Today is Monday, February 25, the 56th day of 2008. There are 310 days left in the year.
1803 _ 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804 _ Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus
1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Philanderer" premieres in London
1926 _ Kuomintang declares war on government, warlords
1932 _ Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1945 _ U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1954 _ Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956 _ Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1963 _ Beatles release their first single in US ``Please, please me"
1988 _ South Korea adopts constitution