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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.
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FEBRUARY 25
1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser usurps power as President of Egypt.
1961 - Sydney's last tram runs, to La Perouse in the eastern suburbs.
1964 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami.
1986 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos resigns, brought down by a "people's power" uprising, military revolt, and US pressure.
1996 - Haing Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose Academy Award-winning performance in the film The Killing Fields mirrored his own ordeal at the ...
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