Today in History

MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2009

Today is Monday, March 2, 61st day of 2009. There are 304 days left in the year. 1776 _ Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston 1807 _ Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1819 _ U.S. passed its first immigration law 1919 _ First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1923 _ TIME magazine debuts 1933 _ ``King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy, NYC 1933 _ Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan 1944 _ 16th Academy Awards: ``Casablanca", Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win 1946 _ Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam 1965 _ ``Sound Of Music" opens

Mar 1, 2009

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Today is Saturday, February 28, the 59th day of 2009. There are 306 days left in the year. 1066 _ Westminster Abbey opens 1692 _ Salem witch hunt begins 1749 _ First edition of Henry Fieldings' ``Tom Jones" published 1759 _ Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages 1943 _ ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan 1953 _ Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov 1966 _ Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes 1976 _ 18th Grammy Awards, ``Love Will Keep Us Together," Natalie Cole win 1986 _ Peter Uberroth suspended seven baseball players for one year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs 1986 _ European Economic Community sign ``Special Act" for Europe free trade

Feb 27, 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009

Today is Friday, February 27, the 58th day of 2009. There are 307 days left in the year. 1557 _ First Russian Embassy opens in London 1827 _ First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, La. 1854 _ Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 1874 _ Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 1933 _ German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists) 1950 _ General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China 1956 _ Elvis Presley's releases ``Heartbreak Hotel" 1972 _ President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1990 _ Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on five criminal counts (Valdez) 1991 _ Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is liberated

Feb 26, 2009

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Today is Thursday, February 26, the 57th day of 2009. There are 308 days left in the year. 1531 _ Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000 1797 _ Bank of England issues 1st banknote 1815 _ Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day reconquest of France 1848 _ Marx and Engels publish ``The Communist Manifesto" 1916 _ Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract 1924 _ Trial against Hitler in Munich begins 1952 _ P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1983 _ Michael Jackson's ``Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks 1984 _ Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first U.S. poet laureate 1984 _ Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse

Feb 25, 2009

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Today is Wednesday, February 25, the 56th day of 2009. There are 309 days left in the year. 1803 _ 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1804 _ Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus 1837 _ First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1910 _ Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1919 _ League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1926 _ Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1932 _ Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1945 _ U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo 1971 _ ``Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances 1988 _ South Korea adopts constitution

Feb 24, 2009

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Today is Tuesday, February 24, the 55th day of 2009. There are 310 days left in the year. 0303 _ First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1582 _ Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1821 _ Mexico gains independence from Spain 1836 _ 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days 1876 _ Henrik Ibsen's ``Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo 1933 _ League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria 1946 _ Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1974 _ East Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh 1977 _ President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights 1989 _ 150 million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found

Feb 23, 2009

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Today is Monday, February 23, the 54th day of 2009. There are 311 days left in the year. 1455 _ Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date) 1689 _ Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England 1804 _ Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII 1836 _ Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 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 1919 _ Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist Party of Italy 1945 _ U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue 1978 _ 20th Grammy Awards ``Hotel California," Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win

Feb 22, 2009

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Today is Saturday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2009. There are 313 days left in the year. 1431 _ England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1804 _ First locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for first time, in Wales 1874 _ Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 1911 _ Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse Elegique) 1916 _ Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties) 1922 _ Great Britain grants Egypt independence 1925 _ First issue of ``New Yorker" magazine published 1947 _ First instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC by E. .H Land 1972 _ Richard Nixon becomes first U.S. President to visit China 1977 _ 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City

Feb 20, 2009

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Today is Friday, February 20, the 51st day of 2009. There are 314 days left in the year. 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 1933 _ House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition 1950 _ Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his first U.S. poetry reading tour 1962 _ John Glenn is first American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7) 1971 _ Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda 1975 _ Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1977 _ ``My Fair Lady" closes at St. James Theater, NYC, after 384 performances 1989 _ Total eclipse of the Moon

Feb 19, 2009

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Today is Thursday, February 19, the 50th day of 2009. There are 315 days left in the year. 1807 _ Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1861 _ Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1878 _ Thomas A. Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1881 _ Kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1927 _ General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1942 _ FDR orders detention and internment of all West-coast Japanese-Americans 1944 _ 823 British bombers attack Berlin 1945 _ U.S. 5th Fleet (30,000 US Marines) launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese 1953 _ William Inge's ``Picnic" premieres in New York City 1955 _ South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

Feb 18, 2009

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