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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
image: virtual tourist
Source:
* 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
image: history
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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