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Today is the 62nd day of 2013 and the 73rd day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1845, Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

In 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution adopting "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the U.S. national anthem.

In 1991, an amateur videographer captured the beating and arrest of construction worker Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers after a high-speed car chase.

In 2005, American millionaire Steve Fossett made the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in a fixed-wing aircraft.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor; Jean Harlow (1911-1937), actress; James Doohan (1920-2005), actor; James Merrill (1926-1995), poet; Perry Ellis (1940-1986), fashion designer; Ira Glass (1959- ), radio personality; Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962- ), athlete; Julie Bowen (1970- ), actress; Jessica Biel (1982- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: "The Star-Spangled Banner" is set to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven," a piece originally composed around 1775 as the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an English musicians' club.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1974, heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman successfully defended his title with a second-round knockout of Ken Norton, improving his overall record to 40-0 with 37 knockouts.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself." -- Alexander Graham Bell

TODAY'S NUMBER: 2.5 -- gallons of wine per capita Americans consume annually.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 25) and last quarter moon (March 4).

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Today is the 61st day of 2013 and the 72nd day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico.

In 1877, the U.S. Congress declared Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 presidential election, despite the fact that Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.

In 1933, the film "King Kong" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

In 1969, the Concorde supersonic airliner flew (at subsonic speeds) for the first time.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Sam Houston (1793-1863), soldier/politician; Pope Pius XII (1876-1958); Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) (1904-1991), author; Mel Ott (1909-1958), baseball player; Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), actor/musician; Tom Wolfe (1931- ), author/journalist; Mikhail Gorbachev (1931- ), former Soviet leader; Jon Bon Jovi (1962- ), musician; Daniel Craig (1968- ), actor; Chris Martin (1977- ), musician; Ben Roethlisberger (1982- ), football player.

TODAY'S FACT: "King Kong" was made in 1933 for about $11.7 million (in today's dollars). The 2005 remake cost $207 million to produce.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors set the NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points in a win over the New York Knicks.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live." -- Tom Wolfe

TODAY'S NUMBER: 27 -- publishing companies that rejected the manuscript of Dr. Seuss' first book for children, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street."

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 25) and last quarter moon (March 4).

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Today is the 60th day of 2013 and the 71st day of winter.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1781, the Continental Congress officially adopted the Articles of Confederation.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

In 2003, Pakistani counterterrorism forces captured al-Qaida operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a principal planner of the 9/11 terror attacks.

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capitol punishment for crimes committed before the age of 18 was unconstitutional.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Glenn Miller (1904-1944), bandleader; Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), writer; Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), prime minister of Israel; Harry Belafonte (1927- ), musician/actor; Roger Daltrey (1944- ), musician; Ron Howard (1954- ), actor/director; Zack Snyder (1966- ), filmmaker; George Eads (1967- ), actor; Javier Bardem (1969- ), actor; Justin Bieber (1994- ), singer.

TODAY'S FACT: Minnesota's prison population increased by 61 percent between 2000 and 2010.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1969, New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle announced his retirement.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy." -- Ralph Ellison

TODAY'S NUMBER: 210,000 -- Peace Corps volunteers who have served in 139 host countries since the organization's inception in 1961.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 25) and last quarter moon (March 4).