February Conspiracy Calendar

Gregorian

February 1 ⇒Detail

1268 – ◆The Mongol empire sends an envoy to Japan to demand surrender, but Japan refuses.
1928 – ◆Shimbun Akahata, the daily organ of the Japanese Communist Party, starts.
1979 - ▲The 30th Sapporo Snow festival is held in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
1979 - ▲Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison.
1979 - ▲The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 1 ⇒Detail

February 24, 1933 – ◆The Japanese delegation withdraws from the LON Assembly.
February 24, 1933 – ◆The Sanin Main Railway Line is opened.
March 21, 1985 - The first AIDS case in Japan is reported.

Gregorian

February 2 ⇒Detail

1852 - ◆The Lady of the Camellias premieres at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris, France.
1952 - ◆(birth) Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea.
1952 - ◆A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast.
1972 - ◆Shoich Yokoi returns to Japan from Guam.
1972 - ◆The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 2 ⇒Detail

March 10, 1872 - ◆The Church of Christ in Japan is founded in Yokohama, Japan.
February 26, 1952 - ◆UK Prime Minister Churchill announces that the UK has an atomic bomb.
March 22, 1985 - The initial Japanese case of AIDS is reported.
March 10, 1959 - Tibetan uprising (Tibetan Uprising Day).
February 21, 2004 - The European Greens is established in Rome.

Gregorian

February 3

1820 - ◆(death) Emperor Gia Long the founded the Nguyen Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties.

1830 - ◆(birth) Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury。
He is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1930 - ◆The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
The day is the 110th anniversary of Emperor Gia Long's death (February 3, 1820) and the 100th anniversary of Salisbury's birth (February 3, 1830).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 3

2008 - ★Protests trigger a series of riots and violent clashes (Lhasa, Tibet). (timeline)

Gregorian

February 4

1872 - ★The Tokyo Court is created in the Department of Justice.
It was the first Western style court in Japan.
1904 - ◆Japan decides to declare war on Russia (Russo-Japanese War).
It is decided at the Gozen Kaigi (conference in the presence of the Emperor).
2004 - ◆Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
The day is the 100the anniversary of Japan's decision of war on Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (February 4, 1904).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 4

March 20, 1181 - ☆(death) Taira no Kiyomori, a general of the late Heian period of Japan.
March 21, 1874 - ★Japan holds its first athletic meet at a naval school in Tsukiji (Japanese).
February 27, 1933 - ★Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
February 26, 1936 – ◆In the February 26 Incident.
Young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
February 26, 1936 - ◆(birth) Sadao Yamahana (Japanese politician).
March 20, 1942 - ★General Douglas MacArthur makes his famous speech, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return" (at the fall of the Philippines, at Terowie, South Australia).

Gregorian

February 5

1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
2005 – ▲(death) Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo.
He is a dictator for 38 years, the longest-period dictator in Africa.
2005 – ▲Earthquake of M7.1 in the Celebes Sea.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 5

March 4, 1881 - ★James Garfield takes office as US President.
March 4, 1881 - ★Hawaiian King Kalakaua visits Japan during his world tour. Although the king proposes the marriage of his niece to a Japanese prince, Japan declines the proposal later.
March 10, 1905 - ★The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese Army Day).
The Battle of Mukden is fought between Japan and Russia in Manchuria. Japanese forces defeat Russian forces in the end.
March 14, 2005 - ▲The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law.
March 14, 2005 - ▲800,000 people gather for an opposition rally in Beirut.
March 14, 2005 - ▲A Japanese tugboat is attacked by pirates in the Malacca Strait.

Gregorian

February 6

940 - ◆Fujiwara no Sumitomo revolts against his fellows.
He is included in the Fujiwara clan, a powerful family of regents in Japan.
1940 - ◆(birth) Dewi Sukarno, Japanese socialite and one of the wives of the late Indonesian leader Sukarno.
The day is the 1000th anniversary of the Revolt of Fujiwara no Sumitomo (February 6, 940).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 6

February 26, 1993 – ★World Trade Center bombing
In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes.

