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, 1945
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: As part of Bombing of Berlin in World War II March 1944 to April 1945 Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17 Flying Fortress B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehousing dehouses another 120,0
3rd » World War II: The United States and the Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Commonwealth begin Battle of Manila (1945) a month-long battle to retake Manila from Empire of Japan Japan.
Day of Week 4th » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
4th » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Winston Churchill Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea Soviet Union: 1922.E2.80.931991 Crimea.
4th » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
Day of Week 5th » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
Day of Week 8th » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
Day of Week 9th » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer P68 6 sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
9th » World War II: A force of Allies of World War II Allied aircraft Black Friday (1945) unsuccessfully attacked a Nazi Germany German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
Day of Week 13th » World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany named German and Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946) or Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
13th » World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a Bombing of Dresden in World War II called massive aerial bombardment.
Day of Week 14th » World War II: On the first day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II named bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
14th » World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslavs named Yugoslav Partisans (Yugoslavia) known as partisans.
14th » President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy CA-71 6, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
Day of Week 15th » World War II: Third day of Bombing of Dresden in World War II known as bombing in Dresden.
Day of Week 16th » World War II: American forces Battle of Corregidor (1945) or land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
Day of Week 19th » World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
Day of Week 21st » World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95 6 and damage the USS Saratoga CV-3 6.
Day of Week 23rd » World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima known as photographed raising the American flag.
23rd » World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino people called Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños, Laguna or Los Baños internment camp.
23rd » World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
23rd » World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet Union known as Soviet and Polish forces.
23rd » World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II named annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
Day of Week 24th » Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament of Egypt called Parliament after reading a decree.
Day of Week 25th » World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.