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• On Feburary 8th, 1960, Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors 3rd, 44, was shot to death during a botched kidnapping attempt while on his way to the family brewery in Golden, Colo..
• On Feburary 9th, 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electorial votes.
• On Feburary 11th, 1858, a French girl reported the first of 18 visions of a lady dressed in white near Lourdes. (The Catholic Church later accepted that the visions were of the Virgin Mary.)
• On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.
• On Feb. 14, 1778, the American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
• On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
• On Feb. 16, 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
• On Feb. 17, 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, convened its first meeting, in Washington.
• On Feb. 18, 1885, Mark Twain's  "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the U.S. for the first time (it had been published in Canada and England the previous December).
• On Feb.19, 1945, during World War 2, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they commenced a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.