Historical Events and Current Affairs on February 25

1095: Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
1358: Dalmati‰ flees Venice
1497: Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1502: Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats govt machine
1540: Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola M‚xico
1570: Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1605: Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
1623: Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
1634: Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1643: Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1667: Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1746: Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
1751: 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›)
1791: 1st Bank of US chartered
1793: 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1799: 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799: Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1803: 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804: Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
1828: John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
1830: Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
1836: Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1837: 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1838: London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1839: Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
1847: State University of Iowa is approved
1859: 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862: Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862: Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln
1863: Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1870: Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
1875: Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879: Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885: US Congress condemns barbed wire around govt grounds
1892: James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
1896: Italian govt decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
1901: George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC
1901: US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
1904: J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
1904: Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
1905: Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1907: George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London
1907: US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908: 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1910: Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1911: Opera "Natoma," premieres in Phila
1913: 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919: League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1919: Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1› per gallon)
1921: Georgian SSR proclaimed
1923: Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1924: Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
1925: Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925: US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1925: US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1926: Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926: Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on govt/warlords
1927: Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
1930: Check photographing device patented
1932: Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933: 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1933: Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
1933: Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
1938: British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1939: 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1940: 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
1941: Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
1941: February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1943: Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
1944: US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945: US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1948: Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1949: WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1950: "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC
1950: Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1951: "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf
1951: 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1952: 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
1953: "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs
1954: Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956: Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1957: Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
1960: John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres
1960: Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC
1961: Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
1961: Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
1962: India Congress Party wins elections
1962: Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
1962: Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
1963: Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1964: Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1964: Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1966: Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968: 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968: Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
1969: Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969: Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969: Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1971: "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1971: P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC
1972: Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1972: Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1973: "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances
1973: Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
1973: Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC
1974: a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1974: Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride
1975: Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
1977: New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1977: Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1977: Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1979: Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1980: Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981: 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
1981: Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
1981: Exec Board of Baseball Players' Assn votes unanimously to strike on
1981: Exec Board of Players' Assn votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981: L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981: May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1981: NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
1981: NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
1981: Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1981: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982: Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982: Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984: Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986: 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1986: Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
1986: Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986: Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1987: LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
1987: Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1987: US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1988: Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1988: South Korea adopts constitution
1989: 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989: Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989: Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1989: Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
1989: Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989: Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990: Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
1990: On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying
1990: that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
1991: Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
1991: US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
1992: 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1993: "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1993: Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993: Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
1994: Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
1994: Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994: Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995: Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995: British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995: Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
1995: PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996: "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
1996: Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
1998: 40th Grammy Awards:
1998: Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998: Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2008: British Airways Airbus A320 flight divert to Turkey when its co-pilot dies in mid-flight
2008: New Jersey budget aims to cut up to 3,500 jobs
2008: Russia warns EU over Serbs in Kosovo
2008: Turkish troops and PKK battle for 5th day in Northern Iraq
2008: Wheelchair bomb kills Iraq police chief

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