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Did u know that today is buger lovers day, natl gumdrop and i want butterscotch day?
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February 18th
1546 ~ Death of Martin Luther, religious reformer.
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published.
1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon.
1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry.
1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
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February 21st
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist.
1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer.
1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet.
1916 ~ The Battle of Verdun began. French casualties during the battle were estimated at 550,000 with German losses set at 434,000, half of the total being fatalities.
1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
1958 ~ The Peace symbol was completed for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to a prostitute.
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I had forgotten it was the Nation of Islam that topped Malcolm X.
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02-21-2009, 12:29 PM
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I wonder if this might be an example of the Church Militant?
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02-21-2009, 05:23 PM
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No, just high order gang violence.
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February 22nd
1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st U.S. President.
1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World.
1879 ~ Frank Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
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.
1987 ~ Death of Andy Warhol, Celebrity
1994 ~ Double agent Aldrich Ames was arrested.
1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced that a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
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February 24th
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, Philologist & Folklorist.
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.
1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon , "father of information theory".
2008 ~ Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba.
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