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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.
THIEF!
1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo).
WAR!
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK.
1973 Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.
TERRORISM
2003 The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.
2007 Car bombs shattered Baghdad's oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.
DISASTERS
1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt.
FIREBALL
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia.
CLINTONS
1998 A federal judge threw out President Clinton's new line-item veto authority.
1999 The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.
STARTS
1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop.
BUSTED
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs.
OJ
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment.
VIETNAM
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam.
PATENTS
1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358).
RECORDS
1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m.
TABLOID
1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose.
CLASH
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech.
JEWS
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".
BEHEADED
1554 Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.
FREE
1818 Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.
MURDER
1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37.
WOMEN
1870 women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. (However, that right was taken away in 1887).
RACE
1908 the first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)
CIVIL RIGHTS
1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.
ABDICATE
1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.
MEMORIALS
1915 the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.
COMICS
1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.
GUNMAN
2007 Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shot nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he was shot and killed by police.
BORN
1809 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.
1880 John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).
1904 Ted Mack Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour).
BIRTHDAYS
Movie director Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Actor Louis Zorich is 84. Baseball Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is 78. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell is 74. Actor Joe Don Baker is 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Rock musician Ray Manzarek (The Doors) is 69. Country singer Moe Bandy is 64. Actress Maud Adams is 63. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 63. Actor Michael Ironside is 58. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 58. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 56. Actress Joanna Kerns is 55. Actor-former talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53. Actress Christine Elise is 43. Actor Josh Brolin is 40. Singer Chynna Phillips is 40. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues musician Keri Lewis is 37. Actor Jesse Spencer ("House, M.D.") is 29. Actress Sarah Lancaster is 28. Actress Christina Ricci is 28.
DEATH
1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.
2003 Holiday Inn chain founder Kemmons Wilson died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 90.
February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: charleroi
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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