What is today history February 25

Today in History : 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 signs 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 13th 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.

Born on February 25

1841 : Pierre Auguste Renoir, French painter and founder of the French Impressionist movement.

1856 : Charles Lang Freer, U.S. art collector.

1873 : Enrico Caruso, Italian opera tenor.

1888 : John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State to President Eisenhower.

1894 : Meher Baba, spiritual leader.

1895 : Rudolf von Eschwege, German fighter ace in World War I.

1905 : Adele Davis, nutritionist.

1917 : Anthony Burgess, English writer (A Clockwork Orange).