Interesting Facts of February 25th
- United States Steel Corporation was founded on February 25, 1901. It was the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
- Boxer Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, became the world heavyweight boxing champ by defeating Sonny Liston on this day in 1964.
- French scientists reported successfully isolating the radium element on February 25, 1908.
- The Warsaw Pact, a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe was declared disbanded on February 25, 1991.