SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Today is Saturday, February 25, the 56th day of 2012. There are 310 days left in the year.

1836 ― Samuel Colt patents first revolving barrel multi-shot firearm

1910 ― Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies

1919 ― League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1926 ― Kuo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government, warlords

1932 ― Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

1945 ― U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

1956 ― Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference

1964 ― Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship

1971 ― ``Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances

1988 ― South Korea adopts constitution