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February 11

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February 12

• 1809 - Birth of Abraham Lincoln in Nolin Creek, three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky.

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February 13

• 2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

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February 14

• 1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
• 1854 - Texas linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
• 1859 - Oregon admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone,as does Elisha Gray.

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February 15

• 1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

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February 16

• 1903 - birth of Edgar Bergen in Decatur, Michigan.

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February 17

• 1819 - The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.
• 1933 - The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
• 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
• 1992 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.

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February 18

• 1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
• 1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
• 1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1878 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
• 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
• 1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
• 2001 - NASCAR legend Ralph Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the last lap of the Daytona 500.

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February 19

• 1846 - In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas' annexation by the United States.
• 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
• 1945 - The Battle of Iwo Jima begins with the landing of about 30,000 United States Marines.

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February 20

• 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
• 1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
• 1873 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
• 1901 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
• 1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.
• 1992 - Ross Perot announces his intention to run in the 1992 U.S. presidential election on CNN's Larry King Live.
• 2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
• 2003 - The Station nightclub fire kills about 100 and injures over 200.

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February 21

• 1842 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
• 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
• 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
• 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

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February 22

• 1732 - birth of George Washington on his family estate in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

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February 23

• 1847 - In Mexico, American troops defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Battle of Buena Vista.
• 1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.

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February 24

• 1863 - Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• 1917 - The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if that country declares war on the United States.
• 1942 - The Voice of America begins broadcasting.

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February 25

• 1919 - Oregon places a 1 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, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

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February 26

• 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
• 1993 - In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.

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February 27

• 1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
• 1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
• 1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
• 1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.

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February 28

• 1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
• 1861 - Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
• 1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).

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February 29

• 1904 - Birth of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey.
• 1920 - Birth of two-time Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov.
• 1940 - For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

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