02-23-2006, 06:33 AM
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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.
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 ~ U.S. flag raised over Iwo Jima: The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marines take Mount Suribachi.
1954 ~ Lasting prevention of Polio reported in vaccine tests.
1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian.
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02-24-2006, 06:34 AM
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February 24th
303 ~ The Roman Emperor Galerius published his edict that began the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, Philologist & Folklorist.
1856 ~ Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician.
1868 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson.
1885 ~ Birthday of Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral.
1903 ~ The U.S. signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
1946 ~ Juan Perón was elected president of Argentina.
1955 ~ Birthday of Steve Jobs, Computer Pioneer.
1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon, "father of information theory".
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02-25-2006, 06:30 AM
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February 25th
1723 ~ Death of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1841 ~ Birthday of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter & Sculptor.
1870 ~ Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the United States Senate.
1901 ~ J.P. Morgan incorporated the United States Steel Corporation.
1913 ~ The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, authorizing a graduated income tax, was ratified.
1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, member of The Beatles.
1983 ~ Death of Tennessee Williams, playwright.
1986 ~ President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule. Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.
1994 ~ Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshippers
2004 ~ Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was released in the U.S., grossing approximately $370 million, and became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made.
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02-26-2006, 08:01 AM
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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.
1852 ~ Birthday of John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of dry cereal.
1918 ~ Birthday of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer.
1935 ~ Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of RADAR.
1944 ~ Filming of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" began in Theresienstadt.
1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
1991 ~ Kuwait City was liberated.
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.
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02-27-2006, 06:33 AM
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February 27th
1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet (The Song of Hiawatha, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride).
1827 ~ The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans.
1873 ~ Birthday of Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor.
1887 ~ Death of Alexander Borodin, composer.
1900 ~ The British Labour Party was formed.
1902 ~ Birthday of John Steinbeck, Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1962.
1912 ~ Birthday of Lawrence Durrell, Writer.
1933 ~ Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.
1951 ~ In a victory for freedom lovers, the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.
1991 ~ President George Bush declared "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated", and announced a Gulf War ceasefire.
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02-28-2006, 06:37 AM
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February 28th
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03-01-2006, 06:17 AM
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March 1st
1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.
1872 ~ Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's first national park.
1896 ~ Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
1904 ~ Birthday of Glenn Miller, Bandleader.
1912 ~ Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music, married his first wife, Agathe.
1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Musician & Actor.
1932 ~ The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped.
1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
1954 ~ The Castle Bravo 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, which produced the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the U.S.
1992 ~ Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
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03-02-2006, 06:19 AM
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March 2nd
1824 ~ Birthday of Bedrich Smetana, Composer.
1836 ~ The Republic of Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
1904 ~ Birthday of Dr. Seuss, Author.
1919 ~ The first Communist International met in Moscow.
1930 ~ Death of D. H. Lawrence, Writer.
1931 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union.
1939 ~ Death of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1956 ~ Morocco declared its independence from France.
1963 ~ Release of Please Please Me in the U.K., the first LP from The Beatles.
2004 ~ Al Qaeda carried out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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03-03-2006, 06:20 AM
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March 3rd
1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.
1831 ~ Birthday of George Pullman, Inventor & Industrialist.
1845 ~ Birthday of Georg Cantor, German mathematician.
1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor.
1923 ~ TIME magazine first published.
1931 ~ The U.S. officially adopted The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in protest of the British rule in India.
1974 ~ Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reached an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator.
1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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03-04-2006, 06:34 AM
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March 4th
1678 ~ Birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1681 ~ Charles II of England granted a land charter to William Penn for what will later become Pennsylvania.
1804 ~ The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales.
1861 ~ The Stars and Bars was adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1877 ~ Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake first performed.
1917 ~ Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first female member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1936 ~ First flight of airship Hindenburg(LZ-129), in Germany.
1994 ~ Four terrorists were convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
1997 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton prohibited federal funding for any research on human cloning.
1998 ~ The U. S. Supreme Court ruled that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
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03-05-2006, 06:18 AM
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1887 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician & Composer.
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 ~ Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1982 ~ Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in Hollywood at age 33.
1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
1997 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
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.
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03-06-2006, 07:29 AM
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March 6th
1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter.
1806 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet.
1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premiered in Venice, Italy.
1857 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
1869 ~ Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1888 ~ Death of Louisa May Alcott, Novelist.
1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, American economist.
1957 ~ The former UK colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1982 ~ Death of Ayn Rand, Author.
1987 ~ 197 people died when a car ferry capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
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03-07-2006, 06:23 AM
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March 7th
1274 ~ Death of Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher.
1850 ~ U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer.
1867 ~ Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone (patent # 174,464).
1945 ~ U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, during World War II.
1965 ~ In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully broke up a group of 600 civil rights marchers.
1967 ~ Death of Alice B. Toklas, inspiration for a million brownies.
1969 ~ Golda Meir elected Prime Minister of Israel.
1999 ~ Death of Stanley Kubrick, Film Director.
2004 ~ An investiture ceremony was held for V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop.
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03-08-2006, 06:21 AM
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March 8th
1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Composer. Not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach.
1862 ~ The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1869 ~ Birthday of Hector Berlioz, Composer.
1917 ~ The first stage of the Russian Revolution, the February Revolution started in St. Petersburg.
1942 ~ Death of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player.
1948 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 ~ The Soviet Union claimed to have an atomic bomb.
1959 ~ George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia.
1983 ~ President Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1999 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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03-09-2006, 06:18 AM
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March 9th
1454 ~ Birthday of Amerigo Vespucci, Explorer & Cartographer.
1862 ~ In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fought the CSS Virginia to a draw during the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1917 ~ [] Pancho Villa lead 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.[/I]
1934 ~ Birthday of Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut, first human in space.
1943 ~ Birthday of Bobby Fischer, chess player.
1959 ~ The Barbie doll debuts.
1900 ~ Stalin's daughter defected to the West.
1990 ~ Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirmed he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
1996 ~ Death of George Burns, Actor.
2005 ~ The final broadcast by Dan Rather on CBS Evening News.
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