| 1460 | The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield. | |
| 1803 | The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags. | |
| 1861 | Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879. | |
| 1862 | The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among Abraham Lincoln‘s cabinet for comment. | |
| 1905 | Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb. | |
| 1922 | Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | |
| 1932 | The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat. | |
| 1947 | Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe. | |
| 1965 | Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president. | |
| 1972 | After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. | |
| 1976 | Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising. | |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule. |
Gun-makers have been trying to convince Americans that women love guns as much as men for years. It’s all a lie.
Hundreds of people watched a cheeky rescue unfold in the east of Sydney,
Australia, on Saturday afternoon after a small boat got into trouble
and started sinking during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
At about 1.30pm, masses of spectators began to walk from South Head back
towards Watsons Bay after watching the fleet of more than 100 yachts
depart Sydney Harbor for the annual race.
As the crowds passed Lady Bay Beach, which caters to nudists, some began
to giggle.
"You could see a fair bit of water on the boat."
A handful of nudists responded to the man's cry for help, as did other beachgoers who were more appropriately dressed for the beach.
The rescuers ran into the water and helped to pluck a woman and a child
from the boat, as several men wearing life jackets stayed on board.
Others waded into the water, which was around one and a half metres
deep, to tie a rope to the front of the boat and begin to pull it onto
the sand.
A Scottish party host has been ordered to pay £1,500 compensation to a
woman he hurled down a flight of stairs after a heated row about a
guest’s manhood.
Julie Jamieson was left severely injured after being thrown out of the
party when an argument about the size of one of the reveler's package got out of hand.
Jonathan Wales, 28, grabbed Miss Jamieson and struggled with her until
she toppled down a full flight of stairs and broke her wrist on landing.
Perth Sheriff Court was told that it was bawdy banter between rival groups of women which sparked the confrontation and led to a physical brawl.
A woman in New Zealand has been paid to leave her job after walking in
on her married male boss kissing a male employee at a pre-Xmas work
party.
A source said the woman asked for help from an employment expert because
she felt she was being pressured out of her job following the incident
about two weeks ago.
A Florida woman ate sushi, cinnamon rolls and the majority of a
rotisserie chicken, drinking wine while driving a motorized shopping
cart at a Walmart, according to the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office. She
was arrested for shoplifting and other charges.
A sportswriter gives Limbaugh a taste of his own medicine as the radio hate speech hack attempts another smear job.
A Minnesota man pulled a gun on a clerk at an “adult toy store” because he couldn’t get his dick to work.
A man who brutally attacked his girlfriend because she offered him a
McDonald's McMuffin while he was on a diet has been jailed for more than
two years.
Lee Barton flew into a rage and throttled Ashley Irvine after she
suggested getting him a McMuffin while he was trying to lose weight.
The 28-year-old shoved her onto a bed and choked her until she struggled
to breathe.
Barton, who also threatened to kill his partner, has now been banned
from having any contact with her or entering her home street for the
next three years.Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "The matters to which you pled guilty are
serious. I consider custody is the appropriate way of dealing with it. I
consider you pose a risk of serious harm to the public."
Fiscal depute Gavin Letford told Perth Sheriff Court: "At 8am on
Saturday February 21, Ms Irvine asked if he wanted a McDonald's
breakfast.
In response, he started to argue with her, accusing her of starting on
him and winding him up because he was on a diet.
The accused stormed off to Asda before returning a short time later. On
his return she describes him as being in a foul mood.
"She could see the relationship between them was coming to an end. 
Three businesses in Pensacola, Florida, are moving to new offices after a car drove through two of them.
A Dodge Challenger plowed through Advanced Tax Services, taking out a wall connecting Pensacola Caskets. 
Both offices have been closed since the crash.
"It looked like a bomb went off," said general manager Emanuel Mores.
Mores said office chairs and debris were scattered everywhere.
Mores said the tax and casket offices were empty when the car smashed through the building.
Mores added that the tax office will move next door the casket business
will move to an address nearby. Both businesses said they hope to be
open after Xmas.
Pensacola police said the driver has been issued a citation for reckless
driving and is in the hospital for evaluation.
Police have arrested a heavyset woman with facial hair who allegedly stabbed a man in in San Diego, California.
This super stealth, combined with the animal’s sleek, black appearance led the kids to suggest naming it the “Super Ninja Shark.” Vásquez says she didn’t think her colleagues would quite go for that, so she got them to scale the name back a little.The shark is now called the ninja lanternshark, which is about the coolest name ever for a shark. Still, this one poses little threat to humans. It grows to about 18 inches long and stays below 800 meters. You can download the original research paper at the Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation.
“We don’t know a lot about lanternsharks. They don’t get much recognition compared to a great white,” says Vásquez, who is a graduate student at the Pacific Shark Research Center (PSRC) in California. “So when it came to this shark I wanted to give it an interesting story.”
| 1688 | William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees. | |
| 1694 | George I of England gets divorced. | |
| 1846 | Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union. | |
| 1872 | A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier. | |
| 1904 | Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices. | |
| 1920 | The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists. | |
| 1933 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, “The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.” | |
| 1936 | Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco’s forces. | |
| 1938 | France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent. | |
| 1946 | The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable. | |
| 1948 | Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel. | |
| 1951 | The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary. | |
| 1965 | The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia. | |
| 1968 | Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes. | |
| 1971 | The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state. |
Common knowledge has a lot to say about hats—but is it true?
4. HATTERS WENT “MAD” FROM MERCURY POISONING. 
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