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2-8-2009 7:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/10ab5124-22ec-48d3-947d-90f9873d7b9f/F0A67BA0-FE02-4BD7-BEDC-2B212975E6BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th" href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/9E26C001-8D8E-4197-BC97-7A6E36DEE1BB" alt="On This Day in History" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD align="center" valign="middle"><FONT color="#993333"><B>Sunday, February 08th</B></FONT><BR /><FONT size="-2"> The 039th</FONT><FONT size="-2"> day of 2009. <BR /> There are 326 days left in the year.<BR /><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html"><NOBR>Go to a previous date.</NOBR></A></FONT><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD align="left" valign="top">On Feb. 8, <STRONG>1996</STRONG>, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep." <FONT size="2">
(<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/../onthisday/big/0208.html#article">Go to article.</A>)
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<BIRTH> On <BIRTH_MONTH>Feb.</BIRTH_MONTH> <BIRTH_DAY>8</BIRTH_DAY>, <BIRTH_YEAR><B>1878</B></BIRTH_YEAR>, <FIRST_NAME>Martin</FIRST_NAME> <LAST_NAME>Buber</LAST_NAME>, <DESCRIPTION>the German-Jewish religious philosopher</DESCRIPTION>, was born. </BIRTH> <DEATH> Following <SEX>his</SEX> death on <DEATH_MONTH>June</DEATH_MONTH> <DEATH_DAY>13</DEATH_DAY>, <DEATH_YEAR>1965</DEATH_YEAR>, <SEX>his</SEX> obituary appeared in The Times. </DEATH>
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<NOBR>(<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0208.html">Go to obit.</A></NOBR> | <NOBR><A href="#birthdays">Other Birthdays</A>)</NOBR>
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the New York World's Fair.  </SPAN>
<FONT size="2"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0208.html">(See the cartoon and read an explanation.)</A></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><DIV>Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><B>1587</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><B>1693</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th"><DIV>A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090208.html?th&emc=th">Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky as vice president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0A67BA0-FE02-4BD7-BEDC-2B212975E6BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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