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1868 the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
WAR!
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram).
1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany.
1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam.
2003 Seeking U.N. approval for war against Iraq, the United States, Britain and Spain submitted a resolution to the Security Council declaring that Saddam Hussein had missed "the final opportunity" to disarm peacefully and indicating that he had to face the consequences.
TERRORISM
2007 A suicide truck bomber struck worshippers leaving a Sunni mosque in Habbaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killing at least 52 people.
DISASTER
1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die.
PIGS
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX.
HUH?
1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife.
BLIMPS
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74.
DIETS
1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower.
PROGRESS
1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles.
PARADE
1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile AL).
ICE
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY.
ARRESTS
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia.
JEWS
1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement.
CRUSH
1807 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England.
FINALLY
1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government.
DISASTERS
2003 A powerful earthquake in China's western region of Xinjiang killed at least 268 people and injured more than 1,000.
BULLS
1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull, or edict, outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today).
GESTURES
2007 The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.
SUPREME COURT
1803 in its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional and established judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.
INJUSTICE
1983 a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a "grave injustice."
REBELS
1821, Mexican rebels proclaimed the "Plan de Iguala," their declaration of independence from Spain.
POLITICS
1863 Arizona was organized as a territory.
NAZIs
1920 a fledgling German political party held its first meeting of importance in Munich; it became known as the Nazi Party, and its chief spokesman was Adolf Hitler.
STRONGMEN
1946 Argentinians went to the polls to elect Juan D. Peron their president.
HUSTLER
1988 in a ruling that expanded legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and publisher Larry Flynt.
ASSASSINATED
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament.
BORN
1874 Honus Wagner HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Abe Vigoda is 87. Actor Steven Hill is 86. Actor-singer Dominic Chianese is 77. Movie composer Michel Legrand is 76. Actor James Farentino is 70. Actor Barry Bostwick is 63. Actor Edward James Olmos is 61. Singer-writer-producer Rupert Holmes is 61. Rock singer-musician George Thorogood is 58. Actress Debra Jo Rupp is 57. Actress Helen Shaver is 57. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is 53. News anchor Paula Zahn is 52. Country singer Sammy Kershaw is 50. Singer Michelle Shocked is 46. Movie director Todd Field is 44. Actor Billy Zane is 42. Actress Bonnie Somerville is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brandon Brown (Mista) is 25.
DEATH
1983 Tennessee Williams US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71.
1994 Dinah Shore singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76.
1998 Henny Youngman, a tireless comic who quipped "Take my wife — please" and countless other one-liners during a career that spanned seven decades, died in New York City at age 91. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up ... they have no holidays."
February 24, the 55th day of 2008. There are 311 days left in the year.
by Mondoreb
image: teachpol
Source:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
CLASSIC
1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published.
WAR!
1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city.
2003 Declaring that America's security should not be dictated by protesters, President Bush said he would not be swayed from compelling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm.
TERRORISM
1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland.
2003 An arson attack on two South Korean subway trains in the city of Daegu claimed 198 lives. (The arsonist was sentenced to life in prison.)
2007 A pair of bombs on a train headed from India to Pakistan killed 68 people.
2007 Twin car bombs blew up in a mostly Shiite area of Baghdad, killed at least 62 people.
DISASTER
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar.
1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA.
1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia.
2007 A military helicopter crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight U.S. service members; 14 survived with injuries.
DEATH BY WINE
1478 Duke of Clarence forced drowning in a wine barrel.
FLYING COWS
1930 First cow milked in an airplane. Olly the Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted over St. Louis MO.
PROGRESS
1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY).
OCTOPUS
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington.
CLIMATE CHANGE
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert.
MARRIAGE
1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed.
ENLIGHTENED
1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor.
PATENTS
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.
DRY
1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 years.
BEHEADED
1587 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44.
CLINTONS
1998 President Clinton's foreign policy team encountered jeers during a town meeting at The Ohio State University while trying to defend the administration's threat to bomb Iraq into compliance with U.N. weapons edicts.
QUAKERS
1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA.
POLITICS
1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11.
TRIALS
1970 the "Chicago Seven" defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. (Those convictions were later reversed).
SCIENCE
1930 photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a "dwarf planet") was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
1977 the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert.
REBELS
1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.
BORN
1516 Mary I Tudor [Bloody Mary] Greenwich, (1553-58), 1st reigning queen of Great Britain.
1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof).
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago).
1892 Wendell Wilkie Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World).
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp Notre Dame football star.
1920 Jack Palance [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer PA, actor (City Slickers).
BIRTHDAYS
Former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown is 86. Actor George Kennedy is 83. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 81. Author Toni Morrison is 77. Movie director Milos Forman is 76. Singer Yoko Ono is 75. Singer/songwriter Bobby Hart is 69. Singer Irma Thomas is 67. Singer Herman Santiago (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 67. Singer Dennis DeYoung is 61. Actress Sinead Cusack is 60. Producer-director-writer John Hughes is 58. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 58. Singer Juice Newton is 56. Singer Randy Crawford is 56. Rock musician Robbie Bachman is 55. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 55. Actor John Travolta is 54. Game show host Vanna White is 51. Actress Greta Scacchi is 48. Actor Matt Dillon is 44. Rapper Dr. Dre is 43. Actress Molly Ringwald is 40. Actress Sarah Brown is 33. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 31. Actor Tyrone Burton is 29. Actor Shane Lyons is 20.
DEATH
1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.
1564 artist Michelangelo died in Rome.
1967 American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer died in Princeton, N.J., at age 62.
1990 Hulk fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies.
1998 Sportscaster Harry Caray died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 83.
2001 NASCAR driver/"The Intimidator", dies in crash during Daytona 500 at 49.
2003 Country singer Johnny PayCheck died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 64.
February 18, the 49th day of 2008. There are 317 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.
by Mondoreb
image: teachwithmovies
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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