Feb 10th，1962 A high profile exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War. The Soviet Union releases Frances Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down while on a reconnaissance flight over its territory. In return, the...
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Beatles. Feburary 9th 1964. Beatlemania hits prime time in the United States. Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, tomorrow... The Fab Four made their first live appearance on the American TV on the Ed Aullivan Show on CBS. 19...
February 8th, 1999In the Middle East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies, attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the civil war premieres in Los Angeles. D.W. Griffiths wo...
Feb 7th, 1964 I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. The Beatles arrives in New York for their first tour of the US among the stops of the Fab Four and appears on TVs Ed Sullivan Show. 1995Ramzi Yousef,mastermind of t...
February 6th, 1911You'll forgive me, I'm gonna do it just one more time, you ain't seen nothing yet.President Ronald Reagan, who led the United States into the final years of the Cold War, is born in Tampico, Illinois. The former movie actor is credi...
Feburary 5th 1937. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes boosting the number of justices on the US Supreme Court. He pushes the plan after the court strikes down key parts of his new deal program during the Great Depression. The Court itself can b...
February 4th, 1945In the final month of World War II in Europe, the top Allied leaders meet at Yalta in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discuss plans for...
February 3rd1959If the Bible Tells You So Do you believe in rock 'n roll Can music save your mortal soul And can you teach me how to dance real slow Well, I know that you're in love with him 'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym Three stars of early ro...
February 1st, 2003Communication was lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia at 8:00 a.m. Central Time. For the second time in nearly two decades, a space shuttle mission ends in tragedy. Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all seve...
January 31st, 1958America enters the Space Age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit Explorer One. It happens just months after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit. 2001 Libyan Intelligence officer...
