25/02/10

Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I in 1570.  Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, was sworn in as a US Senator in 1870, becoming the first black man to serve in the US Congress.  In 1992, Armenian troops killed 613 civilians in Khojaly in the the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in 1992.

Born today:  Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), Tom Courtenay (1937) and George Harrison (1943-2001).

It is National Day in Kuwait.