February 25

On This Day In History
	1986: Ousting of Marcos in Philippines On this day in 1986, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, under pressure from the United States, fled his country for Hawaii after a fraudulent electoral victory over Corazon Aquino, who replaced him as president.
Corazon Aquino
Biography Of The Day
	Pierre-Auguste Renoir French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born this day in 1841, was initially associated with Impressionism, but in the 1880s his early works of sparkling colour and light gave way to a more disciplined, formal technique.
Le Moulin de la galette, oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
More Events On This Day In History
	1990 In Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of the U.S.-financed National Opposition Union achieved an upset victory over the incumbent president, Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
	1964 American boxer Muhammad Ali, known at the time as Cassius Clay, became the world heavyweight champion by knocking out Sonny Liston in seven rounds.
	1956 The Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union came to a close after First Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev delivered a secret speech denouncing the late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
1948	1948 The communists seized control of the government of Czechoslovakia.
1570	1570 As pope, Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England from the Roman Catholic Church.