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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Today is Wednesday, February 16, the 47th day of 2011. There are 318 days left in the year. 600 ― Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying ``God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze 1887 ― First newspaper convention (Rochester, N.Y.) 1923 ― Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen 1933 ― Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists 1956 ― Britain abolishes the death penalty 1959 ― Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 1961 ― China uses its first nuclear reactor 1980 ― Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France 1989 ― Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market 1992 ― Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's No. 32 uniform

Feb 15, 2011

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Today is Tuesday, February 15, the 46th day of 2011. There are 319 days left in the year. 399 ― Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 1842 ― First adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City 1906 ― British Labour Party organizes 1931 ― First Dracula movie released 1932 ― U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) 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 1989 ― Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends 1995 ―Dow-Jones closes at record 3,986.17 1995 ― Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

Feb 14, 2011

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Today is Monday, February 14, the 45th day of 2011. There are 320 days left in the year. 1670 ― Roman Catholic Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna 1876 ― A. G. Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 1920 ― League of Women Voters forms in Chicago 1924 ― IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson 1929 ― St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, Il., seven gangsters killed 1946 ― Bank of England nationalized 1980 ― ``West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC, for 341 performances 1989 ― Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, ``Satanic Verses" 1989 ― Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic 1992 ― Ceasefire in Somalia begins

Feb 13, 2011

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Today is Saturday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2011. There are 322 days left in the year. 1818 ― Chile gains independence from Spain 1850 ― Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 1877 ― First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass. 1912 ― Last Ching (Manchu) Emperor of China, Henry Pu-i, abdicates 1921 ― Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies 1924 ― George Gershwin's ``Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York City) 1950 ― Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1950 ― Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1982 ― Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tying NHL record 1991 ― North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition

Feb 11, 2011

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Today is Friday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2011. There are 323 days left in the year. 1531 ― Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1790 ― Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery 1808 ― Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1809 ― Robert Fulton patents the steamboat 1810 ― Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria 1843 ― Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``I Lombardi" premieres in Milan 1854 ― Major streets lit by coal gas for first time 1889 ― Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; first Diet convenes in 1890 1896 ― Oscar Wildes ``Salome” premieres in Paris 1990 ― Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa

Feb 10, 2011

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today is Thursday, February 10, the 41st day of 2011. There are 324 days left in the year. 1635 ― Academie Francaise is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) 1749 ― 10th (final) volume of Fielding's ``Tom Jones" is published 1824 ― Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1855 ― U.S. laws amended all children of U.S. parents born abroad granted U.S. citizenship 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 1956 ― Elvis Presley records ``Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA 1974 ― Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out 1996 ― IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

Feb 9, 2011

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Today is Wednesday, February 9, the 40th day of 2011. There are 325 days left in the year. 1540 ― The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester) 1674 ― English reconquer New York from Netherlands 1849 ― Roman Republic declared 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 1904 ― Japan declares war on Russia 1943 ― FDR orders minimal 48 hour workweek in war industry 1985 ― Madonna's ``Like a Virgin" album goes No. 1 for three weeks

Feb 8, 2011

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Today is Tuesday, February 8, the 39th day of 2011. There are 326 days left in the year. 1587 ― Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded 1622 ― King James I disbands the English parliament 1775 ― Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner 1895 ― Tchaikovsky/Petipa's ``Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg 1918 ― ``Stars & Stripes", weekly U.S. armed forces newspaper, first published 1920 ― Swiss men vote against women's suffrage 1975 ― 1,800 Unification Church couples wed in Korea 1976 ― Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China 1993 ― Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die 1998 ― First female ice hockey game in Olympics history ― Finland beats Sweden 6-0

Feb 7, 2011

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today is Monday, February 7, the 38th day of 2011. There are 327 days left in the year. 1613 ― Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia 1639 ― Academie Francaise begins the Dictionary of the French Language 1900 ― Labour Party forms in England 1940 ― British railroads nationalized 1950 ― Senator Joe McCarthy finds ``communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1958 ― Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc 1962 ― President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba 1964 ― Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for first U.S. tour 1964 ― Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali 1979 ― Pink Floyd premiered their live version of ``The Wall" in Los Angeles

Feb 6, 2011

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Today is Wednesday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2011. There are 332 days left in the year. 1653 ― New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York, N.Y.) 1852 ― Alexandre Dumas Jr.'s ``Le Dame aux Camellias" premieres in Paris 1863 ― Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time 1906 ― Pope encyclical against separation of church and state 1922 ― James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1933 ― Two days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament 1935 ― Lie detector first used in court (Portage, W.I.) 1942 ― Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans 1954 ― President Eisenhower reports detonation of first H-bomb (done in 1952) 1963 ― Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of the undercard)

Feb 1, 2011

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