On this day — February 25

Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including 57 army officials.

Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.

Italy, killing four.

leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to death by survivors.

President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president.

Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.

the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.

the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.