February 22nd
 

1632 ~ Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" was published.

1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st U.S. President.

1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World.

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.

1983 ~ Birthday of Penny Flame, former Porn Actress.

1987 ~ Death of Andy Warhol, Celebrity

1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced that a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

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.

1855 ~ Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician & Physicist.

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.

February 24th
 

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.

1942 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator.

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.

1962 ~ Birthday of Teri Weigel, Porn Actress.

1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.

1989 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini placed a $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, the author of "The Satanic Verses".

2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon, "father of information theory".

February 25th
 

1723 ~ Death of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.

1870 ~ Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the U.S. Senate.

1901 ~ Incorporation of the United States Steel Corporation.

1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, Beatle.

1981 ~ Birthday of Jamie Lynn, Porn actress.

1983 ~ Death of Tennessee Williams, playwright.

1986 ~ Corazon Aquino assumed the Philippine presidency after Ferdinand E. Marcos fled.

1994 ~ Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death.

2004 ~ Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was released in the U.S., and became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made.

2009 ~ Death of Philip José Farmer, Science Fiction novelist .

2009 ~ Death of Philip José Farmer, Science Fiction novelist .

A giant.

February 26th
 

1797 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.

1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet.

1848 ~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto” in London.

1918 ~ Birthday of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.

1935 ~ Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of RADAR.

1987 ~ Birthday of Julia Bond, Porn actress.

1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.

1991 ~ On Baghdad Radio, Saddam Hussein announced that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait.

1993 ~ A van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City exploded, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.

2001 ~ The Taliban destroyed two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

February 28th
 

1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet ("Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", etc.).

1854 ~ The U.S. Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery.

1901 ~ Birthday of Linus Pauling, double Nobel Prize winner: Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962.

1953 ~ James Watson and Francis Crick announced that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA. The formal announcement followed in the April 25 publication of Nature. For those who would like to learn more about this interesting development. In Crick’s own words.

1967 ~ Death of Henry Luce, Publisher (Time, Fortune, Life, Sports Illustrated).

1983 ~ The final episode of M*A*S*H was broadcast in the U.S.

1986 ~ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.

1991 ~ President Bush announced that "Kuwait is liberated".

1993 ~ Four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) agents and six Branch Davidians were killed when the agents tried to serve warrants on the Davidians.

1994 ~ Birthday of Hou Yifan, an absolutely brilliant Chinese chess player.

February 29th
 

1792 ~ Birthday of Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer.

1860 ~ Birthday of Herman Hollerith, American statistician.

1868 ~ Birthday of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

1904 ~ Birthday Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader.

1940 ~ Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.

1960 ~ An earthquake in Morocco killed over 3,000 people.

1968 ~ President Johnson's Kerner Commission warned that racism was causing America to move “toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal.”.

1980 ~ Gordie Howe made NHL history when he scored his 800th goal.

1984 ~ Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced he would retire.

2004 ~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as President of Haiti.

Feb.28 1983
made tv history as 77% of all tv's were tuned in to watch the last episode of MASH.

March 2nd
 

1836 ~ The Republic of Texas declared its independence from Mexico.

1877 ~ Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

1904 ~ Birthday of Dr. Seuss, Author.

1931 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

1939 ~ Death of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.

1962 ~ Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points against the New York Knicks, an NBA record which still stands.

1963 ~ Release of Please Please Me in the U.K., the first LP from The Beatles.

1969 ~ The maiden flight of the Concorde.

1980 ~ Birthday of Sunny Lane, former Porn Actress.

2004 ~ Al Qaeda carried out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.

March 3rd
 

1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.

1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor.

1923 ~ Birthday of James Doohan, Actor.

1931 ~ ”The Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem of the U.S.

1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast to protest the British rule in India.

1959 ~ Death of Lou Costello, American actor and comedian.

1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator.

1985 ~ England’s coal miners accept defeat and vote to return to work after a year long strike.

1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

2002 ~ Switzerland voted to become a member of the United Nations.

March 5th
 

1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.

1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.

1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, English actor.

1946 ~ Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent…”.

1953 ~ Death of Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator.

1970 ~ The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into effect.

1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.

1953 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.

2000 ~ Death of Lolo Ferrari, French Porn actress.

2004 ~ Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she dumped her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price dropped.

"1953 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks."

What was the year for this, jseal?

1997 - Sorry for not spending enough time on the post. :(

The lengths you will go to, to keep us on our toes!

I'll keep an eye on you, young man.