Gregorian

February 7 ⇒Detail

574 - (birth) Prince Shotoku, regent and politician of the Asuka period in Japan.
1807 – Battle of Eylau. Napoleon's French Empire begins fighting against Russia and Prussia.
1855 - ★★Treaty of Shimoda is signed between Russia and Japan.
1904 - ★★Great Baltimore Fire. A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings.
1965 - ◆Operation Flaming Dart (Vietnam War).
1965 - ◆(birth) Iehiro Tokugawa, University of Michigan-educated translator.
1965 - ◆A TV drama series entitled "Omono Yosei Keikaku" starts.
1965 - ◆The 6th chapter of a very popular TV program entitled "Taikoki", is televised.
1992 - ★The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1993 - ★Noto Peninsula Earthquake occurs.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 7 ⇒Detail

March 20, 1184 - Battle of Ichi-no-Tani. The Taira clan is defeated by the Minamoto clan.
March 8, 1938 - Japanese Major General Higuchi saves the lives of 20000 Jews.
March 14, 1951 - For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul (Korean War).
February 26, 2004 – (death) Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia.
March 16, 2005 - Two accused for the bombing of Air India Flight 182 were found not guilty.
March 25, 2007 - ▲The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome is celebrated in EU nations.
March 25, 2007 - ▲2007 Noto earthquake strikes the Hokuriku region of Japan.
March 14, 2008 - Demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turn violent.
March 11, 2011 - ◆Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
March 11, 2011 - ◆Incumbent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara finally confirms his candidacy.
March 11, 2011 - ◆Saudi Arabia launches a massive security operation to deter protesters.
February 28, 2012 - The Japanese police raid offices related to a pro-Pyongyang organization.

Gregorian

February 8 ⇒Detail

1567 - Matsudaira Ieyasu changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1587 - (death) Mary, Queen of Scots. She is executed for treason.
1807 – Battle of Eylau. Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
1864 - (birth) Otojiro Kawakami, Japanese actor and comedian.
1868 - Emperor makes an announcement about the restoration of his power.
1904 - Battle of Port Arthur.
1960 - (birth) Noynoy Aquino, elected president of the Philippines in 2010.
1982 - Hotel New Japan fire, downtown of Tokyo, Japan, kills 33 on 8 February.
1984 - The 1984 Winter Olympics is held in Sarajevo.
1992 - The 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.
2002 - The 2002 Winter Olympics is held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 8 ⇒Detail

March 1, 1868 - (birth) Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
March 15, 2008 - Xi Jinping is elected Vice-President (the NPC, China).
March 12, 2011 - Kyushu Shinkansen section from Yatsushiro to Hakata opens.

Gregorian

February 9

1199 - ◆(death) Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun.
1825 - ★After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1834 - ★(birth) Kamehameha IV, king of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1859 - ◆(birth) Yoshimatsu Shigetaro, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1859 - ◆(birth) Akiyama Yoshifuru, general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
He was considered the father of the modern Japanese cavalry.

The birthday of Yoshimatsu Shigetaro and Akiyama Yoshifuru is coincided with the deathday of Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Japanese calendar (February 9, 1199 (Koki 1859)).
1861 - ★Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. (American Civil War)
1959 - ◆(birth) Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon.
The day is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Japanese Navy Admiral Yoshimatsu Shigetaro and Japnese Army General Akiyama Yoshifuru (February 9, 1859).
1964 - ★The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1984 - ★(death) Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician.
2001 - ★Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision. Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 9

March 10, 1957 - ★(birth) Osama bin Laden, Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda.

Gregorian

February 10 ⇒Detail

1860 - The Tokugawa shogunate dispatches the Japanese Embassy to the United States.
1980 - ★The Workers' Party is established (Brazil).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 10 ⇒Detail

March 14, 2011 - ◆Fukushima I nuclear accidents. The No 3 reactor building explodes.
March 14, 2011 - ◆The Tokyo Sky Tree is undamaged in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake.
March 14, 2011 - ◆Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara seeks a fourth term in April's election.

