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May 2008

Feb. 2 – Fire destroys the Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg, 1897.

Feb. 4 – The United Service Organizations (USO) is incorporated in New York, 1941.

Feb. 6 – Muriel Humphrey takes the oath of office as a U.S. senator from Minnesota, filling the seat of her late husband, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, 1978.

Feb. 11 – The Rev. Barbara Harris is consecrated a bishop, becoming the first woman to be ordained to the episcopate in the worldwide Anglican Communion, 1989.

Feb. 16 – The nation’s first 911 emergency telephone call is made, in Haleyville, Ala., 1968.

Feb. 20 – U.S. bombers begin raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers during World War II, in a series of attacks that became known as “Big Week,” 1944.

Feb. 24 – Arizona is organized as a territory, 1863.

Feb. 26 – William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is born in Scott County, Iowa, 1846.


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