10/02/2020 Launch of the European spacecraft Solar Orbiter, for which IAP developed the Time Domain Sampler (TDS) receiver

11/02/1929 Air temperature -42.2 °C recorded in Litvínovice near České Budějovice

16/02/2005 Kyoto Protocol entered into force, setting binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

19/02/1859 * Svante Arrhenius, discoverer of the importance of CO2 for the greenhouse effect (+ 2 October 1927)