Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 25

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 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius as his son and successor following the death of Hadrian's first adopted son Lucius Aelius.
 * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
 * 1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg.
 * 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
 * 1870 – Mississippi senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be seated in the U.S. Congress.
 * 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, President Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control of the government to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
 * 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
 * 1980 – The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron (pictured), was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
 * 1986 – Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted from power by the non-violent People Power Revolution, with Corazon Aquino succeeding as president.
 * 2020 – Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
 * Born/died this day: | Sharafkhan Bidlisi |b|1543|  Andranik |b|1865|Mary Locke Petermann |b|1908| George Harrison |b|1943| Mário de Andrade|d|1945|S. O. Davies |d|1972|  Kana Hanazawa |b|1989| Yi Han-yong |d|1997|  Hans Raj Khanna |d|2008