@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Thursday, February 28, the 59th day of 2008. There are 307 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1931, Sir Oswald Mosley formed the "New Party"; it later evolved into the Union of Fascists.

In 1933, a day after the Reichstag, burned down, chancellor and National Socialist party leader Adolf Hitler persuaded president Paul von Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending guarantees of personal liberty, freedom of speech and the press and the right of assembly.

In 1993, a gun battle erupted at a compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.

Thought for Today

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." — Voltaire, French author-philosopher (1694-1778).