February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of the year (310 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL CLAM CHOWDER DAY
NATIONAL CLAM CHOWDER DAY
1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the last invasion of Britain.
1831 – The Battle of Olszynka Grochowska is fought, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1843 – English Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
1862 – The U.S. Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government’s bills. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly Civil War long after its gold and silver reserves were depleted.
1856 – A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1862 – The U.S. Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government’s bills. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly Civil War long after its gold and silver reserves were depleted.
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1930 – Pluto, once believed to be the ninth planet, is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh.
1932 – Adolf Hitler (an Austrian) obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1947 – As part of their aims in WWII the Western allies sought the abolition of Prussia. Russia's Stalin was initially content to retain the name, Russia having a different historical view of its neighbor and sometime former ally. In Law No. 46 of 25 February 1947 the Allied Control Council formally proclaimed the dissolution of Prussia.
1948 – The Communist Party takes control of the government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made both Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) chairman and prime minister of Egypt.
1968 – Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
1987 – Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the "death penalty" by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 – The Soviet-lead Warsaw Pact alliance is declared disbanded after Communist governments were deposed by popular uprisings in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria
1992 – The Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 – The Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
2011 – In a Kent, Washington, courtroom, Gary Leon Ridgway pleads guilty to the 1982 aggravated, first-degree murder of his 49th victim, 20-year-old Rebecca Marrero.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
1907 – Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright (d. 1981)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
1907 – Mary Coyle Chase, American journalist and playwright (d. 1981)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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