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The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
Date‎: ‎February 19 – March 26, 1945; (1 month ...
Location‎: ‎Iwo Jima‎, ‎Volcano Islands‎, Japanese ...
 

rgp said:
Am I permitted to be a day late ?

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
Date‎: ‎February 19 – March 26, 1945; (1 month ...
Location‎: ‎Iwo Jima‎, ‎Volcano Islands‎, Japanese ...
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21st February

1437 - Assassinated today in 1437...King James I of Scotland. At the age of 11, James was captured by pirates and held prisoner by the Lancastrian kings of England for 18 years before returning to Scotland to be crowned. Just 13 years later James was brutally assassinated by a group of dissident nobles led by Sir Robert Graham, as he hid in a dank and stinking sewer under Blackfriars Friary in Perth. He had been stabbed 28 times.

1804 - The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
 
1925
The 1st issue of 'New Yorker' magazine published
1947
Edwin Land introduced the Polaroid Land camera to the Optical Society of America in NYC.The camera was the 1st to take,develop&print a picture on photo paper in 60 secs.
1972
Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. President to visit China.He has meeting with Chinese leader,Mao Zedong in Beijing
 
Feb 22nd
Today is the 1st Anniv of this thread I started.I wasn't sure if anybody else would be interested in posting,I've been pleasantly surprised,thanks to all who've posted.Let's keep it going
1876
Johns Hopkins Univ in Baltimore,MD opened
1980
50th Anniv of the biggest Olympic sports upset,'Miracle on Ice'.U.S. men's hockey team compromise of college kids upset the heavily favored Russians 4-3 in the semi- final at Lake Placid,NY. The team went on to win the gold medal beating Sweden
 
22nd February

ON 22nd February 1797, French warships landed on British soil. Flushed with recent triumphs, the French revolutionaries had dispatched a ragbag of ex-convicts and poorly trained soldiers in just four ships to liberate the British from George III’s tyranny. The somewhat ambitious plan was to capture the city of Bristol, but unfavourable weather forced the invaders into the Welsh port of Fishguard.

There, they discovered a trading ship laden with food and drink, which may explain their excited reports of thousands of well-armed British redcoats surrounding the harbour, when there was nothing but a handful of Welsh villagers in traditional scarlet dress.

Not that the Welsh were content to be spectators. Jemima Nicholas grabbed a pitchfork and rounded up twelve of the French before locking them in a church, deservedly entering Welsh folklore with the title ‘Jemima Fawr’, ‘Jemima the Great’. Two days later the hapless revolutionaries surrendered, to a small local force.
 
moviequeen1 said:
Feb 22nd
Today is the 1st Anniv of this thread I started.I wasn't sure if anybody else would be interested in posting,I've been pleasantly surprised,thanks to all who've posted.Let's keep it going
1876
Johns Hopkins Univ in Baltimore,MD opened
1980
50th Anniv of the biggest Olympic sports upset,'Miracle on Ice'.U.S. men's hockey team compromise of college kids upset the heavily favored Russians 4-3 in the semi- final at Lake Placid,NY. The team went on to win the gold medal beating Sweden
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I made a mistake,its the 40th anniv not 50 of the U.S. "miracle hockey team,not good at math LOL!
 
moviequeen1 said:
I made a mistake
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Thats it!!! You are only allowed one mistake!!!
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23rd February

Born today in 1633...Samuel Pepys, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, politician and most famously, diarist. His diary, which he kept from 1660 to 1669, is a very important primary source for historians, as he was an eyewitness to such momentous events as the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.
 
1980
U.S. speed skater,Eric Heiden sweeps all the 5 events he entered,wins 5 gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid,NY
1997
NBC airs movie'Schindler's List' uncensored 65 million viewers watched
 
February 24th

1807 - 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness the executions of John Holloway, 39 and Owen Haggerty, 24 who were hanged outside Debtors' Door at Newgate Prison. They died alongside murderer Elizabeth Godfrey, who had stabbed a man.

1920 - Nancy, Lady Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, makes her maiden speech on the topic of the perils of drinking.

1981 Prince Charles announced his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.
 
26th February


1797 - The Bank of England issued the first ever one pound note. Printed on watermark paper with a vignette of Britannia on the top left hand corner, the hand-signed white £1 notes were withdrawn in the 1820s.

1914 The launch of HMHS (Her Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

1935 - Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated RADAR (radio detection and ranging) at Daventry, Northamptonshire.

1987 - The Church of England's General Synod voted by a huge majority in favour of the ordination of women priests.
 
1900 - The British Labour Party was founded.

1907 - London's main criminal court, the Old Bailey was built, on the site of Newgate Prison.
 
1968
CBS anchor,/managing editor Walter Cronkite gave a scathing editorial on U.S. chances of winning the Vietnam War
 

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