Gregorian

February 11 ⇒Detail

1732 - ★(birth) George Washington, 1st President of the United States.
1847 - ◆(birth) Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor.
1873 - ★Japan's National Foundation Day is determined to be celebrated on February 11.
1889 – ▲Meiji constitution of Japan. ▲"Banzai" is established. ▲Mori Arinori is stabbed.
1937 - ▼(death) Walter Burley Griffin. ▼The Order of Culture.
1947 – ◆(birth) Yukio Hatoyama. ◆(birth) Kikko Matsuoka.
1949 – ▼A special Diet is convened (Japan).
1964 – ★(birth) Sarah Palin. ★(birth) Keiichiro Asao. ★Greeks and Turks begin fighting.
　　　　　★Taiwan severs diplomatic ties with France. ★The Beatles' first concert in US.
1969 – ◆(death) Kosaburo Eto, Japanese nationalist, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force official.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 11 ⇒Detail

March 28, 1969 – ◆(death) Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United states.
March 26, 2010 - ◆Child Allowance Law. ◆(death) Kwon Hyi-ro.
　　　　　　　　　　　◆Toshikazu Sugaya is acquitted. ◆The ROKS Cheonan sinks.

Julian Calendar

February 11 ⇒Detail

February 21, 1613 (February 11, 1613 in the Julian calendar) ▲Mikhail I is elected as Tsar.

Coptic Calendar

February 11 ⇒Detail

October 21, 1949 (February 11, 1666 in the Coptic calendar) ▼ (birth) Benjamin Netanyahu.
October 21, 1949 (February 11, 1666 in the Coptic calendar) ▼ (birth) Manuel Marin.

Gregorian

February 12 ⇒Detail

1809 - ◆(birth) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
1836 - (birth) Godai Tomoatsu, samurai from Satsuma Domain, businessman later.
1889 - (death) Mori Arinori, Minister of Education.
1909 - ◆The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 - ◆The SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
2009 - ◆Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash.
2010 - ◆The 2010 Winter Olympics begin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2010 - ◆Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger, is killed in a crash during a practice run.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 12 ⇒Detail

March 24, 1603 - ★(death) Queen Elizabeth I of England.
March 24, 1603 - ★James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
March 24, 1603 - ★Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
March 23, 1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.
March 19, 2008 - Stabbing rampage in Tsuchiura, Japan.

Gregorian

February 13

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 13

March 18, 1886 - ★The navy and army bureaus are created in the Japanese military government.
The navy bureau and the army bureau are created in the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office.
March 12, 1930 - ★Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
March 20, 2008 - ◆Masaaki Shirakawa becomes acting governor, the de facto governor, of the Bank of Japan. He is endorsed as the governor on April 9.
March 20, 2008 - ◆Akasaka Sacas is opened.
It is the area in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, where the TBS Broadcasting Center and the site of the "Akasaka 5-chome TBS Development Project" stand.

"Sacas" (Sakasu (咲かす)) means letting the cherry blossoms bloom, and also means lots of hills (Japanese for hill, Saka (坂), plus s). Also, when "akasaka Sacas" is written backwards, it becomes "Saca, Saka, Saka" (three hills). This naming was done purposely.
March 20, 2008 - ◆The house of the editor of this site, "Japan's Conspiracy", is partly broken by a building constructor's deliberate jolts. It was obviously an evil and insidious attack.

Gregorian

February 14

2009 - ★Minister of Finance Shoichi Nakagawa seems to fall asleep at the G7 meeting.
Although some attribute his odd behavior to alcohol, Nakagawa claims that his drowsiness and slurred speech are the result of taking too much cold medicine before the meeting.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 14

March 25, 940 - ★(death) Taira no masakado, samurai in the Heian period of Japan.
Masakado led one of the largest insurgent forces in the period against the central government of Kyoto. He was killed by the samurai who were dispatched by the central government.
March 21, 2008 - ◆The Future Hope Alliance is established (South Korea).
The day is the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge (March 21, 1998).

Gregorian

February 15

1877 - ★the Satsuma Rebellion breakes out in the main southern island of Kyushu (Japan).
1942 - ★The Fall of Singapore (World War II).
Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 15

March 11, 708 - ★Empress Gemmei orders to move the Imperial capital from Fujiwara-kyo to Heijo-kyo.
March 20, 1943 - ★The Japanese navy issues an order, which reads "Do not stop at the sinking of enemy ships and cargoes. At the same time carry out the complete destruction of the crews".
March 9, 1944 - ★The British steamer Behar is sunk by the Japanese heavy cruiser Tone.
Tone picks up 104 survivors. But, fearing detection, the Japanese force subsequently returns to the Netherlands East Indies on 16 March. Two days later, 89 of Behar's crew and passengers are murdered on board Tone. Following the war the commander of the raid, Rear Admiral Naomasa Sakonju, is executed for this war crime and Tone's captain, Haruo Mayazumi, is sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Gregorian

