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February 20
1792 The U.S. Postal Service is created.
1906 Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia.
1918 The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
1938 Hitler demands self-determination for Germans in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1941 The United States sends war planes to the Pacific.
1943 German troops of the Afrika Korps break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating the U.S. forces.
1954 The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.
1959 The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates.
1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963 Moscow offers to allow on-site inspections of nuclear testing.
1965 Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States.
1968 The North Vietnamese army chief in Hue orders all looters to be shot on sight.
1982 Carnegie Hall in New York begins $20 million in renovations.
Born on February 20
1844 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics engineer
1888 Marie Rambert, ballet dancer and director.
1894 Curt Richter, biologist.
1898 Jimmy Yancey, American blues pianist.
1901 Rene Dubos, microbiologist; he developed the first commercial antibiotic.
1901 Louis I. Kahn, architect.
1904 Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-1980).
1924 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer
1925 Robert Altman, film director (Nashville, The Player).
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February 19
1701 Philip V of Spain makes his ceremonial entry into Madrid.
1902 Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.
1903 The Austria-Hungary government decrees a mandatory two-year military service.
1917 American troops are recalled from the Mexican border.
1919 The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France.
1926 Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the earth’s age at one billion years.
1942 Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese.
1965 Fourteen Vietnam War protesters are arrested in New York.
1966 Robert F. Kennedy suggests the United States offer the Vietcong a role in governing S. Vietnam.
1976 Britain slashes welfare spending.
1981 The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a “textbook case” of a Communist plot.
Born on February 19
1473 Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
1683 Philip V, King of Spain.
1817 William III, King of the Netherlands.
1859 Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, founder of physical chemistry.
1902 Kay Boyle, short story writer (“The White Horses of Vienna”).
1911 Merle Oberon, film actress.
1917 Carson McCullers, writer (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).
1940 Smokey Robinson, American singer and songwriter.
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February 18
1688 Quakers in Germantown, PA adopt the first formal antislavery resolution in America.
1813 Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his army.
1861 Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy.
1865 Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, NC.
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York.
1907 600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there.
1920 Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert.
1932 Manchurian independence is formally declared.
1935 Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia.
1939 The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco.
1943 German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.
1944 The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1945 U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated.
1967 The National Art Gallery agrees to buy a Leonardo da Vinci for a record $5 million.
1968 Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington.
1972 The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty.
1982 Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
Born on February 18
1516 Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants.
1795 George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassware artist and designer.
1859 Sholem Aleichem, Yiddish author.
1892 Wendell Willkie, Presidential candidate against Franklin Roosevelt.
1909 Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose).
1922 Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
1929 Len Deighton, English spy writer (The Ipcress File).
1931 Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
1934 Audre Lord, poet.
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February 17
1720 Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague
1919 Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland.
1925 The first issue of Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker.
1933 The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast.
1935 Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard.
1938 The first color television is demonstrated at the Dominion Theatre in London.
1944 U.S forces land on Eniewetok Atoll in the South Pacific.
1945 Gen. MacArthur’s troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1951 Packard introduces its “250” Chassis Convertible.
1955 Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1959 The United States launches its first weather station in space, Vanguard II.
1960 Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.
1963 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits the Berlin Wall.
1969 Russia and Peru sign their first trade accord.
1973 President Richard Nixon names Patrick Gray director of the FBI.
1979 China begins a “pedagogical” war against Vietnam. It will last until March.
1985 Murray Haydon becomes the third person to receive an artificial heart.
Born on February 17
1774 Raphaelle Peale, U.S. painter
1864 A(ndrew) B(arton) “Banjo” Paterson, Australian poet and journalist.
1874 Thomas J. Watson Sr., U.S. industrialist.
1902 Marian Anderson, American singer.
1929 Chaim Potok, novelist (The Chosen, The Promise).
1963 Michael Jordan, basketball player for the Chicago Bulls.
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February 15
1798 The first serious fist fight occurs in Congress.
1804 New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery.
1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, TN.
1900 The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War.
1934 The U.S. Congress passes the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act.
1940 Hitler orders that all British merchant ships will be considered warships.
1942 British forces in Singapore surrender to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1943 The Germans break the American Army’s lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa.
1946 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest 22 as Soviet spies.
1950 Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sign a mutual defense treaty in Moscow.
1957 Andrei Gromyko replaces Dmitri T. Shepilov as the Soviet Foreign Minister.
1961 Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team are lost in an airplane crash in Belgium.
1965 Canada’s maple leaf flag is raised for the first time.
Born on February 15
1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician.
1710 Louis XV, King of France.
1726 Abraham Clark, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1797 Henry Steinway, a piano maker.
1954 Matt Groening, cartoonist (The Simpsons).
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February 14
1349 2,000 Jews are burned at the stake in Strasbourg, Germany.
