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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Today is Saturday, February 7, the 38th day of 2009. There are 327 days left in the year. 1613 _ Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia 1882 _ Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Mississippi 1900 _ Labour Party forms in England 1940 _ Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, ``Pinocchio," premieres (New York City) 1949 _ Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000-year baseball player (New York Yankees) 1950 _ Senator Joe McCarthy finds ``communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1964 _ Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali 1976 _ World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR) 1979 _ Pink Floyd premiered their live version of ``The Wall" in Los Angeles 1997 _ U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21

Feb 6, 2009

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Today is Friday, February 6, the 37th day of 2009. There are 328 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 1778 _ England declares war on France 1819 _ Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds free port harbor Singapore 1832 _ First appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland 1904 _ Russian-Japanese war began 1933 _ Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila 1974 _ U.S. House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon 1981 _ Beatles McCartney, Starr and Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon 1987 _ No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings

Feb 5, 2009

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today is Thursday, February 5, the 36th day of 2009. There are 329 days left in the year. 1649 _ Prince of Wales becomes King Charles II 1816 _ Rossini's Opera ``Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome 1916 _ Enrico Caruso recorded ``O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company 1922 _ Reader's Digest magazine first published 1937 _ First Charlie Chaplin talkie, ``Modern Times," is released 1945 _ U.S. troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur enter Manila 1980 _ Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel 1983 _ Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1991 _ A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kervorkian from assisting in suicides 1992 _ Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case

Feb 4, 2009

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Today is Wednesday, February 4, the 35th day of 2009. There are 330 days left in the year. 1924 _ First Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix, France 1930 _ First tireless, soundless, shock-less streetcar tracks, New Orleans 1932 _ Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria 1938 _ Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1938 _ ``Our Town," by Thornton Wilder, opens on Broadway 1945 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta 1962 _ Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game 1969 _ Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO 1986 _ Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane) 1998 _ Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium

Feb 3, 2009

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Today is Tuesday, February 3, the 34th day of 2009. There are 331 days left in the year. 1783 _ Spain recognizes US independence 1876 _ Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football 1919 _ League of Nations first meeting (Paris) 1951 _ Tennessee Williams' ``Rose Tattoo" premieres in New York City 1964 _ ``Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold 1966 _ First soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9) 1967 _ ``Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix 1980 _ Muhammad Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy 1993 _ Federal trial of four police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles 1994 _ President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

Feb 2, 2009

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Today is Monday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2009. There are 332 days left in the year. 1848 _ First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco 1863 _ Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time 1920 _ Estonia declares its independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) 1922 _ James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1932 _ Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Ga.) 1944 _ Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory 1954 _ President Eisenhower reports detonation of first H-bomb (done in 1952) 1959 _ Buddy Holly's last performance 1962 _ Eight of nine planets align for first time in 400 years 1986 _ Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

Feb 1, 2009

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2009

Today is Saturday, January 31, the 31st day of 2009. There are 334 days left in the year. 1627 _ Spanish government goes bankrupt 1871 _ Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky 1874 _ Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Mo. 1901 _ Chekhov's ``Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater 1928 _ Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company 1929 _ Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey 1943 _ General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad 1950 _ President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb 1971 _ ``My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit No. 1 on U.K. pop chart 1985 _ South African President P.W. Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

Jan 30, 2009

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009

Today is Friday, January 30, the 30th day of 2009. There are 335 days left in the year. 1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV 1647 _ Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament 1931 _ Charlie Chaplin's ``City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1933 _ German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen 1956 _ Martin Luther King Jr.'s home bombed 1965 _ State funeral of Winston Churchill 1968 _ Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon 1969 _ Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs 1972 _ Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on Catholics in Londonderry, 13 die 1994 _ Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back

Jan 29, 2009

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009

Today is Thursday, January 29, the 29th day of 2009. There are 336 days left in the year. 1523 _ Sermon of Constanz Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden 1613 _ Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees 1834 _ President Jackson orders first use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute 1845 _ Edgar Allen Poe's ``The Raven" first published (New York City) 1886 _ First successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe 1936 _ First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame _ Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 1969 _ Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 1979 _ Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. 1990 _ Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill 1996 _ 6,138th performance of ``Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, ``A Chorus Line"

Jan 28, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009

Today is Wednesday, January 28, the 28th day of 2009. There are 337 days left in the year. 1077 _ Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV 1099 _ First Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria 1547 _ Nine-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England 1613 _ Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune 1689 _ English parliament ends king Charles II reign 1914 _ Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated 1918 _ Trotsky becomes leader of Reds 1932 _ Japan occupies Shanghai 1935 _ Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion 1998 _ Michelangelo's ``Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million

Jan 27, 2009

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