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Information about February 25


February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


309 days remaining, 310 in leap years.


    Table of contents


1 Events


2 Births


3 Deaths


4 Holidays and observances


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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