This Day in History, February 28

Lynch, John Wesley, the B&O Railroad, Colorado Territory, Linus Pauling, invention of nylon, Bernadette Peters, DNA double helix, the MAS*H finale, Branch Davidian raid, a gamma ray strike, Pope Benedict, and more, this day in history, February 28 #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february28​

This Day in History, February 27

Grandisonize, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mardi Gras, Dominican Republic, Xenophon Kasdaglis, John Steinbeck, the 19th amendment, Joanne Woodward, Elizabeth Taylor, Ralph Nader, Shirley Temple, 22nd amendment, the leaning Tower of Pisa, “I will survive“ and more, this day in history, February 27. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february27​

This Day in History, February 26

Omphaloskepsis, Galileo, Victor Hugo, Honoré Daumier, Napoleon, Levi Strauss, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Harvey Kellogg, William Frawley, Tex Avery, Jackie Gleason, the Grand Canyon, Tony Randall, Grand Teton National Park, Johnny Cash, Adolf Hitler, Michael Bolton, and more, this day in history, February 26. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february26​

This Day in History, February 25

Petrichor, Samuel Colt, Pierre August Renoir, legal tender, Hiram Rhodes Revels, United States Steel Corporation, Zeppo Marx, gasoline tax, Hitler becomes a German, Communists in Czechoslovakia, Robert Mitchum, Sylvia Plath, Cassius Clay, and more, this day in history, February 25. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february25​

This Day in History, February 24

Spoonerism, Gregorian calendar, Winslow Homer, Arizona territory, the first impeachment, Honus Wagner, Abe Vigoda, Juan Perón, George Thorogood, Steve Jobs, Mitch Hedberg, the Cuban constitution, the “Yuba County Five,” freedom of speech, and more, this day in history, February 24. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february24​

This Day in History, February 23

Resistentialism, George Frederick Handel, Frederick von Steuben, Abraham Lincoln, W. E. B. Du Bois, antitrust law, supernatural reprieve, “This Land is Your Land,”, Iwo Jima, polio vaccines, Howard Jones, Winter Olympics, and more, this day in history, February 23 #history #thisdayinhistory #february23

This Day in History, February 22

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This Day in History, February 21

Expository, the team locomotive, the communist manifesto, the first woman dentist, the Oakland daily tribune, the telephone directory, the Washington monument, the New Yorker magazine, peace symbol, Watergate convictions, and more, this day in history, February 21.

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This Day in History, February 20

Pawn, Queen Margaret’s dowry, Edward VI, The Postal Service Act, The Barber of Seville, several earthquakes, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Swan Lake, Hawaii Territory, Ansel Adams, Pearl Albrecht, Sidney Poitier, Amanda Blake, the Emergency Broadcast System, the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, and more, this day in history, February 20.

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This Day in History, February 19

Republic, Copernicus, Aaron burr, Texas, Donner party, Thomas Edison and the phonograph, Carson McCullers, FDR signs Executive Order 9066, Iwo Jima, Karen Silkwood, censorship, Prince Andrew, Chicago Seven, Solzhenitsyn, Ford rescinds Executive Order 9066, And more, this day in history, February 19. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february19​

This Day in History, February 18

Aerosol, Vermont, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mark Twain, Academy Awards, Pluto, The White Rose, John Travolta, Wanna White, Ray Charles, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Wikileaks, and more, this day in history, February 18. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february18​

This Day in History, February 17

Source, Myles Standish, the Gregorian calendar, the 1801 Presidential Election, the Missouri Compromise of 1819, Aaron Montgomery Ward, The Red Cross, Newsweek, and more, this day in history, February 17. #history #thisdayinhistory #february17

This Day in History, February 16

Inherent, Henry Leland, Hugh Beaumont, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Sonny Bono, The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, John McEnroe, Fidel Castro, Explorer 9, the first 911, the first computer bulletin board, the last MASH, and more, this day in history, February 16.

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This Day in History, February 15

Decimal, Galileo, Columbus, St. Louis, Henry Steinway, Cyrus McCormick,  Stevens Institute of Technology, the Supreme Court, the Gregorian calendar, The second Serum Run, the Distant Early Warning Line, Decimal Day, and more, this day in history, February 15.

