Important Dates: February 2017 |
Days
1st Dignity Action Day Link
2nd Groundhog Day Link
2nd World Wetlands Day Link
3rd Wear Red Day Link
4th World Cancer Day Link
5th Number Day Link
7th British Yorkshire Pudding Day Link
9th Safer Internet Day Link
12th Red Hand for Child Soldiers Day Link
15th International Childhood Cancer Day Link
20th World Day of Social Justice Link
21st International Mother Language Day Link
22nd World Thinking Day Link
28th Rare Disease Day Link
Weeks
13th-19th Go Green Week Link
6th-12th Bramley Apple Week Link
6th-12th Tinnitus Awareness Week Link
7th-14th Marriage Week Link
14th-21st National Nest Box Week Link
20th-26th National Salt Awareness Week Link
27th-5th Mar Eating Disorders Awareness Week Link
27th-12th March Fairtrade Fortnight Link
Months
Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Link
National Heart Month Link
February Religious Events
1st Vasant Panshami (Hindu)
2nd Candlemas (Christian)
3rd Setsubun-sai (Shinto)
11th Tu BiShvat (Jewish)
14th St Valentine’s Day (Christian)
15th Nirvana Day (Buddhist – Jain)
25th Maha Shavaratri (Hindu)
26th Intercalary (Baha’i)
28th Shrove Tuesday (Christian)
February National Days
4th Sri Lanka
6th New Zealand
7th Grenada
11th Japan
15th Serbia
16th Lithuania
18th Nepal
23rd Brunei
25th Kuwait
This Day in History
1st Columbia shuttle breaks up on re-entry (2003)
3rd Buddy Holly killed in plane crash (1959)
3rd Soviets first controlled landing of space probe on moon (1966)
5th Sweet rationing ends (1953)
6th Alan Shepherd hits a golf ball on moon (1971)
6th King George V dies (1952)
7th Ellen McArthur breaks world record for fastest solo sail around world (2005)
7th Maastriche Treaty signed, establishing EU (1992)
7th Edward of Caernarvon becomes first Prince of Wales (1301)
8th Racehorse Shergar kidnapped (1983)
8th Mary Queen of Scots beheaded (1587)
9th Trevor Francis becomes first million pound footballer (1979)
10th New Delhi becomes capital of India (1931)
10th Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (1840)
11th Nelson Mandela freed (1990)
11th Tories choose Margaret Thatcher as first woman leader (1975)
11th St Bernadette’s first vision of Virgin Mary at Lourdes (1858)
12th Lady Jane Grey beheaded at Tower of London (1554)
13th Anna Ford becomes first ITN woman newsreader (1978)
13th Massacre at Glencoe (1692)
13th Catherine Howard executed (1542)
15th Decimalisation Day (1971)
16th Kyoto Protocol founded (2005)
18th Pluto discovered (1930)
18th Ban on hunting with dogs becomes law (2005)
19th Thomas Edison patents phonograph (1878)
20th Soviets launch Space Station Mir (1986)
20th John Glenn becomes first American astronaut to orbit earth (1962)
21st Malcolm X assassinated in America (1965)
25th Corporal punishment made illegal in British schools (1982)
26th Women priests allowed (1987)
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