas, commemorating the purification of the Virgin forty days after the birth of her son Jesus and the presentation of the Lord to God in the temple forty days after Christmas, as it was the custom of any Jewish boy. This is the day when all candles were brought into church and a blessing was said over them. Christians often talk of Jesus as ‘the light of the world’and candles are lit during church services to remind Christians of this.
●.Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist and inventor of the periodic table, died in 1907.
●.This is the feast of St. Blaise, who is said to have saved the life of a young boy by removing a fishbone stuck in his throat. For this reason, he is invoked against throat ailments.
●.Russia’s Luna IX spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon, in 1966.
●.The Sunday Times published The Sunday Times Colour Section, the first newspaper colour supplement in the UK, in 1962.
●.Spain captured Menorca from the United Kingdom, in 1782.
●Robert Peel was born in 1788.He formed the first police force in London,hence nickname ‘bobbies’.
●.Disney’s film Peter Pan was released in 1953.
●.Jamaican singer and guitarist Bob Marley was born in 1945. His songs are a mixture of reggae, rock and blues.
●.In New Zealand this is Waitangi Day, commemorating the agreement (1840) between the British governement and the Maoris, giving them authority over the lands they possessed.
●Princess Elizabeth became the new sovereign after the death of the father, King George VI, in 1952.
● In 1935 Don Vicente Sos Baynat succeeds in obtaining, through public examinations, the post of high-level secondary teacher of Natural Sciences, ranked number 1. He chooses his post in Castellón, although he keeps his place at Quevedo Secondary School and the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.
●.Prince Edward, later Edward II, was given the title of Prince of Wales, the first heir to the throne to bear the title, in1301.
●.English writer Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He is considered one of the English language’s geatest writers. His books include A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.
●.The Beatles made their first visit to the USA in 1964.
●.US author John Grisham was born in Arkansas in 1955. He is best known for his works of modern legal drama.The Firm has been adapted to the cinema.
●.Princess Elizabeth proclaimed herself Queen Elizabeth II, and officially acceded to the British throne in 1952.
●.The US station Skylab returned to earth after a then record 84 days and 1 hour in space, in 1974.
●.The largest commercial aircraft in the world, the Boeing 747, made its first flight in 1969.
●.Halley’s Comet made its closest passage to the Sun on its 76-year orbit, in 1986.
●.US swimmer Mark Spitz was born in 1950. He won 7 Gold Medals in the Munich Olympic Games(1972).
●.World chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by the IBM computer “Deep Blue” in the first match of a tournament held in Philadelphia, USA, in 1996. Kasparov, however, eventually won the competition.
●.In Japan this is National Foundation Day, commemorating the founding of the Japanese Empire in 660 BC.
●.US inventor and physicist Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He invented the phonograph and the light bulb.
●.English fashion designer Mary Quant was born in 1934. She is credited with inventing the miniskirt and the coloured patterned tights.
●.French philosopher and mathematician Renè Descartes died in 1650.
●.Under the Lateran Treaty, the Vatican became an independent papal State within the city of Rome in 1929.
●.Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809, in Kentucky. His antislavery convictions drew him to become 16th President of the USA. His presidency was dominated by the American Civil War.The third Monday of February is a public holiday in the USA in honour of all past presidents of the nation, as a commemoration of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (12 February) and George Washington (22 February).
● Charles Darwin was born in 1809. English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
●.English rock singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel was born in 1950.
●.German composer Richard Wagner died in 1883. Tristan and Isolde and The Rings of Nibelungs are among his best-known operas.
●.English singer and songwriter Robbie Wiliams was born in 1974. Member of the pop boy band Take That between 1990 and 1995. He is considered one of the most successful male solo artists in British history, with record sales of more than 60 million worldwide.
●This is the feast of St.Valentine, a third-century Roman martyr. 14 February is the eve of Lupercalia, an ancient Roman festival of fertility, and it is also the day on which birds traditionally choose their mates.●.English navigator Captain James Cook was born in 1779. He explored the Arctic Circle and discovered the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).●.The ENIAC the first electronic digital computer was demonstrated at the University of Pennsilvania (USA) in 1946.
●.Italian astronomer, mathematician and natural philosopher Galileo Galilei was born in1564. He is considered the father of modern observational astronomy and modern physics.
●.US animator and creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, was born in 1954.
●.The red maple leaf on a white ground between two red stripes became the new national flag of Canada, and was raised for the first time at a ceremony in Ottawa in 1965.
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