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March 2nd in History Part X

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On March 2nd in 1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches

On March 2nd in 1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acquires 5% of Apple

On March 2nd in 1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)

On March 2nd in 1998 Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice

On March 2nd in 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ends March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).

On March 2nd in 2004 Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.

On March 2nd in 2004 War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.

On March 2nd in 2004 Rosetta space probe is launched by the European Space Agency to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with Philae lander module aboard

On March 2nd in 2005 President Bush demanded that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon

On March 2nd in 2008 Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.

On March 2nd in 2012 Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky

On March 2nd in 2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine

On March 2nd in 2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record

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March 2nd in History Part IX

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On March 2nd in 1985 FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks

On March 2nd in 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US

On March 2nd in 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000

On March 2nd in 1989 Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil

On March 2nd in 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike

On March 2nd in 1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for ceasefire with Iraq

On March 2nd in 1991 Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War

On March 2nd in 1994 William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote

On March 2nd in 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

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March 2nd in History Part VIII

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On March 2nd in 1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world

On March 2nd in 1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit

On March 2nd in 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde

On March 2nd in 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747

On March 2nd in 1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years

On March 2nd in 1972 NASA launches its Pioneer 10 space probe to Jupiter

On March 2nd in 1974 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents

On March 2nd in 1974 Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up

On March 2nd in 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test

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March 2nd in History Part VII

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On March 2nd in 1945 US 8th Air Force bombs Dresden

On March 2nd in 1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam

On March 2nd in 1946 Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA

On March 2nd in 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)

On March 2nd in 1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs

On March 2nd in 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic

On March 2nd in 1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing

On March 2nd in 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam

On March 2nd in 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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March 2nd in History Part VI

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On March 2nd in 1925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted

On March 2nd in 1929 Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals

On March 2nd in 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha

On March 2nd in 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil

On March 2nd in 1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California)

On March 2nd in 1939 Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights

On March 2nd in 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.

On March 2nd in 1943 The U.S. and Australia began an offensive against a convoy of Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea

On March 2nd in 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy

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March 2nd in History Part V

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On March 2nd in 1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features

On March 2nd in 1897 President Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have required a literacy test for immigrants entering the country

On March 2nd in 1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier National Park (5th in US)

On March 2nd in 1899 President McKinley signed a measure that created the rank of Admiral for the U.S. Navy. The first admiral was George Dewey

On March 2nd in 1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens

On March 2nd in 1901 United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops

On March 2nd in 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC

On March 2nd in 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted

On March 2nd in 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin

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March 2nd in History Part IV

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On March 2nd in 1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education

On March 2nd in 1867 Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead

On March 2nd in 1868 University of Illinois opens

On March 2nd in 1872 Louis Riel goes into voluntary exile in St. Paul, Minnesota

On March 2nd in 1874 Baseball batter's box is officially adopted

On March 2nd in 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J. Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory

On March 2nd in 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit

On March 2nd in 1888 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

On March 2nd in 1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust

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March 2nd in History Part III

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On March 2nd in 1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia

On March 2nd in 1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie

On March 2nd in 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington

On March 2nd in 1861 US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territory

On March 2nd in 1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865

On March 2nd in 1865 Confederate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro VA during American Civil War

On March 2nd in 1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn

On March 2nd in 1867 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress

On March 2nd in 1867 US Congress abolished peonage in New Mexico

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March 2nd in History Part II

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On March 2nd in 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn

On March 2nd in 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized

On March 2nd in 1819 US passed its 1st immigration law

On March 2nd in 1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control

On March 2nd in 1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC

On March 2nd in 1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston

On March 2nd in 1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission

On March 2nd in 1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia

On March 2nd in 1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory

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March 2nd in History Part I

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On March 2nd in 1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island

On March 2nd in 1629 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament

On March 2nd in 1770 British soldiers and Bostonian laborers fought at John Hancock's wharf. The soldiers were confined to their barracks after the incident.

On March 2nd in 1776 General George Washington ordered artillery forces to begin bombarding Boston from their positions at Lechmere Point.

On March 2nd in 1777 Colonel Lachlan McIntosh successfully defended Savannah from a British attack in the Battle of the Rice Boats

On March 2nd in 1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances

On March 2nd in 1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.

On March 2nd in 1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures

On March 2nd in 1807 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808

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February 27th in History Part VI

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On February 27th in 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati

On February 27th in 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama said that he would end combat operations in Iraq within 18 months

On February 27th in 2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor

On February 27th in 2013 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District

On February 27th in 2014 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm

On February 27th in 2014 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers

On February 27th in 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow

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On February 27th in 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief

On February 27th in 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

On February 27th in 1987 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS

On February 27th in 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff

On February 27th in 1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

On February 27th in 1991 U.S. President George Bush announced on U.S. television that "Kuwait is liberated. Iraq's army is defeated. I am pleased to announce that at midnight tonight, exactly 100 hours since ground operations began and six weeks since the start of Operation Desert Storm, all United States and coalition forces will suspend offensive combat operations."

