This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

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[Dinesh jain]

February 5

1811
After George III was declared insane, the Prince
of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and
later George IV .

1917
Congress passed the Immigration Act, which
restricted Asian immigration, over President
Wilson's veto.

1917
Mexico adopted its present constitution.

1937
FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme
Court justices—"packing" the court.

1994
Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in
prison for the murder of Medgar Evers , 30 years
after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.

1997
Under international pressure, three of
Switzerland 's biggest banks created a fund worth
100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims
and their families.

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 6

1788
Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution ,
becoming the sixth state to join the Union.

1804
Joseph Priestley , British chemist, died. His work
on the isolation of gases led him to discover
oxygen in 1774.

1899
The Spanish-American War ended when a peace
treaty between Spain and the United States was
signed.

1933
The 20th Amendment to the Constitution , which
set the date for the president's inauguration on
Jan. 20, was adopted

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 7

1795
The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was
ratified.

1904
Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500
buildings in downtown Baltimore .

1926
Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week,
which later evolved into Black History Month.

1964
The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.

1971
Women in Switzerland were finally granted
suffrage .

1974
The island of Grenada won its independence
from Britain

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 8

1587
Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded.

1693
College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.,
received its charter, becoming the second
institution of higher learning in the United States.

1870
The National Weather Service was established
under the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

1904
The Russo-Japanese war began when the
Japanese launched a surprise attack on the
Russian fleet at Port Arthur in northeast China.

1915
D. W. Griffith's controversial epic, The Birth of a
Nation premiered in Los Angeles.

1924
The gas chamber was used for the first time as
a method of execution in the United States .
Gangster Gee Jon was put to death at the
Nevada State Prison in Carson City

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 9

1861
Jefferson Davis was chosen as the president of
the Confederate States of America.

1943
The battle of Guadalcanal ended with an
American victory.

1950
Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had
evidence there were card-carrying members of
the Communist Party in the State Department.

1964
The Beatles made their first appearance on The
Ed Sullivan Show .

1991
Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for
independence from the Soviet Union.

2001
A U.S. nuclear sub struck the Ehime Maru , a
Japanese fishing boat.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Feb 10

1763
Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and
Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its
North American territories east of the Mississippi
to Great Britain.

1837
Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was
killed in a duel.

1840
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert .

1942
Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record
for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo
Choo."

1962
The Soviet Union exchanged captured American
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a
Soviet spy held by the United States.

1967
The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing
presidential succession.

1996
IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess
champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of
their match.

2005
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller
died.

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[Dinesh jain]

February 11

1805
Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide Sacajawea
gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste.

1809
Robert Fulton patented the steamboat.

1858
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of
the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, leading to
the foundation of the shrine of Lourdes.

1929
Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing
the independence and sovereignty of Vatican
City .

1945
Yalta Agreement signed by President Franklin
Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill , and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during
World War II.

1970
Japan became the fourth country to put a
satellite into orbit.

1979
Ayatollah Khomeini's followers seized control of
the Iran government.

1989
The Episcopal Church Boston diocese
consecrated Barbara Harris as the church's first
woman bishop.

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 12

1554
Lady Jane Grey , queen of England for nine days
(in 1553), was executed for high treason.

1733
Led by philanthropist James Edward Oglethorpe,
the first English colonists arrived in Georgia, at
the site of Savannah.

1818
Chile formally proclaimed its independence from
Spain .

1870
The Utah Territory granted women the right to
vote (revoked in 1887).

1909
The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) was founded.

1912
Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Manchu (Ch'ing)
dynasty in China, renounced his throne following
the establishment of a republic under Sun Yat-
sen.

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 13

1866
The gang that included Jesse James and Cole
Younger committed their first bank robbery in
Liberty, Mo.

1867
Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in
Vienna .

1935
Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in
the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

1960
France exploded its first atomic bomb.

1974
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , who won the 1970 Nobel
Prize for literature , was deported from the Soviet
Union.

2002
The French judge was accused of throwing the
pairs skating decision to the Russians at the
Olympics .