02-24-2011, 08:37 PM
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February 25th
1723 ~ Death of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect.
1870 ~ Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., became the first black member of the U.S. Senate.
1901 ~ Incorporation of the United States Steel Corporation.
1943 ~ Birthday of George Harrison, Beatle.
1970 ~ Death of Mark Rothko, American painter.
1982 ~ Birthday of Jamie Lynn, Porn Actress.
1986 ~ Corazon Aquino assumed the Philippine presidency after Ferdinand E. Marcos fled.
1994 ~ Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death.
1999 ~ Death of Glenn T. Seaborg, Nuclear Chemist & Public Servant, awarded the 1951 Nobel Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2004 ~ Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was released in the U.S., and became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made.
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