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;# Notable events in history (Jan-Feb)
;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
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;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
;# All dates in this file are New Style unless otherwise noted.
;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
;# one is correct.
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00000101 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison. (1934)%s19340101
00000101 At&T officially divests its local Bell companies (1984)%s19840101
00000101 Castro expels Cuban President Batista (1959)%s19590101
00000101 Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech (1947)%s19470101
00000101 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln. (1863)%s18630101
00000101 England conquers Burma (1886)%s18860101
00000101 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation. (1958)%s19580101
00000101 Ex-Atty. Gen. Mitchell, Halderman and Ehrlichman were convicted on cover-up charges relating to Watergate break-in (1975)%s19750101
00000101 First annual Festival of Fools in Paris ridiculing nuns and priests (1198)%s11980101
00000101 Haiti gains it's independence (1804)%s18040101
00000101 Lincoln makes Emancipation Proclamation (1863)%s18630101
00000101 Noon on this day is the epoch for Julian Day (JD) (4713 BC)
00000101 Samuel Pepys begins his diary (1660)%s16600101
00000101 Sudan gains it's independence (1956)%s19560101
00000101 The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) (1970)%s19700101
00000102 Bert Parks fired from Miss America Pageant (1980)%s19800102
00000102 Cigarette adds are banded from television (1971)%s19710102
00000102 Dominguez-Escalante expedition of the South West ends in Santa Fe, NM (1777)%s17770102
00000102 Georgia becomes the 4th state (1788)%s17880102
00000102 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes Time Magazine's Man of the Year (1939)%s19390102
00000102 King Zog of Albania is deposed (1946)%s19460102
00000102 Religious services were first broadcast at KDKA Pittsburgh (1921)%s19210102
00000102 Secretary of State Johhn Hay announces the Open Door Policy with China to improve trade (1900)%s19000102
00000102 The Japanese take the Philippine capital of Manila (1942)%s19420102
00000102 The United States and Canada announced an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls (1929)%s19290102
00000103 1st drinking straw is patented. (1888)%s18880103
00000103 Alaska becomes the 49th state (1959)%s19590103
00000103 Senators and Representatives end their terms on this day 
00000103 Southern Pacific RR offers to bring the Liberty Bell to the  Exposition without charge (1912)%s19120103
00000103 Steam explosion in a military experimental reactor SL-1 in Idaho Falls kills three (1961)%s19610103
00000103 The artificial drinking straw patented (1883)%s18830103
00000103 The opening of Congress is first televised (1947)%s19470103
00000103 US severs ties with Cuba (1961)%s19610103
00000104 First auto crosses the Sahara desert (1924)%s19240104
00000104 Great Britain grants independence to Burma (1948)%s19480104
00000104 North Korean forces capture Seoul, Korea (1951)%s19510104
00000104 The first around the world bicycle trip (1887)%s18870104
00000104 Utah becomes the 45th state (1896)%s18960104
00000105 -50 degrees F (Strawberry, UT, 1913)%s19130105
00000105 Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter are found shot in their home. United Mine Workers chief Tony Boyle is later convicted of the killing (1970)%s19700105
00000105 Ronald Reagan proposes first trillion dollar US budget (1987)%s19870105
00000105 The emperor of China declares the English to be outlaws (1840)%s18400105
00000105 Two GM plants in Flint, Michigan, are taken over by the Teamsters Union protesting intolerable work conditions (1936)%s19360105
