February 25
1570 | Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England. | |
1601 | Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason. | |
1642 | Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers. | |
1779 | The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes. | |
1781 | American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis. | |
1791 | President George Washington sign a bill creating the Bank of the United States. | |
1804 | Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus. | |
1815 | Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France. | |
1831 | The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow. | |
1836 | Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm. | |
1862 | Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. | |
1865 | General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. | |
1904 | J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin. | |
1910 | The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India. | |
1919 | Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction. | |
1913 | The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax. | |
1926 | Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council. | |
1928 | Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image. | |
1943 | U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before. | |
1944 | U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam. | |
1952 | French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina. | |
1956 | Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual." | |
1976 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens. |
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