George Washington’s Birthday (United States). Legal holiday observed on the third Monday in February.
Birth anniversarie actor Buster Crabbe (1908-83), economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834).
Happy Birthday! Hal Holbrook, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rene Russo
1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
1947 - The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1985 - U.S. Postage stamp prices were raised from 20 cents to 22 cents for first class mail.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.
1996 - World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue" in Philadelphia, PA.
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