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2003
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Senior forward Luke Walton sports his modern baggy uniform at Saturday's game against Arizona State.
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By Marc Viscardi
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday February 24, 2003
Today
· 1863 ÷ Arizona was organized as a territory.
· 1868 ÷ The United States House of Representatives impeached President Johnson after his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
Tuesday
· 1999 ÷ A jury in Jasper, Texas, sentenced white supremacist John William King to death for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black man.
Wednesday
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1978
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Twenty-five years ago, senior center Phil Taylor puckers up and shoots at a game this week in 1978. Wearing more snug uniforms, the Wildcats would close out a disappointing 15-11 season that week against the Sun Devils.
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· 1951 ÷ The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
· 1993 ÷ A bomb exploded in the garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Thursday
· 1922 ÷ The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
· 1997 ÷ Divorce became legal in Ireland.
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· 1854 ÷ Some opponents of slavery met in Ripon, Wis., to call for the creation of a new political group, which eventually became the Republican Party.