00000106 Arizona becomes the 47th state.
00000106 Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Four Freedoms" speech in which he spoke of freedom of speech, worship, from want and from fear (1941)%s19410106
00000106 Great Plains blizzard (1886)%s18860106
00000106 New Mexico becomes the 47th state (1912)%s19120106
00000106 Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph for the first time (1838)%s18380106
00000106 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded. (1914)%s19140106
00000107 1st balloon flight across the English Channel. (1785)%s17850107
00000107 Intel is the first to copyright a chip mask. It is for a 256K EPROM (1985)%s19850107
00000107 The first atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, sets sail (1955)%s19550107
00000107 U.S. First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents. (1963)%s19630107
00000107 U.S. First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents. (1968)%s19680107
00000107 the typewriter is patented (it was built years later) (1714)%s17140107
00000108 American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case (1982)%s19820108
00000108 Battle of New Orleans
00000108 Eleventh Amendment, lawsuits against states, proclaimed (1798)%s17980108
00000108 Gallipoli evacuated by the British (1916)%s19160108
00000108 Lyndon Johnson announces his "War on Poverty" (1964)%s19640108
00000109 1st income tax imposed, in England. (1799)%s17990109
00000109 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855. (1982)%s19820109
00000109 Connecticut becomes the 5th state (1788)%s17880109
00000109 Mississippi secedes from the union (1861)%s18610109
00000109 St. Marciana is martyred by being torn to bits by a leopard and a wild bull in the Caesarea amphitheater (309)%s03090109
00000109 the daguerrotype process announced at French Academy of Science (1839)%s18390109
00000110 1st underground railway opens in London. (1863)%s18630110
00000110 First meeting of United Nations General Assembly (London, 1946)%s19460110
00000110 First oil gusher, Beaumont TX (1901)%s19010110
00000110 In San Diego the first aerial photo is taken (1911)%s19110110
00000110 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close. (1945)%s19450110
00000110 Pre-paid postage by means of stamped labels comes into use in Britain (1840)%s18400110
00000110 the Penny Post mail system is started. (1840)%s18400110
00000111 First English lottery was carried out. This continued as a money maker till 1826 (1569)%s15690111
00000111 France touches off an international uproar when it releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of being involved with the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. (1977)%s19770111
00000111 Michigan Territory was created (1805)%s18050111
00000111 Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal 
00000111 Surgeon General condemns cigarettes (1964)%s19640111
00000111 The Hudson, the first sedan style car, goes on display at the 13th annual Automobile show in New York (1913)%s19130111
00000111 Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens (Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1963)%s19630111
00000112 House defeats women's suffrage proposal (1915)%s19150112
00000113 Anthony Foss obtains patent for the Accordion. (1854)%s18540113
00000113 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly. (1920)%s19200113
00000113 The British War office abolishes the lance as a weapon of battle (1928)%s19280113
00000114 Castro visits Russia (1964)%s19640114
00000114 English Labour Party founded (1893)%s18930114
00000114 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars. (1914)%s19140114
00000114 Izaak Walton League, anglers group, was formed (1922)%s19220114
00000114 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America. (1936)%s19360114
00000114 the Revolutionary War formally ends. (1784)%s17840114
00000115 21 die when hit with a 30 foot high wall of Molasses (1919)%s19190115
00000115 Governor Kieft purchased part of Long Island from Indians on behalf of New Netherlands (1639)%s16390115
00000115 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis, forming base for his (1861)elevator company.%s18610115
00000115 The Pentagon Building in Washington is completed. (1948)%s19480115
00000116 G. H. Hardy receives the famous Ramanujan letter (1913)%s19130116
00000116 Ivan the Terrible was crowned czar of Russia (1547)%s15470116
00000116 Prohibition begins (1920)%s19200116
00000116 Set uid bit patent issued (1979)%s19790116
00000116 The Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, leaves Iran for Egypt (1979)%s19790116
00000116 The first run of the Orient Express (1872)%s18720116
00000117 1st Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie. (1871)%s18710117
00000117 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest (1861)%s18610117
00000117 It was Tin Can Drive Day. (1943)%s19430117
00000117 Justice Department begins IBM suit (1969)%s19690117
00000117 The US buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25M (1917)%s19170117
00000117 US and its allies start air attacks on Iraq in Operation Desert Storm (1991)%s19910117
00000117 the Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic. (1893)%s18930117
