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Each installment of The World Almanac Databank includes notable
historical and sports events that occurred on the particular
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the Databank offers such intriguing tidbits as a quote, fact
and statistic of the day and traces the phases of the moon.
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sold. The first edition of The World Almanac was published
by The New York World newspaper in 1868. Publication was suspended
in 1876, but in 1886 Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The
New York World, revived The World Almanac.
Improved, revised, expanded, and updated from year to year,
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February 25th, 2009
Today is the 56th day of 2009 and the 67th day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to France from
his exile on the island of Elba.
In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress
the power to levy income taxes, went into effect.
In 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, fled
the Philippines.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), artist; Enrico
Caruso (1873-1921), opera singer; John Foster Dulles (1888-1959),
diplomat; George Harrison (1943-2001), musician; Sally Jessy Raphael
(1943-), TV personality, is 66; Sean Astin (1971-), actor, is 38.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1964, Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay,
defeated Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight-boxing crown.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "The ability to get to the verge without getting
into the war is the necessary art ... if you are scared to go to
the bri ...February 24th, 2009
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009
Today is the 55th day of 2009 and the 66th day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1836, Mexican forces attacked the Alamo.
In 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President
Andrew Johnson.
In 1903, the United States acquired a naval station at Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba.
In 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Ames and his wife were arrested for
selling American intelligence information to the Soviet Union and
Russia.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Winslow Homer (1836-1910), artist; George Moore
(1852-1933), poet/dramatist; Joseph Lieberman (1942-), U.S. senator,
is 67; Edward James Olmos (1947-), actor, is 62; Steve Jobs (1955-),
computer pioneer, is 54; Paula Zahn (1956-), TV newscaster, is 53;
Billy Zane (1966-), actor, is 43.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2003, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud
Selig banned the use of ephedra.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "A man travels the world over in search of what
he ne ...
February 23rd, 2009
Today is the 54th day of 2009 and the 65th day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1778, Baron von Steuben joined the U.S. encampment
at Valley Forge, Pa.
In 1945, American Marines raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima.
In 1954, the first mass vaccination of children against polio
began in Pittsburgh, Pa.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), diarist/naval official;
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), composer; W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868-1963), author/activist; Peter Fonda (1939-), actor, is
70; Dakota Fanning
(1994-), actress, is 15.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1988, the city of Chicago allowed the Cubs
baseball team to install lights at Wrigley Field.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "The cost of liberty is less than the price of
repression." -- W.E.B. Du Bois
TODAY'S FACT: A group of buzzards is called a "wake"; a
group of finches is called a "charm."
TODAY'S NUMBER: 6,825 -- number of American soldiers
who died ...February 22nd, 2009
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
Today is the 53rd day of 2009 and the 64th day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1819, Spain signed a treaty turning
eastern Florida over to the United States.
In 1879, F.W. Woolworth opened his first store.
In 1992, the U.N. Security Council approved the
creation of a war-crimes tribunal to address
atrocities committed
in the
former
Yugoslavia's
civil war.
In 1997, Scottish scientists announced that they
had cloned the first mammal from an adult, Dolly
the sheep.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: George Washington (1732-1799),
first U.S. president; Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860),
philosopher;
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849),
composer; Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950),
poet; Edward Kennedy (1932-), U.S. senator,
is 77; Julius
Erving (1950-),
basketball
player, is 59; Drew Barrymore (1975-), actress,
is 34.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey
team upset the Soviet Union, 4-3, in Lake
Placid ...
February 21st, 2009
Today is the 52nd day of 2009 and the 63rd day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published "The
Communist Manifesto."
In 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit
China.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Leo Delibes (1836-1891), composer; Anais
Nin (1903-1977), writer; Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984), film
director; Erma Bombeck (1927-1996),
humorist; William Petersen (1953-), actor, is 56; Kelsey
Grammer (1955-), actor, is 54; Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979-),
actress,
is 30.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1970, in a game against the New York Rangers,
Bobby Hull of the Chicago Blackhawks became the third player
in NHL history to score 500 lifetime goals.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "You can't separate peace from freedom because
no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." -- Malcolm
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