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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Today is Tuesday, February 23, the 54th day of 2010. 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, D.C. to take office 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 Facist party of Italy 1956 _ Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin 1980 _ Eric Heiden wins all five speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics

Feb 22, 2010

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Today is Monday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2010. 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 1774 _ English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright 1903 _ Due to drought the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water 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" 1998 _ ``King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances 1998 _ 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan

Feb 21, 2010

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Today is Saturday, February 20, the 51st day of 2010. There are 314 days left in the year. 1673 _ First recorded wine auction held (London) 1811 _ Austria declares bankruptcy 1816 _ Rossini's opera ``The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome 1869 _ Tennessee Governor W. .C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis 1872 _ Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1933 _ House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition 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. 1975 _ Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1989 _ Total eclipse of the Moon

Feb 19, 2010

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today is Friday, February 19, the 50th day of 2010. There are 315 days left in the year. 0356 _ Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 1861 _ Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1878 _ Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1881 _ Kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1923 _ Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres 1927 _ General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1942 _ FDR orders detention and internment of all West-coast Japanese-Americans 1953 _ William Inge's ``Picnic" premieres in New York City 1986 _ USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1987 _ Anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner

Feb 18, 2010

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Today is Thursday, February 18, the 49th day of 2010. There are 316 days left in the year. 3102 B.C. _ Origin of Kali Era (India) 1688 _ Quakers conduct first formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa. 1841 _ First continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11 1901 _ H. Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner 1902 _ The opera ``Le Jongleur (Hunchback) de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo) 1927 _ U.S. and Canada begin diplomatic relations 1932 _ Japan declares Manchuria Independent 1968 _ British adopt year-round daylight savings time 1970 _ U.S. President Nixon launches ``Nixon-doctrine" 1972 _ California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

Feb 17, 2010

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Today is Wednesday, February 17, the 48th day of 2010. 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 1876 _ Sardines first canned (Julius Wolff _ Eastport, Me.) 1904 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Madame Butterfly" premieres in Milan 1933 _ First issue of ``Newsweek" magazine published 1959 _ First weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2 _ 9.8 kg 1972 _ President Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. for China 1986 _ First Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles 1995 _ Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked

Feb 16, 2010

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Today is Tuesday, February 16, the 47th day of 2010. 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 1840 _ American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1883 _ "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication 1887 _ 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY) 1923 _ Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen 1932 _ 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 1937 _ DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers 1950 _ Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1956 _ Britain abolishes the death penalty 1992 _ Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform

Feb 15, 2010

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Today is Saturday, February 13, the 44th day of 2010. There are 321 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 1861 _ Abraham Lincoln declared President 1866 _ Jesse James holds up his first bank, Liberty., Mo. ($15,000) 1867 _ Johann Strauss' ``Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna 1920 _ League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland 1924 _ King Tut's tomb opened 1952 _ Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win 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, 2010

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Today is Friday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2010. There are 322 days left in the year. 1624 _ English parliament comes together 1818 _ Chile gains independence from Spain 1912 _ Last Ching (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry Pui, abdicates 1921 _ Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours) 1924 _ George Gershwin's ``Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York City) 1950 _ Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1953 _ USSR breaks relations with Israel 1955 _ President Eisenhower sends first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam 1964 _ Beatles first NYC concert (Carnegie Hall) 1991 _ South and North Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition

Feb 11, 2010

THURSDAY, FEBUARY 11, 2010

Today is Thursday, February 11, the 42nd day of 2010. There are 323 days left in the year. 660 B.C. _ Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 1531 _ Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1808 _ Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1809 _ Robert Fulton patents the steamboat 1810 _ Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria 1812 _ Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill _ the first ``gerrymander" 1814 _ Norway's independence proclaimed 1843 _ Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``I Lombardi" premieres in Milan 1971 _ U.S., U.K., USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons 1990 _ Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa

Feb 10, 2010

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