00000118 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston. (1644)%s16440118
00000118 Captain Cook sights Hawaii which he dubs the Sandwich Islands (1778)%s17780118
00000118 English explorer Robert F. Scott reaches the South Pole only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them. (1912)%s19120118
00000118 The World War I peace conference opens in Versailles (1919)%s19190118
00000119 A presidential news conference was filmed for the first time. The president was Eisenhower. (1955)%s19550119
00000119 Ezra Daggett and his nephew, Thomas Kensett, obtain a patent for storing food in a tin can (1825)%s18250119
00000119 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's first Republican governor since 1874 (1987)%s19870119
00000119 In one of Gerald Ford's last acts as president, he pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino aka Tokyo Rose (1977)%s19770119
00000120 1st English Parliament called into session by the Earl of Leicester (1265)%s12650120
00000120 British-Chinese Treaty of Peking is signed (1925)%s19250120
00000120 Edward VIII ascends the throne of England upon the death of George V (1936)%s19360120
00000120 Iran releases 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, only minutes after Jimmy Carter left the Presidency (1981)%s19810120
00000120 London Docks opened (1805)%s18050120
00000120 Nazi officials hold the infamous Wannsee conference in Berlin at which they decide on their "final solution"; the extermination of all Jews (1942)%s19420120
00000120 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy, kidnapped in Lebanon (1987)%s19870120
00000120 The U.S. Senate approved the leasing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base (1887)%s18870120
00000120 The first assembly of the Commons as an agreed representational body (according to Sir William Dugdale) (1265)%s12650120
00000121 Alger Hiss, State Department official, found guilty of perjury by New York federal jury (1950)%s19500121
00000121 Glen Canyon Dam is dedicated (1963)%s19630121
00000121 Jefferson Davis and four other Southern Senators resign from the Senate (1861)%s18610121
00000121 New York City enacted an ordinance that made smoking by women in public punishable by a fine of from $5 to $25 and up to 10 days in jail. (1908)%s19080121
00000121 President Jimmy Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft dodgers (1977)%s19770121
00000121 The Wilderness Society is formed (1935)%s19350121
00000121 The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit (1915)%s19150121
00000121 USS Nautilus is christened by Mamie Eisenhower and is the first nuclear powered ship (1954)%s19540121
00000122 Supreme Court overturns all state laws that limited a woman's right to abortion to the first 3 months (1973)%s19730122
00000123 The Alaskan pipeline is authorized (1973)%s19730123
00000123 The US Navy bathyscaph, Trieste, descends to a depth of over 35000 feet (1960)%s19600123
00000123 The USS Pueblo is seized by the North Koreans (1968)%s19680123
00000124 1st beer in cans is sold. (1935)%s19350124
00000124 Alann (sic) Steen, communications instructor at Beirut University College, was kidnapped in Lebanon (1987)%s19870124
00000124 Amazon Indians attack oil drilling crew with poison darts (1984)%s19840124
00000124 Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, patented the Eskimo Pie (1922)%s19220124
00000124 Earthquake kills 890,000 people in China (1556)%s15560124
00000124 Gold discovered in California at Sutter's Mill (1848)%s18480124
00000124 Jesse Turner, professor of mathematics and computer science at Beirut University College, was kidnapped in Lebanon (1987)%s19870124
00000124 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude conference in Casablanca (1943)%s19430124
00000124 US Supreme Court rules income tax is unconstitutional (1916)%s19160124
00000124 the rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan. (1899)%s18990124
00000125 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco. (1915)%s19150125
00000125 Major-General Idi Amin deposes President Obote in Uganda (1971)%s19710125
00000126 1st settlement established by the English in Australia. (1788)%s17880126
00000126 Captain Wells discovers the largest diamond in the world, at the premier Mines in Pretoria, South Africa (1905)%s19050126
00000126 Hindi made the official language of India (1965)%s19650126
00000126 Hong Kong proclaimed a British sovereign territory (1841)%s18410126
00000126 India becomes a republic. (1950)%s19500126
00000126 Italian forces help General Franco and his rebel forces take Barcelona (1939)%s19390126
00000126 Michigan becomes the 26th state (1837)%s18370126
00000126 Sydney Australia settled (1778)%s17780126
00000127 1st Tape Recorder is sold. (1948)%s19480127
00000127 Dante exiled from Florence (1302)%s13020127
00000127 Military draft ends (1973)%s19730127
00000127 The first US bombing raid on Germany in World War II (1943)%s19430127
00000127 Vietnam War cease-fire signed (1973)%s19730127
00000128 First commercial telephone exchange initiated, in New York City (1878)%s18780128
00000128 First ski tow, Woodstock VT (1914)%s19140128
