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February 1 1920 |
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence
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February 2 1887 |
First American Groundhog Day
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February 2 1956 |
First Canadian celebrated Groundhog Day
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February 3 1916 |
Canada's original Parliament Buildings, in Ottawa, burned down
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February 4 1948 |
Birth of rocker Alice Cooper
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February 5 1973 |
Construction began on the CN Tower in Toronto
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February 6 1895 |
Baseball legend Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore
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February 7 1922 |
Reader's Digest goes on sale
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February 8 1952 |
Queen Elizabeth II took the oath of accession to the throne
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February 9 1964 |
First flight of the Boeing 727
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February 10 1957 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder US author (Little House on Prarie), dies at 90
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February 11 1847 |
American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio
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February 12 1944 |
Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)
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February 13 1542 |
The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery
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February 14 1924 |
IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
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February 15 1965 |
Canada replaces the Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf
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February 16 399 |
Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
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February 17 1933 |
"Newsweek" was first published
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February 18 1516
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Mary Tudor, England's queen popularly known as "Bloody Mary," was born in Greenwich Palace
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February 19 1960 |
Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
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February 20 1962 |
Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, flying aboard "Friendship Seven."
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February 21 1965 |
Former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, was shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black Muslims
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February 22 1987 |
Pop artist Andy Warhol died at a New York City hospital at age 58
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February 23 1996 |
Meet the first successful animal clone - Dolly the Sheep
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February 24 1924 |
Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
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February 25 1971 |
Birth of actor Sean Astin
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February 26 1867 |
The British House of Lords passed the British North America Act establishing the Dominion of Canada
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February 27 1974 |
"People" magazine begins sales
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February 28 1692 |
Salem witch hunt begins
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February 29 1968 |
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first rock LP to do so
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