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On February 10, 1897, "The New York Times" began printing "All the news that's fit to print" on their front page...
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On February 11, 1940, NBC radio presented "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street" for the first time...
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On February 12, 1880, the National Croquet League was organized in Philadelphia, PA...
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February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln our 16th President was is born.
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Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet. Here he is with Winston Churchill, then first Lord of the Admiralty. Lorne Greene 1915-1987 broadcaster, actor, born on this day at Ottawa Ontario in 1915; died at Santa Monica California Sept 11, 1987 after an operation for a perforated ulcer. Greene started his radio career in the 1930s at radio station CBO in Ottawa. During World War II was chief news broadcaster on the CBC from 1939-42, and his sonorous voice earned him the nickname, The Voice of Doom. After starring in a few Hollywood movies - The Silver Chalice (1954), Peyton Place (1957), and The Buccaneer (1958) - he landed the role of patriarch Ben Cartwright in the long-running Western TV series Bonanza (1959-73). Greene even had a Top 100 hit in 1964, when his non-song Ringo hit Number One in the US. He worked on CTV's Lorne Greene's New Wilderness for five years, then starred in two short-lived TV series, Battlestar Galactica and Code Red. Greene Victoria BC - Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Israel/Jordan - Yasser Arafat takes office as the first Palestinian President. |
On February 13, 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members...
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On February 14, 1946, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer...
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On February 15, 1879, U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court...
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On February 16, 1857, The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College...
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Feb 16 1923
Lord Carnarvon opens King Tut's tomb, revealing one of the most well-preserved treasures from the ancient world. While it has been frequently reported that a curse killed 13 of the 20 people present at the opening of the tomb, there was no curse and no unusual death patterns occurred. Feb 16 1959 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/f...del-at-bat.jpg Failed baseball player Fidel Castro is sworn in as President For Life of Cuba. During his first year of rule 500 are put to the firing squad, an RBI record any dictator would be proud of. Feb 16 1978 The first computer bulletin board system goes live on an S-100 motherboard and CP/M, and a Hayes 300 baud modem. Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss's Computerized Bulletin Board System still kinda runs to this day, but the Internet has taken the place that BBS's used to have. And this is why you have no social life, loser. Feb 16 1988 Richard Farley, a man obsessed with the lovely and petite Laura Black, entered his former workplace in Sunnyvale, California, and killed 7 employees as he made his way towards Laura's office. A hearing was scheduled regarding her restraining order against him for the following day. Farley fails in his attempt to kill her, leaving Laura critically wounded. |
On Febryary 17, 1934, the first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA...
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Feb 17 1600
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore in Rome, likely because ecclesiastical authorities were alarmed at his rambling and somewhat insane ideas, coupled with rejection of accepted authority. Exactly what the charges against him were are lost to history, but likely involve theological heresies rather than astronomical. Feb 17 1974 Forty-nine people trampled to death at a soccer stampede in Cairo, after crowds tear down entry barriers to the Zamalek vs Dukla game. Feb 17 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/f...ll-and-ted.jpg The cinematic masterpiece "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened in theaters. Pictured above, Bill and Ted's Excellent Breakfast Cereal. Feb 17 1993 An overcrowded ferry carrying up to 1,500 people sank off Haiti. Only 285 people were known to have survived. Feb 17 1994 The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem. |
On February 18, 1913, the famous French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase", by the French artist, Marcel Duchamp, was displayed at an "Armory Show" in New York City...
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Feb 18 1933
Yoko Ono born. Feb 18 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. Feb 18 1991 Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Feb 18 2001 During the Daytona 500, NASCAR phenom Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall and dies instantly. His widow later files a lawsuit to keep his autopsy photos sealed, and Florida subsequently passes a law to prevent them from ever being released. |
On February 19, 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages...
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Feb 19 1942
Roosevelt signs E.O. 9066, the internment order permitting Japanese Americans to be held in concentration camps for the duration of the war. Feb 19 1969 Marianne Faithfull was found in a coma after a suicide attempt in Australia. Feb 19 1983 Benjamin Ng and Willie Mak kill 13 in a Seattle robbery attempt. Feb 19 1995 Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee married. Watch for the video. Feb 19 1998 Lt. Col. Larry Wayne Harris (Aryan Nations) and William Leavitt are arrested in Henderson, NV for possession of the biological toxin anthrax, military grade, enough to kill an entire city. Their Mercedes is hermetically sealed by authorities and brought to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for hazmat. |
On February 20, 1933, the U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition...
