February

Soon after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933, he focused his attention on the domestic economic situation created by the Great Depression. Later, Roosevelt asserted that a…

On February 13, 1931, the British Viceroy of India formally inaugurated New Delhi as the capital of India. The city still retains its capital status and has become one of…

Under the cover of darkness, 254 bombers took off on February 13, 1945 from British airfields bound for Dresden, a German cultural and railroad center near the eastern edge of…

Code-named as “Gerboise Bleue”(Blue Desert Rat), the first French nuclear test was conducted on 13 February 1960. This day marks the beginning of a series of four atmospheric nuclear tests…

More than three decades after the idea of a telephone was first considered by Innocenzo Manzetti, two Americans rushed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on February…

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of February 14, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, left seven rivals of gangster Al Capone dead, making him the undisputed leader of the city’s underworld. The…

Arizona was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1912. It was the 48th and the last of the conterminous states to be admitted to the Union. Arizona was ruled…

At 9.40 pm February 15, 1898, the US battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana in Cuban waters. The explosion tore the bottom of the ship and it sunk,…

The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world’s first fully electronic automatic “computing machine,” became public knowledge at a large public ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania on February…

The New York Times called February 16, 1923, “perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation” – on this day celebrated Egyptologist and noted archeologist, Howard…