February 25th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The ephemeris of the 25th of  February, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.

• Birth of Matías Ramón Mella.
• Armed Forces Day.
• International Cochlear Implant Day.

Saints: Saint Nestor of Magydos, Saint Caesarius of Nazianzus, Saint Gerlando of Agrigento, Saint Aldetrudis of Malbode and Saint Waldburgis of Heidenheim.

National: February 25th Anniversaries

• 1802. French troops under the command of General F. M. Kerverseau formally took possession of the Spanish part of the island, initiating the period known as the "Era of France", which extends until 1809.
• 1854. The Constitution forced by General Pedro Santana is promulgated, in which the Ministry of Agriculture was instituted, with the name of Secretariat of State of Interior, Police and Agriculture.
• 1864. The chargé d'affaires of Spain before the Venezuelan government, José Antonio López Cevallos, shows his concern about the presence of commissioners from the Dominican restoration sector, seeking help for their cause against Spain.
• 1925. The remains of the educator Eugenio María de Hostos, who was the creator of the Normal School in 1879, are exhumed.
• 1948. The Executive Power creates in the National Police, by decree 4969, the General Headquarters, based in Santo Domingo, the Transit Service detachments, the Teaching Center, general headquarters of detachments, as well as that of detachments and posts.
• 1978. Monsignor Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez receives Episcopal Consecration and takes possession as Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco de Macorís.
• 2015. The Dominican Government, through Foreign Minister Andrés Navarro, warns that Haiti "overflows" relations between both nations and warns that "patience has a limit", when condemning the "unacceptable" occupation of the Dominican consulate in Port-au-Prince, by groups of protesters.
• 2016. The president and candidate for re-election, Danilo Medina, defines his government work as "the greatest social revolution in the history" of the Dominican Republic, during a political support act by retired General José Miguel Soto Jiménez.
• 2018. The Ministry of Defense announced the reinforcement of security in the 391 kilometers that separate RD and Haiti, through the use of electronic devices such as drones and video surveillance cameras.
• 2019. The opposition Modern Revolutionary Party deposits before the Attorney General a "Complaint for Investigation and subsequent formal accusation" against the ruling Dominican Liberation Party, for Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing, based on the testimonies of several of the former officials involved in the bribes of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

International: February 25th Anniversaries

• 52 BC. Pompey is elected sole consul of Rome
• 1610. Philip II orders the establishment of the Inquisition in Colombia.
• 1948. The communist revolution breaks out in Czechoslovakia.
• 1910. The Dalai Lama flees Tibet and takes refuge in India in the face of Chinese threats.
• 1954. General Gamel Abdel Nasser takes over the Government of Egypt
• 1956. Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Kruschev denounces Stalin before the XX Congress of the Russian Communist Party.
• 1986. In the Philippines, dictator Ferdinand Marcos flees the archipelago.
• -The current flag of Haiti is officially adopted, whose design dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, in the years of independence. 
• 1999 Combined forces of the Colombian police and the DEA dismantle a drug trafficking network belonging to a cartel led by three of the men most wanted by the US Justice, whom, however, they did not identify.
• 2003. In Venezuela, explosions occur at the Spanish embassy and the Colombian consulate, actions that were attributed by the authorities to retired military personnel involved in the 2002 coup.
• 2007. An attack attributed to a female kamikaze executes a suicide action at the University of Mustansiriya, the second largest in Baghdad, causing the death of 42 people. 
• 2013. Park Geun-hye, 61 years old, becomes the first female president of South Korea.
• 2014. A flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam crashed on the runway of Schiphol International Airport in Holland, with nine people losing their lives and 50 injured, out of the 135 passengers on board.
• 2015. Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) regains his freedom after serving a 70-month sentence in a prison in Colorado (USA), since June 2014, for conspiracy to launder money.
• 2018. China's ruling Communist Party proposes to eliminate the limit on consecutive terms for the presidency, which appears to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to hold the post of president beyond 2023.
• - The two Koreas once again stage their "Olympic idyll" during the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Games, within the framework of which the North Korean regime expressed its willingness to dialogue with the United States.
• 2019. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, points out that he "does not recognize" the "acts" and "institutions" created by the new Constitution in Cuba, which was voted two days earlier in a referendum by the inhabitants of the island.
• - The Canadian group Barrick Gold announces the public offer to acquire 17.85 billion dollars from the American company Newmont, one of its main competitors, with the aim of creating the largest gold producer in the world.
• 2021. The acting head of the United States Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, warns of a possible plan by extremists to blow up the Congress headquarters when the president, Joe Biden, delivers his first speech before the two legislative chambers.

Births: February 25th Anniversaries

• 1778: José de San Martín, Argentine patriot general and revolutionary politician; with his Army of the Andes he was fundamental for the liberation of Argentina, Chile and Peru. He was the 1st president of Peru.
• 1816: Matías Ramón Mella, Dominican patriot Dominican, one of the three founding fathers of the country.
• 1888: John Foster Dulles, American military man, lawyer and politician, 52nd US Secretary of State.
• 1943: George Harrison, British-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001), member of the band The Beatles.
• 2007: Yang Shuncheng, Chinese synchronized swimmer.
  2021: Carlota Salote Mafileʻo Pilolevu Tukuʻaho, Tongan aristocrat («princess»), member of the «royal family» of the island of Tonga.

Deaths: February 25th Anniversaries

• 1099: Anselm of Ribemont, Frankish aristocrat, participant in the First Crusade.
• 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is executed for conspiracy against Elizabeth I.
• 1869: Pedro Molina Peña, leader of the Restoration, and maternal grandfather of the tyrant Rafael L. Trujillo Molina.
• 1971. Died in Caracas, Venezuela, the lawyer, anti-Trujillista and writer Luis F. Mejía, author of the work De Lilís a Trujillo.
• 2020. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was the autocratic face of stability in the Middle East for almost 30 years. He was ousted from power in one of the uprisings of the so-called 'Arab Spring'.  
• 2017: Bill Paxton, American actor and filmmaker.