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February 12th
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02-12-2013, 09:37 PM
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Rats.
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02-13-2013, 09:28 PM
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02-15-2013, 05:51 AM
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February 15th
1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer.
1898 ~ The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260.
1942 ~ Sigapore fell to the Japanese. The Sook Ching massacre followed.
1954 ~ Birthday of Matt Groening, Satirist.
1965 ~ Death of Nat “King” Cole, Singer.
1965 ~ A new red and white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1974 ~ Birthday of Gina Lynn, Porn actress.
1988 ~ Death of Richard Feynman, Physicist.
1995 ~ Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the more "secure" U.S. computer systems.
2005 ~ YouTube was launched.
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02-16-2013, 03:07 AM
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Doesn't seem possible that Nat King Cole has been gone some 50 years now, or that the Canadian Maple Leaf flag has been around that long either. Wow, time flies when you're having fun.
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02-18-2013, 07:25 AM
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February 18th
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published.
1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon.
1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry.
1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
2001 ~ FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.
2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
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February 21st
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist.
1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer.
1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet.
1916 ~ The Battle of Verdun began. French casualties during the battle were estimated at 550,000 with German losses set at 434,000, half of the total being fatalities.
1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to a prostitute.
1995 ~ When he landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Steve Fossett became the first man to make a solo baloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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February 22nd
1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st U.S. President.
1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World.
1879 ~ Frank Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
1935 ~ Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
1946 ~ George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram - the "Long Telegram" - to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment.
1980 ~ In the Olympic competition, the U.S. Ice Hockey team defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, NY.
1982 ~ Birthday of Jenna Haze, Porn Actress.
1987 ~ Death of Andy Warhol, Celebrity
1994 ~ Double agent Aldrich Ames was arrested.
1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced that a sheep had been successfully cloned, and named the clone Dolly.
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February 23rd
1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist.
1685 ~ Birthday of Georg Friederich Händel, Composer.
1836 ~ The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio , Texas.
1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine.
1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay.
1927 ~ President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.
1945 ~ The Stars and Stripes raised over Iwo Jima . The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount Suribachi.
1954 ~ Lasting prevention of polio reported in vaccine tests.
1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian.
1998 ~ Osama bin Laden published a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and "Crusaders" (commonly interpreted to refer to the people of Europe and the United States).
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February 24th
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, Philologist & Folklorist.
1803 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review.
1856 ~ Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician.
1868 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson.
1903 ~ The U.S. signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
1949 ~ At White Sands NM, "Project Bumper” a WAC CORPORAL attached to a German built V-2 rocket, reached a height of 250 miles above sea level, the first rocket to reach outer space. The entire trip took 6-1/2 minutes from firing.
1955 ~ Birthday of Steve Jobs, Computer Pioneer.
1942 ~ Birthday of Teri Weigel, Porn Actress.
1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon, "father of information theory".
2008 ~ After nearly fifty years, Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba.
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