On this day: Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time in 1964

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 25: 1921 – Russian soldiers capture Tbilisi and declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1948 – In Czechoslovakia, President Edvard Benes accepted the resignations of non-Communist ministers. Communists took control of the government in the “February Coup”. 1964 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad […]

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