A United States Air Force F-15C taking off for a sortie enforcing the no-fly zone
#History #NATOHistory #FebruaryHistory February 28, 1994, in the first combat operation in the forty-five-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S. fighters enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia as part of Operation Deny Flight engage Serbian fighters.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 27, 1827, a group of students who observed Parisian Carnival enter the streets of New Orleans in masks and costumes to celebrate Mardi Gras, the very first in New Orleans history which today is known for it's lively Mardi Gras celebrations.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m. EST, a bomb planted by terrorists explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring over one thousand and inflicting over $500 million in damage to the tower.
#History #SportsHistory #FebruaryHistory February 25, 1964, Twenty-two-year-old underdog Muhammad Ali, also known as Cassius Clay, defeates champion Sonny Liston in a technical knockout to win the world heavyweight boxing crown after Sonny, suffering an injured shoulder, quit after the sixth round.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 24, 1841, lawyer and former U.S. president John Quincy Adams began to argue the Amistad case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1839, La Amistad, a Spanish slave schooner, had been sailing from Cuba to Haiti with slaves, many of whome were former freedmen.
#History #FilmHistory #FebruaryHistory February 23, 1997, sxity-five million people tune in to watch Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Holocaust drama Schindler's List on the NBC television network in its three-and-a-half-hour entirety, uncut, and uninterrupted per Spielberg's request.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 22, 1980, perhaps one of the most famous events in sports history unfolded at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. The young and relatively inexperienced men's American team defeated the Soviet favorite's to win the gold medal, dubbed "the Miracle on Ice"
#History #BlackHistory #FebruaryHistory On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little), an African American Black nationalist, religious leader, human rights activist, and revolutionary, is assassinated by Thomas Hagan due to Malcolm X's departure and criticism of the Nation of Islam.
#History #DanishHistory #FebruaryHistory February 20, 2018, Prince Henrik of Denmark, the French-born husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe II, became the first Danish royal since Christian III of Denmark in 1559 to not be buried in Roskilde Cathedral.
Chicago Eight.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 19, 1970, five members of the Chicago Seven (formerly the Chicago Eight, Bobby Seale was a seperately tried defendant) were acquitted of riot conspiracy cahrges but found guilty of inciting a riot, and sentenced.
#History #FilmHistory #FebruaryHistory February 18, 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the winnters of the first Academy Awards. In contrast to the glamour and opulent vapidness of the modern Oscars, the first Academy Awards were more simple.
#History #CarHistory #FebruaryHistory February 17, 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle came off the assembly line, breaking a world car production record that was held for decades by the Ford Motor Company's Model T which was produced from 1908 to 1927. by 2003, 21.5 million would be produced.
Picture of Howard Carter examining King Tut's sarcophagus. The sarcophagus contained three coffins made of wood and gold nested inside one another like Russian nesting dolls. The last one, made of solid gold, contained the mummified body.
#History #EgyptianHistory #FebruaryHistory February 16, 1923, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun who's tomb had been undisturbed for 32,000 years in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, Egypt. Inside were his treasures, and his gold coffin.
Early 20th century teddy bear thought to have been made by Morris Michtom which was donated to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History by Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., in 1964.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 15, 1903, toy store owner and inventor Morris Michtom advertises two stuffed bears in the window of his Brooklyn candy shop as "teddy bears". Michtom had received permission from 26th U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt to use the nickname.
#History #ScienceHistory #FebruaryHistory February 14, 1929, Sir Alexander Fleming publicly announces his discovery of the mold by-product penicillin. When he left a plate of Staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, he noticed that fallen mold on the culture killed most of the bacteria.
#History #EnglishHistory #FebruaryHistory February 13, 1689, Following the bloodless Glorious Revolution in England, Mary, the daughter of deposed king James II, and William of Orange, her husband, were proclaimed joint sovereigns of England under the country's new English Bill of Rights.
#History #ArtHistory #FebruaryHistory February 12, 1994, two thieves break into the National Art Museum in Oslo, Norway, stealing Edvard Munch's The Scream and fleeing the scene before police could arrive. The men left behind a note that read "Thanks for the poor security."
#History #AfricanHistory #FebruaryHistory February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released after 27 years of imprisonment. Mandela was a lawyer who joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 as an advocate of nonviolent resistance.
#History #FrenchHistory #FebruaryHistory February 10, 1970, an avalanche crashes down on a ski resot in Val-d'Isère, France, killing forty-two people and injuring sixty, primarily young skiers. This disaster is the worst avalanche in French History.
#History #SportsHistory #FebruaryHistory February 9, 1900, the trophy today known as the Davis Cup was first put up for competition when American collegian Dwight Filley Davis challenged British tennis players to cross the Atlantic and compete against his Harvard team.
#History #MusicHistory #FebruaryHistory February 8, 1965, the song "Stop! In the Name of Love" was released just days before Valentine's Day by The Supreme's. The song became a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom and hit Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
#History #MusicHistory #FebruaryHistory February 7, 1964, the Beatles land at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York for their first ever visit to the United States, less than a week after earning their first U.S. Number 1 hit with "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 6, 1778, the United States and France sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce which recognized United States independence as well as the Treaty of Alliance which created a Franco-American military alliance against Great Britain.
#History #ItalianHistory #FebruaryHistory February 5, 1783, an estimated 7.5 - 8.0 magnitude earthquake stuck southern italy beginning an hour after 12 p.m. in the province of Calabria. It would be the first in a series of five earthquakes that would devestate southern Italy until March 28.
#History #FebruaryHistory February 4, 1980, the founders of Studio 54, the iconic Manhattan disco club, held a grand closing party for the venue dubbed "The End of Modern Day Gomorrah", known for its extravagant parties, celebrity clientele, and reputation for excessive drug use and sexual hedonism.
#History #USHistory #FebruaryHistory February 3, 1865, the Hampton Roads Conference fails to reach accord. President Abraham Lincoln met with a delegation of Confederate officials to discuss a peace agreement in Hampton Roads, Virginia on the River Queen near Fort Monroe.
#History #AmericanIndianHistory #FebruaryHistory February 2nd, 1954, Maria Tallchief, the first American Indian prima ballerina, performs as the Sugar Plum Fairy for George Balanchine's premire of The Nutcracker at the New York City Center.
#History #EnglishHistory #FebruaryHistory February 1, 1884, the first portion or "fascicle" of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. It took over forty years until the 125th and final fascicle was published in April, 1928, with a one-volume supplement published in 1933.
