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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Today is Monday, February 10, the 41st day of 2014. There are 324 days left in the year. 1535 ― Twelve nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets 1635 ― Academie Francaise is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) 1774 ― Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit 1870 ― YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York City) 1897 ― New York Times begins using slogan “All the News That's Fit to Print” 1934 ― Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says “Life becomes merrier” 1949 ― Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” opens at Morosco Theater, NYC 1954 ― Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam 1990 ― Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion 1996 ― IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

Feb 9, 2014

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Today is Saturday, February 8, the 39th day of 2014. There are 326 days left in the year. 1600 ― Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament 1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa’s “Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg1965 ― Supremes release “Stop In the Name of Love" 1969 ― Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico 1975 ― 1800 Unification church couples’ wed in Korea 1976 ― Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China 1984 ― First time eight people in space 1985 ― Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea 1998 ― First female ice hockey game in Olympics history; Finland beats Sweden 6-0

Feb 7, 2014

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Today is Friday, February 7, the 38th day of 2014. There are 327 days left in the year.1639 ― Academie Francaise begins the Dictionary of the French Language 1812 ― Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords 1940 ― British railroads nationalized 1949 ― Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees) 1960 ― Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea 1962 ― President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1976 ― World’s largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR) 1979 ― Pink Floyd premiered their live version of “The Wall” in Los Angeles 1986 ― Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos 1997 ― U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21 

Feb 6, 2014

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Today is Thursday, February 6, the 37th day of 2014. There are 328 days left in the year. 1508 ― Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1832 ― First appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland 1904 ― Russian-Japanese war began 1918 ― Britain grants women (30 and over) the vote 1933 ― Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila 1939 ― Spanish government flees to France1967 ― Cultural Revolution in Albania 1971 ― First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard) 1981―  Beatles McCartney, Starr and Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon 1987 ― No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings

Feb 5, 2014

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Today is Wednesday, February 5, the 36th day of 2014. There are 329 days left in the year. 1816 ― Rossini’s Opera “Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome 1861 ― Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia, Pa. 1901 ― Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot 1916 ― Enrico Caruso recorded “O Sole Mio” for the Victor Talking Machine Company 1922 ― Reader’s Digest magazine first published 1937 ― First Charlie Chaplin talkie, “Modern Times,” is released 1958 ― Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic 1974 ― Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph 1983 ― Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1991 ― A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides 

Feb 4, 2014

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Today is Tuesday, February 4, the 35th day of 2014. There are 330 days left in the year.1899 — Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines1932 — Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria1938 — Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts1945 — FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta1962 — Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game1971 — British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt1972 — Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported1974 — Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his first word, at two months1974 — Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese LiberationArmy (SLA)1997 — O.J. Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson1998 — Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium

Feb 3, 2014

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Today is Monday, February 3, the 34th day of 2014. There are 331 days left in the year. 1783 ― Spain recognizes U.S. independence 1815 ― World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1867 ― Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) 1919 ― League of Nations first meeting (Paris) 1930 ― Vietnamese Communistic Party forms 1962 ― President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs 1966 ― First soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9) 1969 ― The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO 1994 ― President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam 1998 ― Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain

Feb 2, 2014

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014

Today is Thursday, January 30, the 30th day of 2014. There are 335 days left in the year. 1487 ― Bell chimes invented 1647 ― Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 400 pounds1818 ― Keats composes his sonnet, “When I Have Fears” 1917 ― First jazz record recorded (“Dark Town Strutters Ball”) 1931 ― Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights” premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1935 ― Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of “Cantos” 1939 ― Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 1956 ― Martin Luther King Jr.’s home bombed 1977 ― Eighth (final) part of “Roots” is most-watched entertainment show ever 1993 ― 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism 

Jan 29, 2014

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014

Today is Wednesday, January 29, the 29th day of 2014. There are 336 days left in the year.1728 ― John Gays’ “Beggar’s Opera” premieres in London 1834 ― President Jackson orders first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1845 ― Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” first published (New York City) 1886 ― First successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe 1920 ― Walt Disney starts first job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. 1924 ― Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio 1936 ― First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 1966 ― Snow storm in northeast U.S. kills 165 1969 ― Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 1979 ― Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together

Jan 28, 2014

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2014

Today is Tuesday, January 28, the 28th day of 2014. There are 337 days left in the year.1077 ― Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 1099 ― First Crusaders begins siege of Hosni-el-Akrad, Syria 1613 ― Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1689 ― English parliament ends king Charles II reign 1807 ― London’s Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight 1932 ― Japan occupies Shanghai 1935 ― Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion 1958 ― Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor 1996 ― “Hello Dolly!” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 118 performances 1998 ― Michelangelo’s “Christ & the Woman of Samaria,” sold for $7.4 million  

Jan 27, 2014

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