Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 15
February 15: Flag Day in Canada, National Day in Serbia
- 1898 - The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana, Cuba, killing more than 260 people in a tragedy that precipitated the Spanish-American War.
- 1942 - General Tomoyuki Yamashita led the Japanese forces to capture the supposed "impregnable fortress" of Singapore.
- 1971 - A new penny that was worth 1/100 instead of 1/240 of the pound sterling was introduced in the United Kingdom on Decimal Day.
- 1989 - Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had already left Afghanistan.
- 2003 - Millions of people around the world took part in the largest mass protest movement in history to protest against war in general, and specifically the military preparations for the impending invasion of Iraq.
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