On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for the commercial transportation of freight and passengers.  Continue reading.

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A bit of February 28th history…

202 BC - Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating 4 centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China (pictured)

1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1947 - February 28th Massacre: Anti-government uprising in Taiwan is violently put down by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang -led republic of China government with a loss of 18,000-28,000 lives; marks the beginning of the White Terror

1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of DNA molecule (double helix polymer)

1993 - Gun battle erupts near Waco, TX at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid

2019 - YouTube announces it will stop all comments on videos featuring children because of paedophiles leaving inappropriate comments 

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine.  Continue reading.

Mathew Brady photographed presidential aspirant Abraham Lincoln before his February 27, 1860 speech at Cooper Union in New York.  Continue reading.

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A bit of February 27th history…

1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans (pictured)

1940 - Carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) is discovered in California

1950 - General Chiang Kai-Shek elected president of Nationalist China

1996 - 1st ever appearance of Pokemon in roleplaying video game “Pocket Monsters Red and Green” for game boy in Japan

2019 - Michael Cohen, a former lawyer to Trump, testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is “racist”, a “con man”, and “a cheat”

2020 - Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus Galaxy 390 million light years away - size of 15 Milky Ways 

On February 26, 1919, Congress passed An Act to Establish the Grand Canyon National Park in the State of Arizona. Continue reading.

Acadia National Park came into existence when Congress approved An Act to Establish the Lafayette National Park at Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine on February 26, 1919.  Continue reading.

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A bit of February 26th history…

1616 - Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism which states the earth and planets revolve around the sun

1910 - Gandhi supports the African People’s Organization’s resolution to declare the Prince of Wales’ day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloreds and Africans

1917 - Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies

1935 - RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) 1st demonstrated

1991 - Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so called “Highway of Death” (pictured)

1993 - “World Trade Center Bombing of 1993″ : truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring over 1000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetuated on US soil at that time 

On the morning of February 25, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark, elder brother of explorer William Clark, accepted the British Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton's unconditional surrender of Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Indiana.  Continue reading.

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A bit of February 25th history…

1570 - Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign; also absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown

1793 - 1st US Cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home

1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading

1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes; First Legal Tender Act 1862 passed authorizing the US Note (greenback) into circulation, 1st paper money that was legal tender in America (pictured)

1901 - US Steel Corporation organized under JP Morgan

1910 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops

1932 - Austrian immigrant, Adolf Hitler, gets German citizenship 

Arizona, formerly part of the Territory of New Mexico, was organized as a separate territory on February 24, 1863.  Continue reading.

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