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2025: February 4 (5 Sha'ban 1446 AH)

  February 4 Events 1859  – The  Codex Sinaiticus  is discovered in  Egypt . [7] 1969  –  Yasser Arafat  takes over as chairman of the  Palestine Liberation Organization . 1997  – En route to  Lebanon , two Israeli  Sikorsky CH-53  troop-transport helicopters  collide in mid-air  over northern Galilee,  Israel  killing 73. 1998  – The 5.9 M w    Afghanistan earthquake  shakes the  Takhar Province  with a maximum  Mercalli intensity  of VII ( Very strong ). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. 1999  – Unarmed West African immigrant  Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times  by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. 2003  – The  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia  adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia. Birt...
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2025: February 3 (4 Sha'ban 1446 AH)

February 3 Events 1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire.  1509 - The Portuguese navy defeated a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamluk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.  1661 - Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji defeated the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.  1830 - The London Protocol of 1830 established the full independence and sovereignty of Greec from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.   1972 - The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which killed at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.  2007- A Baghdad market bombing killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339. Births 1968 - Marwan Khoury, Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer Deaths 1451 - Murad II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1404) 1975 ...
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2025: February 2 (3 Sha'ban 1446 AH)

February 2 Events 1966 - Pakistan suggested a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1971 - Idi Amin replaced President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. 1971 - The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.  1980 - Reports surface that the FBI was targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation. 1982 - Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacked the town of Hama.  1989 - Soviet-Afghan War: The last Soviet armored column left Kabul. Births 1904 - Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997) 1934 - Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014) 1946 - Alpha Oumar Konare, Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali 1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (b. February 2, 1977), a Colombian singer and songwriter, was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia....
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2025: February 1 (2 Sha'ban 1446 AH)

February 1 Events 1713 - The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender resulted from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.     The  Skirmish at Bender  (Swedish :  Kalabaliken i Bender  and Finnish:  Benderin kalabaliikki ) was devised to remove Charles XII of Sweden  from the Ottoman Empire  after his military defeats in Russia. It took place on February 1, 1713, on Ottoman  territory, in what is now the town of Bender, Moldova.  After the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Poltava on June 27, 1709, and the surrender of most of the Swedish army at Perevolochna three days later, Charles XII of Sweden fled together with a few hundred Swedish soldiers and a large number of Cossacks to the Ottoman Empire, where they spent a total of five years. On January 31, 1713, Turkish artillery fired on the Swedish camp. On February 1, the Ottoman forces, commanded by the Serasker...
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