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W.E.B. DuBois, Fascism, Patty Hearst

2012-02-23T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 23

Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy (1919)

The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst (1974)

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages (1980)

President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement on Islamist hope and change in Libya (2011)

b: W.E.B. DuBois (1868); d: Horst Wessel (1930), José Napoleón Duarte (1990)

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Teddy Kennedy, Axe, Aldrich Ames

2012-02-22T00:30:00.006-05:00

On this day: February 22

Communist coup in Czechoslovakia (1948)

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines (1986)

Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union (1994)

U.S. v. Enmons decided at SCOTUS (1973)

President Barack Obama holds a Winning The Future Forum at Cleveland State University (2011)

b: Béla Kun (1886), Teddy Kennedy (1932) , David Axelrod (1955); d: Felix Frankfurter (1965), Jonas Savimbi (2002), Daniel Pearl (2002)

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Communist Manifesto, Mugabe, Malcolm X

2012-02-21T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 21

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (1848)

The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free" (1952)

Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba (1960)

b: Robert Mugabe (1924), Sam Peckinpah (1925), Barbara Jordan (1926), John Lewis (1940), David Geffen (1943), Olympia Snowe (1947); d: Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino (1934), Malcolm X (1965)

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Alexei Kosygin, Prohibition, U.S. Censorship

2012-02-20T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 20

Congress proposes the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would end Prohibition (1933)

American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies (1943)

b: Alexei Kosygin (1904), Evgeny Dragunov (1920); d: Frederick Douglass (1895), Hunter S. Thompson (2005)

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Serfdom, FDR-Internment, Fidel Resigns

2012-02-19T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 19

Serfdom is abolished in Russia (1861)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the U.S. military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps (1942)

Fidel Castro announces that he will resign as President of Cuba (2008)

b: Constantin Brancusi (1876), Saparmurat Niazov (1940), Karen Silkwood (1946); d: André Gide (1951), Charles O. Finley (1996), Deng Xiaoping (1997)

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Huck Finn, Sportpalast, Robert Hanssen

2012-02-18T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 18

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time (1885)

Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech (1943)

FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union (2001)

b: Helen Gurley Brown (1922), Gahan Wilson (1930), Yoko Ono (1933); d: Johnny Appleseed (1785), Chivu Stoica (1975)

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Prohibition, Huey Newton, Stimulus Package

2012-02-17T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 17

The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the U.S. (1933)

The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union (1947)

President Barack Obama signs into law the $787 billion Stimulus Package in Denver, Colorado.

b: André Maginot (1877), Hans Morgenthau (1904), Jim Brown (1936), Huey P. Newton (1942); d: Khalid Abdul Muhammad (2001)

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Kim Jong-il, Fidel, Hezbollah

2012-02-16T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 16

Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba (1959)

The founding of Hezbollah (1985)

President Barack Obama nominates the first United States Ambassador to Syria since 2005 (2010)

b: Hua Guofeng (1921), Kim Jong-il ( 1941); d: Enrique Bermúdez (1991), Edmund G. Brown (1996)

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Labour Party, Soviet-PRC, Afghanistan Fail

2012-02-15T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 15

The British Labour Party is organized (1906)

The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty (1950)

The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan (1989)

b: Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874), Cesar Romero (1907), Matt Groening (1954); d: Sydney Olivier (1943)

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Jimmy Hoffa, Bank of England, Knesset

2012-02-14T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 14

The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago (1920)

The Bank of England is nationalized (1946)

The Knesset convenes for the first time (1949)

b: Max Horkheimer (1895), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), d: P. G. Wodehouse (1975)

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Planned Eugenics, France, Solzhenitsyn

2012-02-13T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 13

France tests its first atomic bomb (1960)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is exiled from the Soviet Union (1974)

Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984)

b: William Shockley (1910); d: Robert Klark Graham (1997), Walt Rostow (2003)

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Cal Coolidge, Clinton Acquitted, Judd Gregg

2012-02-12T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 12

Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the U.S. to deliver a political speech on radio (1924)

President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the U.S. Senate in his impeachment trial (1999)

President Barack Obama's nominee for the office of Commerce Secretary, GOP U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, withdraws his nomination (2009)

b: John L. Lewis (1880), Julius Streicher (1885), Arlen Specter (1930); d: Immanuel Kant (1804)

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Gerrymander, GM-UAW, Jay Carney

2012-02-11T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 11

Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time (1812)

Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control (1916)

A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers union (1937)

TIME Magazine's Jay Carney replaces Robert Gibbs as President Barack Obama's White House Press Secretary (2011)

b: James Cannon (1890), Manuel Noriega (1938), Jeb Bush (1953); d: A. J. Muste (1967)

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Ike Warns, Gary Powers, Ron Brown

2012-02-10T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 10

President Dwight Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam (1954)

Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (1962)

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1989)

President Barack Obama pimps his Stimulus Package -- the Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- in Fort Myers, Florida (2009)

