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#: Monthly stuff
2:Canned Food Month.
#: Events depending on weekdays
R(2/7) :No Talk Day (1st Thursday).
#: Normal events
2/1/1709 :Alexander Selkirk (basis for "Robinson Crusoe"), rescued.
2/2/1876 :National Baseball League formed (Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, NY,
         :Phila., St. Louis, Louisville, & Hartford).
2/3/1912 :Owney "the Killer" Madden, gangster, began his career.
2/4/1913 :Removable automobile wheel 1st used.
2/5/1982 :Laker Airways declared bankruptcy.
2/6/1935 :Monopoly invented.
2/7/1964 :Baskin-Robbins introduced Beatle Nut ice cream.
2/8/1910 :Boy Scouts of America chartered (William D. Boyce, Chicago).
2/9/1876 :Appalachian Mountain Club founded.
2/10/1863:Fire Extinguisher patented (Alanson Crane).
2/11     :White Shirt Day.
2/12/1877:Alexander Graham Bell publicly demonstrated the telephone
         :(between Boston & Salem, MA).
2/13/1635:Oldest public school in US founded (Boston Latin School).
2/14/1978:First "micro on a chip" patented (Texas Instruments).
2/15/1804:NJ became the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
2/16/1937:Nylon patented (DuPont Corp. - developed by Wallace H. Carothers).
2/17/1932:"Baby Face" Nelson escaped prison.
2/18/1859:"Temporary insanity" defense first used in America (Dan Sickles).
2/19/1942:Detention of Japanese-Americans legalized.
2/20/1935:1st woman set foot on Antarctica (Mrs. Karoline Mikkelson).
2/21/1885:Washington Monument dedicated.
2/22/1630:Indians introduced popcorn to English colonists.
2/23/1836:Siege of Alamo began.
2/24/1868:House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson.
2/25/1836:6 shooter patented (Samuel Colt).
2/26/1914:First long-distance phone conversation via underground cable.
2/27/1919:American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed.
2/28/1692:Salem witch hunt began.
2/29/1968:Discovery of "pulsar" announced (Jocelyn Burnell).