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'''February 25''' in history:
* 1998: Kim Dae Jung was sworn in as president of [[Directory:South Korea|South Korea]]; a veteran dissident, he was the first opposition-party candidate chosen to lead that country since its creation in 1948.
* 1994: A Jewish extremist called Baruch Goldstein opened fire on a crowd of Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Hebron, [[Directory:Israel|Israel]], killing 29—an incident known as the "Hebron massacre"; Goldstein was a member of the Kach party, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League.
* 1990: An opposition coalition unexpectedly defeated the Sandinistas in Nicaragua's election; Violeta Barrios de Chamorro won 55% of the vote for president against Daniel Ortega's 41%.
* 1964: The young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, stunned the sports world by defeating world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston.
* 1956: On the final day of the 20th Communist Party Congress, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a six-hour "secret speech" denouncing the "crimes of the Stalin era."
* 1870: Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, from [[Directory:Mississippi|Mississippi]], was sworn in to office; Revels, who took the seat vacated by Jefferson Davis, served until 1871
[[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]