February 16 ⇒Detail

1852 - (birth) Charles Taze Russell, founder of Jehovah's Witnesses.
1881 - Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society is formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
1942 - ◆(birth) Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader.
1942 - ◆The Japanese government issues memorial postage stamps.
1996 - Japan's Health Minister apologizes for the government's failure about HIV tainted blood.
2000 - ▲Poisoner Masumi Hayashi's house is set fired on purpose.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 16 ⇒Detail

March 30, 1222 - (birth) Nichiren Daishonin, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
April 3, 1950 – ▲Toyota Motor Sales Co. is established.

Gregorian

February 17 ⇒Detail

1909 - ◆Geronimo, Apache leader.
1989 - "AIDS prevention Law" comes into effect in Japan.
2009 - ◆US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Japan.
2009 - ◆Minister of Finance Shoichi Nakagawa announces that he has chosen to resign.
2012 - German president Christian Wulff resigns.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 17 ⇒Detail

Gregorian

February 18 ⇒Detail

1967 - ◆(death) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
1967 - ◆A New Orleans district attorney claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 18 ⇒Detail

April 6, 1825 - The Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels is issued by the Tokugawa Shogunate.
March 20, 2003 - ★2003 invasion of Iraq.
March 20, 2003 - ★Toshihiko Fukui becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.

Gregorian

February 19

1945 - ◆Battle of Iwo Jima (World War II).
About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
2008 - ◆Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba, effective February 24.
2008 - ◆Serzh Sargsyan is elected President of Armenia.
2008 - ◆MSDF DDG "Atago" and a fishing boat "Seitoku Maru" collide.
They collide off the coast of Nojimazaki Cape at the Boso Peninsula. The fishing boat Seitoku Maru is sunk and the father-son crew go missing and are later confirmed dead.
2008 - ◆Toshiba announces it will give up HD DVD players and recorders.
2012 - ▲Joachim Gauck is nominated as the joint candidate for President of Germany.
Following the resignation of President Christian Wulff on 17 February 2012, Joachim Gauck is nominated
2012 - ▲An earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.1, occurrs in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.
2012 - ▲Cold weather throughout the Japanese archipelago.
Several regions break the lowest temperature record. Sugadaira in Nagano prefecture hits the lowest temperature of minus 29.2 degrees C.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 19

March 25, 1837 - ★Oshio Heihachiro stages an uprising against the Tokugawa shogunate.
March 10, 1928 - ★(birth) James Earl Ray, American assassin. He kills Martin Luther King Jr.
※ He was Japanese. He was born on the Japanese Army Day and he died on the Japanese Navy Day.
March 10, 1928 - ★(birth) Kiyoshi Atsumi, a Japanese film actor.
He was actually the double of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 1, 1945 - ◆Battle of Okinawa. United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war (codenamed Operation Iceberg, World War II).
March 28, 2005 - ★An 8.7 magnitude earthquake occurs off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
1300 people are reportedly killed. The earthquake occurs at 23:09 pm local time (01:09 am Japan time on March 29).

Gregorian

February 20

1983 - ★Tenma, a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite is launched.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 20

March 20, 1995 – ◆A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
March 20, 1995 – ◆The Resolution and Collection Corporation (RCC: at first, the name of this company was "Tokyo Kyodo Bank") is established by the Bank of Japan.
March 29, 2005 - ◆An 8.7 magnitude earthquake occurs off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
1300 people are reportedly killed. The earthquake occurs at 01:09 am Japan time (23:09 pm local time on March 28).
March 29, 2005 - ◆Junya Hattori is sentenced to death.
He raped and murdered a women's junior college student in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture on January 22, 2002.

