15330 Days

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 309 days remaining, 310 in leap years. It is also my birthday and it has been 15,330 days since my birth. The day of my birth was the same day that Cassius Clay TKO’d Sonny Liston in 7 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.

Internationally, February 25 is Kuwait’s national day and People Power Day, a special holiday in the Philippines.

Other birth’s that happened on February 25:

• 1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
• 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841
• 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
• 1888 - John Foster Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 (Dulles Airport)
• 1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
• 1943 - George Harrison, Lead guitarist of The Beatles (d. 2001)
• 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1966 - Téa Leoni, American actress

And important events in history that happened on my birthday:

• 1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
• 1643 Dutch U.S. colonists kill Algonquin-indians
• 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1cent)
• 1791 1st Bank of U.S. chartered
• 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
• 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
• 1837 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
• 1859 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
• 1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln
• 1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
• 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
• 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing a graduated income tax, is ratified.
• 1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
• 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
• 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, New York City) hockey game (Rangers vs. Canadians)
• 1945 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
• 1956 - In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of Joseph Stalin.
• 1954 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
• 1964 - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1969 Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
• 1986 - President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.
• February 25, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4
• 1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines.
• 1994 - Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis.
• 2004 - On Ash Wednesday, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is released in movie theaters across the United States, grossing approximately $370 million domestically.
• 2005 - BTK suspect Dennis Rader arrested in Park City, Kansas.