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HEADACHES
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann of Bayer. It soon replaces the company's best-selling drug, heroin. From 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver, and as such, "heroin" was basically only a quicker acting form of morphine.
WAR!
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1944 U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
2003 A somber President Bush readied the nation for war against Saddam Hussein, hurling some of his harshest invectives yet at the Iraqi leader during a prime-time news conference.
TERRORISM
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia.
1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers.
2007 Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Hillah, Iraq, killing at least 120 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims.
DISASTER
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100. Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die.
2007 More than 70 people died in an earthquake on Sumatra island, Indonesia.
NANNY STATE
1921 Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
LOSER
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo.
BOOTED
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy.
SPOOKY
1918 US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
LOUD
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB).
MUSIC
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks).
SUPREME COURT
1857 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
PREMATURE
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over".
CITIES
In 1834, the city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
LAST STAND
In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
LOTTO
1998 A Connecticut state lottery accountant shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
POLITICS
2003 Democrats blocked President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.
2007 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
FREE
1957 the former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
COMMIES
1967 The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and declared her intention to defect to the West.
SENSATIONAL CRIME
1983 In a case that drew much notoriety, a young woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Mass., called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
1988 the board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president. (Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.)
JEWS
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany.
BORN
1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta).
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon).
BIRTHDAYS
Orchestra conductor Julius Rudel is 87. TV personality Ed McMahon is 85. Former FBI and CIA director William Webster is 84. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 82. Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 81. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is 71. Country singer Doug Dillard is 71. Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., is 69. Actress-writer Joanna Miles is 68. Actor Ben Murphy is 66. Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is 64. Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is 64. Rock musician Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 63. Rock singer-musician David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) is 62. Actor-director Rob Reiner is 61. Singer Kiki Dee is 61. Rock singer-musician Phil Alvin (The Blasters) is 55. Actor Tom Arnold is 49. Actor D.L. Hughley is 44. Country songwriter Skip Ewing is 44. Actress Yvette Wilson is 44. Actor Shuler Hensley is 41. Actress Connie Britton is 40. Actress Moira Kelly is 40. Actress Amy Pietz is 39. Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal is 36. Country singer Trent Willmon is 35. Country musician Shan Farmer (Ricochet) is 34. Rapper Beanie Sigel is 34. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 31. Actor Eli Marienthal is 22. Actor Jimmy Galeota is 22. Actor Dillon Freasier (Film: "There Will Be Blood") is 12. Actress Savannah Stehlin is 12.
DEATH
1935 Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73.
1982 Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77.
1998 Adem Jasari Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed.
2007 Ernest Gallo, who built one of the world's largest winemaking empires, died in Modesto, Calif., at age 97.
March 6, the 66th day of 2008. There are 300 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Heroin
* Today in History
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
KIDNAPPED!
1932 Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
WAR!
1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians.
2003 Iraq began complying with orders from U.N. weapons inspectors to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles. The United Arab Emirates called for Saddam Hussein to step down, the first Arab country to do so publicly. Turkey's parliament dealt a stunning blow to U.S. war planning by failing to approve a bill allowing in American combat troops to open a northern front against Iraq.
TERRORISM
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1981 Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
2003 Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents.
DISASTER
1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history.
1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95.
1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada).
1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees.
2007 Tornadoes killed 20 people in the Midwest and Southeast, including eight students at Enterprise High School in Alabama.
CUISINE
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain.
IRONIC
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War.
GRAVE ROBBERS
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
UPSETS
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.
GERONIMO!
1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane.
MYSTERY SHIP
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again.
WRONG ASSESSMENTS
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt returns from the Yalta conference and pronounces to Congress that it's a success.
CLIMATE CHANGE
1980 Snow falls in Florida.
CULTS
1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor.
1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return.
BLUELIGHT SPECIAL
1962 K-Mart opens.
UNREST
1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die.
PANIC
1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks.
LEVIATHAN
1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut).
1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years.
1994 Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England.
DEATH PENALTY
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state).
WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS
2007 An independent commission concluded the National Guard and Reserves weren't getting enough money or equipment.
CREDIT
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.
SPIES
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London).
MARRIAGE
1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed.
CALENDARS
1 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome.
