Important Dates: February 2018

Days

1^st Dignity Action Day Link

2^nd Groundhog Day Link

2^nd World Wetlands Day Link

2^nd Wear Red Day Link

2^nd  Number Day Link

4^th World Cancer Day Link

4^th British Yorkshire Pudding Day Link

6^th Safer Internet Day Link

12^th Red Hand for Child Soldiers Day Link

13^th Pancake Day

15^th International Childhood Cancer Day Link

20^th World Day of Social Justice Link

21^st International Mother Language Day Link

22^nd World Thinking Day Link

28^th Rare Disease Day Link

Weeks

5^th-11^th sign2sing Link

5^th-11^th Sexual Abuse & Sexual Awareness week Link

12^th-16^th Go Green Week Link

5^th-11^th Tinnitus Awareness Week Link

7^th-14^th Marriage Week Link

14^th-21^st National Nest Box Week Link

26^th-4^th Mar Eating Disorders Awareness Week Link

26^th-11^th March Fairtrade Fortnight Link

Months

Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Link

National Heart Month Link

Reynaud’s Awareness Month Link

February Religious Events

2^nd Candlemas (Christian)

3^rd Setsubun-sai (Shinto)

8^th Nirvana Day (Buddhist – Jain)

11^th Tu BiShvat (Jewish)

11^th Transfiguration Sunday (Christian)

13^th Shrove Tuesday (Christian)

14^th St Valentine’s Day (Christian)

14^th Maha Shavaratri (Hindu)

14^th Ash Wednesday (Christian)

16^th Chinese New Year

26^th-1^st Mar Intercalary (Baha’i)

February National Days

4^th Sri Lanka

6^th New Zealand

7^th Grenada

11^th Japan

15^th Serbia

16^th Lithuania

18^th Nepal

23^rd Brunei

25^th Kuwait

This Day in History

1^st Columbia shuttle breaks up on re-entry  (2003)

3^rd Buddy Holly killed in plane crash (1959)

3^rd Soviets first controlled landing of space probe on moon (1966)

5^th Sweet rationing ends (1953)

6^th Alan Shepherd hits a golf ball on moon (1971)

6^th King George V dies (1952)

7^th Ellen McArthur breaks world record for fastest solo sail around world (2005)

7^th Maastriche Treaty signed, establishing EU (1992)

7^th Edward of Caernarvon becomes first Prince of Wales (1301)

8^th Racehorse Shergar kidnapped (1983)

8^th Mary Queen of Scots beheaded (1587)

9^th Trevor Francis becomes first million pound footballer (1979)

10^th New Delhi becomes capital of India (1931)

10^th Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (1840)

11^th Nelson Mandela freed (1990)

11^th Tories choose Margaret Thatcher as first woman leader (1975)

11^th St Bernadette’s first vision of Virgin Mary at Lourdes (1858)

12^th Lady Jane Grey beheaded at Tower of London (1554)

13^th Anna Ford becomes first ITN woman newsreader (1978)

13^th Massacre at Glencoe (1692)

13^th Catherine Howard executed (1542)

15^th Decimalisation Day (1971)

16^th Kyoto Protocol founded (2005)

18^th Pluto discovered (1930)

18^th Ban on hunting with dogs becomes law (2005)

19^th Thomas Edison patents phonograph (1878)

20^th Soviets launch Space Station Mir (1986)

20^th John Glenn becomes first American astronaut to orbit earth (1962)

21^st Malcolm X assassinated in America (1965)

25^th Corporal punishment made illegal in British schools (1982)

26^th Women priests allowed (1987)

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