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Feb 20 1947
A chemical mistake at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co. in Los Angeles causes a huge explosion, killing 17 and leaving a 22 foot crater. Four city blocks suffer severe devastation, with over 100 buildings damaged. Feb 20 1971 An erroneous warning is emitted on the Emergency Broadcast System causing a number of stations to go off the air, and others to completely ignore the alert (thus pointing out that many key stations would not react to any emergency broadcast over the system.) Feb 20 1980 After some heavy drinking, Bon Scott, vocalist for heavy metal band AC/DC, is found in a friend's automobile choked on his own vomit. Feb 20 1984 Ballerina Julia Pak marries the ghost of Sun Myung Moon's dead son, Heung Jin Moon, in a tasteful necro-ceremony. The couple were engaged to be married, but a car accident in December intervened. Unfortunately in the Moonie religion, only married couples may enter Heaven, hence the need for this awkward rite. Feb 20 1987 A paper bag at a Salt Lake City computer store explodes, injuring store owner Gary Wright. It is the second time the Unabomber has used the old "paper bag in the parking lot" trick. Feb 20 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/j...age-people.jpg Victor Willis, the "cop" in the Village People is charged in Nevada on drug possession (45 grams of cocaine), possession of drug paraphernalia, and strong armed robbery. The events occurred February 15. Willis, 45, listed his occupation as "unemployed" and generously gave approval for his hotel room to be searched. Feb 20 2003 A fire at a West Warwick, R.I. performance of eighties hairspray legends Great White caused by the band's indoor pyrotechnics leaves 100 dead. The pyrotechnics were illegal in that nightclub venue, and use of them by the band had been forbidden by other local venues. Guitarist Ty Longley is among the dead, his last journal entry containing the words: "I say we send a bunch of bands, food, artists, strippers, bartenders, proctologists, psychologists and lots of love over to Iraq and North Korea for a big party!" |
On February 21, 1975, former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up...
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the peace symbol
http://www.peacesymbol.org/peace_sym...e_symbol_6.gif It was created in Britain on Feb 21, 1958 in advance of a nationwide "ban the bomb" protest against the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by the world's major powers. It has since become the international icon for peace. |
Feb 21 1803
Edward Despard and six co-conspirators were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Horsemonger Lane Gaol for plotting to assassinate England's King George III and to destroy the Bank of England. He is the last person to suffer this punishment. Feb 21 1885 America's greatest phallic symbol, the Washington Monument, is dedicated by President Chester A. Arthur. The shaft towers over 555 into the air, and sports an aluminum foreskin. Feb 21 1916 Start of the Battle of Verdun, which in nine months yielded 975,000 casualties and almost no change in the front line. It is the bloodiest battle in history, and often the one remarked as having the "highest density of dead per square yard." Feb 21 1931 The first attempted hijacking of an airplane occurs when revolutionary soldiers in Peru seize a Ford Tri-motor and demand pilots drop propaganda leaflets over the capital, Lima. Feb 21 1965 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-malcolm-x.jpg Malcolm X assassinated in a Manhattan ballroom, probably by fellow black muslims. Feb 21 1972 Nixon visits Red China, fulfilling the Vulcan proverb. Feb 21 1988 Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart of the Assemblies of God, with tears streaming down his face, confesses sinning with a prostitute in a Louisiana hotel room. A second scandal with yet another prostitute emerges in 1991, further killing his evangelical career. |
On February 22, 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States...
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On February 27, 1827, New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration...
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On February 28, 1854, the Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group...
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On February 29, 1952, in New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians when to walk...
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St. Tibbs Day, inserted between 59 Chaos and 60 Chaos, on the Discordian calendar. Feb 29 1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, was accused of witchcraft in Salem. Feb 29 1960 An Earthquake killed 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec. Also that day, it was hit with a tidal wave and a fire. Feb 29 1960 Melvin Purvis, the G-Man who led the raids when John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd were slain, committed suicide wtih an automatic revolver*. Feb 29 1996 A Peruvian commercial jet caught fire and crashed into remote Andean mountain canyon five miles from its destination, killing all 123 people on board. *WTF is an automatic revolver? |
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On March 1, 1873, E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter...
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On March 2. 1908 , in Paris, Gabriel Lippmann introduced three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences...
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On March 3, 1845, Florida became the 27th U.S. state...
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On March 4, 1634, Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, MA...
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On March 5, 1770, "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter...
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On March 6, 1967, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery...
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On March 7, 1908, Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith, announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
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On March 8, 1911, in Europe, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time...
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