February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961); Beginning of the Nineteen-Day Fast (Baháʼí Faith, 2024)
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USS Ranger
- 1843 – Royal Navy captain Lord George Paulet began a five-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1933 – USS Ranger (pictured), the United States Navy's first purpose-built aircraft carrier, was launched.
- 1951 – After being postponed due to World War II, the inaugural edition of the Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1994 – Israeli physician Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying at the mosque in Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, killing 29 people and wounding 125 others.
- 2009 – At their headquarters in Pilkhana, members of the Bangladesh Rifles began a mutiny that resulted in 82 deaths.
- Emma Catherine Embury (b. 1806)
- Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (d. 1934)
- Divya Bharti (b. 1974)
- Don Bradman (d. 2001)
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