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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Today is Friday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2014. There are 313 days left in the year.1431 ― England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1795 ― Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1842 ― First known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington, D.C. 1878 ― First telephone directory (with 50 names) issued (New Haven, Conn. 1922 ― Great Britain grants Egypt independence 1925 ― First issue of “New Yorker” magazine published 1972 ― Richard Nixon becomes first U.S. President to visit China 1983 ― Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds 1989 ― U.S. bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value) 1995 ― RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado  

Feb 20, 2014

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Today is Thursday, February 20, the 51st day of 2014. There are 314 days left in the year.1811 ― Austria declares bankruptcy 1816 ― Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome 1869 ― Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis 1872 ― Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1938 ― U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says P.M. Chamberlain appeased Germany 1953 ― U.S. Court of Appeals rules that organized baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling 1985 ― After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada’s check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket 1989 ― Total eclipse of the Moon 1994 ― Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals 1998 ― U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days) 

Feb 19, 2014

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Today is Wednesday, February 19, the 50th day of 2014. There are 315 days left in the year. 356 ― Emperor Constantinus II shuts all heathen temples 1861 ― Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1878 ― Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1932 ― William Faulkner completes his novel “Light in August” 1942 ― FDR orders detention and internment of all West Coast Japanese-Americans 1945 ― 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in two days 1953 ― William Inge's “Picnic” premieres in New York City 1986 ― U.S. Senate ratifies U.N.’s anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1987 ― Anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner 1998 ― U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan 

Feb 18, 2014

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Today is Tuesday, February 18, the 49th day of 2014. There are 316 days left in the year. 3102 B.C. ― Origin of Kali Era (India) 1678 ― John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is published 1885 ― Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published 1930 ― Luigi Pirandello’s “Come Tu Mi Vuoi” premieres in Milan 1930 ― U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto 1968 ― 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West Berlin 1970 ― U.S. President Nixon launches “Nixon-doctrine” 1972 ― California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty 1973 ― 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Wash.1979 ― Snow falls in the Sahara Desert 

Feb 17, 2014

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Today is Monday, February 17, the 48th day of 2014. There are 317 days left in the year.1568 ― Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace 1776 ― First volume of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” published 1904 ― Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly” premieres in Milan 1913 ― First minimum wage law in U.S. takes effect (Oregon) 1933 ― First issue of “Newsweek” magazine published 1972 ― President Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. for China 1972 ― British Parliament votes to join European Common Market 1981 ― Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in U.S. history1986 ― Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sells capsule drugs 1995 ― Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked 

Feb 16, 2014

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Today is Saturday, February 15, the 46th day of 2014. There are 319 days left in the year. 399 ― Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 1903 ― First Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom 1906 ― British Labour Party organizes 1931 ― First Dracula movie released 1936 ― Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) 1946 ― Bank of England nationalized 1964 ― Beatles’ “Meet the Beatles!” album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 11 weeks 1984 ― 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq 1989 ― Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends 1995 ― Population of People’s Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

Feb 14, 2014

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Today is Friday, February 14, the 45th day of 2014. There are 320 days left in the year.1349 ― 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France1711 ― Handel’s opera Rinaldo, premieres 1894 ― Venus is both a morning star and evening star 1924 ― IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson 1950 ― USSR and China sign peace treaty 1956 ― Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference 1966 ― Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points1988 ― Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 1989 ― Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, ``Satanic Verses" 1990 ― Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system 

Feb 13, 2014

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Today is Thursday, February 13, the 44th day of 2014. There are 321 days left in the year.1633 ― Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1678 ― Tycho Brahe first sketches “Tychonic system” of solar system 1689 ― British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1861 ― Abraham Lincoln declared President 1959 ― Barbie doll goes on sale 1970 ― Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi 1974 ― Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR 1983 ― World Boxing Council becomes first to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds 1988 ― European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan. 1, 1992 1990 ― U.S., France and England give Germany the OK to reunify  

Feb 12, 2014

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Today is Wednesday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2014. There are 322 days left in the year. 1624 ― English parliament comes together 1818 ― Chile gains independence from Spain1889 ― Henrik Ibsen’s “Fruen fra Haven” premieres in Oslo 1912 ― Last Ching (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry Pui, abdicates 1924 ― George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York NY) 1945 ― San Francisco selected for site of U.N. Conference 1950 ― Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1950 ― Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1989 ― Gretzky sets two records; his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season 1991 ― South and North Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition 

Feb 11, 2014

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Today is Tuesday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2014. There are 323 days left in the year. 660 B.C. ― Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 1531 ― Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1808 ― Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.1809 ― Robert Fulton patents the steamboat 1858 ― First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France 1896 ― Oscar Wildes “Salome” premieres in Paris 1945 ― Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin 1970 ― Japan becomes fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit 1978 ― China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens 1990 ― Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa 

Feb 10, 2014

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