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1. 27th February 1900: Labour Representation Committee founded, marking the start of what would later become the British Labour Party

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2. 26th February 1935: Daventry Experiment proves the ability of using radio waves to detect aircraft, heralding the development of radar

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3. 25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office

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4. 24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

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5. 23rd February 1903: US President Theodore Roosevelt leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in perpetuity

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6. 22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

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7. 21st February 1804: World’s first recorded locomotive-hauled railway journey takes place at the Penydarren Ironworks in South Wales

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8. 20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry

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9. 19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps

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10. 18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

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11. 17th February 1936: ‘The Phantom’ comic strip published for the first time, widely regarded as the first costumed superhero

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12. 16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon

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13. 15th February 1965: Canada officially adopts its national flag of a red maple leaf on a white square between two vertical red bars

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14. 14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth

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15. 13th February 1945: Allied bombing of Dresden begins during the final months of World War II

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16. 12th February 1963: Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

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17. 11th February 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran

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18. 10th February 1940: First Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

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19. 9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan

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20. 8th February 1950: The Stasi formally established in East Germany as the Ministry for State Security

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