Today is Wednesday, February 25, the 56th day of 2015. There are 309 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
1923 ― Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
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
1964 ― Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the seventh round to win the world heavyweight championship
1971 ― “Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1988 ― South Korea adopts constitution
1994 ― Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron