osuche,

Thank you.

I too miss DM.

February 21st
 

1848 ~ 'The Communist Manifesto', written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in London.

1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, father of the modern classical guitar movement.

1916 ~ Battle of Verdun begins. When concluded, the French and German combatants suffered an estimated 676,000 casualties. (Hard to believe, but true)

1926 ~ Greta Garbo starred in her first U.S. film, 'The Torrent'.

1965 ~ Malcolm X assassinated by three Black Muslim gunmen in New York City.

1970 ~ The Jackson 5 made their TV debut on 'American Bandstand'.

1972 ~ President Nixon began normalizing relations with the People's Republic of China by traveling to Beijing.

1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart resigned his ministry after being photographed taking a prostitute to a motel.

Big fan of Mr X
 

On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black Muslims.

Malcolm, Gandhi, King . . .

great thoughts

Well I know another Mr X a former Pixie who is going to marry Miss X in August. I will be staying with them on 10th April, Easter Saturday.

February 22nd
 

1371 ~ Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.

1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st President of the U.S.A.

1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin , Pianist & Composer.

1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World.

1892 ~ Oscar Wilde's play, ’Lady Windermere's Fan’, first performed.

1950 ~ Walt Disney's animated movie ‘Cinderella’ opens.

1980 ~ The U.S. hockey team defeated the defending champion Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.

(I watched that game, and I think I remember the magic of that afternoon!)

1989 ~ Tina Turner won the Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocalist.

1994 ~ Aldrich Ames, a CIA operative and Russian double agent, arrested for selling secrets to Russia.

1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep, later name ‘Dolly’ had been successfully cloned.

February 23rd
 

303 ~ Emperor Diocletian ordered general persecution of Christians.

1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist, first ever secretary of the British Admiralty.

1685 ~ Birthday of George Frideric Handel, Composer.

1792 ~ Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G premiered.

1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a German patent for the diesel engine.

1919 ~ The Fascist Party formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.

1929 ~ Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois, political activist.

1940 ~ Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes ‘This Land is Your Land’, which became a rallying song for the Civil Rights movement.

1945 ~ U.S. Marines raised the U.S. flag at the top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima’s. The picture was not posed.

1978 ~ Fleetwood Mac won the Grammy for Best Album.

On Feb. 23, 1954, Dr. Jonas E. Salk developed a vaccine for polio.

1868

The House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the Senate later acquitted Johnson.

February 24th
 

1582 ~ Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar.(It is the one we are using now)

1607 ~ Claudio Monteverdi's opera ‘Orfeo’, premieres in Mantua. This is the earliest existing opera.

1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales).

1803 ~ First time the US Supreme Court rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison). An extraordinary work by Justice Marshal, it established the concept of Judicial Review.

1868 ~ First US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama).

1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, singer, Composer.

1968 ~ First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge).

1993 ~ Eric Clapton won six Grammy Awards for the song ‘Tears In Heaven’.

1998 ~ Elton John knighted.

February 25th
 

1570 ~ Queen Elizabeth I of England, excommunicated by Pope Pius V.

1836 ~ Samuel Colt received a patent for the Colt 45.

1841 ~ Birthday of Pierre Renoir, Impressionist Painter.

1873 ~ Birthday of Enrico Caruso, Tenor.

1948 ~ Communists took control of the government in Czechoslovakia.

1963 ~ The Beatles released their first U.S. single ‘Please Please Me’.

1986 ~ Corazon Aquino became president of Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos fled after ruling for 20 years.

1913 ~ On a day that will live forever in infamy, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.

1998 ~ Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opened in Zurich.

1870

Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the United States Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.

February 25
 

1862 Legal Tender Act Passed

The U.S. Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government's bills. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly war long after its gold and silver reserves were depleted.

And the place hasn't been the same since.
:(

February 26th
 

1148 ~ Crusaders attacked Damascus.

1616 ~ Cardinal Bellarmine warned Galileo to abandon the Copernican opinions.

1787 ~ The Bank of England issued the first one pound note.

1802 ~ Birthday of Victor Hugo, Poet & Novelist

1815 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the island of Elba.

1829 ~ Birthday of Levi Strauss, Clothier

1846 ~ Birthday of William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, Scout & Showman

1932 ~ Birthday of Johnny Cash, Singer

1935 ~ RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1955 ~ Billboard reported that the 45rpm single format was outselling the 78s for the first time.

1993 ~ Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.

February 27th
 

1670 ~ Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I.

1814 ~ Premiere of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 8th Symphony.

1827 ~ First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans.

1902 ~ Birthday of John Ernst Steinbeck, Author.

1932 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Taylor, Actress.

1933 ~ German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire, Nazis blame it on Communists.

1934 ~ Birthday of Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate.

1942 ~ Battle of Java Sea began. 13 US warships sunk, 2 Japanese.

1997 ~ In Ireland, divorce became legal.

2003 ~ Fred Rogers, of “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood”, died.