02-26-2012, 08:53 PM
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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.
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