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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Today is Monday, February 6, the 37th day of 2012. There are 329 days left in the year. 1508 ― Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1778 ― France recognizes U.S., signs treaty of aid in Paris; first U.S. treaty 1832 ― First appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland 1854 ― Composer R. Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine 1904 ― Russian-Japanese war began 1939 ― Spanish government flees to France 1971 ― First time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Sheppard) 1974 ― U.S. House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon 1981 ― Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon 1987 ― No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings

Feb 5, 2012

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Today is Saturday, February 4, the 35th day of 2012. There are 331 days left in the year. 1794 ― French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery 1899 ― Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines 1936 ― First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) 1938 ― Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1971 ― British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt 1972 ― Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported 1985 ― 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign U.N. treaty outlawing torture 1991 ― Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose 1997 ― O.J. Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson 1998 ― Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium

Feb 3, 2012

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Today is Friday, February 3, the 34th day of 2012. There are 332 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) 1951 ― Tennessee Williams' ``Rose Tattoo" premieres in New York City 1962 ― President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs 1967 ― ``Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix 1969 ― The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO 1994 ― President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam 1998 ― Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps

Feb 2, 2012

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Today is Thursday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2012. There 333 days left in the year. 1653 ― New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York City) 1848 ― first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco 1863 ― Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time 1922 ― James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1935 ― Lie detector first used in court (Portage, Ind.) 1940 ― Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) 1942 ― Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans 1944 ― Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory 1974 ― Barbra Streisand's first No. 1 hit, ``The Way We Were" 1986 ― Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

Feb 1, 2012

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Today is Wednesday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2012. There are 334 days left in the year. 1587 ― English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence 1867 ― Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1884 ― First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1896 ― Giacomo Puccini's Opera ``La Boheme" premieres in Turin 1923 ― Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini 1951 ― U.N. condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 1964 ― Beatles' ``I Want to Hold Your Hand" first No. 1 hit and stays for seven weeks 1968 ― Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head 1979 ― Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile 1991 ― President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws

Jan 31, 2012

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012

Today is Tuesday, January 31, the 31st day of 2012. There 335 days left in the year. 1627 ― Spanish government goes bankrupt 1871 ― Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky 1901 ― Chekhov's ``Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater 1905 ― First auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A. G. MacDonald, Daytona Beach 1906 ― Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter 1915 ― First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians 1929 ― Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey 1950 ― President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb 1978 ― ``Elvis The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 101 performances 1985 ― South African President P.W. Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

Jan 30, 2012

MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012

Today is Monday, January 30, the 30th day of 2012. There are 336 days left in the year. 1487 ― Bell chimes invented 1800 ― U.S. population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9 percent) 1847 ― Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco 1917 ― First jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball) 1931 ― Charlie Chaplin's ``City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1937 ― Second of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death 1939 ― Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews 1956 ― Martin Luther King Jr.'s home bombed 1969 ― Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs 1993 ― 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism

Jan 29, 2012

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, January 28, the 28th day of 2012. There are 338 days left in the year. 1077 ― Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 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 1878 ― First telephone exchange (New Haven, Conn.) 1918 ― Trotsky becomes leader of Reds 1935 ― Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion 1959 ― Soviet Union wins 62-37 for first international basketball loss by U.S. 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, 2012

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012

Today is Friday, January 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339th days left in the year. 1302 ― Dante becomes a Florentine political exile 1593 ― Vatican opens seven- year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1710 ― Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget 1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1944 ― Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1948 ― First tape recorder sold 1967 ― Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed 1973 ― U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft 1984 ― Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 26, 2012

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012

Today is Thursday, January 26, the 26th day of 2012. There 340 days left in the year. 1697 ― Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's six-month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night 1833 ― Gaetano Donizetti's opera ``Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan 1875 ― Electric dental drill is patented by George F. Green 1905 ― Han Yong-un, Manhae, (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1905 ― World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa 1926 ― Television first demonstrated (John L Baird, London) 1950 ― India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion 1956 ― Buddy Holly's first formal recording session 1988 ― ``Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances 1998 ― President Clinton says ``I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

Jan 25, 2012

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