TODAY in HISTORY: FEBRUARY 25

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Feb 25

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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.

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