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Important Dates: February 2019 |
Days
1st Dignity Action Day Link
1st Wear Red Day Link
1st Number Day Link
2nd Groundhog Day Link
2nd World Wetlands Day Link
4th World Cancer Day Link
5th Chinese New Year
5th Safer Internet Day Link
6th International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM Link
7th Time to Talk Day Link
11th International Day of Women and Girls in Science Link
11th Epilepsy Day Link
12th Red Hand for Child Soldiers Day Link
13th World Radio Day Link
14th Valentine’s Day
15th International Childhood Cancer Day Link
17th Random Acts of Kindness 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
4th-10th Children Mental Health Week Link
4th-10th Tinnitus Awareness Week Link
10th-16th Children of Alcoholics Awareness Week Link
11th-15th Go Green Week Link
11th-19th Student Volunteering Week Link
14th-21st National Nestbox Week Link
25th-3rd Mar Eating Disorders Awareness Week Link
25th-10thMar Fairtrade Fortnight Link
25th-3rdMar #YouCanCare Week Link
Months
LGBT History Month Link
National Heart Month Link
CC Awareness Month Link
Reynaud’s Awareness Month Link
February Religious Events
2nd Candlemas (Christian)
3rd Setsubun-sai (Shinto)
5th Chinese New Year
8th Nirvana Day (Buddhist – Jain)
14th St Valentine’s Day (Christian)
15th Nirvana Day (Jain)
26th Intercalary Days begin (Baha’i)
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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