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15 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1869 Mirza Ghalib, probably the most quotable Urdu poet of all times, died. During his lifetime, the already declining Mughal Empire was eclipsed and displaced by the British East India Company Rule and finally deposed following the defeat of the First Indian War of Independence (Sepoy Mutiny) of 1857; these are described through his work.
- 1948 Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, famous Hindi poet, political agitator, critic and freedom fighter, passed away near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, in an automobile accident. She was the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur and was jailed twice for her involvement in protests against the British rule in 1923 and 1942. One of her most popular poems is "Jhansi ki Rani".
- 2017 Launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, PSLV-C37 successfully carried and deployed a record 104 satellites in sun-synchronous orbits.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0399 BCE Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety.
- 1564 Galileo, Italian natural philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, was born. He made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His discoveries with the telescope also revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him.
- 1903 American toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom started selling teddy bear soft toys.
- 1923 Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
- 1954 Matt Groening, American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator, was born. He is the creator of the television series The Simpsons.
- 1965 Canada officially adopted the Maple Leaf Flag following a royal proclamation.
- 1978 Leon Spinks defeated Muhammad Ali to become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
- 1989 Under President Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union withdrew its last troops from Afghanistan after occupying the country for almost ten years.
- 2001 The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
- 2013 A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
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