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2003 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)

2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52

1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy

1997 Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69

1996 NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind

1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

1992 Miley Ray Cyrus, pop-rock singer, actress, 100 Most Influential People in the World list, Time magazine, 2008, star of Disney's 'Hannah Montana', debut album, 'Meet Miley Cyrus' had first top ten single, 'See You Again'

1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76

1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment

1989 General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her

1986 It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS

1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives

1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires

1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"

1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1975 David Faustino, born in California, actor in I Had 3 Wives,Married With Children

1973 Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game

1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended

1972 "If You Had Wings" opens

1972 Paul McCartney and Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

1969 Kenny "Damn" Kelly, Paterson, New Jersey, rapper, Riff-Judy had a Boyfriend

1965 "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 199 performances

1964 "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 199 performances

1963 Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"

1961 Kip Winger, born in Denver, Colorado, Charles Frederick Kip Winger, musician, songwriter, bass guitarist, hard rock, heavy metal, classical, experimental genres, lead singer, Alan Parsons Project, played with Alice Cooper, had band called, Winger, released new CD, 2008

1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)

1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw

1956 Dave Dravecky, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, had arm amputated

1954 Michael Chetwood, born in Telford, England, rocker, musician, played for pop band T'Pau, which had Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom in the 1980's

1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930

1946 Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor, Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives

1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

1940 Rod Lauren, rocker, If I Had a Girl

1937 Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist, If I Had a Hammer

1934 U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915

1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City

1927 Raaj Kumar, born in Balochistan, Pakistan, film star, actor in Bollywood movies, famous for film 'Mother India', starred in more than 70 Bollywood films, had an iconic, gravelly voice

1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox

1926 Shortest double header, Yankees lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yankees had already clinched pennant

1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped

1925 Art Buchwald, born in New York City, wrote political satire and commentary, had column in The Washington Post

1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment

1887 Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat

1880 Ole Bull, famous violinist, virtuoso, compared to Niccolo Paganini, co-founder, Den Nationale Scene theater, dies of cancer, at home on Lysoen island, extensive funeral procession had 15 steamers, other vessels, transporting his body

1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many

1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals, Post Cereals

1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written

1788 Sarah Josepha Hale, author, Mary Had a Little Lamb

1778 Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British had left

1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720

1755 Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country

1743 John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton

1713 Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California

1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted


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