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- #: Monthly stuff
- 2:Canned Food Month.
- #: Events depending on weekdays
- R(2/7) :No Talk Day (1st Thursday).
- #: Normal events
- 2/1/1709 :Alexander Selkirk (basis for "Robinson Crusoe"), rescued.
- 2/2/1876 :National Baseball League formed (Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, NY,
- :Phila., St. Louis, Louisville, & Hartford).
- 2/3/1912 :Owney "the Killer" Madden, gangster, began his career.
- 2/4/1913 :Removable automobile wheel 1st used.
- 2/5/1982 :Laker Airways declared bankruptcy.
- 2/6/1935 :Monopoly invented.
- 2/7/1964 :Baskin-Robbins introduced Beatle Nut ice cream.
- 2/8/1910 :Boy Scouts of America chartered (William D. Boyce, Chicago).
- 2/9/1876 :Appalachian Mountain Club founded.
- 2/10/1863:Fire Extinguisher patented (Alanson Crane).
- 2/11 :White Shirt Day.
- 2/12/1877:Alexander Graham Bell publicly demonstrated the telephone
- :(between Boston & Salem, MA).
- 2/13/1635:Oldest public school in US founded (Boston Latin School).
- 2/14/1978:First "micro on a chip" patented (Texas Instruments).
- 2/15/1804:NJ became the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
- 2/16/1937:Nylon patented (DuPont Corp. - developed by Wallace H. Carothers).
- 2/17/1932:"Baby Face" Nelson escaped prison.
- 2/18/1859:"Temporary insanity" defense first used in America (Dan Sickles).
- 2/19/1942:Detention of Japanese-Americans legalized.
- 2/20/1935:1st woman set foot on Antarctica (Mrs. Karoline Mikkelson).
- 2/21/1885:Washington Monument dedicated.
- 2/22/1630:Indians introduced popcorn to English colonists.
- 2/23/1836:Siege of Alamo began.
- 2/24/1868:House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson.
- 2/25/1836:6 shooter patented (Samuel Colt).
- 2/26/1914:First long-distance phone conversation via underground cable.
- 2/27/1919:American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed.
- 2/28/1692:Salem witch hunt began.
- 2/29/1968:Discovery of "pulsar" announced (Jocelyn Burnell).
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