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February 1
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- 1790 – In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1861 – Texas secedes from the United States as part of the American Civil War.
- 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
- Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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February 2
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Today is Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada.
- 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
- Senate a month later would end the Mexican–American War.
- 1848 – The first ship with California Gold Rush, arrives in San Francisco.
- 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, is born.
- Congressmen in the Abscamoperation.
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February 3
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- 1783 – Spain recognizes United States independence from Britain as part of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1809 – The Illinois Territory (pictured) is created.
- 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- 1917 – The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare during World War I.
- 1959 – In what would be termed The Day the Music Died, three American rock and roll musicians, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, were killed in a plane crash.
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February 4
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- U.S. Electoral College.
- 1801 – John Marshall (pictured) is sworn in as the 4th Chief Justice of the United States.
- Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
- 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1899 – The Philippine–American War begins.
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February 5
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- 1778 – South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 (insignia pictured) mission.
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February 6
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- Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France in Paris. The two treaties served as official recognition of the new republic by France, and became a key turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
- United States Constitution.
- 1899 – The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Spanish–American War (signing ceremony pictured).
- 1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
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February 7
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- 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- Baltimore, Marylanddestroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
- 1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
- space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit(pictured).
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February 8
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- Queen Mary II. It is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard University.
- 1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured), the American Union Army general who was later recognized by military historians as "the first modern general", is born.
- 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
- 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
- 1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
- 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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February 9
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- electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- U.S. Weather Bureauis established.
- Cabinet-level agency.
- 1942 – Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss the American military strategy for World War II.
- Second Red Scare, accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
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February 10
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- Treaty of Paris.
- 1933 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
- Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
- Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (first page pictured) is ratified.
- Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparovfor the first time.
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February 11
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- 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
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- 1794 – The first session of the United States Senate open to the public is held.
- gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
- Dwight Eisenhower (pictured) is selected to command the allied armies in Europe as part of World War II.
- 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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February 12
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- 1809 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, is born three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky.
- 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial (pictured) is put into place.
- Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
- 1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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February 13
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- Negro National Leagueis formed.
- 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins (pictured) at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh.
- NCAA Division I basketballplayer ever to score 100 points in a single game.
- 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 2000 – The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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February 14
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- James Knox Polkbecomes 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 (seal pictured) 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
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- 1879 – American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1892 – James Forrestal, American civil servant, 47th United States Secretary of the Navy and 1st United States Secretary of Defense was born.
- , killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
- Secretary of Energywas born.
- Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
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February 16
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- 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton (pictured) begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- DuSable Museum of African American Historyis chartered.
- 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
- 2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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February 17
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- 1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise (illustration pictured).
- 1933 – The magazine Newsweek is published for the first time.
- 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 1963 – Michael Jordan, considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, is born.
- 1965 – The Ranger 8 probe, part of Project Ranger, launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmerto life in prison.
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February 18
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- filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
- 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.
- 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
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- State of Texas (seal pictured) government following Texas' annexation by the United States.
- 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1881 – Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
- United States Marines.
- Japanese internmentcamps.
- Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417 rescinds Executive Order 9066.
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February 20
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- 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.
- 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- Mercury program, John Glennorbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
- 1992 U.S. presidential election on CNN's Larry King Live.
- spyingfor Russia for 15 years.
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February 21
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- 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
- 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
- 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
- James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNAmolecule.
- 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
- Sino-American relations(pictured).
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February 22
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- 1732 – George Washington (pictured), who would become one of the founding fathers and the first President of the United States, is born on his family estate in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
- 1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
- 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1980 – In what would be called the Miracle on Ice, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3 at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
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February 23
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- 1904 – The United States purchases control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
- Rotary Club (logo pictured), the world's first service club.
- 1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
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- 1991 – Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the first Gulf War.
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February 24
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- United States territory.
- 1868 – Andrew Johnson (pictured) becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
- 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 as part of World War I.
- 1942 – The Voice of America begins broadcasting.
- 1980 Olympic Winter Games.
- Japanese internment during World War II.
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February 25
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- U.S. Congress.
- United States Senator from New York, and 52nd United States Secretary of State, is born.
- gasoline tax.
- Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
- 1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
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February 26
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- 1870 – In New York City, the first pneumatic subway opens.
- United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
- rocket.
- 1984 – US troops withdraw from Beirut. President Ronald Reagan had sent the troops in as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
- World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Centergoes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
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February 27
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- U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- is liberated."
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February 28
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- railroad in the United Statesoffering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- United States territory.
- 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time, broadcasting a game between Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden.
- Sino-American relations.
- Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
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February 29
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- Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, a plan to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia, fails.
- Big Band leader Jimmy Dorseyis born.
- Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Howard Nemerovis born.
- African American to win an Academy Award.
- 1972 – Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
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