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Feb 26, 1993, A car bomb explodes below the World Trade Center in New York.

Feb 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali becomes world heavyweight champion.

Feb 24, 1836, Alamo defenders call for help.

Feb 23, 1945, U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima.

Feb 22, 1980, U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the 'Miracle on Ice'.

Feb 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City, USA.

Feb 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit planet Earth.

Feb 19, 1847, Donner Party rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Feb 18, 1885, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States.

Feb 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson is elected third U.S. president.

Feb 16, 1923, Egyptian King Tutankhamun's coffin was discovered.

Feb 15, 1898, The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor.

Feb 14, 270, St. Valentine beheaded.

Feb 13, 1945, Planes dropped bombs across Dresden, Germany, during WWII.

Feb 12, 2002, The trial of Slobodan Milošević begins at The Hague.

Feb 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after being incarcerated for 27 years in South Africa.

Feb 10, 1996, An IBM computer, Deep Blue, defeated world champion chess player Garry Kasparov for the first time.

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