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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 U.S. Senate.
1901 ~ Incorporation of the United States Steel Corporation.
1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, Beatle.
1970 ~ Death of Mark Rothko, American painter.
1986 ~ Corazon Aquino assumed the Philippine presidency after Ferdinand E. Marcos fled.
1994 ~ Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death.
1999 ~ Death of Glenn T. Seaborg, Nuclear Chemist & Public Servant, awarded the 1951 Nobel Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2004 ~ Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was released in the U.S., and became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made.
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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.
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.
1980 ~ Birthday of Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
1991 ~ President Bush declared "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated", and announced a Gulf War ceasefire.
2008 ~ Death of William F. Buckley, Jr., Conservative author and commentator.
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March 3rd
1706 ~ Death of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.
1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor.
1923 ~ Birthday of James Doohan, Actor.
1931 ~ ”The Star-Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem of the U.S.
1939 ~ In Bombay, Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast to protest the British rule in India.
1983 ~ Death of Hergé, Belgian comics creator.
1985 ~ England’s coal miners accept defeat and vote to return to work after a year long strike.
1991 ~ An amateur video captured the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
2002 ~ Switzerland voted to become a member of the United Nations.
2005 ~ Steve Fossett becomes the first man to fly around the world solo without any stops without refueling.
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
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 ~ Death of Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator.
1953 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer.
1970 ~ The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into effect.
1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
2000 ~ Death of Lolo Ferrari, French Porn Actress.
2001 ~ 35 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death during the Hajj pilgrimage.
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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March 10th
1844 ~ Birthday of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist.
1913 ~ Death of Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist.
1949 ~ Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally”, was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason.
1957 ~ Birthday of Osama bin Laden, Terrorist.
1965 ~ Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway.
1969 ~ James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1977 ~ Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus.
1982 ~ The U.S. placed an embargo on Libyan oil because of Libya’s support of terrorist groups.
1985 ~ Death of Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader.
1993 ~ Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.
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