15th February
1564 Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
16th February
1959 Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista
1846 Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
17th February
1969 Golda Meir was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Israel
1817 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
18th February
3102 BC Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
19th February
1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his gramophone (phonograph)
1949 Mass arrests of communists in India\
20th February
1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as the last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
21st February
1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties
1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
