12th February is celebrated as—
The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna in 1404.
Vasco da Gama sets sail with 15 ships and 800 men from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India in 1502
In 1809, America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was born
In 1824, Arya Samaj's founder Daynand Saraswati was born
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in 1909.
In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place in 1915
In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi halted the Non-cooperation movement on the national level
One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up.
The women were successful in repealing the law in 1983
In 1999, Syed Abdul Malik conferred with the prestigious state award Srimanta Sankardeva Award
Darwin Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of the father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin in 1809.
World Marriage Day is also celebrated on the second Sunday of February to celebrate the “husband and wife as the foundation of the family and the basic unit of society”. The idea is also to bring honor to the idea that marriage is meant to embody faithfulness, sacrifice and joy in the daily-ness of life.
National Productivity Day is observed annually to increase the productivity culture in India. It is celebrated by the National Productivity Council (NPC) with a theme.
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