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