^B{^#!16!25 February^N! National Day of Kuwait. Feast day of St Ethelbert of Kent, St Walburga, St Gerland, St Louis Versiglia, St Caesarius of Nazianzen, and St Calixto Caravario.
^B{1308^B} Coronation of King Edward II of England. ^B{1570^B} Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I. ^B{1913^B} English suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst went on trial for a bomb attack on the home of David Lloyd George, chancellor of the Exchequer. ^B{1939^B} The first Anderson air-raid shelter was built in Islington, N London, UK. ^B{1955^B} HMS ^I{Ark Royal^I} was completed, the largest aircraft carrier ever built in Britain. ^B{1964^B} Cassius Clay took the heavyweight boxing championship of the world, when his opponent Sonny Liston refused to fight the seventh round. ^B{1988^B} US televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was suspended after it became known that he had visited a prostitute for three years.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright, ^B{1707^B}; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter, ^B{1841^B}; Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, ^B{1873^B}; Myra Hess, English pianist, ^B{1890^B}; Anthony Burgess, English novelist, ^B{1917^B}; David Puttnam, English film producer, ^B{1941^B}; George Harrison, English pop musician and former member of the Beatles, ^B{1943^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for high treason, ^B{1601^B}; Christopher Wren, English architect, ^B{1723^B}; Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of Reuters international news agency,^B{ 1899^B}; John Tenniel, English artist and illustrator, ^B{1914^B}; Mark Rothko, US painter, ^B{1970^B}; Tennessee Williams, US dramatist, ^B{1983^B}.
