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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.
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* Today in History
* Heroin
* Today in History
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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
NATIONAL PARKS
1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
1929 President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.
WAR!
1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same".
2003 President Bush, offering new justification for war in Iraq, told a think tank that "ending this direct and growing threat" from Saddam Hussein would pave the way for peace in the Middle East and encourage democracy throughout the Arab world.
TERRORISM
1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000.
1993 A bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
2007 Iraq's Shiite vice president, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, narrowly escaped death as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it had been searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs; at least 10 people were killed.
DISASTER
1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die.
1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604.
1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125.
2003 A fire at the Greenwood Health Center in Hartford, Conn., killed 16 nursing home patients; a patient charged with setting the blaze was later ruled incompetent to stand trial.
SHORT PEOPLE
1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2") born.
TIRED
1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
PRO WRESTLING
1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion.
1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion.
GOLD
1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris.
CURFEW
1945 A midnight curfew on nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.
CLYDESDALES
1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan.
KOs
1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO.
IMMIGRATION
1907 Congress created the Dillingham Commission to examine the impact of immigrants on America. (The panel later recommended curtailing immigration from southern and eastern Europe.)
UNREST
1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN.
ESCAPES
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba.
MERGER
1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP).
GOVERNMENT OVERREACH
2003 In a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court ruled that federal racketeering and extortion laws had been wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.
NAZI CARS
1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".
LYNCHED
1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched.
A-BOMB
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.
BUFFALO
1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.
JEWS
1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews.
1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
SHADOWS
1979 A total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.
COMMIES
1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto".
NANNY STATE
1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records.
SLURS
1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown".
REBUKES
1987 The Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.
CHESS
1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins.
OPRAH
1998 A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.
BORN
1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes.
1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry.
1893 William Frawley Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons).
1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners).
BIRTHDAYS
Singer Fats Domino is 80. Political columnist Robert Novak is 77. Country-rock musician Paul Cotton (Poco) is 65. Actor-director Bill Duke is 65. Singer Mitch Ryder is 63. Rock musician Jonathan Cain (Journey) is 58. Singer Michael Bolton is 55. Actor Greg Germann is 50. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is 50. Bandleader John McDaniel is 47. Actress Jennifer Grant is 42. Rock musician Tim Commerford (Audioslave) is 40. Singer Erykah Badu is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rico Wade (Society of Soul) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kyle Norman (Jagged Edge) is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 29. Country singer Rodney Hayden is 28. Actress Taylor Dooley is 15.
DEATH
1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52.
February 26, the 57th day of 2008. There are 309 days left in the year.
by Mondoreb
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* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
LEVIATHAN
1913 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.
WAR!
1779 American forces led by George Rogers Clark routed the British from Fort Sackville in the Revolutionary War Battle of Vincennes in present-day Indiana.
1991 During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
2003 Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq was showing new signs of real cooperation, but President Bush was dismissive, predicting Saddam Hussein would try to "fool the world one more time."
TERRORISM
1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed).
1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead.
2007 A female suicide bomber triggered a ball bearing-packed charge, killing at least 41 people at a mostly Shiite college in Baghdad.
DISASTERS
1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons.
1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500.
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31.
MONKEYS
1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢).
RECORDS
1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours.
CONDEMNED
1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds.
PATENTS
1836 inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
TV BREAKDOWNS
1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long.
DALI LAMA
1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies.
WHEN HE'S DOWN
1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital.
HOOKERS
1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich.
INFLATION
1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark.
AH ONE AND AH TWO
1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs.
GUILLOTINED
1922 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, guillotined at 52.
TAXES
1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon).
GREENBACKS
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln.
EXCOMMUNICATION
1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance.
NAZIS
1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.
CHOKED
1983 Tennessee Williams writer (Streetcar Named Desire), reportedly chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71.
SERIAL KILLERS
1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders.
E PLURIBUS PLURIBUS
1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states.
LYNCHED
1994 Baruch Goldstein physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42.
BICYCLES
1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975.
FAST
1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph).
BUSINESS
1901 U.S. Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
JEWS
1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam.
MOONIES
1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea.
COMMIES
1948 Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.
ACTIVIST COURT
1957 The Supreme Court, in Butler v. Michigan, overturned a Michigan statute making it a misdemeanor to sell books containing obscene language that would tend to corrupt "the morals of youth."
SPEECH
2007 In Detroit, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan stressed religious unity during what was billed as his final major speech, saying the world was at war because Christians and Muslims were divided.
EXECUTED
1601 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth.
SPORTS
1964 Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), a 7-1 underdog, became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Fla.
1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career.
RUN!
In 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.
BORN
1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor.
1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx New York NY, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers).
1906 Domingo Ortega Spanish bullfighter.
BIRTHDAYS
Country singer Ralph Stanley is 81. TV writer-producer Larry Gelbart is 80. Actor Tom Courtenay is 71. CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is 71. Actress Diane Baker is 70. Actress Karen Grassle is 64. Movie director Neil Jordan is 58. Rock musician Dennis Diken (The Smithereens) is 51. Rock singer-musician Mike Peters (The Alarm) is 49. Actress Veronica Webb is 43. Actor Alexis Denisof is 42. Actress Tea Leoni is 42. Comedian Carrot Top is 41. Actress Lesley Boone is 40. Actor Sean Astin is 37. Singer Daniel Powter is 37. Latin singer Julio Iglesias Jr. is 35. Rhythm-and-blues singer Justin Jeffre is 35. Rock musician Richard Liles is 35. Actor Anson Mount is 35. Actress Rashida Jones is 32. Actor Justin Berfield is 22. Actors Oliver and James Phelps ("Harry Potter" movies) are 22.
DEATH
1994 Jersey Joe Walcott boxer, dies at 80.
February 25, the 56th day of 2008. There are 310 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
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
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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