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Hopefully this will be fun and enlightening as well - feel free to comment!
1595 The Jesuit poet Robert Southwell is hanged for "treason" being a Catholic.

1631 Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, is elected Russian Tsar.

1744 The British blockade of Toulon is broken by 27 French and Spanish warships attacking 29 British ships.

1775 As troubles with Great Britain increase, colonists in Massachusetts vote to buy military equipment for 15,000 men.

1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British.

1828 The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet.

1849 In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh Gough's well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring British control of the Punjab for years to come.

1862 The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.

1878 The world's first telephone book is issued by the New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company containing the names of its 50 subscribers.

1885 The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1905 The Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, begins.

1916 The battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines.

1925 The first issue of New Yorker magazine hits the newsstands.

1940 The Germans begin construction of a concentration camp at Auschwitz.

1944 Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of the Japanese army.

1949 Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a friendship treaty ending hostilities over their borders.

1951 The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea.

1956 A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicts 115 in a Negro bus boycott.

1960 Havana places all Cuban industry under direct control of the government.

1965 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) is assassinated in front of 400 people.

1972 Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.

1974 A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century.
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dlbpharmd wrote:Hopefully this will be fun and enlightening as well - feel free to comment!
1972 Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.
Whoa. It's like he stepped out of American existance....

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1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.

1613 Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia.

1732 George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

1797 The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales.

1819 Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.

1825 Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary.

1862 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time.

1864 Nathan Bedford Forrest's brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi.

1865 Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C.

1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth's 'nothing over five cents' shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store.

1902 A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue.

1909 The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power.

1911 Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire.

1920 The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities.

1924 Columbia University declares radio education a success.

1926 Pope Pius rejects Mussolini's offer of aid to the Vatican.

1932 Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany.

1935 All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt's sleep.

1942 President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.

1951 The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.

1952 French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

1954 U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.

1962 A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.

1963 Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.

1967 Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.

1984 Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.
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So, on the 21st Michael was elected Tsar, and on the 22nd Mikhail was elected Czar?
I think someone needs to start cross checking these wiki pages.
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:lol: Well it's actually not from a wiki page, but you do have a point.
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:lol: 1631 & 1613 respectively?

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Ah. That explains it. Bit of a coincidence though, eh?
Well it's actually not from a wiki page, but you do have a point.
Oh, I had assumed you were using these pages, which have similar--and quite extensive--lists.
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Could still be a typo... *shrug*

Or maybe Feb was the month for coronations in Russia.

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Murrin wrote:Ah. That explains it. Bit of a coincidence though, eh?
Well it's actually not from a wiki page, but you do have a point.
Oh, I had assumed you were using these pages, which have similar--and quite extensive--lists.
No, actually deriving from www.historynet.com/, which I've visited before, but if we continue to find errors then I'll find another source.
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The wiki has some good ones:
1295 BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1915 - Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
Also:
1920 - In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
1949 - Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.


Edit: Anyhow, I think Av is right, it's probably not an error.
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Murrin wrote:So, on the 21st Michael was elected Tsar, and on the 22nd Mikhail was elected Czar?
I think someone needs to start cross checking these wiki pages.
Checking Wikipedia, Mikhail was Czar from 1613 - 1645.
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303 Emperor Diocletian orders the general persecution of Christians in Rome.

1516 The Hapsburg Charles I succeeds Ferdinand in Spain.

1540 Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins his unsuccessful search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest.

1574 The 5th War of Religion breaks out in France.

1615 The Estates-General in Paris is dissolved, having been in session since October 1614.

1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

1821 Poet John Keats dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25.

1836 The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna.

1846 The Liberty Bell tolls for the last time, to mark George Washington's birthday.

1847 Forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of Buena Vista.

1854 Great Britain officially recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.

1861 Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union.

1885 John Lee survives three attempts to hang him in Exeter Prison, as the trap fails to open. (wow - lucky bastard!)

1898 Writer Emile Zola is imprisoned in France for his letter J'accuse in which he accuses the French government of anti-semitism and the wrongful imprisonment of army captain Alfred Dreyfus.

1901 Britain and Germany agree on a boundary between German East Africa and Nyasaland.

1904 Japan guarantees Korean sovereignty in exchange for military assistance.

1916 Secretary of State Lansing hints that the U.S. may have to abandon the policy of avoiding "entangling foreign alliances".

1921 An airmail plane sets a record of 33 hours and 20 minutes from San Francisco to New York.

1926 President Calvin Coolidge opposes a large air force, believing it would be a menace to world peace.

1936 In Russia, an unmanned balloon rises to a record height of 25 miles.

1938 Twelve Chinese fighter planes drop bombs on Japan.

1942 A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis bombs to hit American soil.

1944 American bombers strike the Marianas Islands bases, only 1,300 miles from Tokyo.

1945 Eisenhower opens a large offensive in the Rhineland.

1945 U.S. Marines plant an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. (If you haven't yet, see "Flags of our Fathers.")

