On This Day - February 25, A Shot Of History

1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer and largest corporation in the world. It was capitalized at $1.4 billion ($39.69 billion today), making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhoeurGDnG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQyRlefldxQ

1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldsteinopens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-l8XlSt04I

1956: Khrushchev lashes out at Stalin. In a sensational speech to the Communist Party, the Soviet President denounces Joseph Stalin as a brutal despot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u_ipBuC6ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcOsKP80es

1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor is born (d. 1919)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOeN7HXj3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxuuvCD4rY

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