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2015 (Friday) February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 314 days remain until the end of the year (315 in leap years ).
In Nepal, Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the full moon day of May. The festival is known by various names, Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, Vaishakh Purnima, Saga Dawa, and Vesak. Purnima means full moon day in Sanskrit. Among the Newars of Nepal, especially from the Shakya clan of Newars, it is of great importance because they consider it ...
2016 (Thursday) 2015 (Wednesday) February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 309 days remain until the end of the year (310 in leap years ).
1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904) 1998 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1913) 1999 – Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric (b. 1943) 2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
1947 – February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the death of an estimated 28,000 civilians. [9] 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S ...
2015 (Wednesday) February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 in leap years ).
2017 (Thursday) 2016 (Wednesday) 2015 (Monday) August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 136 days remain until the end of the year.