So, what's so important about the month of February?
Other than Valentine's Day, just what in the heck is so special about the month of February? There are only 28 days and it's in the middle of winter. Let's take a recap on American history: Feb. 1 1865 – President Lincoln sings the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime, to the United States Constitution. 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey . 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina . 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. _________________________________________________________________________ Feb. 2 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York ) is incorporated. 1848 – Califor