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This Day in History, February 14

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This Day in History, February 13

Dossier, the treaty of Westminster, Catherine Howard, William and Mary, Bess Truman, Grant Wood, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chuck Yeager, Bruno Hauptmann, Peter Gabriel, the dead sea scrolls, an earthquake, and more, this day in history, February 13

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This day in history, February 12

Extricate, Britannicus, Gustav III, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, the Creek tribe, Ecuador, Michigan State University, Louis Renault, The NAACP, the Lincoln Memorial, the USS Macon, iron meteorites, Christian Dior, Venera I, the Gateway Arch, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mongolia, Edvard Münch's The Scream, and more, this day in history, February 12.

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This Day in History, February 11

Amicable, Japan, Britannicus, Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII, coal heat, University of London, Thomas Edison, Bernadette Soubirou, Super centenarian Lucille Randon, robot, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Oshumi, and more, this day in history, February 11.

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This Day in History, February 10

Invidious, Seven Years’ War, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Boris Pasternak, Jimmy Durante, Texas Tech, Tom and Jerry cartoons, Laura Ingalls wilder, spy swap, 25th amendment, Ziggy Stardust, computer versus Kasparov, Shirley Temple, and more, this day in history, February 10. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february10​

This Day in History, February 9

Subjascent, William Henry Harrison, American Revolution News, John Quincy Adams, Custer, volleyball, WWI news, Daylight Saving Time, WWII news, McCartheyism, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Vietnam War news, Satchel Paige & the Hall of Fame, Apollo 14, Magic Johnson, and more, this day in history, February 9. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february9​

This Day in History, February 8

Militate,  Constantius III, Leiden University, Mary Queen of Scots, The College of William and Mary, Daniel Bernouli, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jules Verne, Kate Chopin, the 13th Amendment, Universal Standard Time, the Dawes Act of 1887, The Boy Scouts of America, Warren G. Harding, versions of the Bible, East German Stasi, the British Royal Family, the NASDAQ, GM sues NBC, the blizzard of 2013, and more, this day in history, February 8

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This Day in History February 7

Contrition, King Edward II, the 11th Amendment, John Deere, Charles Dickens, New Madrid Earthquakes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, the cripple Creek Miners Strike, Garth Brooks, Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock, and more, this day in history, February 7.  

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This Day in History, February 6

Graffito, days of the week, Queen Anne, King James, Aaron Burr, the founding of America, the U.S.Constitution, Henry Liddell, Babe Ruth, Ronald Reagan, The American Legion, a labor strike, Queen Elizabeth II, Texas Instruments' Integrated Circuit, Michael Jordan, and more, this day in history, February 6. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february6

This Day in History, February 5

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Assiduous, Pompeii, Articles of Confederation, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, The New Hermitage Museum, the “Welcome Stranger” nugget, and more, this day in history, February 5.

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This Day in History, February 4

Duplicitous, an earthquake, George Washington, more earthquakes, Charles Lindbergh, Rosa parks, Dan Quayle, Alice Cooper, yet more earthquakes, Facebook, and more, this day in history, February 4 #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february4​

This Day in History, February 3

Harbinger, a royal wedding, world travel, money, Samuel Osgood, Illinois, Horace Greeley, Hugo Junkers, the 15th amendment, bell star, Norman Rockwell, pretty boy Floyd, the 16th amendment, Woodrow Wilson, the day the music died, Frank Serpico, a really bad blizzard, and more, this day in history, February 3.

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This Day in History, February 2

Promulgate, the Breviary of Alaric, New Amsterdam, Alexander Selkirk, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Groundhog Day, Queen Victoria, Grand Central Terminal, the Serum Run, and more, this day in history, February 2. #history​ #thisdayinhistory​ #february2

This Day in History, February 1

Ratify, King Edward III, French Revolutionary Wars, Mauritius, Texas, the Thirteenth Amendment, Eric Adolph von Willenbrand, the Oxford English Dictionary, Edison's "Black Maria," Dr. Leila Denmark, Clark Gable, and more, this day in history, February 1. #history #thisdayinhistory #february1