02-24-2004, 08:35 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 24th
1582 ~ Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar.(It is the one we are using now)
1607 ~ Claudio Monteverdi's opera ‘Orfeo’, premieres in Mantua. This is the earliest existing opera.
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales).
1803 ~ First time the US Supreme Court rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison). An extraordinary work by Justice Marshal, it established the concept of Judicial Review.
1868 ~ First US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama).
1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, singer, Composer.
1968 ~ First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge).
1993 ~ Eric Clapton won six Grammy Awards for the song ‘Tears In Heaven’.
1998 ~ Elton John knighted.
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