Today in History
25th February
Carlo Goldoni
Christopher Wren
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| 1095 Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus | ||
| 1308 Edward II was enthroned as King of England. | ||
| 1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France | ||
| 1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats governament machine | ||
| 1540 Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico |
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| 1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance | ||
| 1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen | ||
| 1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts | ||
| 1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein | ||
| 1643 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) was born | ||
| 1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians | ||
| 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River | ||
| 1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges) was born | ||
| 1723 Sir Christopher Wren, English architect and designer, died. He became a prolific designer of buildings following the Great Fire of London in 1666, notably of the new St. Paul's cathedral. | ||
| 1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen | Carlo Goldoni |
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| 1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation | ||
| 1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states | ||
| 1804 Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus | ||
| 1830 Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris | ||
| 1832 Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian) was born | ||
| 1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport | ||
| 1841 Explorer Edward John Eyre left Fowlers Bay in South Australia on an overland trip around the Great Australian Bight. He reached Albany in July. | ||
| 1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor was born | ||
| 1847 State University of Iowa is approved | ||
| 1860 William James Ashley, English economic-historian was born | ||
| 1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing |
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| 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1866 Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher was born | ||
| 1873 Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust) was born | ||
| 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill | ||
| 1896 Italian governament decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea | ||
| 1899 Paul Julius Reuter, German founder of the news agency that bears his name, died. In 1850 he set up a pigeon post service from Aachen to Brussels to bridge the last gap in the expanding European telegraph system. | ||
| 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies | ||
| 1913 The 16th Amendment to the U.S. constitution was ratified, providing for an income tax. | ||
| 1914 Sir John Tenniel, English artist and illustrator of "Alice in Wonderland," died. | ||
| 1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun | ||
| 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty | ||
| 1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed | Christopher Wren |
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| 1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark | ||
| 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska | ||
| 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain | ||
| 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on govt/warlords | ||
| 1927 Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor | ||
| 1930 Check photographing device patented | ||
| 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship | ||
| 1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox | ||
| 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister | ||
| 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam | ||
| 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front | ||
| 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan | ||
| 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo | ||
| 1948 In Czechoslovakia, President Edvard Benes accepted the resignations of non-Communists from his cabinet. The Communists legally took control of the government in what was called the "February Coup." | |
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| 1954 Mohammad Naguib resigned as president of Egypt; Gamal Abdel Nasser assumed full powers as prime minister and chief of the Revolutionary Council. | ||
| 1954 It was announced that Syrian President Adib Shishakli had fled the country after riots and a revolt by the army. | ||
| 1956 In a sensational speech to the Communist Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin as a demigod and tyrant. | ||
| 1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns | ||
| 1964 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami Beach. | ||
| 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad | ||
| 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea | ||
| 1968 Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus | ||
| 1972 President Kenneth Kaunda announced his cabinet's decision to impose a one-party state in Zambia. | ||
| 1972 The Soviet Union's Luna 20 spacecraft returned to Earth with samples of the Moon's surface. | ||
| 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons | ||
| 1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth | ||
| 1983 Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright noted for "A Streetcar Named Desire," died. | ||
| 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 | ||
| 1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao | ||
| 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel | ||
| 1986 In the face of overwhelming military and civil opposition, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and several others, were airlifted to safety from the presidential palace to the U.S. Clark Air Base. | ||
| 1988 South Korea adopts constitution | ||
| 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms | ||
| 1990 Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas | ||
| 1991 An Iraqi scud missile scored a direct hit on the U.S. base at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 soldiers. | ||
| 1993 Kim Young-sam was sworn in as South Korea's first civilian president in 32 years. | ||
| 1994 Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler, massacred 43 Muslim worshippers at a Hebron mosque. He was beaten to death at the scene. | ||
| 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 | ||
| 1994 Malaysia banned British firms from government contracts following British media stories alleging corrupt business dealings. | ||
| 1994 The United States expelled Russian diplomat Aleksandr Iosifovich Lysenko, identified as Moscow's chief intelligence officer in Washington. | ||
| 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) | ||
| 1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead | ||
| 1995 North Korea's defense minister, O Jin-u, No. 2 man in North Korea's ruling hierarchy, died of cancer. | ||
| 1996 Haing Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose Academy Award-winning performance in the film "The Killing Fields" mirrored his own ordeal at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, was murdered. | ||
| 1997 Russian novelist Andrei Sinyavsky, whose 1966 trial for writing "anti-Soviet works" is widely considered the start of dissidence against communist rule, died in a Paris suburb of cancer. | ||
| 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich | ||
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