I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during February 2016
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", responsible for the beheadings of numerous Western hostages, is named as Mohammed Emwazi from West London. (26th Feb 2015) |
| 1st | The Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules that GCHQ breached human rights laws by failing to disclose shared full details of information it shared with the United States that was garnered from data from mass internet surveillance. (6th Feb 2015) |
| 1st | Former pop star Gary Glitter is found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980. (5th Feb 2015) |
| 1st | Home Secretary Theresa May appoints New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard to lead a new statutory inquiry into historical child sexual abuse. (4th Feb 2015) |
| 1st | London's population hits a record high of 8,600,000 which it hasn't seen since the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, and is forecast to reach 11,000,000 people by 2050. (2nd Feb 2015) |
| 5th | Project Merlin, an agreement on aspects of banking activity in the United Kingdom, was agreed between the coalition government and the country's four major high street banks. (9th Feb 2011) |
| 10th | The Government announces that the Child Support Agency is to be abolished. (9th Feb 2006) |
| 70th | The Bank of England is nationalized. (14th Feb 1946) |
| 150th | Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War. (16th Feb 1866) |
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