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| + | * 1997: Dr. Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, announced that they had succeeded in cloning a lamb called Dolly from the mammary gland of an adult sheep. |
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| + | * 1991: President [[Directory:George W. Bush|George Bush]] announced that the ground assault to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War had begun; in the Middle East, it was already February 24. |
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| + | * 1987: A supernova was detected in the relatively nearby Large Magellanic Cloud by an astronomer at Chile's Las Campanas Observatory; because it is so close (and actually visible to the naked eye), it became the object of intense study. |
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| + | * 1954: The first mass inoculation of children against poliomyelitis took place, in Pittsburgh, {{Directory: Pennsylvania|Pa.]], testing the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. |
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| + | * 1848: John Quincy Adams, the former president of the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]], died at the U.S. Capitol, where he collapsed at his desk from a stroke; he had served in the House of Representatives since 1831. |
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| + | * 1836: During the [[Directory:Texas|Texas]] Revolution, Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna began his siege of the Alamo. |
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| + | [[Category:February]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |