MIKE GRACIA

George W. Bush Addressed the Nation on this day in 2003. He
gave a 48 hour Ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq.

Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt married his fifth
cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York on this
day in 1905.

MIKE GRACIA

The debut of “Uncle Sam” as a cartoon figure in the New York
Lantern weekly newspaper in 1852.

Cartoonist Frank H. Bellew.

1996

Original Broadway Production, opened on this day in 1947 and
closed January 1, 1970.

Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western
Christianity and occurs 46 days before Easter and can fall as early as
February 4 or as late as March 10. Ash Wednesday is observed by many
Western Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Roman
Catholics and Presbyterians. 

Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of blessing ashes made
from palm branches blessed on the previous year’s Palm Sunday, and
placing them on the heads of participants.

SANDY KOZEL

On Sunday, February 28, a fierce two-hour gun battle took place
leaving six Davidians and four ATF agents dead.

            
             1953