So that’s where they got that name

Wed., Feb. 22, 2006

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• On Feb. 25, 1890, Vlacheslav Skryabin, who took the revolutionary name Molotov and became foreign minister for the Soviet Union, is born in Kurkaka, Russia. Molotov advocated the use of throwing bottles filled with flammable liquid and stuffed with a lighted rag at the enemy, and the famous “Molotov cocktail” was born.

• On Feb. 20, 1725, a posse of New Hampshire volunteers comes across a band of encamped Abenaki Indians and takes 10 “scalps” in the first significant appropriation of this American Indian practice. The posse received a bounty of 100 pounds per scalp from the colonial authorities in Boston.

• On Feb. 26, 1903, Alexander Winton, driving his Winton Bullet, sets the first speed record ever achieved at Daytona Beach, Fla. Built in 1902, the “Bullet Number 1” drove a measured mile at more than 65 mph.

• On Feb. 24, 1938, Variety reports that MGM has cast Buddy Ebsen for the film “The Wizard of Oz.” However, Ebsen dropped out after just nine days of shooting when he was poisoned by his makeup, and Jack Haley replaced him as the Tin Man.

• On Feb. 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi, an event captured on film by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal. Three of the six men seen raising the flag in the famous photo were killed before the battle for Iwo Jima ended more than a month later.

• On Feb. 22, 1950, Walt Disney’s animated feature “Cinderella” opens. Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, “Cinderella” featured songs like “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes” and became one of Disney’s most beloved films.

• On Feb. 21, 1965, in New York City, Malcolm X, a black nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb., in 1925, he took the last name “X” to symbolize his stolen African identity.

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