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2/18/2015
« on: February 18, 2015, 12:00:02 AM »
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2015, 02:26:33 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2015, 02:34:31 AM »
Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2015. There are 316 days left in the Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 2015. There are 316 days left in the year.

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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2015, 02:35:03 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 18, 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time (after already being published in Britain and Canada).
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2015, 02:35:33 AM »
On this date:

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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2015, 02:36:10 AM »
In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2015, 02:36:40 AM »
In 1564, artist Michelangelo Buonarroti died in Rome, just weeks before his 89th birthday.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2015, 02:37:07 AM »
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2015, 02:37:38 AM »
In 1913, Mexican President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez were arrested during a military coup (both were shot to death on Feb. 22).
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2015, 02:38:01 AM »
In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a "dwarf planet") was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2015, 02:38:28 AM »
In 1943, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the wife of the Chinese leader, addressed members of the Senate and then the House, becoming the first Chinese national to address both houses of the U.S. Congress.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2015, 02:39:04 AM »
In 1953, "Bwana Devil," the movie that heralded the 3D fad of the 1950s, had its New York opening.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2015, 02:39:27 AM »
In 1960, the 8th Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, California, by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2015, 02:39:57 AM »
In 1970, the "Chicago Seven" defendants were found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968 (those convictions were later reversed).
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Re: 2/18/2015
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2015, 02:40:43 AM »
In 1984, Italy and the Vatican signed an accord under which Roman Catholicism ceased to be the state religion of Italy.
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