February 25<\/p>\n
1791 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Congress charters the First Bank of the United States<\/em> for a term of twenty years.<\/p>\n 1799 \u2013 Congress passes the Federal Timber Purchasers Act<\/em>, giving the government authority to purchase wood and land to provide resources for the navy.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 Samuel Colt is granted a U.S. patent for his revolver firearm.<\/p>\n 1837 \u2013 Thomas Davenport is granted a U.S. patent of his electric printing press.<\/p>\n 1843 \u2013 Royal Navy Captain Lord George Paulet takes it on his own authority to occupy the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Congress passes the Legal Tender Act, <\/em>which President Lincoln signs into law the next day,\u00a0<\/em> and forms the Bureau of Engraving and Printing<\/em> to print newly issued U.S. paper currency, the United States Note, nicknamed the ‘Greenback’.<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 The US Steel Corporation is organized under the chairmanship of J. P. Morgan, Sr.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspr\u00e4sident<\/em> in the 1932 election.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 CV-4 USS Ranger, <\/em>the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy, is launched from Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, at Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, wife of the President.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Per\u00f3n.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Those who shall remain nameless are eternally grateful that the final episode of The Lawrence Welk Show<\/em> airs.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 At a meeting in Budapest, the membership decides to disband the Warsaw Pact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 25 1791 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Congress charters the First Bank of the United States for a term of twenty years. 1799 \u2013 Congress passes the Federal Timber Purchasers Act, giving the government authority to purchase wood and land to provide resources for the navy. 1836 \u2013 Samuel Colt is granted a U.S. patent for his revolver firearm. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90324,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65190\/revisions\/90324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn Dhahran, Saudi Arabia an Iraqi SCUD missile hits a building used as barracks for U.S. forces, killing 27 servicemembers and wounding another 98.<\/p>\n