February 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 February 2023
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Welcome to your akg-images February preview, full of content ideas for the coming months, with albums of supporting images.
In the UK, February is LGBT History Month. In the US and Canada it is Black History Month. If you love food you'll be pleased to know that World Pizza Day and Shrove Tuesday both fall in February.
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February 2023
2 February: The Battle of Stalingrad ends - 80th anniversary
2 February: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed - 175th anniversary
4 February: Alice Cooper - 75th birthday
7 February: George Washington Wilson - 200th anniversary of his birth
12 February: Darwin Day
13 February: Chuck Yeager - 100th anniversary of his birth
14 February: St Valentine's Day
16 February: Carter enters the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - 100 years
18 February: Louis Comfort Tiffany - 175th anniversary of his birth
19 February: Nicolaus Copernicus - 550th anniversary of his birth
20 February: Blaine Act ends US Prohibition - 90th anniversary
22 February: Sophie Scholl - 80th anniversary of her death
25 February: Enrico Caruso - 150th anniversary of his birth
27 February: Reichstag fire - 90th anniversary
March 2023
1 March: Women's History Month UK
2 March: World Book Day
5 March: Joseph Stalin - 70th anniversary of his death
8 March: Sir Christopher Wren - 300th anniversary of his death
8 March: International Women's Day
8 March: Holi Festival
12 March: Karl Hagemeister - 175th anniversary of his birth
14 March: Michael Caine - 90th birthday
14 March: Karl Marx - 140th anniversary of his death
16 March: Aubrey Beardsley - 125th anniversary of his death
17 March: St Patrick's Day
18 March: German revolutions of 1848-1849 - 175th anniversary
19 March: Mother's Day UK
22 March: World Water Day
22 March: Ramadan begins
22 March: George Benson - 80th birthday
22 March: Marcel Marceau - 100th anniversary of his birth
26 March: Sarah Bernhardt - 100th anniversary of her death
26 March: Daylight Savings begins, UK - clocks go forward one hour
30 March: Vincent Van Gogh - 170th anniversary of his birth
April 2023
1 April: April Fool's Day
3 April: The Marshall Plan is signed into law by President Truman- 75th anniversary
3 April: Washington Irving - 240th anniversary of his birth
5 April: Passover begins
7 April: Good Friday
7 April: James Garner - 95th anniversary of his birth
8 April: Pablo Picasso - 50th anniversary of his death
9 April: Easter Sunday
12 April: Ann Miller - 100th anniversary of her birth
18 April: Gustave Moreau - 125th anniversary of his death
19th April: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 80th anniversary
21 April: Spanish-American War begins - 125th anniversary
22 April: Earth Day
23 April: St George's Day
25 April: ANZAC Day
26 April: Eugene Delacroix - 225th anniversary of his birth
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May 2023
1 May: May Day/International Worker's Day
4 May: Star Wars Day
6 May: Coronation of King Charles III
7 May: Anne Baxter - 100th anniversary of her birth
9-13 May: Eurovision Song Contest
14 May: British Mandate of Palestine is terminated, creating the state of Israel - 75th anniversary
14 May: Mother's Day - US, Australia, Canada and other countries
14 May: Skylab is launched into Earth orbit - 50th anniversary
16 May - Operation Chastise/Dam Buster Raid - 80th anniversary
22 May: Fritz von Uhde - 175th anniversary of his birth
25 May: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 220th anniversary of his birth
26-27 May: 24 Hours of Le Mans - 100th anniversary
27 May: Henry Kissinger - 100th anniversary of his birth
29 May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest - 70th anniversary
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