On this day: February 25
POSTED: 08:08 PM PST Feb 24, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 24, 2013
Samuel Colt patents his revolver, the first black U.S. senator takes his seat, Muhammad Ali wins his first heavyweight title, and Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines, all on this day.
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1710: Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, the French soldier and explorer who was the first European known to have visited the headwaters of the Mississippi River in what is now northern Minnesota, dies of gout in Montreal, Canada, around the age of 70. Both the cities of Duluth, Minn., an area he was also the first European to have visited, and Duluth, Ga., are named in his honor.
