Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Feb 25
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1921 - Russian soldiers capture Tbilisi and declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1948 - In Czechoslovakia, President Edvard Benes accepted the resignations of non-Communist ministers. Communists took control of the government in the "February Coup".
1964 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion, defeating Sonny Liston in Miami.
1993 - Kim Young-sam was sworn in as South Korea's first civilian president for 32 years.
1996 - Haing Ngor, whose Academy Award-winning performance in the film "The Killing Fields" mirrored his own ordeal at the hands of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, was murdered in Los Angeles.
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest batsman in test cricket history and Australia's most revered sporting figure, died, aged 92. He averaged 99.94 runs in 52 test matches.
2005 - Peter Benenson, founder of the Nobel Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, died at 83.
2009 - Turkish Airlines flight 1951 crashes in Amsterdam.
2013 - Buddhist monks pray on Makha Bucha Day.
2015 - Dozens dead in Afghanistan avalanches.
2016 - High seas leave Carolina Queen III fishing vessel capsizes near New York.
