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• On Feb. 24, 1836, Texan Col. William Travis sends a desperate plea for help when the Mexican army of 5,000 soldiers badly outnumber the several hundred defenders of the Alamo. His message ended with the famous last words, "Victory or Death." "Remember the Alamo" quickly became the rallying cry for the Texas revolution. • On Feb. 19, 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Of the 89 original members of the Donner Party, only 45 reached California. • On Feb. 22, 1918, swept along by hysterical fears of German spies, the Montana legislature passes a Sedition Law that severely restricts freedom of speech and assembly. The law made it illegal to criticize the federal government or the armed forces during time of war. • On Feb. 18, 1930, Pluto is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. He discovered the tiny, distant planet using a new astronomic technique of photographic plates combined with a blink microscope. • On Feb. 23, 1940, folksinger Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, "This Land is Your Land." Many of his songs reflected a strong commitment to the common working people. • On Feb. 20, 1986, France and Britain announce the Chunnel, a tunnel to be built under the English Channel. Construction began in late 1987 and the chunnel was finally completed in 1994. Attempts to dig a channel tunnel date back to 1883, and Napoleon drew blueprints for a tunnel in 1802. • On Feb. 21, 1994, CIA operative Aldrich Ames is arrested for selling secrets to the Soviet Union. At least 10 U.S. spies in Russia were killed after Ames revealed their identities, and more were sent to Russian gulags. © 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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• On the day of the race, her mother dropped her off at the starting line, where she hid in the bushes until the race began. Then she simply jumped into the middle of the men. Most runners around her shouted encouragement. Reporters noticed too, and began commenting on her progress. Crowds began cheering her on. • When she crossed the finish line, the governor shook her hand. She ran the 26-mile race in 3:21:40 and finished ahead of 290 of the event’s 415 starters. She was on the front page of the paper the next day, and the story was later picked up by “Sports Illustrated.” • Bobbi Gibb decided to run the race again in 1967, but this time she was joined by another runner named Katherine Switzer. Switzer had been running with her college’s all-male cross-country team. She sent in an application to run, signing her name as “K.V. Switzer” so race officials had no idea she was a woman until she showed up on race day and went to pick up her number. She was officially registered for the marathon under bib number 261.

• Switzer ran the rest of the race fearing she would be arrested at the finish line. Yet, she pressed on, saying, “I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles… My fear and humiliation turned to anger.” • Switzer finished the race well behind Bobbi Gibb, who had run without a number, without officially entering the race, and without being bothered by anyone along the route. • The Amateur Athletic Union responded to the controversy by banning women from competing in any race involving men. • In 1968, a number of women ran the Boston Marathon, and Bobbi Gibb was the first woman across the finish line. Women continued to run the Boston Marathon, whether registered or not, until 1972 when they were officially allowed to enter. • Switzer was later named “Female Runner of the Decade” by “Runner’s World Magazine.” She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2017, the Boston Marathon Association officially retired the number 261 in honor of Switzer’s work. • In 1996, the Boston Athletic Association officially recognized Bobbi Gibb’s three wins in 1966, 1967, and 1968, and awarded her a medal. In 2016, Gibb was the grand marshal of the Boston Marathon.

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• At the time, women were not allowed to run in the Boston Marathon because it was thought they were “too fragile.” The longest sanctioned race where women were allowed to compete was 1.5 miles long. When she requested an application to run in the 1966 marathon, she received a rejection. Bobbi Gibb decided she would run the marathon with or without approval.

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• While in college at Tufts University, Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb married a man who was a long-distance runner, and she started running with him. Then she got interested in the Boston Marathon and began training for it.

• Race officials tried to prevent Switzer from running. Race manager Jock Semple attempted to rip her bib number 261 off her chest as she ran, shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” but was repelled by Switzer’s boyfriend and her coach. They pushed Semple to the ground while shouting at Switzer to “run like hell!” A photograph of that dramatic moment appeared in newspapers around the world.

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• In 1973, employees at United Canning in Ohio found that some cans of mushrooms looked swollen. This is never good news, and testing revealed that those canned mushrooms were contaminated with botulism, a disease that causes grave illness and often results in death. As per FDA regulations, the company issued a recall of the product. Then they had to track down other companies that had purchased the contaminated mushrooms for use in other products. And that led them to Mario Fabbrini. • Fabbrini had moved to Michigan from his native Italy after World War II ended. He and his wife began making pizzas, first in Detroit where they became one of the country’s first pizzarias to offer free delivery. After selling that business, he set up shop in Alpena, Michigan, where he began making and selling frozen pizzas. He supplied local bars with frozen pizzas and even included a small oven to cook them in. Business boomed and Papa Fabbrini’s Frozen Pizzas became very popular. • Then the Heinz Company approached Fabbrini, asking him to manufacture frozen pizza for distribution all over Michigan and Ohio. He set up a new, bigger factory in Ossineke, Michigan. • By the time he was told about the botulism-infected mushrooms, he was turning out 9,000 frozen pizzas every day, and employing 22 people at his factory. • The FDA requested a few samples of his mushroom pizzas and fed them to mice. The mice died. Fabbrini was instructed to recall and dispose of all of his mushroom pizzas. There were 44,000 of them. • Fabbrini did not do so quietly. Quite the contrary. ...continued

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