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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25" title="February 25">February 25</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Occupation_Day_(Georgia)" title="Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)">Soviet Occupation Day</a></b> in Georgia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>); National Day in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961" title="1961">1961</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/628" title="628">628</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrow_II" title="Khosrow II">Khosrow II</a></b>, the last great king of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a>, was overthrown by his son <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavad_II" title="Kavad II">Kavad II</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a> – Miners in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_County,_California" title="Calaveras County, California">Calaveras County, California</a>, discovered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Skull" title="Calaveras Skull">a human skull</a></b> that was taken to show that humans had existed during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Pliocene</a>, a thesis that was later disproved.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956" title="1956">1956</a> – In <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences" title="On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences">a speech</a></b> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th Congress of the Communist Party</a>, Soviet leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> denounced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">personality cult</a> and dictatorship of his predecessor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a> – The first prime minister of independent Suriname, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henck_Arron" title="Henck Arron">Henck Arron</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Surinamese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1980 Surinamese coup d'état">was deposed in a military coup</a></b> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9si_Bouterse" title="Dési Bouterse">Dési Bouterse</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020" title="2020">2020</a> – Hong Kong–based writer and publisher <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai" title="Gui Minhai">Gui Minhai</a></b>, known for writing about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharafkhan_Bidlisi" title="Sharafkhan Bidlisi">Sharafkhan Bidlisi</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1543); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1943); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_Hanazawa" title="Kana Hanazawa">Kana Hanazawa</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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