WATERGATE
1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides.
EXECUTED
1947 J Boogaard Nazi collaborator in the Netherlands, executed.
POLITICS
1781 the Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.
1790 President Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state.
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas.
1867 Nebraska became the 37th state.
1967 U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York, accused of misconduct, was denied his seat in the 90th Congress. (The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell had to be seated.)
CITIES
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city.
LABOR
1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day.
MURDER
1995 Vladislav Listyev Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38.
NAZIS
1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp.
CIVIL RIGHTS
1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only).
1864 Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
JEWS
1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews.
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided.
1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48.
BLOODBATHS
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows the murder of 1200 Huguenots.
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500.
PARKS
1872 President Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park.
STAMPS
1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time.
SCANDAL
2007 The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
BORN
1904 Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood).
1911 Harry Golombek chess grandmaster.
1917 Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Robert Clary is 82. Singer Harry Belafonte is 81. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 81. Actor Robert Conrad is 73. Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) is 64. Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., is 64. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 64. Actor Dirk Benedict is 63. Actor Alan Thicke is 61. Actor-director Ron Howard is 54. Actress Catherine Bach is 54. Country singer Janis Gill (AKA Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 54. Actor Tim Daly is 52. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 51. Rock musician Bill Leen is 46. Actor Russell Wong is 45. Actor John David Cullum is 42. Actor George Eads is 41. Actor Javier Bardem is 39. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 35. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 34. Actor Jensen Ackles is 30. TV host Donovan Patton is 30. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme is 27. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sammie is 21.
DEATH
1991 Edwin H Land inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81.
March 1, the 61st day of 2008. There are 305 days left in the year.
by Mondoreb
image: oregonlive
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
WAR!
1898 USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1989 More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland.
1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq.
TERRORISM
1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia.
DISASTER
1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans.
1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die.
1961 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102.
1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die.
1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die.
DREAMS
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23).
VAMPIRES
1931 1st Dracula movie released.
SERIAL KILLERS
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL.
1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys.
CLINTONS
1998 Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, continued his harsh criticism of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for alleged leaks of information to the news media, charging on CNN that his client's constitutional rights were being trampled.
TOYS
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
CONDIMENTS
1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia.
BEETLES
1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game).
BEATLES
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test.
BOOTLEG
1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted.
FAKES
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.
GLOBAL WARMING
2007 National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies to hundreds of motorists stranded for nearly a day on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania because of a monster storm.
CARTOONS
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released.
COMMIES
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party.
POPULATION
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion.
MEAT
1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin.
SPORTS
1956 Pirates & Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham AL, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white.
SLAVERY
1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery.
JEWS
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt.
CLIMATE
1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans.
CHESS
1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23.
SCANDAL
2002 Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
TREASON
1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.
RESCUE
1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave.
TREES
1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down.
WOMEN
1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
ASSASSINATION
1933 Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
EXECUTED
1979 Mehdi Rahimi Iran General/military Governor of Tehran, executed.
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed.
CITIES
1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.
COMMIES
1984 Leamon Hunt US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists.
BORN
1564 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
1803 John Augustus Sutter Swiss/US colonist of California gold rush fame (New Helvetia CA, Sutter Mill).
1820 Susan Brownell Anthony Adams MA, women's suffragette.
1882 John Barrymore [Blythe], Philadelphia PA, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Tempest, Beloved Rogue).
1907 Cesar Romero New York NY, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94. Actor Allan Arbus is 90. Country singer Hank Locklin is 90. Former Illinois Rep. John Anderson is 86. Comedian Harvey Korman is 81. Actress Claire Bloom is 77. Author Susan Brownmiller is 73. Songwriter Brian Holland is 67. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 64. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 64. Actress Jane Seymour is 57. Singer Melissa Manchester is 57. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 55. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening is 54. Model Janice Dickinson is 53. Actor Christopher McDonald is 53. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 49. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 49. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 48. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 44. Actor Michael Easton is 41. Actress Renee O'Connor is 37. Actress Sarah Wynter is 35. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 32. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 32. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 25.
DEATH
1943 Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38.
1973 Wally Cox actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48.
1984 Ethel Merman singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76.
February 15, the 46th day of 2008. There are 320 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: oz
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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