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I want to start something new. Something that people can learn from. SO everday I will post a list of "This Day In History."

Today, Feb. 4th, 2009:

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1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.

1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

1801 John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.

1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.

1913 Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala.

1938 The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.

1941 The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.

1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.

1948 The island nation of Ceylon - now Sri Lanka - became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.

1977 The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released.

1983 Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.

1987 Pianist Liberace died at age 67.

1997 A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home by four plainclothes New York City police officers who said they mistook his wallet for a gun. The police fired 41 shots at Diallo.

2000 A coalition government that included Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party came to power in Austria, triggering European Union sanctions.

2003 Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.

2004 The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
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KarouKaniyashia wrote: 1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
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This Date In History, February 5th, 2009:

On Feb. 5, 1937, President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court. (Go to article.)

On Feb. 5, 1900, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the American politician and diplomat, was born. Following his death on July 14, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.

1881 Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated.

1887 Verdi's opera "Otello" premiered at La Scala in Milan, Italy.

1917 Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians.

1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser was nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.

1988 The Arizona House of Representatives impeached Gov. Evan Mecham, who was later convicted in the state Senate and removed from office.

1988 Panamanian military leader Gen. Manuel Noriega was indicted on bribery and drug trafficking charges in Florida.

1993 Federal judge Kimba Wood, President Bill Clinton's expected choice for attorney general, withdrew from consideration, saying her babysitter had been an illegal alien for seven years.

1994 White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. He was sentenced to life in prison.

1997 Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.

2001 Four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

2002 A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans.

2003 Secretary of State Colin Powell urged the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists - claims that later turned out to be false.

2006 The Pittsburgh Steelers won a record-tying fifth Super Bowl with a 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks. BURN IN HADES PITTSUBURGH!!!!!!! Sorry I'm A Seahawks Fan, look at my siggy bar to the right.

2007 NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Fla., accused of trying to kidnap a perceived rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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February 6, 2009:

On Feb. 6, 1952, Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.

On Feb. 6, 1895, George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, baseball's great star, was born. Following his death on Aug. 16, 1948, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1756 Aaron Burr, America's third vice president, was born in Newark, N.J.

1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1895 Baseball Hall of Famer George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born in Baltimore.

1899 A peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate.

1911 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill.

1933 The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. It moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.

1945 Reggae musician Bob Marley was born in St. Ann parish in Jamaica.

1959 The United States successfully test-fired for the first time a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.

1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman died at age 77.

1993 Tennis Hall of Famer Arthur Ashe died at age 49.

1998 President Bill Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

1999 Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.

2000 First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her successful candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

2001 Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister in a landslide over Ehud Barak.

2003 ABC's "20/20" aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed. Notice he never said that he did when the children slept in his bed. Talk about overreacting and marring the facts. Anything for Ratings as 20/20 is one of the worst shows out there.

2004 An explosion ripped through a Moscow subway car during rush hour, killing 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
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February 7th, 2009.

On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.

On Feb. 7, 1817, Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist leader, was born. Following his death on Feb. 20, 1895, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1812 Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

1944 Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.

1948 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.

1964 The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."

1974 The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.

1986 Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule.

1990 The Soviet Union's Communist Party gave up its monopoly on power by agreeing to let other political parties compete for control of the country.

1991 The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president.

1995 Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

1999 Jordan's King Hussein died at age 63.

2005 Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. (Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.)
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February 8th, 2009

On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep."

On Feb. 8, 1878, Martin Buber, the German-Jewish religious philosopher, was born. Following his death on June 13, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1693 A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

1837 The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky as vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

1904 The Russo-Japanese War began.

1910 The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

1915 D.W. Griffith's silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premiered in Los Angeles.

1922 President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House.

1924 The first execution by gas in the United State took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City.

1968 Three college students died in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.

1978 Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time as members opened debate on the Panama Canal treaties.

1980 President Jimmy Carter unveiled a plan to re-introduce draft registration.

1993 General Motors sued NBC, alleging that the program "Dateline NBC" had rigged two crashes to show that GM pickups were prone to fires. (NBC settled the lawsuit the following day.)

1999 The Senate heard closing arguments in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial.

2004 Beyonce won five Grammy Awards, tying the record for female performers held by Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keyes and Norah Jones.

2005 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced a cease-fire at a summit in Egypt.

2007 Model and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose.
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