1946 Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita is hanged in Manila, the Philippines, for war crimes.

1947 Several hundred Nazi organizers are arrested in Frankfurt by U.S. and British forces.

1950 New York's Metropolitan Museum exhibits a collection of Hapsburg art. The first showing of this collection in the U.S.

1954 Mass innoculation begins as Salk's polio vaccine is given to children for first time.

1955 Eight nations meet in Bangkok for the first SEATO council.

1960 Whites join Negro students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store.

1964 The U.S. and Britain recognize the new Zanzibar government.

1967 American troops begin the largest offensive of the war, near the Cambodian border.

1972 Black activist Angela Davis is released from jail where she was held for kidnapping , conspiracy and murder.

1991 French forces unofficially start the Persian Gulf ground war by crossing the Saudi-Iraqi border.
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1854 Great Britain officially recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
And 26 years later they declared war on it in an attempt to annex it's gold and diamond fields. :lol:

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1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.

Gutenberg! Really big one, that. Revolutionised publishing.


Couple more:
1909 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a solar flare.

And perhaps most importantly:
2006 - The 1 Billionth song was downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. :lol:
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February 24

786 Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His dominions are divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.

1525 In the first of the Franco-Habsburg Wars, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V captures the French king Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, Italy.

1538 Ferdinand of Hapsburg and John Zapolyai, the two kings of Hungary, conclude the peace of Grosswardein.

1803 Chief Justice John Marshall, by refusing to rule on the case of Marbury vs. Madison, asserts the authority of the judicial branch.

1813 Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet sinks the British sloop Peacock.

1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain.

1836 Some 3,000 Mexicans launch an assault on the Alamo with its 182 Texan defenders.

1895 The Cuban War of Independence begins.

1908 Japan officially agrees to restrict emigration to the U.S.

1912 Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire.

1912 The Jewish organization Hadassah is founded in New York City.

1914 Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies.

1916 A film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea opens in New York.

1921 Herbert Hoover becomes Secretary of Commerce.

1928 The New Gallery of New York exhibits works of Archibald Motley, its first show to feature a black artist.

1944 Merrill's Marauders, a specially trained group of American soldiers, begin their ground campaign against Japan into Burma.

1945 U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in the Los Baños Prison in the Philippines.

1947 Franz von Papen is sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for war crimes.

1959 Khrushchev rejects the Western plan for the Big Four meeting on Germany.

1968 North Vietnamese troops capture the imperial palace in Hue, South Vietnam.

1972 Hanoi negotiators walks out of the peace talks in Paris to protest U.S. air raids on North Vietnam.

1991 General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sends in ground forces during the Gulf War.
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dlbpharmd wrote:1885 John Lee survives three attempts to hang him in Exeter Prison, as the trap fails to open. (wow - lucky bastard!)
Ooh, I read about that in a book of extraordinary legal cases. The trap opened perfectly well each time it was tested, but then as soon as John Lee stood on it, it refused to budge.

There was a vaguely similar case about a man who was hanged, but didn't die. He had to be turned loose, because technically his execution had been carried out, and no-one can be executed twice (for obvious reasons).
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1570 Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England.

1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.

1642 Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers.

1779 The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes.

1781 American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis.

1791 President George Washington sign a bill creating the Bank of the United States.

1804 Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus.

1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France.

1831 The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow.

1836 Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm.

1862 Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

1865 General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

1904 J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin.

1910 The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India.

1919 Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction.

1913 The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax.

1926 Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council.

1928 Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image.

1943 U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before.

1944 U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam.

1952 French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

1956 Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual."

1976 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens.
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February 26

364 On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor.

1154 William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily.
(Evidently Roger was Not-so-bad.)

1790 As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments.

1815 Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France.

1848 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London.

1871 France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.

1901 Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.

1914 Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg.

1916 General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun.

1917 President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships.

1924 U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations.

1933 Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

1936 Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.

1941 British take the Somali capital in East Africa.

1943 U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven.

1945 Syria declares war on Germany and Japan. (Gee, thanks Syria - better late than never.)

1951 The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms. (I still do not understand the necessity of this amendment.)

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts.

1965 Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X.

1968 Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.

1970 Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children.

1972 Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks.

1973 A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.

1990 Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro.

1993 A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation.
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February 27

425 Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople.

1531 German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor.

1700 The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered.

1814 Napoleon's Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor's allied enemies shortly before his abdication.

1827 The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans.

1864 The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

1865 Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children.

1905 The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River.

1908 The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma's admission to statehood.

1920 The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda.

1925 Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska.

1933 The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power.

1939 The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.

1942 British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.

1953 F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.

1962 South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.

1963 The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba.

1969 Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome.

1973 U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can't bar residents because of color.

1988 Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

1991 Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
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