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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 29, the 60th day of 2012. There are 306 days left in the year. 1504 ― Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians 1832 ― Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil 1908 ― Dutch scientists produce solid helium 1940 ― ``Gone with the Wind" wins eight Oscars 1956 ― Islamic Republic established in Pakistan 1960 ― JFK makes ``missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue 1960 ― First Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago 1960 ― Earthquake kills one-third of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds 1968 ― Beatles' ``Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy 1988 ― Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations

Feb 28, 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Today is Tuesday, February 28, the 59th day of 2012. There are 307 days left in the year. 1066 ― Westminster Abbey opens 1646 ― Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church 1692 ― Salem witch hunt begins 1749 ― First edition of Henry Fielding’s' ``Tom Jones" published 1917 ― Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1933 ― Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) 1935 ― Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers 1943 ― ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan 1981 ― Calvin Murphy (Houston), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws 1986 ― European Economic Community sign ``Special Act" for free trade

Feb 27, 2012

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Today is Monday, February 27, the 58th day of 2012. There are 308 days left in the year. 1814 ― Ludwig von Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F premieres 1854 ― Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 1874 ― Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 1922 ― Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1950 ― General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China 1976 ― Final meeting between Mao Tse Tung and Richard Nixon 1988 ― Katarina Witt (GDR) wins second consecutive Olympics figure skating 1990 ― Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts (Valdez) 1991 ― Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is liberated 1992 ― Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

Feb 26, 2012

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012

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

Feb 24, 2012

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Today is Friday, February 24, the 55th day of 2012. There are 311 days left in the year. 303 ― First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1582 ― Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1821 ― Mexico gains independence from Spain 1903 ― U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out 1924 ― Greek parliament proclaims republic 1933 ― League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria 1946 ― Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1977 ― President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights 1997 ― Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb. 19)

Feb 23, 2012

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Today is Thursday, February 23, the 54th day of 2012. There are 312 days left in the year. 1455 ― Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date) 1792 ― Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres 1836 ― Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 1861 ― President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C. to take office 1886 ― Aluminum manufacturing process developed 1886 ― London Times publishes world's first classified ad 1898 ― In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his ``J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus 1917 ― February revolution begins in Russia 1919 ― Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist party of Italy 1997 ― Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named ``Dolly"

Feb 22, 2012

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2012. There are 313 days left in the year. 57 B.C. ― Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India) 1630 ― Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving 1888 ― John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers, N.Y.) 1900 ― Hawaii became a U.S. territory 1903 ― Due to drought the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water 1907 ― First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London 1956 ― Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1973 ― U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C. 1973 ― Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108 1989 ― U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a ``deliberate fraud"

Feb 21, 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Today is Tuesday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2012. There are 314 days left in the year. 1431 ― England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1764 ― John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for ``Essay on Women" 1842 ― First known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington, D.C. 1911 ― Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto 1922 ― Great Britain grants Egypt independence 1947 ― First instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E. H. Land 1970 ― Jackson 5 make TV debut on ``American Bandstand" 1972 ― Richard Nixon becomes first U.S. President to visit China 1977 ― 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City 1981 ― ``Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured

Feb 20, 2012

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Today is Monday, February 20, the 51st day of 2012. There are 315 days left in the year. 1725 ― 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for $100 /scalp bounty 1809 ― Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state 1811 ― Austria declares bankruptcy 1816 ― Rossini's opera ``The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome 1872 ― Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1938 ― U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says P.M. Chamberlain appeased Germany 1950 ― Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his first U.S. poetry reading tour 1971 ― Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda 1974 ― Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono 1998 ― U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)

Feb 19, 2012

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Today is Saturday, February 18, the 49th day of 2012. There are 317 days left in the year. 3102 B.C. ― Origin of Kali Era (India) 1503 ― Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1678 ― John Bunyan's ``The Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1841 ― First continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11 1885 ― Mark Twain's ``Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published 1927 ― U.S. and Canada begin diplomatic relations 1967 ― Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out six straight major leaguers 1968 ― British adopt year-round daylight savings time 1970 ― U.S. President Nixon launches ``Nixon-doctrine" 1979 ― Snow falls in the Sahara Desert

Feb 17, 2012

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