In the present day is Wednesday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2026. There are 309 days left within the yr.
In the present day in historical past:
On Feb. 25, 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule within the wake of a tainted election; opposition chief Corazon Aquino — the primary lady to guide the nation — assumed the presidency.
Additionally on this date:
In 1870, Republican Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi was sworn in as a U.S. senator, turning into the primary African American member of both home of Congress.
In 1913, the sixteenth Modification to the U.S. Structure, giving Congress the ability to levy and gather earnings taxes, was declared in impact by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.
In 1956, Soviet chief Nikita Khrushchev railed for hours towards the brutality and “cult of persona” of his late predecessor, dictator Josef Stalin, in a speech to a Communist Occasion congress.
In 1964, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) grew to become world heavyweight boxing champion for the primary time as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Seashore.
In 1991, in the course of the Persian Gulf Conflict, 28 American troopers have been killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
In 1994, American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened hearth with an automated rifle contained in the Tomb of the Patriarchs within the West Financial institution in the course of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, killing 29 Muslims earlier than he was crushed to dying by worshippers.
In 1997, a jury in Media, Pennsylvania, convicted chemical fortune inheritor John E. du Pont of third-degree homicide, deciding he was mentally unwell when he shot and killed world-class wrestler David Schultz. (Du Pont died in jail in December 2010 whereas serving a 13- to 30-year sentence; he was 72.)
In 2024, the U.S. and Britain struck 18 Houthi targets in Yemen, answering a current surge in assaults by the Iran-backed militia group on ships within the Pink Sea and Gulf of Aden, together with a missile strike that set hearth to a cargo vessel.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Former speak present host Sally Jessy Raphael is 91.
- Actor Tom Courtenay is 89.
- Movie director Neil Jordan is 76.
- Rock musician-actor John Doe (punk band X) is 73.
- Comic Carrot High is 61.
- Actor Tea Leoni is 60.
- Actor Sean Astin is 55.
- Singer Daniel Powter is 55.
- Comic-actor Chelsea Handler is 51.
- Actor Rashida Jones is 50.
- FBI Director Kash Patel is 46.
- Actor Jameela Jamil is 40.
- Golfer Hideki Matsuyama is 34.
- Actor Isabelle Fuhrman is 29.
- Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix is 26.