On This Day:
Tuesday February 25, 2014 This is the 56th day of the year, with 309 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: carnivorous plants Plants that catch and "eat" insects are called carnivorous. These plants fall into two groups: some have active traps with moving parts, like the Venus flytrap, but most have passive traps, catching victims on a sticky surface or drowning them in a pool of fluid, like butterworts. Carnivorous plants live in bogs, peatlands, and swamps, where the soil is poor in nitrates and other nutrients. They get extra nutrients by catching insects, which they digest with special juices.
Holidays Feast day of St. Ethelbert of Kent, St. Walburga, St. Gerland, St. Louis Versiglia, St. Caesarius of Nazianzen, and St. Calixto Caravario.
Kuwait: National Day.
Events 1570 - Pope Pius the Fifth excommunicated England's Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 - Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.
1779 - The British surrendered the Illinois country to Lieutenant George Rogers Clark at Vincennes, Indiana.
1793 - President George Washington held the first Cabinet meeting.
1836 - Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
1901 - United States Steel Corporation was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, authorizing the income tax, went into effect.
1919 - Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline.
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" starring Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris debuted on TV.
1964 - Cassius Clay dethroned world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. Clay then announced his conversion to Islam, changing his name to Muhammad Ali.
1976 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens.
1986 - President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.
1988 - American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God for one year after it became known that he had visited a prostitute for three years.
2005 - Dennis Rader was arrested near his home for the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kansas between 1974 and 1991.
2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.
Births 1841 - Pierre Renoir, French Impressionist artist.
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian-born opera singer.
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, human rights activist, U.S. congresswoman.
1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player.
1943 - George Harrison, Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
1961 - Davey Allison, NASCAR race car driver.
Deaths 1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer.
1983 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist.
2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of human rights group Amnesty International.
2006 - Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson), American actor.
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