February 25, 1870
Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
February 25, 1941
A general strike was called in Amsterdam to protest Nazi persecution of Jews under the German Nazi occupation. The previous weekend 425 Jewish men and boys had been imprisoned. Truck drivers, dock and metal workers, civil servants and factory employees — Christians, Liberals, Social Democrats and Communists — answered the call and brought the city to a standstill.
February 25, 1986
In the face of nonviolent mass demonstrations against his rule, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his entourage fled the presidential palace in Manila, airlifted by U.S. helicopters to exile in Hawai’i.
