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This is a list of selected February 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Candlemas (Eastern Christianity); refimprove sections
1954 – The Canadian and American governments agreed to jointly build the Distant Early Warning Line, a line of radar stations running across the high Arctic. refimprove section
1971 – The British pound sterling and the Irish pound were decimalised on what was called Decimal Day. refimprove section
1994 – Less than four years after declaring its independence from the Soviet Union, Tatarstan officially agreed to become a federal subject of Russia. refimprove section
2012The world's deadliest prison fire took place at the National Penitentiary at Comayagua, Honduras, killing 361 people. The article itself states "The fire started late in the evening of 14 February" and the firsy source (used for the date of 14-15 February) states "In the early-morning hours of Wednesday, February 15, I began receiving emails and text messages about a terrible fire in Honduras. Details weren’t completely clear, but a blaze had occurred the night before at a prison in the city of Comayagua". Is there a source that states it continued into the following day? At least for now I think this would be best featured on 14 February with wording of "... a fire started ..." or similar.

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Notes

February 15: National Flag of Canada Day (1965); Statehood Day in Serbia (1804)

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