U.S. troops recapture Philippine island of Corregidor
On February 26, an ammunition dump on the Philippine island of Corregidor is blown up by a remnant o ...View More
Americans hold a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden
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On February 10, 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who as a child in the 1930s became one of Hollywood’s mo ...View More
Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed
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Pop superstar Whitney Houston dies at age 48
Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found d ...View More
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Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar
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Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder
On February 18, 2011, in a Kent, Washington, courtroom, Gary Leon Ridgway pleads guilty to the 1982 ...View More
Laura Ingalls Wilder, chronicler of American frontier life, dies
On February 10, 1957, Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the best-selling “Little House” series of chil ...View More
Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas
On March 7, 1862, Union forces under General Samuel Curtis clash with the army of General Earl Van D ...View More
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