| 1570 |
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Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England. |
| 1601 |
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Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason. |
| 1642 |
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Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers. |
| 1779 |
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The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes. |
| 1781 |
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American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis. |
| 1791 |
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President George Washington sign a bill creating the Bank of the United States. |
| 1804 |
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Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus. |
| 1815 |
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Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France. |
| 1831 |
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The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow. |
| 1836 |
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Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm. |
| 1862 |
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Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant’s advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. |
| 1865 |
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General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. |
| 1904 |
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J.M. Synge’s play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin. |
| 1910 |
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The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India. |
| 1919 |
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Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction. |
| 1913 |
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The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax. |
| 1926 |
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Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council. |
| 1928 |
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Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image. |
| 1943 |
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U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before. |
| 1944 |
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U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam. |
| 1952 |
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French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina. |
| 1956 |
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Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual." |
| 1976 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens. |
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Born on February 25 |
| 1841 |
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, French painter and founder of the French Impressionist movement. |
| 1856 |
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Charles Lang Freer, U.S. art collector. |
| 1873 |
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Enrico Caruso, Italian opera tenor. |
| 1888 |
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John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State to President Eisenhower. |
| 1894 |
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Meher Baba, spiritual leader. |
| 1895 |
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Rudolf von Eschwege, German fighter ace in World War I. . |
| 1905 |
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Adele Davis, nutritionist. |
| 1917 |
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Anthony Burgess, English writer (A Clockwork Orange). |
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