This Day in History

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February 16.

1852: The Studebaker Brothers establish a wagon factory, which will later become an automobile company.

1862: Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

1923: Harold Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharoh Tutankhuman.

1945: American troops invade Corregidar island in the Philippines.

1959: Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.

2006: The United States Army decommissioned the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH).

 

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February 18

1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.

1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

1929 - The first Academy Awards are announced.

1954 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.

1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only recorded time in history.

2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

 

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February 20.

1792: President George Washington signs the Postal Service Act which establishes the United States Post Office.

1931: The United States Congress approves construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

1962: John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.

1998: American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan.