🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Wednesday, February 25. Today we talk about the first revolving-cylinder, the first Legal Tender Act, Muhammad Ali's first heavyweight title, Mel Gibson's controversial movie, and much more — quick, sharp, and polished to perfection!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1570
Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I for heresy and persecution of English Catholics, freeing her subjects from allegiance to the crown.
-1836
Samuel Colt patents the first practical revolving-cylinder, multi-shot revolver, enabling it to fire multiple shots without reloading.
-1862
The US Congress passed the First Legal Tender Act, making the US note (greenback) legal tender in America.
-1910
Thupten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops.
-1948
Under pressure from the Communist Party, President Edvard Beneš allowed a communist-led government to take control of Czechoslovakia.
-1956
Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the Communist Party Congress of the Soviet Union.
-1964
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) wins his first heavyweight title when Sonny Liston doesn't come out for round 7 in Miami Beach.
-2004
The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s controversial movie about Jesus’s last 44 hours, opens in theaters on Ash Wednesday.
📸 Snapshot
The first $1 bill was issued in 1862, featuring Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase
🗨️ Last Words
“I know this beach like the back of my hand.”