February 28 …
1797, Mary Lyon, Educator
1820, John Tenniel, English cartoonist and book illustrator
1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others.
1849: The California is the first ship of gold seekers to arrive in San Francisco, California. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. Two main methods were used for gold mining—lode and placer mining. In lode mining, prospectors dug into the earth in an effort to reach pockets of minerals. In placer mining, shown here, prospectors found gold in the gravels of existing and dried streams.
1901, Linus Pauling, theoretical chemist and biologist
1922: The British government announces its acceptance of Egypt's wish to become an independent state, but states that Great Britain will retain considerable influence as well as control of the Suez Canal.
1930, Leon N. Cooper, physicist, professor, and Nobel Prize winner
1933: Adolf Hitler persuades president Paul von Hindenburg to issue an emergency order that suppresses civil liberties and freedom of the press and allows the Nazis to arrest thousands of their opponents.
1951, the Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States.
1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
1974, the United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
1984: Michael Jackson's album Thriller wins an unprecedented eight Grammy Awards. Jackson is now nearly fifty years old and sleeping with children. GUILTY !!
1996, Britain's Princess Diana agreed to divorce Prince Charles.
Mary Lyon, born on this date in 1797, was a pioneering American educator who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1837. Learn about her and other influential women at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Missing in Action
1967 MOORE JAMES RODNEY ONTARIO NY
1968 COONS HENRY A. GERMANTOWN NY
1968 HUNT ROBERT W. BECKLEY WV POSS CAPTURED POSS DIC
1968 STEGMAN THOMAS CATONSVILLE MD
1968 SCUITIER JAMES J. SUMMIT NJ 01/73 PRG SAYS DIC
1969 LONG STEPHEN G. CHILOQUIN OR 03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE AND WELL 98
1970 BOYLE WILLIAM WATROUS PA
TIME TO PUT THE GUNS AWAY !! Every nation on Earth should be called to inventory any and all nuclear stocks and bring that list to the United Nations General Assembly. From there the UN needs to draft a Global Disarmament Agreement. Nukes were and are not a reasonable solution to resolving war.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Mohamed El Baradei
The Head of the United Nations organisation charged with stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons had an upbeat message about Iran: progress was being made.
Mohamed El Baradei has to report on the state of world nuclear security. Since his last report, there've been astonishing revelations from the man behind Pakistan's attempts to build a nuclear device.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3529253.stm
March 1
1260: The city of Damascus surrenders to the Mongols, who now occupy all Syria, extinguishing the Ayyubid Sultanate.
1781, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790, Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1810, Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist
1864, Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
1872: President Ulysses S Grant signs a bill creating Yellowstone National Park, making it the first national park in the United States.
1875: The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing African Americans equal access to public facilities.
1904, Glenn Miler, jazz bandleader and trombone player
1909, David Niven, British motion-picture actor
1914, Ralph Ellison, American author and educator, one of the most influential black American writers of the 20th century. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and educated at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His best-known work, Invisible Man (1952), expounds the theme that American society willfully ignores blacks. The novel is the account of an unnamed young Southern black man’s journey from innocence to experience as he searches, first in the South and then in the North, for his place in the world. Ellison uses rich, varied, and powerful language to portray the black experience in all its vitality and complexity. The novel was one of the first works to describe modern racial problems in the United States from a black American point of view. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1953.
1917, Dinah Shore, popular singer and television performer
1922, Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister and Nobel laureate
1932, 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
1945, President Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success as he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1954, Ron Howard, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1961: President John F. Kennedy creates the Peace Corps by executive order.
