Shimla, Feb.
2020
After being impeached by the House of Representatives over his actions in the Ukraine scandal, Pres. Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate.
2017
In the first overtime game in Super Bowl history, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons.
2003
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the United Nations Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possessed proscribed weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate danger.
1994
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963; Beckwith received a life sentence.
1985
Portuguese football (soccer) player Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the finest forwards of his generation, was born in Funchal, Portugal.
1943
American middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, the “Bronx Bull,” handed Sugar Ray Robinson his first defeat.
1917
Mexico adopted its present constitution.
1914
American writer William S. Burroughs—whose experimental novels evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world—was born.
1900
The first of two Hay-Pauncefote treaties (named for U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and British Ambassador Lord Pauncefote) was signed between the United States and Great Britain over control of the proposed Panama Canal.
