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February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet.
1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure.
1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the U.S. State Department was infested with Communists.
1965 ~ The first U.S. combat troops were sent to South Vietnam.
1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 ~ Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.
2001 ~ The submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) accidentally struck and sank the Ehime-Maru.
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February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist.
1938 ~ BBC Television produced the first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1941 ~ Birthday of Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician (Brazil '66).
1945 ~ President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement.
1961 ~ The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem.
1979 ~ Followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, after the religious leader returned to his home after his exile.
1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author.
1990 ~ South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
2011 ~ Arab Spring: Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt.
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February 12th
1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist.
1924 ~ George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' premiered in New York City.
1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
1942 ~ Birthday of Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel.
1976 ~ Birthday of Silvia Saint, Czech Porn Actress.
1984 ~ Birthday of Lolly Badcock, former Porn Actress.
1994 ~ Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen from a museum in Norway.
1999 ~ The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.
2002 ~ The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began in The Hague.
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And remember it's only 4 weeks to Steak and BJ day.
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February 15th
1898 ~ The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260.
1942 ~ Sigapore fell to the Japanese. The Sook Ching massacre followed.
1954 ~ Birthday of Matt Groening, Satirist.
1965 ~ Death of Nat “King” Cole, Singer.
1965 ~ A new red and white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1970 ~ Death of Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
1974 ~ Birthday of Gina Lynn, Porn actress.
1988 ~ Death of Richard Feynman, Physicist.
1995 ~ Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the more "secure" U.S. computer systems.
2005 ~ YouTube was launched.
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February 18th
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.
1954 ~ Birthday of John Travolta, Actor.
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.
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.
1995 ~ When he landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Steve Fossett became the first man to make a solo baloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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