On this day: February 25
Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax (1901)
Protest in Amsterdam against National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party anti-Jewish laws (1941)
The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the Third Republic ends (1948)
Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet (1969)
The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded (1991)
President B. Hussein Obama cancels leases for shale oil development on 1,900,000 acres of federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama delivers bitterly partisan opening remarks at his so-called Bipartisan Obamacare Summit at Blair House (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama delivers partisan remarks to the mostly-Republican National Governors Association (2013)
b: Rudolf Steiner (1861), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890); d: George "Bugs" Moran (1957)
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