Crossroads

February 1st 1968
Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
February 2nd 1986
Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
February 3rd  1919
League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
February 4th 1789
1st US Electoral College choose George Washington as President
February 5th 1973
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
February 6th 1979
Supreme Court in Lahore affirms death sentence against Benazir Bhutto
February 7th  1969
Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack
February 8th 1928
Scottish inventor J. Baird demonstrates color-TV
February 9th 1993
Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
February 10th 1956
Elvis Presley records “Heartbreak Hotel” for RCA
February 11th 1961
Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
February 12th 1912
Last Ch’ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T’ung, abdicates
February 13th 2010
Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies in a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, hours before the opening ceremonies
February 14th 1989
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopal disaster
February 15th 1978
Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
February 16th 1968
Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
February 17th 1969
Golda Meir sworn in as Israel’s 1st female Prime Minister
February 18th 1995
Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) and Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
February 19th 1969
1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
February 20th 1971
General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda
February 21st 1983
Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds
February 22nd 2006
Al-Askari Mosque is bombed in Iraq
February 23rd 1917
February Revolution begins in Russia
February 24th 2008
Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected
February 25th 1974
Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
February 26th 2009
Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War
February 27th 1950
General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
February 28th 1972
President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
February 29th 1964
Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m