Show February Dates I Few months are as filled with as many memorable dates as February This year Washington's birthday is remembered remembered remembered re re- re- re on the for the first time the same day the battleship Maine was blown up in Havana touching off the Spanish-American Spanish War in 1898 THE CUBANS were at the time re revolting against Spanish rule which had been tyrannical tyrannical tyrannical tyran tyran- and the Navy sent the Maine to Havana where it docked close to a Spanish battleship Some Spaniards resented the Maines Maine's presence in the harbor harbor harbor har har- bor Americans were sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic to the Cubans and when the ship was blown up with the loss of Americans Americans Americans Amer Amer- relations deteriorated quickly into war though the Spanish probably weren't guilty of the sinking ON THE in 1847 General General General Gen Gen- eral Zachary Taylor defeated a much larger force of Mexicans Mexicans Mex Mex- at Buena Vista forcing forcing forcing forc forc- ing Santa Anna to retreat southward and helping to win the Mexican War General Winfield Scott was operating j with an army near Mexico City Chester Nimitz the great greit naval in commander-in-chief of the in 1885 at Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Freder- Freder I Texas a German- German American settlement WILLIAM F. F Cody was born bom on the in 1846 in Scott County Iowa Henry Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on the in Portland Maine Ann Lee founder of the Ute Shakers in America was vas born on the in 1736 in England |