00000128 George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator. (1878)%s18780128
00000128 London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight. (1807)%s18070128
00000128 The Coast Guard is founded (1915)%s19150128
00000128 The first penal colony in Australia is founded at Botany Bay (1788)%s17880128
00000129 Britain is refused entry into the common market (1961)%s19610129
00000129 Greenwich Mean Time is adopted by Scotland (1848)%s18480129
00000129 Kansas becomes the 34th state (1861)%s18610129
00000129 Karl Friedrich Benz patents the first petrol driven motor car (1886)%s18860129
00000129 The Victoria Cross is instituted by Queen Victoria (1856)%s18560129
00000129 death warrant for Charles I is issued (1649)%s16490129
00000129 the 18th amendment, prohibition of liquor, is proclaimed (1919)%s19190129
00000130 First German submarine attack without warning occurs off the French Coast (1915)%s19150130
00000130 Hitler made Chancellor of Germany (1933)%s19330130
00000130 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (1948)%s19480130
00000130 The Tet Offensive (1968)%s19680130
00000130 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched. (1862)%s18620130
00000130 pistol misfires in attempt to kill president Andrew Jackson (1835)%s18350130
00000131 Irving Langmuir invents the tungsten filament lamp (1881)%s18810131
00000131 Leon Trotsky expelled from the USSR (1929)%s19290131
00000131 Moscow McDonalds opens, the largest McDonalds to date and the first McDonalds in the Soviet Union (1990)%s19900131
00000131 The highest high pressure ever recorded in North America. 30.85 inches in Alaska (1989)%s19890131
00000131 Truman directs the Atomic Energy Commission to begin work on a hydrogen bomb (1950)%s19500131
00000201 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days. (1867)%s18670201
00000201 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran (1979)%s19790201
00000201 RCA Victor unveils 45 rpm record system (1949)%s19490201
00000201 Water begins backing up at Hoover Dam (1935)%s19350201
00000201 the 1st armored car is introduced. (1920)%s19200201
00000202 Cardiff Giant revealed as a hoax (1870)%s18700202
00000202 Idi Amin declares himself to be absolute ruler for "ever and ever"in Uganda (1971)%s19710202
00000202 Mexico sells US Texas, California, New Mexico & Arizona. (1848)%s18480202
00000202 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia (1880)%s18800202
00000202 The project that produces the HP-35 calculator, the calculator that replaced the slide rule, begins (1971)%s19710202
00000203 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service with the K-Ingleside streetcar (1918)%s19180203
00000203 U.S. First Class postage raised from 25 cents to 29 cents (1991)%s19910203
00000204 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence. (1948)%s19480204
00000204 Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America (1861)%s18610204
00000204 Patty Hearst kidnapped (1974)%s19740204
00000204 Richard Wetherill discovered the Basket Maker culture (1894)%s18940204
00000204 The first electric portable typewriter, a Smith Corona, was sold (1957)%s19570204
00000204 beginning of the Russo-Japanese War (1904)%s19040204
00000204 the 24th amendment passes abolishing poll taxes (1964)%s19640204
00000204 the beginning of the Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin (1945)%s19450204
00000205 National Wildlife Federation is formed (1936)%s19360205
00000205 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (1974)%s19740205
00000205 US troops enter Manila under General MacArthur (1945)%s19450205
00000205 insanity of George III leads to the Regency act making the Prince of Wales, Prince Regent (1811)%s18110205
00000206 A peace treaty is signed between the United States and Spain (1899)%s18990206
00000206 Abolnassan Bani-Sadr, newly installed president of Iran, denounces militants holding US Embassy as "dictators who have created a government within a government" (1980)%s19800206
00000206 Britain declares war on France (1778)%s17780206
00000206 General Lee appointed commander-in-chief of Confederate forces (1865)%s18650206
00000206 Massachusetts becomes the 6th state (1788)%s17880206
00000206 The United States wins official recognition from France with the signing of two treaties in Paris (1778)%s17780206
00000206 The stock market hits 1600 for the first time (1986)%s19860206
00000206 the 20th amendment, covering terms of office, passed today (1933)%s19330206
00000207 Austria and Prussia form an alliance against France (1792)%s17920207
00000207 The British Railroads are taken over by the government (1940)%s19400207
00000207 The beginning of the German offensive at Anzio (1944)%s19440207
00000208 Boy Scouts of America founded. (1908)%s19080208
00000208 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US. (1693)%s16930208
00000208 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen. (1883)%s18830208
00000208 Odessa is taken by the Bolsheviks (1920)%s19200208
00000209 -51 degrees F (Vanderbilt, MI, 1934)%s19340209
00000209 Daylight Wartime begins (1942)%s19420209
00000209 U.S. Weather Service is founded. (1877)%s18770209
00000210 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater). (1879)%s18790210
