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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Today is Monday, February 28, the 59th day of 2011. There are 306 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 1922 ― Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1933 ― Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) 1956 ― Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory 1981 ― China throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan 1983 ― Final TV episode of ``MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch

Feb 27, 2011

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Today is Saturday, February 26, the 57th day of 2011. There are 308 days left in the year. 1531 ― Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000 1815 ― Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1848 ― Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto" 1852 ― British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa; 458 die 1923 ― Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts) 1930 ― First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC) 1936 ― Military coup in Japan 1952 ― P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1980 ― Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for the first time 1983 ― Michael Jackson's ``Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks

Feb 25, 2011

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Today is Friday, February 25, the 56th day of 2011. There are 309 days left in the year. 1803 ― 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1837 ― First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1907 ― George Bernard Shaw's ``Philanderer" premieres in London 1910 ― Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1919 ― League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1926 ― Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords 1932 ― Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1954 ― Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1956 ― Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1986 ― Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees in defeat

Feb 24, 2011

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Today is Thursday, February 24, the 55th day of 2011. There are 310 days left in the year. 303 ― First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1582 ― Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1711 ― Handel's opera ``Rinaldo" premieres, London 1821 ― Mexico gains independence from Spain 1868 ― House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out 1924 ― Mahatma Gandhi released from jail 1933 ― League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria 1946 ― Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1997 ― Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb. 19)

Feb 23, 2011

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Today is Wednesday, February 23, the 54th day of 2011. There are 311 days left in the year. 303 ― Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians 1455 ― Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date) 1804 ― Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII 1861 ― President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office 1886 ― London Times publishes world's first classified ad 1904 ― Control of Panama Canal Zone acquired by U.S. for $10 million 1917 ― February revolution begins in Russia 1919 ― Benito Mussolini founds the Facist Party of Italy 1945 ― U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue 1956 ― Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

Feb 22, 2011

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Today is Tuesday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2011. There are 312 days left in the year. 57 B.C. ― Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India) 1630 ― Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving 1856 ― First national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh) 1860 ― Organized baseball played in San Francisco for the first time 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 1924 ― First presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge) 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

Feb 21, 2011

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Today is Monday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2011. 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 1804 ― First locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for first time, in Wales 1878 ― First telephone directory (with 50 names) issued (New Haven, Conn.) 1882 ― NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 1911 ― Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse Music) 1947 ― First instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E.H. Land 1972 ― Richard Nixon becomes first U.S. President to visit China 1988 ― During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time 1993 ― Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)

Feb 20, 2011

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Today is Saturday, February 19, the 50th day of 2011. There are 315 days left in the year. 1674 ― Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English) 1797 ― One third of papal domain ceded to France 1861 ― Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1878 ― Thomas A. Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1923 ― Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres 1942 ― FDR orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1945 ― 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in two days 1955 ― South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect 1963 ― USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1987 ―Anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner

Feb 18, 2011

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Today is Friday, February 18, the 49th day of 2011. 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 1841 ― First continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11 1884 ― Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's ``What I Believe In" 1885 ― Mark Twain's ``Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published 1930 ― U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto 1932 ― Japan declares Manchuria Independent 1968 ― 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West Berlin 1970 ― U.S. President Nixon launches ``Nixon-doctrine" 1978 ― First Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, H.I.

Feb 17, 2011

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Today is Thursday, February 17, the 48th day of 2011. There are 317 days left in the year. 1568 ― Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace 1598 ― Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia 1776 ― First volume of Gibbon's ``Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published 1836 ― HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania 1867 ― First ship passes through Suez Canal 1876 ― Sardines first canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine) 1904 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Madam 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

Feb 16, 2011

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