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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47856)	2/21/2005 2:16:14 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Today in history-February 21: International Mother Language Day; Presidents' Day in the United States and Family Day in Alberta (2005) 1613 - Mikhail I was elected unanimously by the Zemsky Sobor to become Tsar, beginning the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia. 1804 - The first self-propelling steam engine or locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, first ran in Wales. 1848 - The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was first published. 1952 - Protesters in Dhaka, East Pakistan walked into military fire in demand of the recognition and establishment of the Bengali language as an official language. 1965 - Prominent black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.