00000210 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens on Broadway with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman (1949)%s19490210
00000210 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time). (1870)%s18700210
00000210 St. Paul's Shipwreck (60) %s00600210
00000210 France cedes Canada to England in the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War (1763)%s17630210
00000210 Mongols sack Baghdad (1258)%s12580210
00000210 Philadelphia was first lighted by gas (1835)%s18350210
00000210 Washington writes from Charleston, "Without men, without arms, without ammunition, there is little to be done." (1776)%s17760210
00000211 At least 8 workers exposed to radiation at Sequoyah 1, a TVA nuclear power plant (1981)%s19810211
00000211 Nelson Mandela, South African antiaparteid leader, is released after 28 years of imprisonment (1990)%s19900211
00000211 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome. (1929)%s19290211
00000211 an American-led commando squad financed by millionaire industrialist H. Ross Perot, rescues two of his employees from an Iranian prison (1979)%s19790211
00000212 Export-Import Bank incorporated. (1934)%s19340212
00000212 Santa Barbara oil spill (1969)%s19690212
00000212 Santiago, Chile founded. (1541)%s15410212
00000213 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author and dissident, is expelled from Russia (1974)%s19740213
00000213 The Barbie Doll was introduced. Over half a billion are sold in its first 30 years. (1959)%s19590213
00000213 William III and Mary II take the throne together (1689)%s16890213
00000214 "La Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem (1879)%s18790214
00000214 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The supreme court will later rule that Bell was the rightful inventor (1876)%s18760214
00000214 Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, becomes the 48th state (1912)%s19120214
00000214 Bombing of Dresden (1945)%s19450214
00000214 First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts a tour of the White House on network television (1962)%s19620214
00000214 First micro-on-a-chip patented by TI (1978)%s19780214
00000214 James Polk becomes the first president to be photographed while in office. He posed for Matthew Brady (1848)%s18480214
00000214 Khomeini orders Solman Rushdi to be killed for writing the book "Satanic Verses" (1989)%s19890214
00000214 Oregon, the Beaver State, becomes the 33rd state (1859)%s18590214
00000214 The US ship Ranger takes the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France (1778)%s17780214
00000214 The battleship Bismarck is first launched (1939)%s19390214
00000214 seven hoods, rivals of Al Capone's gang, killed in garage in the St. Valentine's day massacre (1929)%s19290214
00000215 Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag (1965)%s19650215
00000215 Chicago Seven convicted (1970)%s19700215
00000215 The Roman Feast of Lupercalia to honor Faunus (Gk. Pan) and Juno (Gk. Hera) was celebrated. This later became St. Valentine's day. 
00000215 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown. (1898)%s18980215
00000216 14000 Confederate soldiers surrender at Fort Donelson, Tennessee to General Grant earning him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant" (1862)%s18620216
00000216 Fidel Castro becomes the Cuban premier after overthrow of Fulgencio Batista (1959)%s19590216
00000216 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun. (1923)%s19230216
00000216 Lithuania proclaimed independence (1918)%s19180216
00000216 Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the US Navy frigate Philadelphia which had fallen into the hands of pirates (1804)%s18040216
00000216 Nylon patented (1937)%s19370216
00000216 the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City (1868)%s18680216
00000217 Chinese troops attack Vietnam along most of their 480 mile long border (1979)%s19790217
00000217 Columbia, South Carolina was burned as Confederates moved out and the Union troops moved in (1865)%s18650217
00000217 Sardines were 1st canned, in Eastport, Maine. (1876)%s18760217
00000217 The Supreme court issues its "one man, one vote" ruling saying congressional districts within each state must be roughly equal in population (1964)%s19640217
00000217 The US House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson as president (1801)%s18010217
00000217 The Voice of America started broadcasting to the USSR (1947)%s19470217
00000217 standard US letter postage goes to $.22 (1985)%s19850217
00000218 1st regular steamboat service to California started with the arrival of the "California" (1849)%s18490218
00000218 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery (1745)%s17450218
00000218 F. D. R. signs Executive Order interning Japanese Americans (1942)%s19420218
00000218 Jefferson Davis is sworn in as the first president of the Confederate States of America (1861)%s18610218
00000218 Roman Catholicism ceases to be the state religion of Italy (1984)%s19840218
00000218 The Soviet Union warns China to stop its invasion of Vietnam (1979)%s19790218
00000219 Albinus is defeated near Lyons (197)%s01970219
