Independence Day
Independence Day!
07/04/2014 12:01 AM
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This Day In History
Feb 15 1989 Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan Feb 15 1988 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player, dies at age 69 of cancer Feb 15 1971 Decimalization Day in England when the money system changed from shillings and pence to a system of 100 pennies to the pound Feb 15 1970 Chicago Seven convicted Feb 15 1965 Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag Feb 15 1950 The Disney animated movie 'Cinderella' premieres Feb 15 1946 ENIAC demonstrated Feb 15 1944 Allied forces bomb the ancient abbey of Monte Cassino that stands guard over one of the key routes to Northern Italy. Germans will valiantly hold the mountain until mid May Feb 15 1933 Giuseppe Zangara fails to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt in Miami Feb 15 1931 The first Dracula movie is released Feb 15 1928 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is complete. It is 10 volumes and 15490 pages. Feb 15 1922 The first session of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, Netherlands is held Feb 15 1898 The U.S. Battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor. It was used as an excuse to start the Spanish-American War but it is unknown if it was intentionally blown up or if it was an accident Feb 15 1878 A British fleet arrives at Istanbul to aid the faltering Ottomans against the Russian armies
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Birthdays
Feb 15 1971 Renee O'Conner, actress who plays Gabrielle in Xena Warrior Princess, is born in Houston, Texas Feb 15 1826 George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist who coined the word 'electron' Feb 15 1820 Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage advocate Feb 15 1564 Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, proponent of modern scientific method, discoverer of the moons of Jupiter, first person to use the telescope to study the skies, is born in Pisa, Italy
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