02-04-2011, 10:08 PM
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February 5th
1897 ~ The Indiana House of Representatives passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of π. The bill died in the state Senate.
1917 ~ The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.
1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists.
1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete.
1937 ~ President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court.
1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence.
1982 ~ Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors.
1988 ~ Panamanian President Manuel Noriega was indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
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