February
2/1
1902 - Langston Hughes was born.
1862 – “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was published
1982 – “Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC
1884 – The Oxford Dictionary
1887 - Harvey Wilcox officially registers Hollywood
2/2
1979 - musician Sid Vicious died
2007 - The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun
1922 - "Ulysses" was published
1887 - first Groundhog Day
1876 - The National League of MLB was formed
2/3
2012 - Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong.
1994 - Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, pilot of Space shuttle mission
1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash
1917 - The U.S. Broke off talks with Germany.
1913 - 16th Amendment to the Constitution
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2/4
2004 - The social networking website Facebook was launched.
2003 - Yugoslavia was dissolved
1861 - Confederate States of America formed.
1789 - George Washingtonchose to be the first president
1783 – Britain ended hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
2/5
1937 - President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices
1988 - Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted
1917 - Congress passeda law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1919 - United Artists film studio was created.
1631 – Roger Williams established a settlement he named Providence in what today is located in the state of Rhode Island.
2/6
1911 - Ronald Reagan was born
1895 - George "Babe" Ruth was born
1756 - Aaron Burrwas born
1945 - Bob Marley was born
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the Constitution went into effect
2/7
1817 - Frederick Douglasswas born.
1964 - The Beatles arrived in the United States for the first time
1940 - Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" premieres
1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player
1962 - The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
2/8
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began.
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
1922 - President Harding had a radio installed in the White House.
2007 - Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39.
1971 – NASDAQ held its first trading day.
2/9
1943 - Battle of Guadalcanal took place
1942 - Daylight-saving "war time" went into effect in the United States
1964 - The Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
2009 - Alex Rodriguez admitted he took banned substances
1861 - The Confederate States elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president.
2/10
1962 - exchangeof Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich
1763 - France ceded Canada to England
2007 - Sen. Barack Obama kicked off his presidential campaign.
1989 - Ron Brown became 1st African-American to head a major U.S. political party.
1964 - Bob Dylan's album "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was released
2/11
1847 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
1929 - Italy recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1975 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a major party in Britain
1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
2012 - Singer Whitney Houston was found dead
2/12
1973 - the first release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam conflict
1809 - Charles Darwin was born.
2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, died at age 77.
1909 - The NAACP was founded in New York.
1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in New York City.
2/13
1633 - Galileo in Rome for Inquisition
1861 – The first Medal of Honor is awarded.
1776 – Patrick Henry is named colonel of the first Virginian Battalion
1970 - Black Sabbath, the first Heavy metal Album is released
1990 – the two sections of Germany reunite
2/14
1929 - The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago.
1903 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1819 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor who developed the typewriter, was born
1859 - Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
2/15
1820 - Susan B. Anthony, the co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, was born.
1564 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.
1764 - The city of St. Louis was established.
1965 - Canada's new maple leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.
2002 - President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the site for long-term disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste.
2/16
2011 - Borders filed bankruptcy
2005 - The NHL canceled what was left of its season
1968 - First 911 emergency telephone system
2005 - The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect.
1937 - Du Pont received a patent for nylon.
2/17
1933 - Newsweek magazine was first published.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon departed on a historic trip to China.
2009 - President Barack Obama signed a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.
1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue," winning a six-game match in Philadelphia.
1908 –Baseball broadcaster Red Barber was born
2/18
1546 - Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, died
1564 - Michelangelo died
1885 - "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was published.
2/19
1945 - 30,000 United States Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima.
1473 - Copernicus was born
1881 - Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
2008 - Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power.
1878 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph.2/20
1962 - Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit
1902 - Ansel Adams was born.
1792 - President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
1839 - Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
1862 - William Wallace Lincoln died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever. He was 11 years old.
2/21
1925 - The New Yorker magazine made its debut.
1885 - The Washington Monument was dedicated.
1907 - Poet W.H. Auden was born in York, England.
1916 - The World War I Battle of Verdun began in France.
1947 - Polaroid Land camera made its debut
2/22
1980 – U. S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1959 - The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.
1935 - It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1932 - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was born
2/23
1868 - W.E.B. DuBois was born.
1836 - The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
2000 - Carlos Santana won eight Grammy Awards
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned a lamb named Dolly.
1991 - President Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi had begun.
2/24
1868 - President Johnson was impeached by the House
1821 - Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
1903 - The U.S. signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
1920 - The German Workers Party met in Munich to adopt its platform.
2008 - Raul Castro became president of Cuba
2/25
1836 - Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
1943 - Beatles guitarist George Harrison was born
1964 - Cassius Clay became the world heavyweight-boxing champion
1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech
1870 - Hiram Revels sworn in as the first African American member of the U.S. Senate.
2/26
1993 – A bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center
1852 - John Harvey Kelloggwas born.
1935 – Hitler organizes the Luftwaffe.
1919 - Grand Canyon national park was established
1929 - Grand Tetons national park was established
2/27
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI resigned from office
2010 - An 8.8 magnitude earthquake and tsunami killed 524 people in Chile caused $30 billion in damage and left over 200,000 homeless.
1997 - Divorce became legal in Ireland.
1997 - Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect.
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
2/28
1993 - A 51-day standoff began in Waco Texas
1991 - Allied and Iraqi forces suspended their attacks as Iraq pledged to accept all United Nations resolutions.
1983 - The album "War" by U2 was released.
1953 - Scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1854 - Creation the Republican Party.
2/29
1781 - The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790 - Congress authorized the first U.S. census.
1845 - President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
1872 - Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.