What was going on today in the past?
27.02. 1933 Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire, possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch communist
25.02 • 1901: Financier J.P. Morgan incorporated U.S. Steel Corporation, creating the world’s first billion-dollar company and a cornerstone of American industrial power.
Facts of the day in the past …
What was going on 26.02?
26.02.1616 The Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun
26.02. 1991 Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death' during the Gulf War.
Today in the past 25.02 what are the highlights?
1836 Samuel Colt patents the first practical revolving-cylinder, multi-shot revolver, allowing it to fire multiple shots without reloading
More about today 24.02
Feb. 24–25, 1942
The Battle of Los Angeles, or the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, was , incident where U.S. forces fired over 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at mysterious, unidentified objects over L.A.
Feb 1917: The February Revolution kicked off in Russia (using the Julian calendar at the time; it was March in the Gregorian calendar). Massive strikes, protests, and military mutinies in Petrograd led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II days later, ending centuries of Romanov