1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
Missing in Action
1966 CHRISTENSEN WILLIAM M. GREAT FALLS MT
1966 FRAWLEY WILLIAM D. BROCKTON MA
1966 WOLOSZYK DONALD J. ALPENA MI
1968 LANNOM RICHARD C. UNION CITY TN
1968 SCHEURICH THOMAS E. NORFOLK NE
1969 CAMPBELL CLYDE W. LONGVIEW TX
1969 KELLER WENDELL R. FARGO ND
1969 LOVEGREN DAVID E. PORTLAND OR
1969 MERONEY VIRGIL K. FAYETTEVILLE AR
1971 BLACK PAUL V. CENTRAL VALLEY CA
1971 ZUBKE DELAND D. GRASSY BUTTE ND
The Sydney Morning Herald
$29 billion deficit worst on record
March 1, 2005 - 6:48PM
Australia's worst trade performance on record is unlikely to stop an increase in interest rates tomorrow that will add more than $30 a month to the average mortgage.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/29-billion-deficit-worst-on-record/2005/03/01/1109546844746.html
Police car attacked with chlorine bombs
March 1, 2005 - 10:26PM
Four youths are being questioned tonight after a home-made bomb exploded near a police vehicle parked outside a Sydney police station.
Two bombs, which witnesses say contained chlorine, were thrown at the vehicle outside Macquarie Fields police station, but only one went off, a police spokeswoman said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-car-attacked-with-chlorine-bombs/2005/03/01/1109546871574.html
History beckons for bold Lebanese
ANALYSIS
Some call it the Beirut Spring, others the Cedar Revolution - whichever name sticks, this week's events have led the Lebanese to unmapped ground.
When the Prime Minister, Omar Karami, announced the resignation of his government on Monday, the Lebanese became the first Arabic-speaking people to bring down their leaders by mass protest. Other unhappy Arabs will be watching with interest.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/History-beckons-for-bold-Lebanese/2005/03/01/1109546871676.html
Damascus spring becomes winter of discontent
By Ed O'Loughlin, Middle East correspondent, Damascus
March 2, 2005
Last week in downtown Damascus, the Syrian Journalists' Association mounted a public protest calling for the release of a correspondent accused of supporting terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Damascus-spring-becomes-winter-of-discontent/2005/03/01/1109546867391.html
Iraq and Afghanistan detainees to sue Rumsfeld
March 2, 2005
Human rights lawyers are to file a lawsuit against the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men who say they were tortured by US forces in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-and-Afghanistan-detainees-to-sue-Rumsfeld/2005/03/01/1109546871782.html
New light shed on invisibility
By Stephen Cauchi
March 2, 2005
omulans in Star Trek to hide their spacecraft from enemies, may yet become reality, thanks to US researchers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/New-light-shed-on-invisibility/2005/03/01/1109546873918.html
Israeli Army must reopen inquiry into shooting
March 2, 2005
The Israeli supreme court has ordered the army to reopen an investigation into the shooting of a US peace activist in the northern West Bank nearly two years ago.
Judges yesterday gave the military 90 days to interview six witnesses to the shooting after a petition was presented by Brian Avery, an activist who suffered severe facial disfigurement after being shot in the face by troops in the town of Jenin.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Israeli-Army-must-reopen-inquiry-into-shooting/2005/03/01/1109546871878.html
Seven found dead in 'group suicides'
March 2, 2005
Seven bodies have been found in two cars in northern Japan, in what police suspected were the country's latest group suicides.
Four people were found at an isolated mountainside parking lot in Nikko by police on Monday night, Tochigi prefectural (state) police spokesman Shinichi Hirai said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Seven-found-dead-in-group-suicides/2005/03/01/1109546872625.html
Pravda
Russian scientist predicted tsunami two days before it hit Southeast Asia
03/01/2005 11:21
US forces supposedly used a secret weapon in Iraq, which resulted in a powerful earthquake
Viktor Bokov, a scientist from St.Petersburg, deals with short-term earthquake forecasts. The information about the forthcoming disaster in Southeast Asia, which killed 215,000 people, appeared on the website of the Arctic and Antarctic Institute (on which Bokov's forecasts are regularly published) two days before the tsunami hit the Asian shores.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/15035_tsunami.html
American journalists don't know where Slovakia is
American journalists mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia before George Bush's official visit to Bratislava, which is actually the capital of Slovakia.
When George W. Bush mixed up Slovakia and Slovenia during his first pre-election campaign in 1999, the citizens of the two countries thought that such a mistake would never happen again, RIA Novosti reports.
