Celebrations
February 1st
World Read Aloud Day February 2nd Candlemas (Christian) Groundhog Day (USA) World Wetlands Day February 3rd February 4th Sri Lanka Independence Day February 5th Lantern Festival (Chinese) February 6th New Zealand Waitangi Day February 7th Safer Internet Day February 8th St Vartan's Day (Armenian) February 9th St Maroun's Feast Day (Maronite) February 10th World Pulses Day February 11th Iran National Day International Day for Women and Girls in Science February 12th February 13th World Radio Day February 14th Valentine's Day International Book Giving Day February 15th Parinirvana (Buddhist-Northern tradition) February 16th Lithuania Independence Day February 17th Discovery Day Lord Howe Island February 18th Gambia National Day Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) February 19th February 20th World Day of Social Justice World Whale Day February 21st International Mother Language Day Pancake or Shrove Tuesday (Christian) February 22nd Ash Wednesday (Christian) February 23rd Brunei Independence Day February 24th February 25th Kuwait Independence Day February 26th February 27th Dominican Republic Independence Day International Polar Bear Day February 28th February 29th |
Famous People's Birthdays
February 1st
Langston Hughes (Poet& Social Activist) Ann Caracristi (Mathematician & Cryptanalyst) Leymah Gbowee (Peace Activist)
February 2nd
Judith Viorst (Author) Fiona Wood (Scientist) February 3rd Felix Mendelssohn(Composer) Elizabeth Blackwell (Pioneer Female Doctor)
February 4th
Russell Hoban (Author) Rosa Parks (Activist) February 5th Peter Lalor (Activist) David Wiesner (Author & Illustrator)
February 6th Mary Leakey (Scientist) February 7th Demetri Mendeleev (Scientist) St Thomas More (Social Philosopher & Author) Charles Dickens (Author) Elizabeth Honey (Author & Poet) Russell Drysdale (Artist) Laura Ingalls Wilder (Author) Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (Author) Tanya Munro (Scientist)
February 10th
Vivienne Malone-Mayes (Mathematician) February 11th Thomas Edison (Inventor) Jane Yolen (Author) Mo Willems (Author & Illustrator)
February 14th
Mary Lee (Social Activist) Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator) Margaret E. Knight (Inventor) February 15th Galileo Galilei (Scientist) W.H.Auden (Poet) February 16th Francis Galton (Scientist) Maybanke Anderson (Social Activist) February 17th Banjo Patterson (Poet)
February 18th
Alessandro Volta (Scientist) February 19th Nicholas Copernicus (Scientist) Svante Arrhenius (Scientist) February 20th February 21st Sally Rippin (Author) Thelma Estrin (Scientist)
February 23rd
Anneli Cahn Lax (Mathematician)
February 25th Narelle Oliver (Author & Illustrator) Pierre Auguste Renoir (Artist) Frederick McCubbin (Artist) Cynthia Voigt (Author)
February 29th
Kim Michelle Toft (Author & Illustrator) |