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On the 1st of March, 1961 Newly elected President John F. Kennedy issues an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. It proved to be one of...
The city of Agadir in Morocco is reduced to ruins by an earthquake on February 29th in 1960. Northeastern Africa was not generally an area known for...
On February 27 1943, an explosion at the Montana Coal and Iron Company mine kills 74 workers. It was the worst mining disaster in Montana’s history. The...
On the 26th of February, 1993A bomb explodes in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City on this day in 1993....
On the 24th February, 1868 The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of...
On the 18th of February, 1964 The United States cuts off military assistance to Britain, France, and Yugoslavia in retaliation for their continuing trade with the communist...
On February 15th, 1965 – In accordance with a formal proclamation by Queen Elizabeth II of England, a new maple leaf Canadian national flag is raised...
On February 14 around the year 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed.
Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990.
On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable...