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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hand_Day" title="Red Hand Day">Red Hand Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1502" title="1502">1502</a> – Queen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile">Isabella I</a> issued an edict outlawing Islam in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Castile" title="Crown of Castile">Crown of Castile</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversions_of_Muslims_in_Spain" title="Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain">forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1855" title="1855">1855</a> – The precursor of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University" title="Michigan State University">Michigan State University</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lansing,_Michigan" title="East Lansing, Michigan">East Lansing</a> was founded as the United States' first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agricultural_universities_and_colleges" title="List of agricultural universities and colleges">agricultural college</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a> – The French fashion company <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dior" title="Dior">Dior</a></b> unveiled its New Look collection, which revolutionized women's dress and re-established Paris as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_capital" title="Fashion capital">centre of the fashion world</a> after World War II.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> space probe <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEAR_Shoemaker" title="NEAR Shoemaker">NEAR Shoemaker</a></b></i> touched down on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros" title="433 Eros">Eros</a>, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016" title="2016">2016</a> – In the first meeting between the leaders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Kirill_of_Moscow" title="Patriarch Kirill of Moscow">Patriarch Kirill of Moscow</a> signed the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_of_Pope_Francis_and_Patriarch_Kirill" title="Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill">Havana Declaration</a></b> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD_International_Airport" title="José Martí International Airport">José Martí International Airport</a> in Cuba.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Guildford_Dudley" title="Lord Guildford Dudley">Lord Guildford Dudley</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1554); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth" title="Alice Roosevelt Longworth">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1884); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Abdul_Aziz_Nik_Mat" title="Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat">Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2015)</p>
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