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| February 25th |
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| About February 25th is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (310 in leap years). Births 1895 - Bert Bell, NFL Hall of Fame coach, commissioner 1937 - Bob Schieffer, journalist (CBS Evening News) 1943 - George Harrison, singer, songwriter, musician 1949 - Ric Flair, professional wrestler 1965 - Carrot Top, prop comic 1971 - Sean Astin, actor, director (Rudy) 1971 - Daniel Powter, singer, songwriter ("Bad Day") Deaths 2009 - Clarence Swensen, actor (The Wizard of Oz) 2009 - Philip José Farmer, author (Riverworld) 2010 - Andrew Koenig, actor, activist (Growing Pains) Events 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States. 1836 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for his Colt revolver. 1862 - The United States Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, authorizing the use of paper notes to pay the government's bills. 1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first black United States senator. 1901 - J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company in the world. 1919 - Oregon becomes the first state to have a gasoline tax with a tax of 1 cent per gallon. 1928 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. is granted the first television license by the Federal Radio Commission. 1957 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets record their first big hit "That'll Be The Day". 1964 - Twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay upsets world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston with a seventh round Technical Knockout. 1991 - An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. |
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