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On February 7th, 1964- The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."
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On February 8th, 1837- The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky as vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
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1926 February 8th: Walt Disney Studios is formed
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Also on February 9th, 1964- The Beatles made their first live American TV appearance, on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
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On February 10th, 1964- Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released.
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On February 11th, 1945- President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.
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On February 12th, 1994- One of the world's best-known paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, was stolen from a museum in Norway.
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On February 13, 1935- A jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
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On February 14th, 1859- Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
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Also on February 14, 1951, Jo Jo (Alicia) Starbuck was born...
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Also on February 15, 1898- The U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain.
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On February 16, 1923- the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
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On February 17th, 1817- A street in Baltimore became the first to be lighted with gas from America's first gas company.
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On February 18, 1950, Cybil Sheppard was born...
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On February 19, 1954, Margaux Hemingway was born...
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On February 21, 1855, Alice Freenan Palmer was born...
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On February 27, 1932, Elizabeth Taylor was born...
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On February 27, 1801, Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress under the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801.
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On February 28, 1948, Bernadette Peters ws born...
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On March 3 2005, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constables Peter Schiemann, Anthony Gordon, Lionide(Leo) Johnston, and Brock Myrol were murdered by James Roszko on his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta. It has become known as 'The Mayerthorpe incident'.
CST. PETER CHRISTOPHER SCHIEMANN Age 25 http://www.rcmpvets.com/Honour/images/Schiemann.jpg Cst. Anthony GORDON Age 28 http://www.rcmpvets.com/Honour/images/Gordon.jpg CST. LIONIDE NICHOLAS JOHNSTON Age 32 http://www.rcmpvets.com/Honour/images/Johnston.jpg Cst. Brock Warren MYROL Age 29 http://www.rcmpvets.com/Honour/images/Myrol.jpg |
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Also on March 4th, 1861- Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the 16th president.
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Also on March 5th, 1982 - Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose at age 33.
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Also on March 6th, 1981- Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
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On March 7th, 1965- A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
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On March 8, 1947, Carole Bayer Sager was born...
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Also on March 8th, 1926- The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
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Also on March 9th 1916- Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, N.M., killing more than a dozen people.
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On March 10th, 1876- The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
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Also on March 12th, 1933- President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
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On March 12. 1795 William Lyon Mackenzie was born:
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On March 13, 1996- A gunman opened fire on a class of kindergarteners at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
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Also on March 14th, 1879- Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
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On March 15th, 1965- President Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for legislation guaranteeing every American the right to vote.
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On March 1th, 1994- Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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Also on March 16, 1955, Isabelle Huppert was born...
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Also on March 17th, 1906- President Theodore Roosevelt first used the term "muck-rake" as he criticized what he saw as the excesses of investigative journalism in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.
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On March 18. 1963, Vanessa Williams was born...
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Also on March 18th, 1959- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
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Also on March 19th, 1931- Nevada legalized gambling. Even though there's no booze (yet) I can't get "Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear" out of my head now. |
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Also on March 20th, 1996- A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. (They are serving life without parole.)
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Also on March 21st, 1989- Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a police officer was overturned after the documentary "The Thin Blue Line" challenged evidence, was released from a Texas prison.
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Also on March 22nd, 1965- Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home" - his first featuring electric guitar - was released.
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On March 23rd, 1942- During World War II, the U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers.
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On March 24th, 1973- The album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd was released.
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Also on March 26th, in 1973, women are allowed on the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
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On March 27th, 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
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Also on March 27, 1969, Pauley Perrette was born...
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Also on March 28, 1979- America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa
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On March 29, 1973- the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Also on March 30th, 1870- Texas was readmitted to the Union.
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