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Post by Tamrin on Feb 7, 2009 5:49:30 GMT 10
7 February1478 - Birth of Sir Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia) 1812 - Birth of Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities) 1870 - Birth of Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex) 1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) 1950 - Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1964 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali 1990 - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2009 15:22:50 GMT 10
8 February(World: Boy Scouts Day) 1587 - Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 1600 - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1828 - Birth of Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) 1910 - Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago) 1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian Prince/geologist/revolutionary anarchist, dies at 78 1925 - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta GA 1964 - Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act  Giordano Bruno
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2009 5:32:17 GMT 10
9 February1555 - John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy 1567 - Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered 1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1897 - Birth of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator 1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta GA schools 1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists 1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 10, 2009 6:24:21 GMT 10
10 February1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France 1824 - Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú 1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships 1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism 1947 - WWII peace treaties signed 1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam 1964 - Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 11, 2009 6:06:31 GMT 10
11 February0660 - BC- Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England 1554 - Lady Jane Grey deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule at 17 1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá) 1650 - René Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking 1847 - Birth of Thomas Alva Edison, Milan OH, lit up your life (held 1200 patents) 1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 12, 2009 5:43:59 GMT 10
12 February1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 1809 – Birth of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury England, discovered evolution (Origin of species) 1809 – Birth of Abraham Lincoln, Hodgenville KY, (R) 16th [U.S.] President (1861-65) 1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is 1st king to visit US 1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages 1989 - 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 13, 2009 5:43:22 GMT 10
13 February1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1692 - MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III 1826 - American Temperance Society, forms in Boston 1858 - Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested 1923 – Birth of Chuck Yeager, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier) 1924 - King Tut's tomb opened
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 14, 2009 7:40:02 GMT 10
14 FebruaryValentines Day (our anniversary) 1349 - 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France 1779 - James Cook, British explorer, murdered by natives in fracas with Hawaiians 1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies 1838 - Birth of Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" 1943 - Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz 1946 - Bank of England nationalized 1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"  Captain Cook in Hawaii
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 15, 2009 8:44:47 GMT 10
15 February0399 - BCE - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death 0037 - Birth of Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome (54-68) 1564 - Birth of Galileo Galilei, Pisa, Italy, astronomer/physicist 1748 - Birth of Jeremy Bentham, London England, philosopher/originator (Utilitarian) 1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave 1901 - Birth of Christmas Humphreys, England, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen) 1942 - Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 16, 2009 5:22:11 GMT 10
16 FebruaryUS: Presidents' Day (formerly Washington's Birthday) 0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze 1559 - Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy 1838 - Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions 1868 - Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks founded in New York 1956 - Britain abolishes the death penalty 1959 - Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 1973 - Birth of Cathy Freeman, Mackay Australia, Olympic champion
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