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02-27-2011, 08:55 PM
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February 28th
1827
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The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was incorporated, becoming the first railroad offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1833
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Birthday of
Alfred von Schlieffen
, German field marshal.
1854
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The U.S.
Republican Party was organized
in Ripon, Wisconsin as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery.
1916
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Death of Henry James, American writer (The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors).
1901
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Birthday of Linus Pauling, double Nobel Prize winner:
Chemistry 1954
and
Peace 1962
.
1935
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Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon.
1953
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James Watson and Francis Crick announced that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA. The formal announcement followed in the
April 25 publication of Nature
. For those who would like to
learn more about this interesting development
. In
Crick’s own words
.
1986
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Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death
in central Stockholm.
1993
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Four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) agents and six Branch Davidians were killed
when the agents tried to serve warrants on the Davidians.
2003
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Death of Roger Needham, British cryptographer.
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