00000219 Beginning of the invasion of Iwo Jima (1945)%s19450219
00000219 Former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama, tried for treason and acquitted (1807)%s18070219
00000219 Independence of Cyprus established through an agreement signed in London by Britain, Turkey and Greece (1959)%s19590219
00000219 Kansas becomes the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages (1881)%s18810219
00000219 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"). (1977)%s19770219
00000219 Zanzibar severs ties with US and England (1964)%s19640219
00000220 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is opened (1877)%s18770220
00000220 President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office (1792)%s17920220
00000220 The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered all radio and TV stations to go off the air. The mistake was not corrected for 30 minutes (1971)%s19710220
00000220 The Supreme court rules that the federal government has more power than any individual state. (1809)%s18090220
00000220 poll released shows that of 1110 American adults asked 72% would prefer all out nuclear war to life under communist rule. Estimated error margin was 3% (1987)%s19870220
00000221 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales. (1804)%s18040221
00000221 Battle of Verdun begins, bloodiest battle of WWI, over a million casualties (1916)%s19160221
00000221 Edwin Land demonstrates black and white photos that self develop in only 60 seconds (1947)%s19470221
00000221 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn. (1878)%s18780221
00000221 Last Carolina parakeet dies (1918)%s19180221
00000221 Washington Monument is dedicated (1885)%s18850221
00000221 first snow in recorded history falls on desert near Persian Gulf, 18 inches falls on Abu Dhabi and melts in four hours (1987)%s19870221
00000222 Hawaii becomes a US Territory. (1900)%s19000222
00000222 the Indian Quadequina introduces popcorn to colonists (1630)%s16300222
00000223 Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first store in Utica, NY, where it was a failure. Moving to Lancaster, PA, improved sales (1879)%s18790223
00000223 Lt. Calley confesses, implicates Captain Medina in Vietnam massacre (1971)%s19710223
00000223 Sixteenth amendment enacted as Wyoming becomes 36th state to approve it, creating federal income tax (1913)%s19130223
00000223 US and its allies start ground attack on Iraqi positions in Kuwait and Iraq (1991)%s19910223
00000223 six members of the Fifth division of US Marines raised the US flag over mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. (1945)%s19450223
00000223 the 25th amendment passes defining presidential succession (1967)%s19670223
00000224 Galerius Valerius Maximianus issues the first edict of persecution against the Christians, in Rome (303)%s03030224
00000224 Jaun Peron is elected President of Argentina (1946)%s19460224
00000224 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized. (1857)%s18570224
00000224 Pope Gregory XIII issues a Papal Bull in which he outlines the calendar reforms that will be known as the Gregorian Calendar (1582)%s15820224
00000224 The US Supreme Court declares for the first time an act of Congress to be unconstitutional (1803)%s18030224
00000224 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German). (1942)%s19420224
00000224 a fledgling German political party holds its first important meeting in Munich. The party would later be called the Nazi Party. (1920)%s19200224
00000225 Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines as civil unrest rises. Corazon Aquino is now President (1986)%s19860225
00000225 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon). (1919)%s19190225
00000225 the 16th amendment, allowing income taxes, is proclaimed (1913)%s19130225
00000226 Grand Canyon National Park established (1919)%s19190226
00000226 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act. (1863)%s18630226
00000226 The Soviet Union resumes atomic bomb testing after the US refuses to join them in a moratorium on testing (1987)%s19870226
00000227 British are defeated by the Boers at the battle of Majuba, South Africa (1881)%s18810227
00000227 Dominican Republic gains it's independence. (1844)%s18440227
00000227 Hitler suspends freedom of the press and other civil liberties (1933)%s19330227
00000227 The Lionheart crowned (1189)%s11890227
00000227 The first Russian embassy to Britain (1557)%s15570227
00000228 "French Connection" drug bust occurs (Marseilles, 1972)%s19720228
00000228 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes. (1888)%s18880228
00000228 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory. (1956)%s19560228
00000228 Mikhail Gorbachev calls for a pact to remove all medium range missiles from Europe (1987)%s19870228
00000228 President Bush announces cease fire in Gulf War conditional upon Iraq accepting all UN resolutions, 12 midnight EST (1991)%s19910228
00000228 The Pope gives permission for the Bible to be translated into all languages of the Catholic states (1759)%s17590228
00000228 The Territory of Colorado was organized (1861)%s18610228
00000229 French and Indian raid on Deerfield MA (1704)%s17040229
