Thursday, February 02, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

FEBRUARY 2
1990:During an address to his nation's parliament, South African President F.W. de Klerk announces the end of the ban on antiapartheid political parties such as the African National Congress. He also pledges the release of ANC leader Nelson Mandela, who had been jailed for 27 years. Mandela would be released nine days later.

1935: Leonarde Keeler, coinventor of the polygraph machine, uses his lie detector invention against two men suspected of assault in Portage, Wisc. The polygraph results are used as evidence to bring about convictions for both suspects.

1974: Singer Barbra Streisand scores her first Billboard No. 1 hit with "The Way We Were."
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