And the next date in the calendar is....

[ChickenGuy]

February 11

1990: Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years.

 

[unloadonme]

12 February is Darwin Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day

 

[Limenade]

February 13 is the Feast Day of Saint Beatrice of Ornacieux, who was a Carthusian nun (ca. 1240–1306/1309).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_Ornacieux

 

[unloadonme]

14 February is St Valentine's Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day

 

[frankfrank]

Frudiskiddah 204th

sorry, no pictures available, and I think I picked up the wrong calendar or something.

 

[Limenade]

Walt Disney's animated feature film, Cinderella, was released by RKO Radio Pictures on February 15, 1950.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film)

 

[bankside]

16 February 1923

Tutankhamun's tomb revealed by Howard Carter.

 

[Limenade]

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly premiered on February 17, 1904.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly

 

[unloadonme]

18 February 1957 - Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

 

[Limenade]

On February 19, 1878, Thomas Edison was issued the first patent (U.S. patent No. 200,521) for the phonograph that he invented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

 

[unloadonme]

20 February 1547 - Edward VI is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

 

[Limenade]

Though gravely ill, Gustav Mahler conducted a concert on February 21, 1911 at the Carnegie Hall, New York City, which turned out to be his final concert--his illness worsened and he died on May 18 of that year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler

 

[unloadonme]

22 February 1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Invasion_of_Britain

 

[Limenade]

English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis on February 23, 1821 at the age of 25.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats

 

[unloadonme]

24 February 616 – Death of King Ethelbert of Kent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelbert_of_Kent

 

[Limenade]

American actor/comedian James "Jim" Gilmore Backus (Thurston Howell, III in Gilligan's Island, etc.) was born on February 25, 1913.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Backus

 

[unloadonme]

26 February 364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_I

 

[Limenade]

Composer Robert Schumann tried to commit suicide on February 27, 1854, but was saved. (He died in 1856.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

 

[unloadonme]

28 February is the feast day of Oswald of Worcester, a former Archbishop of York.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_of_Worcester

 

[bankside]

29 February

Member of the Canadian House of Commons Svend Robinson comes out as gay (first Parliamentarian to do so in Canada) - 1988
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (who decriminalised homosexuality) announces his retirement - 1984

And of course, LEAP DAY!