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February 5th
1897 ~ The Indiana House of Representatives passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of π. The bill died in the state Senate.
1917 ~ The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists.
1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete.
1937 ~ President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence.
1982 ~ Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors.
1988 ~ Panamanian President Manuel Noriega was indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
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February 6th
1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete.
1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist.
1922 ~ Birthday of Patrick Macnee, British actor (John Steed in 'The Avengers').
1952 ~ The UK’s King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1971 ~ Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1983 ~ Former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie extradited to France from Bolivia to stand trial for war crimes.
1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete.
2004 ~ An explosion in a Moscow subway car during rush hour killed 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
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02-06-2011, 08:59 PM
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February 7th
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02-08-2011, 07:29 AM
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1855 ~ The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appeared in southern Devon.
Wasn't that the year PF went on sabbatical?
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02-08-2011, 07:52 AM
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Lol!
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02-08-2011, 09:19 PM
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February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet.
1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure.
1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the U.S. State Department was infested with Communists.
1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 ~ Birthday of John Walker Lindh, American Taliban.
1984 ~ Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.
2001 ~ The USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank the Japanese training vessel Ehime-Maru.
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"Sic transit gloria mundi."
Yes, Gloria was ill on the bus last Monday.
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02-09-2011, 09:06 PM
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Worldly things are fleeting
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02-10-2011, 02:07 AM
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Did Gloria know that?
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02-10-2011, 09:10 PM
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Why not ask her? 
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February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist.
1938 ~ BBC Television produced the first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1941 ~ Birthday of Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician (Brazil '66).
1945 ~ President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement.
1961 ~ The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem.
1975 ~ The Tories selected Margaret Thatcher as their new leader.
1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author.
1990 ~ South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1994 ~ Death of Paul Feyerabend, philosopher of Science.
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February 12th
1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist.
1893 ~ Birthday of Omar Bradley, General.
1924 ~ George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' premiered in New York City.
1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
1976 ~ Birthday of Silvia Saint, Czech pornographic actress.
1984 ~ Birthday of Lolly Badcock, English Porn Actress.
1994 ~ Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen from a museum in Norway.
1999 ~ The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.
2002 ~ The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began in The Hague.
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