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On February 16, 1923- the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.

Also on February 16, 1916, Bill Doggett was born...

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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.

Also on February 17, 1954, Rene Russo was born...

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On February 18, 1950, Cybil Sheppard was born...

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Yoko Ono was born in this day in 1933

Today in Oldies Music History: February 18

On February 19, 1954, Margaux Hemingway was born...

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On February 20, 1954, Patty Hearst was born...

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On February 21, 1855, Alice Freenan Palmer was born...

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On February 22, 1975, Drew Barrymore was born...

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On February 23, 1938, Diana Varsi was born...

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On February 24, 1951, Helen Shaver was born...

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On February 25, 1938, Diane Baker was born...

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today the gas tax was born

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View: Feb. 25, 1919: Oregon Taxes Gas by the Gallon
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Feb. 25, 1919: Oregon Taxes Gas by the Gallon
Feb. 25, 1919: Oregon Taxes Gas by the Gallon
By Randy Alfred Email 17 hours ago
Oregon's gasoline tax funded commercial and scenic highways, like the Columbia River Highway. This panoramic view looks east from Crown Point in the Columbia River Gorge.
Image: Oregon State Archives

1919: Oregon passes the nation's first per-gallon tax on gasoline. It's only a penny, and it's only one state, but you know where things go from here.

New York City started collecting registration fees on those new-fangled motor vehicles in 1901, and the state of Missouri took that road two years later. By 1914, every state collected registration fees (.pdf), and approximately 90 percent of the dough was going to road construction and maintenance.

Still, horseless carriages had a greater need for pavement than horses hauling carriages, and the long-distance capabilities of automobiles and trucks suggested a network of well-built intercity highways to rival the railroads. In Oregon, the state highway commission (created in 1913) started a "Get Oregon Out of the Mud" campaign for better roads in 1917.

Republican state legislator Loyal Graham (.pdf) sponsored the measure that made Oregon the first state in the nation to make road users pay at the pump to build and maintain those roads. Early projects included the Pacific Highway from the Washington state line to California and the Columbia River Highway along that mighty river.

The first gasoline tax was one cent a gallon (12 cents in today's money). Gasoline in those days sold for about 25 cents a gallon, which would be a bit more than $3 these days.

Colorado and New Mexico followed Oregon within six weeks to initiate per-gallon taxes. North Dakota followed later in the year. When New York finally joined the procession 10 years later, all 48 states had imposed taxes of 1, 2 or 3 cents per gallon. The federal government levied its first gasoline tax in 1932: a penny a gallon (15 cents today).

Ninety years after its inception, the Oregon gasoline tax is 25 cents imposed by the state, with up to 8 cents more in city and county taxes, and 18.4 cents for the feds. That could add up to 51.4 cents, depending on where you buy. The U.S. average is 45 cents a gallon, including the federal levy.

Oregon is still a leader in new ways to tax vehicle use. It ran a 300-car pilot program from 2006 to 2007 to test the idea of equipping all new vehicles with GPS and then taxing them by miles driven. The idea also been bandied about in Washington state, Idaho, Colorado, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and — until President Obama nixed it last Friday — the federal government.

The future will undoubtedly be interesting.

On February 26, 1966, Jennifer Grant 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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Following the passage of this Act, residents of the District of Columbia were no longer considered to be residents of either Maryland or Virginia. This left District residents unable to vote for members of Congress. They have voted in Presidential elections since the adoption of the Twenty third Amendment in 1961 (which first applied in the election of 1964). District residents are represented in the House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate who may vote in committee and participate in debate, but cannot vote for final passage of a bill in the House. There have been several efforts to give the inhabitants of the District representation.

I'd say yesterday's Senate vote supporting D.C. voting rights in the House was timed rather nicely.

On February 28, 1948, Bernadette Peters ws born...

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On March 1, 1954, Catherine Bach was born...

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On March 2, 1952, Laraine Newman was born...

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March 2:

In 1943, the World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began; US and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

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
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Cst. Anthony GORDON Age 28
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CST. LIONIDE NICHOLAS JOHNSTON Age 32
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Cst. Brock Warren MYROL Age 29
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Also on March 3, 1982, Jessica Biel was born...

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On March 4, 1938, Paula Prentiss was born...

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Also on March 4th, 1861- Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the 16th president.

On March 5, 1939, Samantha Eggar was born...

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Also on March 5th, 1982 - Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose at age 33.

On March 6, 1947, Kiki Dee was born...

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Also on March 6th, 1981- Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."

And that's the way it was.

On March 7th, 1965- A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

Also on March 7, 1962, taylor dayne was born...

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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.

On March 9, 1943, Trish Van Devere was born...

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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.

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."

Also on March 10, 1966, Edie Brickell was born...

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On March 11, 1968, Lisa Loeb was born...

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On March 12, 1932, Barbara Feldon was born...

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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.