President Barack Obama stages an "urban economy summit" in the Oval Office, including Al Sharpton and Benjamin Jealous (2010)

b: Boris Pasternak (1890), Bertolt Brecht (1898), George Stephanopoulos (1961); d: Aleksandr Pushkin (1837), Wilhelm Röntgen (1923)

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Reds @ State, LBJ-Vietnam, Andropov

2012-02-09T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 9

Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the U.S. State Department of being filled with Communists (1950)

The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)

The first U.S. combat troops are sent to South Vietnam (1965)

President Barack Obama pitches his Stimulus Package -- the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- in Elkhart, Indiana (2009)

b: Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943); d: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881), Max Yasgur (1973), Yuri Andropov (1984)

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Joseph Schumpeter, Cuba Ban, Dateline NBC

2012-02-08T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 8

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by U.S. citizens to Cuba are made illegal (1963)

Proceedings of the U.S. Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time (1978)

General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places; NBC settles the lawsuit the next day (1993)

b: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883); d: Peter Kropotkin (1921), John Murtha (2010)

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It Can't Happen Here, Cuba Ban, BigGov Fail

2012-02-07T00:30:00.001-05:00

On this day: February 7

The U.S. bans all Cuban imports and exports (1962)

The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power (1990)

b: Sinclair Lewis (1885); d: Dr. Josef Mengele (1979), Maurice Papon (2007)

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La Follette Jr., Reagan Airport, Eva Braun

2012-02-06T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 6

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit (1959)

Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport (1998)

President Barack Obama announces the creation of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and simultaneously issues an executive order backing the use of union labor for large-scale federal construction projects (2009)

President Barack Obama's motorcade encounters trouble when a snow-laden tree branch fell on a vehicle carrying journalists as it returned to the White House from a gathering of the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting at the Capitol Hilton; no one was injured (2010)

b: Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Aaron Burr (1756), Babe Ruth (1895), Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895), Ronald Reagan (1911), Eva Braun (1912)

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Frank Podmore, Murtha, Manuel Noriega

2012-02-05T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 5

Congress enacts a law banning most Asian immigration to the U.S. (1917)

John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U.S. Congress (1974)

Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges (1988)

b: Belle Starr (1848), Frank Podmore (1856), Adlai Stevenson (1900), William S. Burroughs (1914); d: Mátyás Rákosi (1971)

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Arafat, Patty Hearst, Hugo Chávez

2012-02-04T00:30:00.001-05:00

On this day: February 4

Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1969)

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California (1974)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran (1980)

A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez (1992)

The Obama Administration cancels 77 previously-approved leases to oil and gas companies (2009)

b: Bill Haywood (1869), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Rosa Parks (1913); d: Nikolai Yezhov (1940), Betty Friedan (2006)

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Income Tax, Woodrow Wilson, Tom Daschle

2012-02-03T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 3

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax (1913)

The Communist Party of Vietnam is established (1930)

Obama Administration appointees Tom Daschle (Secretary of Health and Human Services) and Nancy Killefer (Chief Performance Officer) withdraw their nominations, both citing tax problems (2009)

b: Gertrude Stein (1874); d: Woodrow Wilson (1924), Buddy Holly, Roger Peterson, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson (1959)

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Teddy Kennedy, Kabul, Vlad Putin

2012-02-02T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: February 2

The SCOTUS convenes for the first time (1790)

Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament (1933)

The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul (1989)

President Barack Obama signs the instrument of ratification for New START, a controversial nuclear weapons detente between the U.S. and Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation (2011)

b: Havelock Ellis (1859), Ayn Rand (1905), Teddy Kennedy (1932); d: John L. Sullivan (1918)

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Yeltsin, Vidkun Quisling, Polanski

2012-02-01T00:30:00.003-05:00

On this day: February 1

The U.K. recognizes USSR (1924)

Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers (1942)

Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the U.S. to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl (1978)

President Barack Obama delivers remarks supportive of pro-Islamist protests in Egypt (2011)

b: Langston Hughes (1902), Boris Yeltsin (1931)

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Benjamin Hooks, Leon Trotsky, Saigon

2012-01-31T00:30:00.004-05:00

On this day: January 31

The U.S. orders all Native Americans to move into reservations (1876)

The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky (1929)

President Harry S Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb (1950)

Viet Cong attack the U.S. embassy in Saigon (1968)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Alfalfa Club annual banquet (2009)

b: Anna Pavlova (1881), Benjamin Hooks (1925); d: Ernesto Miranda (1976), Molly Ivins (2007)

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Saul Alinsky, Gandhi, Middle Class War

2012-01-30T00:30:00.002-05:00

On this day: January 30

King Charles I of England is beheaded (1649)

Adolph Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power (1945)

President Barack Obama signs a presidential memorandum launching the Middle Class Working Families Task Force to be led by Vice President Joe Biden (2009)

b: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), Saul Alinsky (1909), Joachim Peiper (1915), John Profumo (1915); d: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1948)

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