On February 27th in 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison

On February 27th in 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

On February 27th in 1998 Apple discontinues development of the Newton computer

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February 27th in History Part IV

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On February 27th in 1969 President Nixon visits West Berlin

On February 27th in 1970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance

On February 27th in 1972 US President Richard Nixon & Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued Shanghai Communique

On February 27th in 1973 American Indian Movement (AIM) occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

On February 27th in 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

On February 27th in 1975 US House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill

On February 27th in 1976 Final meeting between Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong & 37th U.S. President Richard Nixon

On February 27th in 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

On February 27th in 1982 France performs additional nuclear test at Muruora Island

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February 27th in History Part III

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On February 27th in 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath

On February 27th in 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)

On February 27th in 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

On February 27th in 1942 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany

On February 27th in 1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese

On February 27th in 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men

On February 27th in 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms

On February 27th in 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

On February 27th in 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

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On February 27th in 1864 6th & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)

On February 27th in 1864 Near Andersonville, GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter". Nearly a quarter of all inmates died in captivity during the war.

On February 27th in 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

On February 27th in 1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in the US Congress

On February 27th in 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer in USA, graduated from Howard University

On February 27th in 1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election

On February 27th in 1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma

On February 27th in 1922 US Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference

On February 27th in 1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amendment to the US Constitution - women's right to vote

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On February 27th in 1557 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London

On February 27th in 1776 Patriots defeated the North Carolina Loyalists at Moores Creek Bridge

On February 27th in 1801 Washington, D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction

On February 27th in 1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted

On February 27th in 1813 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail

On February 27th in 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans

On February 27th in 1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

On February 27th in 1861 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw

On February 27th in 1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing

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February 25th in History Part IX

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On February 25th in 2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries

On February 25th in 2013 Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018

On February 25th in 2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria

On February 25th in 2014 Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independence

On February 25th in 2016 Tenth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Houston, Texas

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February 25th in History Part VIII

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On February 25th in 1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action

On February 25th in 1988 South Korea adopts constitution

On February 25th in 1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28

On February 25th in 1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron

On February 25th in 1995 Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead

On February 25th in 2005 Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings in Wichita, KS. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison term

On February 25th in 2011 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris

On February 25th in 2012 Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama

On February 25th in 2012 Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen

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February 25th in History Part VII

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On February 25th in 1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

On February 25th in 1969 West Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.

On February 25th in 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

On February 25th in 1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

On February 25th in 1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched

On February 25th in 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

On February 25th in 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500

On February 25th in 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country

On February 25th in 1986 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula

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February 25th in History Part VI

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On February 25th in 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany

On February 25th in 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

On February 25th in 1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)

On February 25th in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference

On February 25th in 1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

On February 25th in 1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

On February 25th in 1962 Robert F. Kennedy visits Netherlands

On February 25th in 1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

On February 25th in 1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album

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February 25th in History Part V

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On February 25th in 1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

On February 25th in 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

On February 25th in 1925 The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.

On February 25th in 1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

On February 25th in 1933 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger

On February 25th in 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

On February 25th in 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front

On February 25th in 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan

On February 25th in 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

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February 25th in History Part IV

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On February 25th in 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

On February 25th in 1890 Vlacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin was born in Kurkaka, Russia. He was the foreign minister of the Soviet Union who took the revolutionary name Molotov. Molotov had advocated the use of throwing bottles filled with flammable liquid stuffed with a burning rag, known as a "Molotov cocktail," at the enemy.

On February 25th in 1901 US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan

On February 25th in 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic

On February 25th in 1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

On February 25th in 1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops

On February 25th in 1913 The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax

On February 25th in 1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun

On February 25th in 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)

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On February 25th in 1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence

On February 25th in 1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing

On February 25th in 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln

On February 25th in 1862 The U.S.S. Monitor was commissioned

On February 25th in 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

On February 25th in 1864 Union General George Thomas ceased his attack on Confederate Joseph Johnston's troops near Dalton, Georgia. The Union had begun the offensive the previous day.

On February 25th in 1870 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

On February 25th in 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

On February 25th in 1879 US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act

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On February 25th in 1799 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation

On February 25th in 1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

On February 25th in 1804 Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus

On February 25th in 1836 Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a "revolving-cylinder pistol." It was his first patent

On February 25th in 1836 US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth

On February 25th in 1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

On February 25th in 1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours

On February 25th in 1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West

On February 25th in 1847 State University of Iowa is approved

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On February 25th in 1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England and absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown

On February 25th in 1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians

On February 25th in 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)

On February 25th in 1779 The British surrendered Fort Sackville

On February 25th in 1791 First Bank of the United States (The President, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States) was chartered by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Washington

On February 25th in 1793 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's home

On February 25th in 1795 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."

On February 25th in 1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1,000-1,500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend, to a bunch of Welsh women in tall black hats whom the invaders mistook for the elite guards regiment)

On February 25th in 1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land

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