Year 399
Socrates was sentenced to death.
FEBRUARY 15
Daily Historical Chronicle
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15 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 15 February.
Year 1879
US Supreme Court allowed women lawyers to fight lawsuits.
Year 1939
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the President of the Congress.
Year 1942
World War II- British troops surrendered in Singapore. 80,000 Indian, British, and Australian troop’s ceasefire.
Year 1965
Canada adopted a new flag.
Year 1967
Fourth general election held in India.
Year 1976
Central Agricultural Research Institute was established in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Year 2010
Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
Year 2012
Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
Year 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.
Born 1564
Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.
Born 1710
Louis XV, the King of France.
Born 1824
Rajendralal (Raja Mitra), the first president of the Asiatic Society, an Orientalist researcher in Bengal.
Born 1923
Sathyavani Muthu, an Indian politician and an influential leader from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Born 1934
Niklaus Wirth, a Swiss computer scientist.
Born 1935
Bashir Badr, an Indian poet of Urdu.
Born 1947
Randhir Kapoor, an Indian film actor, producer, and director.
Born 1949
Namdeo Dhasal, a Marathi poet, writer, and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.
Born 1964
Ashutosh Gowariker, an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.
Born 1988
Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer and actor
Born 1988
Tim Mannah, Australian-born Lebanese rugby league player
Born 1988
Rui Patrício, Portuguese footballer
Born 1990
Charles Pic, French race car driver
Born 1991
Ángel Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer
Born 1993
Ravi, a South Korean rapper
Born 2017
The Indian space rocket PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight.
Died 1869
Mirza Ghalib, a prominent Urdu, and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.
Died 1948
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, an Indian poet.
Died 1953
Sureshbabu Mane, a prominent Hindustani classical music singer of Kirānā Gharānā in India.
Died 1988
Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist.
Died 1869
Ghalib, Indian poet and educator (b. 1796)
Died 2016
George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (b. 1917)
Died 2016
Vanity, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (b. 1959)
Died 2017
Stuart McLean, Canadian radio broadcaster (b. 1948)
Died 2019
Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
Died 2020
Caroline Flack, English Actress and TV Presenter (b. 1979)