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Today in History ~ February 25
Events1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance. Elizabeth hangs and burns Jesuits.
1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin Indians
1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC
1791 - The First Bank of the U.S. at Philadelphia was chartered. It was the first national bank chartered by Congress.
1793 - The department heads of the U.S. government met with President Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record.
1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1836 - Samuel Colt patented a "revolving gun," the first of the six-shooters. [H]
1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing. greenbacks introduced [H]
1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1901 - United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1913 - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1919 - Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline.
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1926 - Francisco Franco becomes Generalissimo of Spain
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license to W3XK
1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1948 - Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.
1949 - Actor Robert Mitchum is released after serving time for marijuana possession
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC. Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs to record 14,100 meters (8.8 miles)
1964 - Cassius Clay TKO's world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston [H]
1986 - Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines for Hawaii, ending 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; The United States recognized Corazon Aquino as president of the Philippines. 1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1990 - Nicaraguans went to the polls in an election that resulted in an upset victory for the U.S.-backed opposition presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro over President Daniel Ortega, leader of the leftist Sandinista Liberation Front.
1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
1991 - Iraq ordered its forces to withdraw from Kuwait.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact nations signed an agreement to dissolve their alliance after 36 years.
1992 - President Bush won the South Dakota Republican primary, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey the Democratic primary.
1992 - The Supreme Court ruled prison guards who use unnecessary force against inmates may be violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment even if they inflict no serious injuries.
1992 - Natalie Cole won seven awards at the 34th annual Grammys, including best album for "Unforgettable."
1993 - Opening statements began in the federal trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of violating Rodney King's civil rights in the videotaped arrest.
1994 - 29 Muslim worshippers were killed and three more trampled to death when a Jewish settler opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank town of Hebron. The settler was overpowered and beaten to death. The assault triggered widespread violent demonstrations by Palestinians.
1994 - 16-year-old Oksana Baiul of Ukraine won the gold medal and Nancy Kerrigan of the United States won the silver in the women's figure skating competition at the winter Olympics. Tonya Harding placed eighth.
1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1996 - A bus bombing in Jerusalem killed 25 people. Two more people died in a separate bombing, including the bomber.
1997 - China's elite bid a final farewell to Deng Xiaoping, the country's last great revolutionary leader.
1997 - A jury in Media, Pa., convicted multimillionaire John E. du Pont of third-degree murder, deciding he was mentally ill when he killed world-class wrestler David Schultz.
1997 - Documents revealed President Clinton endorsed rewarding Democratic contributors with such perks as golf games with him or overnight stays in the White House.
1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2000 - Four white New York City police officers were acquitted in the shooting death of African immigrant Amadou Diallo. The unarmed Diallo was killed in a hail of bullets in the doorway of his apartment building during a police search for a rape suspect.
2001 - The commander of the U.S. submarine that struck and sank a Japanese trawler off Hawaii expressed his "most sincere regret" - but Cmdr. Scott Waddle stopped short of an apology
Birthdays Today
1778 - Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile & Peru
1841 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor, Oarsman at Chatou, The Bathers
1873 - Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso
1888 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
1905 - Adele Davis (nutritionist: "You Are What You Eat."; author: Let's Cook it Right, Let's Eat Right and Keep Fit)
1909 - Zeppo (Herbert) Marx (comedian: Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts, Horse Feathers)
1913 - Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan's Island)
1916 - Ralph Baldwin (horse trainer, driver: won Trotter Triple Crown: horse: Speedy Scot [1963])
1918 - Bobby Riggs (Larimore) (champion tennis player: Wimbledon Men's Singles [1939], U.S. Open Men's Singles [1939, 1941])
1925 - Lisa (Elsie) Kirk (actress, singer)
1927 - Rene Thomas (guitarist)
1928 - Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H)
1929 - Tommy Newsom (trumpeter, arranger, composer, back-up conductor: NBC's Tonight Show Band)
1932 - Faron Young (country singer: Hello Walls; actor: The Young Sheriff, Daniel Boone Hidden Guns; founder/publisher: Music City News magazine [Nashville])
1934 - Tony Lema (golfer: British Open Champion [1964])
1937 - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1937 - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 - Tom Courtenay (actor: The Dresser, The Loneliness of the Distance Runner, King Rat, Doctor Zhivago, The Last Butterfly)
1939 - Denny Lemaster (baseball)
1940 - Ron Santo, shortstop (Cubs, 1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1941 - Cesar Cedano (baseball)
1942 - Carl Eller (football: Minnesota Vikings DE: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI)
1943 - George Harrison (former Beatle, singer: My Sweet Lord, Isn't It A Pity, What is Life?, All Those Years Ago, Concert for Bangla-Desh)
1944 - Karen Grassle (actress: Little House on the Prairie, President's Mistress, Harry's War, Wyatt Earp)
1944 - Matt Guokas (basketball)
1947 - Lee Evans (National Track and Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: set a world record for the 400-meter run at Mexico City Games: 43.86 seconds at an altitude over 1,000 meters [1968])
1957 - Stuart Wood (musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love)
Famous deaths
1713 - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
1915 - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies
1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer, dies at 80
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