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Events on the 25th of February in history

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25 Feb 0138 The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
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25 Feb 0493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
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25 Feb 0628 Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
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25 Feb 1095 Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
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25 Feb 1336 Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
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25 Feb 1358 Dalmati
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25 Feb 1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
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25 Feb 1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
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25 Feb 1540 Francisco V
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25 Feb 1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
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25 Feb 1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
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25 Feb 1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
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25 Feb 1631 François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
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25 Feb 1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
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25 Feb 1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians
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25 Feb 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
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25 Feb 1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
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25 Feb 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
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25 Feb 1791 1st Bank of US chartered
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25 Feb 1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
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25 Feb 1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
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25 Feb 1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
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25 Feb 1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
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25 Feb 1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
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25 Feb 1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus
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25 Feb 1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
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25 Feb 1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
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25 Feb 1830 Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
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25 Feb 1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
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25 Feb 1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
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25 Feb 1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
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25 Feb 1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
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25 Feb 1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
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25 Feb 1839 Seminoles and black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
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25 Feb 1843 Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
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25 Feb 1847 State University of Iowa is approved
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25 Feb 1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
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25 Feb 1856 A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
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25 Feb 1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
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25 Feb 1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
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25 Feb 1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
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25 Feb 1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
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25 Feb 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
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25 Feb 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
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25 Feb 1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
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25 Feb 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
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25 Feb 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
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25 Feb 1870 Hiram Revels, Mississippi, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Senator)
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25 Feb 1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
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25 Feb 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
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25 Feb 1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
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25 Feb 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
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25 Feb 1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London
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25 Feb 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
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25 Feb 1901 US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
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25 Feb 1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
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25 Feb 1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
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25 Feb 1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in New York NY
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25 Feb 1904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theatre Society
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25 Feb 1904 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
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25 Feb 1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
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25 Feb 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
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25 Feb 1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in London
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25 Feb 1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
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25 Feb 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
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25 Feb 1911 Opera "Natoma, " premieres in Philadelphia
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25 Feb 1911 The opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia)
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25 Feb 1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
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25 Feb 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
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25 Feb 1916 World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
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25 Feb 1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1
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25 Feb 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
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25 Feb 1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
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25 Feb 1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
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25 Feb 1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
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25 Feb 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3)
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25 Feb 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
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25 Feb 1925 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
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25 Feb 1925 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
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25 Feb 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
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25 Feb 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
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25 Feb 1927 Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
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25 Feb 1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
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25 Feb 1930 Check photographing device patented
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25 Feb 1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs England (114 & 112)
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25 Feb 1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
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25 Feb 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
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25 Feb 1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
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25 Feb 1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yards in, posts on goal line)
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25 Feb 1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases the Boston Red Sox
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25 Feb 1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
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25 Feb 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
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25 Feb 1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
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25 Feb 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadiens)
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25 Feb 1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
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25 Feb 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
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25 Feb 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
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25 Feb 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
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25 Feb 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
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25 Feb 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
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25 Feb 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
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25 Feb 1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
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25 Feb 1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
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25 Feb 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
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25 Feb 1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
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25 Feb 1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen
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25 Feb 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament
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25 Feb 1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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25 Feb 1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina)
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25 Feb 1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
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25 Feb 1952 6th Winter Olympics games close at Oslo, Norway
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25 Feb 1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances
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25 Feb 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
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25 Feb 1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
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25 Feb 1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
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25 Feb 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
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25 Feb 1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
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25 Feb 1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
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25 Feb 1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres
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25 Feb 1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in New York NY
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25 Feb 1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
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25 Feb 1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 meter at release to record 14,10
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25 Feb 1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
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25 Feb 1962 India Congress Party wins elections
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25 Feb 1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
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25 Feb 1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
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25 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Feb 1964 U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
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25 Feb 1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
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25 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship
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25 Feb 1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
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25 Feb 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
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25 Feb 1968 Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
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25 Feb 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
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25 Feb 1968 Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus
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25 Feb 1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
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25 Feb 1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
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25 Feb 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
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25 Feb 1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
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25 Feb 1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
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25 Feb 1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in New York NY
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25 Feb 1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
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25 Feb 1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
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25 Feb 1973 "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances
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25 Feb 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
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25 Feb 1973 Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theater in New York NY for 601 performances
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25 Feb 1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
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25 Feb 1975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
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25 Feb 1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 points
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25 Feb 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
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25 Feb 1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
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25 Feb 1978 Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs New Zealand Christchurch
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25 Feb 1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
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25 Feb 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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25 Feb 1980 Coup ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron of Suriname
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25 Feb 1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
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25 Feb 1981 Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
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25 Feb 1981 New York Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
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25 Feb 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes)
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25 Feb 1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
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25 Feb 1981 23rd Grammy Awards Sailing-Christopher Cross, Billy Joel win
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25 Feb 1981 Executive Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
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25 Feb 1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
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25 Feb 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Feb 1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
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25 Feb 1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
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25 Feb 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
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25 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines, Marcos flees
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25 Feb 1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
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25 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
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25 Feb 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
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25 Feb 1986 28th Grammy Awards We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins win
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25 Feb 1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
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25 Feb 1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
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25 Feb 1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
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25 Feb 1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
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25 Feb 1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
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25 Feb 1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour, " begins in Worcester, Massachusetts
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25 Feb 1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour" begins in Worcester MA
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25 Feb 1988 South Korea adopts constitution
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25 Feb 1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in the Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
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25 Feb 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
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25 Feb 1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
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25 Feb 1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 vs New Zealand at Eden Park
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25 Feb 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Feb 1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
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25 Feb 1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
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25 Feb 1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
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25 Feb 1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
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25 Feb 1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
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25 Feb 1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs Sri Lanka (122 & 100)
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25 Feb 1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
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25 Feb 1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile, kills 28
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25 Feb 1992 Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
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25 Feb 1992 34th Grammy Awards Unforgettable, Marc Cohn win
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25 Feb 1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
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25 Feb 1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
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25 Feb 1993 Pakistan all out 43 vs West Indies, world one-day international record low
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25 Feb 1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
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25 Feb 1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
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25 Feb 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
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25 Feb 1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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25 Feb 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
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25 Feb 1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
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25 Feb 1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
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25 Feb 1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
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25 Feb 1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
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25 Feb 1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad vs. Leeward Islands
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25 Feb 1997 Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
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25 Feb 1998 40th Grammy Awards
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25 Feb 1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
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25 Feb 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
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25 Feb 2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
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25 Feb 2015 At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
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