Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for February 12, 2022

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers aka Red Hand Day
• NAACP Day
• National Freedom to Marry Day
• 1502: Muslims in Granada were forced to convert to Catholicism
• 1719: The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands was founded
• 1793: The first US fugitive slave law was passed which required the return of escaped slaves
• 1818: Chile gained independence from Spain
• 1825: The Creek Indian Treaty was signed in which Tribal chiefs agreed to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate West by September 1, 1826
• 1870: Utah became the second territory in the United States to pass a law allowing women the vote, after Wyoming in 1869
• 1873: The US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1873 abolishing bimetallism and placing the country on the gold standard
• 1877: US railroad builders began a strike against wage reduction
• 1882: The Social-Democratic Union formed in Amsterdam
• 1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed
• 1909: Netherlands’ SDAP suspended the Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
• 1920: 14,000 Rotterdam and Amsterdam harbor workers began a strike that would last until April 26th
• 1925: The first federal arbitration law was passed by the US Congress
• 1925: Estonia passed the Law on Cultural Self-Government for National Minorities allowing a unique degree of autonomy to ethnic and religious groups of 3,000 or more
• 1934: France experienced a general strike against fascists and royalists
• 1949: Panic shook Quito, Ecuador, after “War of the Worlds” played on radio
• 1953: The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Israel
• 1962: A bus boycott started in Macon, Georgia
• 1973: The first US POWs in North Vietnam were released and 116 of 456 were flown to the Philippines
• 1989: 5 Pakistani Muslim rioters were killed protesting the novel “The Satanic Verses”
• 1999: US President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial
• 2004: San Francisco, California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom
• 2006: A powerful winter storm blanketed the Northeastern US dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow on New York City
• 2017: 180,00 residents were ordered to evacuate after an emergency spillway at Oroville Dam in California threatened to collapse
• 2018: Tropical cyclone Gita struck Tonga causing widespread damage
• 2019: A 24 hour general strike in Belgium forced all flights to be cancelled and schools shut
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including February 12, 2022

• Burn Awareness Week (February 6-12)
• National Children’s Mental Health Week (February 6-12)
• UK Children’s Mental Health Week (February 7-13)
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (February 7-14)
• Risk Awareness Week (February 7-14)
• Tinnitus Awareness Week (February 7-13)
• National Entrepreneurship Week (February 12-19)
  
  

February Monthly Holidays and Observances

• African American History Month/National Black History Month
• American Heart Month/National Heart Healthy Month
• Canned Food Month
• Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
• International Boost Self Esteem Month
• International Expect Success Month
• Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Cancer Prevention Month
• National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
• National Time Management Month
• Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
• Spiritual Teachers Month
• Relationship Wellness Month