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On Feb. 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

 

On Feb 23, 303 – Roman EmperorDiocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.

 

February 23:
1836: The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas
1896: The Tootsie Roll is invented
1917: Riots break out in Saint Petersburg, Russia which eventually leads to the Russian Revolution.
1945: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, the famous "Flag Raising" photo is taken

 

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On Feb. 24, 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.

 

On this day in history Imperial Forces defeated the French in the battle of Pavia. (February 24, 1525) .

 

Feb 24, 1848 - King Louis-Phillipe of France abdicates the throne.

 

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On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, Republican of Mississippi, became the first black member of the United States Senate as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis.

 

Feb 25, 1848 - Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers rights.

 

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On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

*Nearly a decade later, the same terrorists would succeed in destroying the WTC.

 

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On Feb 26, 1848 - Proclamation of the Second French Republic, and the apparition of Karl Marx's communist manifesto.

 

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On Feb. 27, 1991, President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.

 

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On Feb. 27, 1892, Louis Vuitton, french luggage maker dies.

 

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On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.

 

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On Feb. 28, 1897, Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.

 

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On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

 

I'm looking forward to posting in this thread on 23rd Nov.

 

On this date in 1982, Phillip K. Dick passed into some other existance.

 

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March 2, 1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.

 

1820 - U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1861 - Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing the serfs
1911 - Jean Harlow is born
1931 - The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem

 

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On March 4, 1933, the start of President Roosevelt's first administration brought with it the first woman to serve in the cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

 

On this day. On March 4, 1855 Legendary New Zealand sheep rustler James Mackenzie caught. Mackenzie escaped but was recaptured at Lyttelton on 15 March. Sentenced to five years' imprisonment, he was unconditionally pardoned in January 1856.

 

Feb 28th , 1983 : last episode M*A*S*H

March 1st , 1973 : Italians see Bruce Lee for the first time , in Fist of Fury.

March 1973 : Chinese Hercules H.K premiere , classic Bolo fu.

 

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On March 5, 1830. Outbreak of the Girls' War at Kororareka, New Zealand. Ururoa, the brother-in-law of Hongi Hika, responds to a rival who has cursed him and his Ngai Tawake people after a fight between girls on the beach at Kororareka. Many are killed in the conflict that follows.



Girls fighting on the beach, eh? Nothing changes.