Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 25:
1921 – Russian soldiers capture Tbilisi and declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1948 – In Czechoslovakia, President Edvard Benes accepted the resignations of non-Communist ministers. Communists took control of the government in the “February Coup”.
1964 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion, defeating Sonny Liston in Miami.
1993 – Kim Young-sam was sworn in as South Korea’s first civilian president for 32 years.
1996 – Haing Ngor, whose Academy Award-winning performance in the film “The Killing Fields” mirrored his own ordeal at the hands of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, was murdered in Los Angeles.
2001 – Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest batsman in test cricket history and Australia’s most revered sporting figure, died, aged 92. He averaged 99.94 runs in 52 test matches.
2005 – Peter Benenson, founder of the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, died at 83.
2009 – Turkish Airlines flight 1951 crashes in Amsterdam.
2013 – Buddhist monks pray on Makha Bucha Day.
2015 – Dozens dead in Afghanistan avalanches.
2016 – High seas leave Carolina Queen III fishing vessel capsizes near New York.