All Slovakian newspapers wrote a couple of days ago that Americans would undoubtedly be aware of Slovakia's geographical position, when President Bush visits the country for the summit with Putin. However, Slovakians were greatly disappointed and offended again.
It was The USA Today that made the same mistake again. The article about Bush's forthcoming visit to Bratislava was illustrated with a picture of the map of Europe, on which Slovakia was marked as Slovenia.
http://funreports.com/2005/02/25/58434.html
Haiti: One year after Washington's coup
03/01/2005 10:01
One year since President Aristide was kidnapped
On Sunday 29th February 2004, the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of his home by personnel from the US Embassy in Port au Prince, who threatened him and his family, pushed them onto an aircraft and transported them to the Central African Republic.
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/15033_haiti.html
Africans listen with hope and some skepticism to British promises of help
15:21 2005-03-01
In putting Africa at the top of his foreign policy agenda and trying to persuade leaders of other rich nations to follow suit British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeals to the world's conscience, but also to its self interest.
Blair's has pledged to bring more British resources to bear in solving Africa's problems, and, with Britain holding the Group of Eight presidency this year, to get the other seven major industrialized countries acting as partners with Africans in transforming a continent mired in conflict, ravaged by AIDS and burdened by lack of opportunity.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58482.html
Iran is desired to abandon its nuclear fuel program
14:56 2005-03-01
As the chief of the U.N. atomic watchdogscolded Iran for delays in divulging nuclear information, the United States suggested it was considering joining Europe in offering Tehran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program.
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/03/01/58480.html
Michael Moore
Trauma of Iraq war haunting thousands returning home
By William M. Welch / USA Today
Jeremy Harrison sees the warning signs in the Iraq war veterans who walk through his office door every day — flashbacks, inability to relax or relate, restless nights and more.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1600
Dead Marine’s letters tell of regret, illness
‘If you can get me out I will be forever grateful,’ he wrote in final missive to parents
Associated Press
In his last letter home, Marine recruit Jason Tharp said he was sick and he wanted out of the Marines so badly that the military’s promise of money he could use to study art in college didn’t matter anymore.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1605
Female Soldiers Face More Danger in Iraq
Sat Feb 26,11:14 PM ET
White House - AP Cabinet & State
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - When a roadside bomb in Iraq (news - web sites) exploded on Feb. 9, Army Sgt. Jessica M. Housby became the 21st female soldier killed in action since the war began nearly two years ago.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=7&u=/ap/iraq_women_in_combat
The Boston Globe
CONVENIENT EXCUSE FOR BUSH. SEEMS RIGHT. BUT THE USA RECORD IS NOT THAT GREAT. HOW MANY DEAD INNOCENT IRAQIS? HOW MANY ILLEGAL WARS? GLOBAL WARMING. A LONG WAY FOR THE USA TO GO !!
US sounds alarm on human rights
But critics say US guilty of torture by its definition
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The State Department's annual report on human rights warned yesterday of an alarming deterioration of conditions in Russia, Belarus, Burma, Sudan, and Bangladesh, and portrayed support for human rights as the cornerstone of US foreign policy in President Bush's second term.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_sounds_alarm_on_human_rights/
US weighs joining Europe in offering incentives to Iran
By Tom Raum, Associated Press March 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- In a potential strategy shift, the Bush administration is considering joining Europe in offering Iran economic incentives in exchange for abandoning its nuclear fuel program, the White House said yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/03/01/us_weighs_joining_europe_in_offering_incentives_to_iran/
A storm dumped about 6 to 10 inches of snow across New York City and slightly more north and west.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/03/01/nyregion/01cnd-snow.2.html
ABC News
Artic Ozone Losses Concern Scientists
WASHINGTON Mar 1, 2005 — Ozone levels over the Earth's far north dipped sharply early last year when polar winds trapped nitrogen pollutants, researchers reported Tuesday.
The sun contributed to the problem, sending out a storm of particles that bombarded the Earth and helped generate some of the ozone-destroying chemicals, according to the report in Geophysical Research Letters.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=543053
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