February 25

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are
309 days remaining, 310 in leap years.

Events

   * 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him
     his successor.
   * 1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
   * 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President
     of the United States.
   * 1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn
     into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever
     to sit in the United States Congress.
   * 1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
   * 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
     authorizing a graduated income tax, is ratified.
   * 1919 - Oregon places a 1 cent per 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.
   * 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built
     aircraft carrier.
   * 1951 - The first Pan American Games are held, in Buenos Aires,
     Argentina.
   * 1954 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
   * 1972 - Terrorism: Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as
     ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
   * 1986 - President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation
     after 20 years of rule.
   * 1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military
     barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines.
   * 1999 - John William King is sentenced to the death penalty for
     murdering James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

Births

   * 1500 - future emperor Charles V (+1558)
   * 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, lyricist (+ 1793)
   * 1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (+
     1806)
   * 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter, graphic artist and sculptor (+
     1919)
   * 1842 - Karl May, writer (+ 1912)
   * 1848 - Edward Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
   * 1888 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (+ 1959)
   * 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (+ 1986)
   * 1901 - Zeppo Marx, actor (+ 1979)
   * 1904 - Adelle Davis, nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
   * 1913 - Gert Fršbe, actor (+ 1988)
   * 1913 - Jim Backus, actor (+ 1989)
   * 1917 - Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange (+ 1993)
   * 1918 - Bobby Riggs, tennis player (+ 1995)
   * 1921 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists (+ 1970)
   * 1925 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (+ 2000)
   * 1932 - Faron Young, country music singer (+ 1996)
   * 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphael, talk show host
   * 1937 - Tom Courtenay, actor
   * 1940 - Ron Santo, baseball player
   * 1946 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, dramatist
   * 1950 - Neil Jordan, director, writer, producer
   * 1950 - NŽstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
   * 1953 - JosŽ Mar’a Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
   * 1954 - John Doe, musician
   * 1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
   * 1971 - Sean Astin, actor

Deaths

   * 1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, architect
   * 1899 - Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the Reuters News Agency
   * 1964 - Grace Metalious, writer
   * 1975 - Elijah Muhammad, Black Muslim leader
   * 1983 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
   * 1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer
   * 1996 - Hang S. Ngor, actor
   * 2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer

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