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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Today is Friday, February 17, the 48th day of 2012. There are 318 days left in the year. 1776 ― First volume of Gibbon's ``Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published 1795 ― Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England 1904 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Madam Butterfly" premieres in Milan 1933 ― Blondie Boopadoop marries Dagwood Bumstead; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him 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 1979 ― China invades Vietnam 1981 ― Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in U.S. history 1995 ― Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked

Feb 16, 2012

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Today is Thursday, February 16, the 47th day of 2012. There are 319 days left in the year. 600 ― Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying ``God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze 1838 ― Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions 1923 ― Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen 1932 ― First patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 1937 ― DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H. Carothers 1948 ― Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for first time 1956 ― Britain abolishes the death penalty 1959 ― Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 1980 ― Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France 1992 ― Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's No. 32 uniform

Feb 15, 2012

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 15, the 46th day of 2012. There are 320 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 1961 ― Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash 1964 ― Beatles' ``Meet the Beatles!" album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 11 weeks 1967 ― Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) 1984 ― 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq 1986 ― Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election 1995 ― Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

Feb 14, 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Today is Tuesday, February 14, the 45th day of 2012. There are 321 days left in the year. 1076 ― Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV 1711 ― Handel’s opera Rinaldo, premieres 1876 ― A. G. Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1914 ― High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands 1924 ― IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson 1944 ― Anti-Japanese revolt on Java 1946 ― Bank of England nationalized 1980 ― ``West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC, for 341 performances 1989 ― Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopal disaster 1989 ― Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, ``Satanic Verses"

Feb 13, 2012

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Today is Monday, February 13, the 44th day of 2012. There are 322 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 1689 ― British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1777 ― Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress 1832 ― First appearance of cholera at London 1861 ― Abraham Lincoln declared President 1867 ― Johann Strauss' ``Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna 1924 ― King Tut's tomb opened 1959 ― Barbie doll goes on sale 1990 ― U.S., England, France and England give Germany the OK to reunify 1991 ― U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334

Feb 12, 2012

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Today is Saturday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2012. There are 324 days left in the year. 1531 ― Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1573 ― First European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama) 1808 ― Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1852 ― First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London) 1889 ― Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; first Diet convenes in 1890 1945 ― Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin 1971 ― U.S., U.K., USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 1978 ― China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens 1990 ― Nelson Mandela (political prisoner for 27 years) freed in South Africa 1999 ― Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system

Feb 10, 2012

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Today is Friday, February 10, the 41st day of 2012. There are 325 days left in the year. 1635 ― Academie Francaise is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) 1794 ― Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres 1863 ― First U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Va. 1879 ― First electric arc light used (California Theater) 1897 ― New York Times begins using slogan ``All the News That's Fit to Print" 1904 ― Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled seven Russian warships 1933 ― Hitler proclaims end of Marxism 1940 ― ``In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits No. 1 1949 ― Arthur Miller's ``Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC 1996 ― IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

Feb 9, 2012

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Today is Thursday, February 9, the 40th day of 2012. There are 326 days left in the year. 1863 ― Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane 1885 ― First Japanese arrive in Hawaii 1886 ― President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence 1895 ― Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts 1926 ― Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Ga., schools 1969 ― World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight 1971 ― Probably first gay theme TV episode ― All in the Family 1972 ― British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike 1985 ― Madonna's ``Like a Virgin" album goes No. 1 for three weeks 1994 ― Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat

Feb 8, 2012

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 8, the 39th day of 2012. There 327 days left in the year. 421 ― Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman empire 1587 ― Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded 1600 ― Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament 1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa's ``Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg 1920 ― Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1975 ― 1,800 Unification Church couples' wed in Korea 1977 ― Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced 1984 ― First time eight people in space 1985 ― Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea

Feb 7, 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Today is Tuesday, February 7, the 38th day of 2012. There are 328 days left in the year. 1639 ― Academie Francaise begins the Dictionary of the French Language 1900 ― Labour Party forms in England 1914 ― Charlie Chaplin debuts ``The Tramp" in ``Kid Auto Races at Venice" 1940 ― British railroads nationalized 1947 ― Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine 1949 ― Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees) 1950 ― Senator Joe McCarthy finds ``communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1962 ― President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1964 ― Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for first U.S. tour 1990 ― USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties

Feb 6, 2012

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