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The Lake Street Transfer station was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" that linked its Lake Street Elevated with the Logan Square branch of its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad from 1913 to 1951. The Lake Street and Metropolitan were both constructed in the 1890s by different companies. The two companies owning the lines, along with two others, unified their operations in the early 1910s; as part of the merger, the Lake Street's owner had to close its nearby station on Wood Street and build a new one to form a transfer with the Metropolitan. This transfer station had a double-decked construction (depicted), with the Metropolitan's infrastructure crossing over the Lake Street. This arrangement continued until the Dearborn Street subway opened on February 25, 1951, replacing the Logan Square branch in the area and leading to the station's closure. The site would eventually serve as the junction of the modern Pink Line to the Green Line. (Full article...)
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- Floods and landslides (pictured) leave at least 48 people dead in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
- A bus crash in Gualaca, Panama, kills at least 39 people.
- Cyclone Gabrielle causes widespread damage and flooding across New Zealand.
- Nikos Christodoulides is elected President of Cyprus.
- In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl.
- A megadrought and heatwave cause forest fires and a state of emergency in Chile.
On this day
February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1961)
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- 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
- 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
- 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
- 1980 – The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron (pictured), was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
- 2020 – Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
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- George Harrison (b. 1943)
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Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – 1897) was an African-American writer who was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina. During her teenage years, seeking protection from sexual harassment by her enslaver James Norcom, she began a relationship with the white lawyer Samuel Sawyer, who became the father of her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda. When Norcom threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, Jacobs escaped and hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low that she could not stand up in it. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children. In 1861, she published an autobiography titled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the pseudonym Linda Brent, a book which was later described by her biographer Jean Fagan Yellin as an "American classic". This portrait of Jacobs, her only known formal photograph, was taken in 1894 by Gilbert Studios in Washington, D.C. Photograph credit: Gilbert Studios; restored by Adam Cuerden
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