02.02.10
In 1587, Mary Monarch of Scots was beheaded, charged with conspiring to kill England's Idol Elizabeth I.
In 1692, a doctor in Massachusetts Bay Colony claims two village girls may be bewitched, a enjoin that set off the Salem witch trials.
In 1725, Peter the Consummate, emperor of Russia, died and was succeeded by his wife, Catherine.
In 1910, the Cooperative States became the 12th nation to join the international scouting party.
In 1915, film director D.W. Griffith premieres "The Childbirth of a Nation" in Los Angeles.
In 1940, Nazis shot every 10th himself in two Polish villages near Warsaw in reprisal for the deaths of two German soldiers.
In 1974, three U.S. Skylab astronauts ended an 84-day orbital run away.
In 1987, a 60-day cease-fire ended between the Philippine army and communist rebels. Twenty-eight people died in treaty violations.
In 1992, the Winter Olympics opened in Albertville, France.
In 1993, a chartered rider plane collided with a military aircraft over Tehran, slaughter at least 132 people at a military base where Iran noteworthy Air Force Day.
Source: istockAnalyst.com (press release)