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Today in History: February 25

1570 Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England.

1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.

1791 President George Washington signs a bill creating the Bank of the United States.

1836 Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm.

1913 The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax.

1976 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens.


Born on February 25

1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, French painter and founder of the French Impressionist movement.


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Life before the computer:

Memory was something that you lost with age. An application was for employment. A program was a TV show.
A cursor used profanity. A keyboard was a piano. A web was a spider's home. A virus was the flu.
A CD was a bank account. A hard drive was a long trip on the road. A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
And if you had a 3 1/2 inch floppy..... you just hoped nobody found out.