1400 The deposed Richard II is murdered in Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire.
1779 American Loyalists are defeated by Patriots at Kettle Creek, GA.
1848 James Polk becomes the first U.S. President to be photographed in office by Matthew Brady.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the thirty-third state.
1870 Esther Morris becomes the world’s first female justice of the peace.
1900 General Roberts invades South Africa’s Orange Free State with 20,000 British troops.
1904 The “Missouri Kid” is captured in Kansas.
1912 Arizona becomes the 48th state in the Union.
1915 Kaiser Wilhelm II invites the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin in order to confer on the war.
1918 Warsaw demonstrators protest the transfer of Polish territory to the Ukraine.
1924 Thomas Watson founds International Business Machines Corp.
1939 Germany launches the battleship Bismarck.
1940 Britain announces that all merchant ships will be armed.
1942 Japanese paratroopers attack Sumatra.
1949 The United States charges the Soviet Union with interning up to 14 million in labor camps.
1957 The Georgia state senate outlaws interracial athletics.
1965 Malcolm X’s home is firebombed. No injuries are reported.
1971 Moscow publicizes a new five-year plan geared to expanding consumer production.
1973 The United States and Hanoi set up a group to channel reconstruction aid directly to Hanoi.
1979 Armed guerrillas attack the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1985 Vietnamese troops surround the main Khmer Rouge base at Phnom Malai.
Born on February 14
1760 Richard Allen, who was the first black ordained by a Methodist-Episcopal church.
1817 Frederick Douglass, slave, and later, activist and author.
1819 Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter.
1845 Quinton Hogg, English philanthropist.
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel.
1894 Jack Benny, comedian, radio and television performer, and violinist.
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February 13
1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery.
1689 The British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1862 The four day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, begins.
1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.
1936 The first social security checks are put in the mail.
1945 The Royal Air Force Bomber Command devastates the German city of
1949 A mob burns a radio station in Ecuador after the broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.“
1968 The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
1970 General Motors is reportedly redesigning automobiles to run on unleaded fuel.
Born on February 13
1599 Alexander VII, Roman Catholic Pope.
1682 Giovanni Piazzetta, painter (Fortune Teller).
1764 Charles de Talleyrand, Napoleon‘s foreign minister.
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician
1873 Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer.
1902 Georges Simenon, novelist.
1910 William B. Shockley, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country and gospel singer.
1933 Kim Novak, actress.
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294 Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.
1554 Lady Jane Grey, the Queen of England for thirteen days, is beheaded on Tower Hill.
1818 Chile gains independence from Spain.
1912 China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
1921 Winston Churchill of London is appointed colonial secretary.
1931 Japan makes its first television broadcast–a baseball game.
1938 Japan refuses to reveal naval data requested by the U.S. and Britain.
1940 The Soviet Union signs a trade treaty with Germany
1949 Muslim Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo.
1953 The Soviets break off diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 The South Vietnamese win two big battles in the Mekong Delta.
1972 Senator Edward Kennedy advocates amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters.
1980 The Lake Placid Winter Olympics open in New York.
1999 The U.S. Senate fails to pass two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
Born on February 12
1768 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor
1775 Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
1809 Charles Darwin, naturalist and influential theorist of evolution
1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United State (1861-1865).
1828 George Meredith, English poet and novelist.
1880 John L. Lewis, American labor leader.
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660 BC Traditional founding day of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
1531 Henry VIII recogniz0ed as supreme head of the Church of England.
1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat.
1815 News of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims strict neutrality for the US
1926 Mexican government nationalizes all church properties.
1953 Walt Disney’s film Peter Pan premieres.
1959 Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
1966 Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of Vietnam.
1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the
British Conservative Party.
1990 South African leader Nelson Mandela released from prison in Paarl,
Born on February 11
1847 Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor.
1898 Leo Szilard, physicist, instrumental in the Manhattan Project.
1907 William J. Levitt, U.S. businessman and community builder.
1908 Phillipe Dunne, screenwriter and director (How Green Was My Valley).
1912 Roy Fuller, poet and novelist.
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1258 Mongol leader, Hulagu seizes Baghdad bringing an end to the Abbasid caliphate.
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt for Syria, leading 13,000 men.
1840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1904 Russia and Japan declare war .
1939 Japanese occupy Hainan Island.
1941 London (UK) severs diplomatic relations with Romania.
1941 German planes attack Iceland.
1945 B-29s hit Tokyo area.
1955 Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical-take-off plane.
1979 Metropolitan Museum announces first major theft
1986 The largest Mafia trial with 474 defendants opens in Palermo, Italy.
Born on February 10
1893 Jimmy Durante, American comedian, film actor.
1894 Harold MacMillan, British Prime Minister (1957-1963).
1898 Bertolt Brecht, German poet, dramatist.
1902 Walter Brattain, inventor of transistor.
1920 Alex Comfort, English physician, author.
1927 (Mary Violet) Leontyne Price, opera singer.
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