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On This Day February 25 is the 56th day of 2014 with 309 days remaining of the year. Today In History 1791 - Congress charters the First Bank of the United States. 1813 - Congress authorizes interest-bearing $100 treasury notes. 1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln. US$150 million of United States Notes is authorized by Congress. 1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law, creating national banking system, comptroller of currency, allowing qualified banks to issue government-sponsored paper money in the banks names. 1933 - First genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger. 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo, Japan. 1957 - US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust-exempt professional sport. 1971 - Oh! Calcutta! opens at Belasco Theater in New York City for 1,316 performances. 1977 - The Liberian-registered Hawaiian Patriot oil tanker catches fire in the Northern Pacific west of Honolulu, Hawaii, spilling 115 million litres of oil. 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. 1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing by Christopher Cross, Billy Joel win. 1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins win. 1991 - Iraqi SCUD missile hits US barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 29, injuring 99. 1992 - Digital Equipment unveils the 64-bit Alpha processor architecture, with speed estimates of 150 million instructions per second. 1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgettable, Marc Cohn win. 2005 - Wichita, Kansas police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder. 2007 - The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. The Departed wins Best Picture.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:00:06 +0000

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