Month February 1893 Calendar

About Month of February Calendar

• February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.
  
  February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).

Historical Events for February, 1893

• Day of Week 28th » The USS Indiana BB-1 6, the lead ship of Indiana-class battleship her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1893

• 2nd » Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
• 2nd » Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
• 2nd » Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian military leader (d. 1924)
• 3rd » Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician (d. 1978)
• 6th » Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan) known as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (d. 1985)
• 7th » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist (d. 1988)
• 8th » Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
• 9th » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
• 10th » Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 10th » Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
• 12th » Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
• 12th » S. Foster Damon e.g Samuel Foster Damon, American academic, critic, poet and William Blake scholar (d. 1971)
• 12th » Fred Albert Shannon, American historian and author (d. 1963)
• 13th » Zénon Bernard, Luxembourger politician (d. 1942)
• 15th » James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and author (d. 1975)
• 15th » Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947)
• 17th » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
• 19th » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (d. 1964)
• 20th » Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
• 20th » Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
• 21st » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)
• 21st » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
• 26th » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (d. 1934)
• 26th » I. A. Richards, English educator and critic (d. 1979)
• 28th » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (d. 1979)

Famous Deaths for February 1893

• 1st » George Henry Sanderson, American politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
• 18th » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)

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