February 25: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
2. 1901 - J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
3. 1932 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
4. 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
5. 1947 - The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
6. 1951 - The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
7. 1968 - Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
8. 1971 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
9. 1986 - People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president
10. 1991 - The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
11. Famous Birthdays: Johann Philipp Krieger (German organist and composer), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter and sculptor), Phoebus Levene (Russian-American biochemist), Anthony Burgess (English author), Hugh Huxley (English-American biologist and educator)

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