Gregorian

February 21

1613 - ★Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly.
(Julian calendar) February 11, 1613
The Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia begins on this day.
2004 - ◆The European Greens, is established in Rome.
It is the first European political party organization.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 21

March 11, 2004 - ◆Madrid train bombings.
Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
March 11, 2004 - ◆A first grade elementary school girl is killed by her neighbor.
The murderer is reported to have lots of "dolls,” leading some media outlets to label him as an otaku.
March 11, 2004 - ◆Conflict about singing the "Kimigayo" national anthem during the graduation ceremony.
The conflict between a retired teacher and Itabashi High School develops into a criminal lawsuit.

Gregorian

February 22

1943 - ◆USS Iowa is commissioned.
1943 - ◆Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
1943 - ◆(birth) Horst Kohler, President of Germany.
He looks like a Japanese. He suddenly announced his resignation soon after the revelation of the coincidence between his birthday and the White Rose members execution.
1943 - ◆(birth) Otoya Yamaguchi, Japanese ultranationalist, member of a right-wing Uyoku dantai group, who assassinated Inejiro Asanuma (head of the Japan Socialist Party) on October 12, 1960.
1997 - ★Scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned (Roslin, Scotland).
2011 - ◆Christchurch earthquake.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
2011 - ◆Tokyo Governor Ishihara denies his candidacy for the next election.
Shintaro Ishihara says that he will not stand for election to a fourth term as Tokyo governor.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 22

March 14, 1879 - ★(birth) Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
Einstein became an American citizen in 1940. He worked as consultant with the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, section Ammunition and Explosives. He recommended that the US government should develop nuclear weapons. He made efforts to develop torpedo detonators.

As an intimidation to Einstein, Japan let Nazis execute Members of White Rose in Germany just on Einstein's birthday (in the Japanese calendar). But this intimidation works only when Einstein understands the Japanese calendar. This means that Einstein was Japanese.

In addition, Horst Kohler, who was born on the same day, became President of Germany. He looks like a Japanese. But he suddenly announced his resignation soon after the revelation of the coincidence between his birthday and the White Rose members execution. All of them seem to be Japanese.
March 15, 1917 - ★Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne.
※ Nicholas II was the last actual, or de facto, Tsar of Russia. His abdication was synchronized with the two fires in Kyoto (March 15, Koki 1917 in the Japanese calendar).
March 30, 1940 - ★Japan declares Nanjing capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei (Sino-Japanese War).
March 29, 2008 - ▲TV Drama "Chiritotechin" ends. It is broadcast by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) from October 1, 2007 to March 29, 2008.
March 29, 2008 - ▲Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
April 6, 2010 - ★Kyrgyzstani uprising: Protesters take control of a government office in Talas, and clashes between protesters and police in the capital Bishkek turn violent.

Gregorian

February 23

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 23

March 21, 1854 - ★the first trial run of locomotive model trains in Japan.
This is conducted at the reception house for Commodore Matthew Perry at Yokohama, Japan.
April 10, 1912 – ★The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
April 5, 1964 - ★(death) Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient.
March 13, 2004 - ★The southern 127 km section of the Kyushu Shinkansen opens.
Train bombings in Madrid occurred two days before the opening, on March 11. Probably the Japanese government tried to boast of its superb railway system and to undermine the opening of the high-speed railway line around Kagoshima.

Gregorian

February 24

1933 – ◆The Japanese delegation withdraws from the League of Nations Assembly after the assembly adopts a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
On March 27, 1933 – Japan leaves the League of Nations.
1933 – ◆The Sanin Main Railway Line, from Kyoto to Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is opened.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 24

April 3, 1948 – ★President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan.
April 3, 1948 – ★Jeju massacre (Jeju, South Korea).
Many residents of Jeju escape from the massacre to Japan, and some of them make their Jeju town in Osaka. It is probably Japan's conspiracy in support of North Korea.
March 31, 1970 - ◆Hideki Yukawa retires from the Kyoto University as a Professor Emeritus.
Yukawa is a Japanese physicist and a Nobel Prize laureate. He has been the first director of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics. The research institute was founded in the Kyoto University and is located near the Yodo River (the Kamo River in Kyoto). Yukawa retires as the director on this day.
March 31, 1970 - ◆Japan Airlines Flight 351 is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members.
Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack the flight at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

※ Strangely enough, the hijacking incident is named "Yodogo Hijacking" in Japan. And strangely again, the Boeing 727-89 was nicknamed "Yodogo". Yodo indicates the Yodo River, which runs from Lake Biwa through Kyoto to Osaka Bay. And "Yodogo" means the name of Yodo in Japanese.

