February 12th, 1809Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation.President Abraham Lincoln, who led the divided United States through the Civil War, is born in present-day Kentucky. Lincoln who opposed slave
February 13th, 1935In New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap and death of aviator Charles Lindberghs infant son. The following year, Hauptmann dies in the electric chair, insisting to the end that he
February 19th 1945.Weve got cities and pricks, all up along the beach, and dozens of marines are around each one of them In the final months of World War II, Some 30,000 US marines begin landing at Iwo Jima.Thats where they fight a month-long battle
February 20th, 1962Godspeed, John Glenn, two, one, zero, roger! The clock is operating. Were under way. Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, lifting off aboard the Mercury space capsule Friendship 7. 2003A fire during a
February. 21st 1965to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice where the government can't give them justice. Malcolm X, the former Black Muslim leader is shot to death during a speech in New York City. He was 39. Three black Muslims are i
February 22nd, 1732, George Washington, the first president of the United States, is born in what's then the Virginia Colony. Washington commanded American forces during the Revolutionary War and led the Founding Fathers in drafting the U.S. Constitu
February 23rd 1945. An iconic image from World War II during the battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific. US marines fighting Japanese forces seize Mound Suribachi and raise an American flag twice in the same day. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosentha
February 24th, 1868. In Washington, Andrew Johnson becomes the first American president to be impeached. The House of Representatives impeaches Johnson after he tries to fire secretary of war Edwin Stanton. Johnson is later acquitted by a single vote
February 25th 1986People power in the Philippines, long-time leader Ferdinand Marcos flees the country amid mass protest after a tainted election. Corazon Aquino who ran against Marcos in that election is installed as a new president. 1956In Moscow,
Feb 10th,1962 A high profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Frances Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return, the
February 11th, 1990Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa after the black activist spends 27 years in captivity under the countrys apartheid rule. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. 4 years later, M
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles. Feburary 9th 1964. Beatlemania hits prime time in the United States. Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow... The Fab Four made their first live appearance on the American TV on the Ed Aullivan Show on CBS. 19
February 8th, 1999In the Middle East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the civil war premieres in Los Angeles. D.W. Griffiths wo
Feb 7th, 1964 I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. The Beatles arrives in New York for their first tour of the US among the stops of the Fab Four and appears on TVs Ed Sullivan Show. 1995Ramzi Yousef,mastermind of t
February 6th, 1911You'll forgive me, I'm gonna do it just one more time, you ain't seen nothing yet.President Ronald Reagan, who led the United States into the final years of the Cold War, is born in Tampico, Illinois. The former movie actor is credi
February 26, 1993. In New York, a bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the World Trade Center. The blast kills 6 people and injures more than a thousand others. More than 8 years later, the twin towers fall in the Sep. 1
February 27th, 1933In Berlin, fire guts Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag. The Nazis blame the Communists and use the fire to justify suspending civil liberties, setting up a dictatorship under Adolf Hitler. 1991,Kuwait is liberated. Iraq'
Feb 28th, 1953, in Britain, scientists say and they found the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes. Years later, Francis Crick describes this discovery that he and fellow scientist James Watson made. Biological sy
March 1st, 1932, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped from the aviators home near in Hopewell, New Jersey. More than two months later, the childs remains are found near the Lindbergh home. Bruno Hauptmann is convicted of the babys kidnap
March 2nd, 1877. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared winner of Americas disputed presidential election months earlier. Hayes moves into the White House instead of Democrat Samuel J. Tilden who had won the popular vote. 1931. Mikhail Gorbachev,
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