February 6th
 

Jamaica ~ "Bob Marley Day" Speaks for itself..... da man woulda been 59 today.


1788 ~ Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the sixth state to join the Union.


1804 ~ Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.


1899 ~ The Spanish-American War ended when a peace treaty between Spain and the United States was signed.


1933 ~ The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the date for the president’s inauguration on Jan. 20, was adopted.


1935 ~ The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first time.


1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.


1971 ~ Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit three golf balls on the moon.

February 7th
 

Tibet ~ "Ghost Exorcising day" Sorcerors enter a trance, and perform a special dance to chase off evil spirits


1795 ~ The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.


1904 ~ Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.


1926 ~ Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.


1964 ~ The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.


1971 ~ Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage. Now, I KNOW the Swiss have a reputation for being "Traditional", but Nineteen SEVENTY ONE?!?! Sheesh! :)

February 7th
 

1992 ~ Ministers from the 12 countries in the European Community (EC) have taken another step towards political and economic union in Maastricht. The EC will now be known as the European Union (EU).

February 8th
 

Norway ~ "Mothers's Day" (What's wrong with a WARM time of year? :confused:


1587 ~ Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded.


1693 ~ College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., received its charter, becoming the second institution of higher learning in the United States.


1904 ~ The Russo-Japanese war began when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in northeast China.


1924 ~ The gas chamber was used for the first time as a method of execution in the United States. Gangster Gee Jon was put to death at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.


1985 ~ Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returned to South Korea.

February 9th. It Was 40 Years Ago Today!
 

(with apologies)

1964 ~ The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, and changed & challenged American popular music.

February 9th
 

Lebanon ~ "Feast of St. Maron" A feast of delicious pastries, in memory of popular hermit and patron Saint of Lebanon, Maron.


1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America.


1867 ~ Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States.


1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had evidence there were card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the State Department.


1964 ~ The Beatles made their first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.


1991 ~ Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.

On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.

February 10th
 

Malta ~ "Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck" Commemorating (?) the day when (St.) Pauls ship hit a rock off Malta in 60 A.D.


1763 ~ Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.


1837 ~ Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.


1840 ~ Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.


1942 ~ Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."


1962 ~ The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.


1996 ~ IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

February 11th
 

1975 ~ The British Conservative Party chose Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.

1990 ~ Anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years.

February 11th,

1922 Leslie Nielson was born.......Regina Sask. Canada

Actor

February 11th,

1993 Clinton selects Janet Reno as US attorney general

February 12th
 

1809 ~ Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, (R) 16th pres (1861-65)

1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, discoverer of evolution

1909 ~ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

1912 ~ Last Manchu emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates

1924 ~ Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers

1999 ~ The five-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton comes to an end

On Feb. 12, 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

February 13th
 

1689 ~ Following Britain's bloodless Glorious Revolution, Mary, the daughter of the deposed king James II, and William of Orange, her husband, are proclaimed joint sovereigns of Great Britain.

1867 ~ "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna.

1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeagar, 1st man to break the sound barrier.

1945 ~ The most controversial episode in the Allied air war against Germany begins as hundreds of British bombers loaded with incendiaries and high-explosive bombs descend on Dresden. By February 15, the city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians--somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000--were dead.

1959 ~ The Americana icon, the Barbie doll, goes on sale.

On Feb. 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. Hauptmann was later executed.