It is highly probable that the hijacking was a government's fabrication, just celebrating the great achievement by Hideki Yukawa, a Nobel Prize laureate. In fact, he retires on this day. And the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, of which Yukawa has been the director, is located near the Yodo River.

In addition, Yukawa is probably a member of the high-ranking imperial clan. He was born on the 570th anniversary of the beginning of the Southern Court and the 10th anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel. Yukawa died on the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Edison.
March 31, 1970 - ◆Yawata Steel and Fuji Steel merge to form Nippon Steel Corporation.
March 31, 1970 - ◆Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

Gregorian

February 25

1943 - ◆(death) Takeyo Akera, Commander of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.
Akera is the commander of the 64th sentai. He is killed in action over Tinsukia, India. He is a popular hero pilot after Tateo Kato.
1943 - ◆(birth) George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 25

March 19, 681 - ★The compilation of the Asuka Kiyomihara Code is commenced in Japan.
April 16, 1947 - ◆The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is established.
April 16, 1947 - ◆(death) Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Höß is hanged following his trial at Warsaw.
April 16, 1947 - ◆The Court Act and the Public Prosecutor's Office Act are promulgated in Japan (reference).
April 16, 1947 - ◆A local train catches fire in Ikoma Tunnel near Osaka, Japan, at least twenty-eight people dead (reference).
April 16, 1947 - ◆Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
April 16, 1947 - ◆Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Gregorian

February 26 ⇒Detail

745 - Gyoki becomes the first priest who is given the highest Buddhist rank.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1848 – The Second French Republic is proclaimed.
1891 - Fonseca is inaugurated as the first Brazilian president.
1936 – ◆In the February 26 Incident.
1936 - ◆(birth) Sadao Yamahana (Japanese politician).
1952 - UK Prime Minister Churchill announces that the UK has an atomic bomb.
1967 - (birth) Kazuyoshi Miura (Japanese football striker).
1986 – People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing.
2000 – Mount Hekla in Iceland erupts.
2004 – (death) Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 26 ⇒Detail

April 5, 1880 - The Law of Public Meetings is enacted.
April 10, 2010 – ★Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia.
April 10, 2010 – ★The Sunrise Party of Japan is formed by five Japanese politicians.

Gregorian

February 27 ⇒Detail

1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
2010 - ◆Chile earthquake.
2010 - ◆Former Peruvian president Fujimori attends the wedding of his daughter Sachi.
2010 - ◆A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs 80 kilometres east-southeast of Okinawa Island.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 27 ⇒Detail

March 20, 1754 - The Horeki period river improvement works start.
April 4, 1872 - ◆The Japanese Ministry of the Military is abolished.
April 13, 1874 – (death) Eto Shimpei, Japanese Justice Minister.
April 14, 1912 - ◆Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm.
April 10, 1972 – ◆The Biological Weapons Convention is signed.
April 10, 1972 – ◆The city of Fujimi is founded (Japan).

Gregorian

February 28 ⇒Detail

1972 - ◆The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan.
1999 - ▲Japan's first organ transplantation after the diagnosis of brain death.
2012 - The Japanese police raid offices related to a pro-Pyongyang organization in Japan.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 28 ⇒Detail

March 15, 1257 - ▼The Great Palace of Gojo is damaged in fires.
March 15, 1257 - ▼Mibu-dera is burnt to the ground.
April 1, 1810 - The civil wedding of Napoleon and Marie Louise is celebrated at Saint Cloud.
April 5, 1872 - ◆The Ministry of War and Ministry of the Navy are created.
April 15, 1912 - ◆The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic.
April 15, 1912 - ◆(birth) Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea.
April 14, 1999 - ▲A minor strangles a mother and her baby in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
April 14, 1999 - ▲NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Dakovica.
April 14, 1999 - ▲Sydney hailstorm.

Gregorian

February 29

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 29

Gregorian

February 30

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February 30

March 26, 1971 - ★East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan.
People's Republic of Bangladesh is formed and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
March 30, 1995 - ★Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency, is shot by an unidentified gunman and seriously wounded.

Gregorian

February ■

Japanese Traditional Calendar

February ■

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