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On Feb 19:
1942 – World War II: In the largest attacks mounted by a foreign power against Australia, more than 240 bombers and fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed Darwin, Northern Territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darwin |
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On Feb 21:
1848 - The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, was published in London by the Communist League. |
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On Feb 22:
1630 - Popcorn was introduced to English colonists by Quadequine, brother of Massasoit. |
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On Feb 25:
1964 - Cassius Clay dethroned world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. Clay then announced his conversion to Islam, changing his name to Muhammad Ali. |
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On Feb 26:
1933 - Ground was broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. |
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On Feb 27:
1801 – Washington, D.C., a new planned city and capital of the United States, was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. |
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On Feb 28:
1993 - A gun battle erupted at a compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the cult called the Branch Davidians; a 51-day standoff began. |
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On this day in 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family's new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who became an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son's empty room.
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