February 25 - Copter

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This Day In History

1836

Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

1933

The USS Ranger is launched, the first US Navy ship to be designed and built as an aircraft carrier.

1951

The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1971

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

Famous Birthdays

1778

Don José de San Martín, Argentine military commander (d. 1850)

1841

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)

1873

Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)

1901

Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)

1918

Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)

1928

Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer (d. 2009)

1943

George Harrison, English musician (d. 2001)

1966

Alexis Denisof, American actor

1971

Sean Astin, American actor

1986

James and Oliver Phelps, English actors