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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 25
- 100th: 1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3).
- 90th: 1934 - John J McGraw, manager (New York Giants), dies at age 60.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Karen Grassle in Berkeley, California, USA; actress (Caroline - Little House on the Prairie).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Kristina Holland in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA; actor (Tina - Courtship of Eddie's Father).
- 70th: 1954 - Abdul Nasser is appointed Egyptian premier.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Steve Rixon; Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85).
- 60th: 1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Don Majkowski; NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Steve Nevius; film editor (Eden, Fall Time, Damascus).
- 60th: 1964 - Cassius Marcellus Clay Junior (later Muhammad Ali) defeats world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout before a crowd of 8,300 at the Convention Hall arena in Miami Beach, Florida.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Detron Smith; NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Tamarick Vanover; NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs).
- 50th: 1974 - Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975.
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Julian Dash at age 58; composer/saxophonist ("Tuxedo Junction").
- 40th: 1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao, Brazil kills 500.
- 30th: 1994 - Hugh Tayfield, cricket player (170 wickets for South Africa in 37 Tests), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
- 30th: 1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer, dies at age 80 (born 1914).
- 30th: 1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31.
- 30th: 1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 30th: 1994 - Wladyslaw Sila, Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki dies at age 80.
- 30th: 1994 - Yann Piat, French Member of Parliament (FN/PR), murdered at age 44.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912).
- 20th: 2004 - Newmarket releases the film The Passion of the Christ to theaters.
- 15th: 2009 - In Canada, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec pension fund reveals that it lost CDN$39.8 billion last year, 1/4 of its assets, the biggest loss in its history.
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