Today is Thursday, February 25, the 56th day of 2010. There are 309 days left in the year.
1803 _ 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1907 _ George Bernard Shaw's ``Philanderer" premieres in London
1910 _ Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1919 _ League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1926 _ Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926 _ Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
1932 _ Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1956 _ Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1969 _ Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
1988 _ South Korea adopts constitution