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This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Weddings

1991 - Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1992 - Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1997 - Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (27) weds Ojani Noa on the grounds of a friend's Miami home
1998 - Singer-songwriter Tori Amos (34) weds British sound engineer Mark Hawley (34) in West
           Wycombe, England

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This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Divorces

1996 - Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
2008 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (40) divorces Rick Salomon (39) due to irreconcilable
           differences only 2 months after getting married

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This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
First US President                                 Composer Frederic Chopin (1810)              Actress Drew Barrymore (1975)
George Washington (1732)


1040 - Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out the English from Northern France. Died 1461.
1440 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1542 - Santino Garsi, composer
1573 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1634 - Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1684 - William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 - Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist
1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 - George Washington, Westmoreland, Virginia, 1st American president (1789-97)
1745 - Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1749 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1761 - Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 - Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1796 - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
1810 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1822 - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1827 - James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 - Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 - Josef Foerster, composer
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 - Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1842 - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1850 - Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 - Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1862 - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 - Otto Modersohn, German painter
1868 - Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1873 - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1874 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1877 - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881 - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1882 - Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1884 - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 - Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1888 - Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 - Lucien Cailliet, composer
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1894 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1895 - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1896 - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1898 - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1899 - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900 - Evald Aav, composer
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1901 - Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 - Stefan Lorant, writer
1902 - Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1905 - Luis Sandi, composer
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1906 - Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1907 - Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1908 - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1909 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1910 - Al Sears, jazz performer
1910 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1911 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1915 - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1917 - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1918 - Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1919 - Jiri Pauer, composer
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 - Del Wood, singer
1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) wife of Federico Fellini
1921 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1922 - Felix Werder, composer
1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1926 - Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1927 - David Ahlstrom, composer
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1928 - Bruce Forsyth, London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1929 - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1929 - Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1929 - James Hong, American actor
1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 - James McGarrell, American painter
1932 - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive)
1932 - Ted Kennedy, American politician
1933 - Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
1934 - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 - Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 - Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 - Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1938 - Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 - Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1939 - Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
1940 - Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 - Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1940 - Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer
1941 - Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 - David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1943 - Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 - Louise Lopez, singer
1943 - Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil)
1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1944 - E J Peaker, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress (That's Life)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 - Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 - Tom Okker, tennis star
1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1945 - Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1948 - Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
1948 - John Ashton, American actor
1949 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1949 - Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1950 - Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
1950 - Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1950 - Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
1950 - Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
1950 - Sylvette Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage)
1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1951 - Elaine Tanner, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian swimmer (1966 Commonwealth Games, 1968 Olympics)
1951 - Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1952 - James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 - Wayne John Levi, Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1952 - Bill Frist, American politician
1953 - Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor
1955 - Tim Young, athlete
1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Amy Alcott, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1958 - Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1959 - Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1959 - Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
1961 - Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 - Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 - Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 - Mike Morris, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1962 - Lenda Murray, Detroit Mich, body builder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 - Lisa Jacquin, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1962 - Michael Wilton, singer
1962 - Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1963 - Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Devon Malcolm, cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 - Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1964 - Gigi Fernandez, [Beatriz], San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olymp-gold-96)
1964 - Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
1965 - Chris Dudley, NBA center (NY Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers)
1965 - Joe Reekie, Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1965 - Pat LaFontaine, St Louis Mo, NHL center (NY Islanders, NY Rangers)
1965 - Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1966 - Brent Severyn, Vegreville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1966 - Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
1966 - Suave, singer
1966 - Thorsten Kaye, soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1967 - Marianne Ihalainen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Steve Broussard, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1968 - Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1968 - Jayson Williams, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1968 - Jeri Ryan, actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1968 - Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup)
1968 - Reggie Rivers, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
1969 - Kahryn Tough, Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96)
1969 - Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amat-90, 91)
1969 - Mark Chmura, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Shawn Jefferson, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, NE Patriots)
1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor
1969 - Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 - Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 - Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist
1969 - Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1970 - Adam Keefe, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 - Dominic Roussel, Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1971 - Barry Smith, 100m/200m runner
1971 - Gilbert Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Jason Marshall, Cranbrook, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Lea Salonga, Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Siagon)
1971 - Lisa Fernandez, Lakewood California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Max Lane, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1971 - Mohammed Sylla, soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues)
1971 - Rico Mack, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Christin Didier, Miss USA-Montana (1997)
1972 - Michael Chang, Hoboken NJ, tennis star (1989 French Open)
1973 - James Christensen, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Kate Sage, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1973 - Kimberly Davies, Melbourne Aust, actress (Baywatch)
1973 - Ntala Skinner, Sun Valley Idaho, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1974 - Aaron Gavey, Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 - Kyoko Nagatsuka, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart)
1974 - James Blunt, English musician
1974 - Chris Moyles, English DJ
1975 - Charles O'Bannon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 - Drew Barrymore, LA California, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
1975 - Gregory Maddalone, Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski)
1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1977 - Melanie Schnell, Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya)
1977 - Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1977 - Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1979 - David Lopez, Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)
1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1981 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1984 - Venetian Princess Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1985 - Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 - Sean Garballey, American politician
1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor
1988 - Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1989 - Alia Sabur, American college educator

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This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Deaths

                     
Social Philosopher                                    Pop Artist Andy Warhol (1987)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832)


606 - Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 - Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle
1076 - Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered [or Feb 26]
1078 - Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 - Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1371 - David II Bruce, King of Scots (1331..71), dies at 46
1478 - Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - John Wilson, composer, dies at 78
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 - Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1750 - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71
1770 - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b.
          1720)
1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
1822 - Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
1824 - John Davy, composer, dies at 60
1829 - Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, dies at 82
1836 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65
1838 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70
1846 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1846 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]
1849 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28
1875 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1878 - Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1896 - Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1903 - Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
1903 - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1912 - Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
1913 - Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55
1913 - Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 - Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1925 - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
1925 - Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies
1925 - Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88
1930 - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
1934 - Willem Kes, violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78
1936 - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1949 - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1957 - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
1958 - Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 - Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
1960 - Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 - George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1964 - Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1966 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
1967 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
1967 - Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
1968 - Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1971 - Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81
1971 - Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77
1971 - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
1973 - Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73
1973 - Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
1973 - Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
1976 - Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32
1976 - Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1977 - Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
1977 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
1978 - Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980 - Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46
1982 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70
1984 - David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12
1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
1985 - Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58
1987 - David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
1987 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
1989 - Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies
1990 - Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
1992 - Richard Sheldon, dies at 59
1993 - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
1993 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
1994 - "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
1995 - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 - Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
1995 - Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies
1996 - Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80
1996 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79
1997 - Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85
1997 - Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91
1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 - Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1998 - Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
1998 - Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 - Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service
           veteran (b. 1918)
2011 - Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
2012 - Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter, dies at 81

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This Day in History for 23rd February


Historical Events

                                             
Playwright George Bernard Shaw       30th US President Calvin Coolidge     

                                 
First Secretary of the Communist Party of          First Cloned Sheep Dolly
 the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev


303 - Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
1574 - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots
1660 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1672 - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
1778 - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
1792 - Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed
           mariners)
1804 - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
1820 - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1854 - Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1861 - Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office
1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to US
1874 - Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1886 - Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1886 - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
1886 - Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres
1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
1887 - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1892 - 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1894 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto
           to play
1895 - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1896 - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1898 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of
          anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1900 - Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in SF Bay
1903 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1905 - Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
1906 - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1910 - George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1917 - February revolution begins in Russia
1918 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923
           this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
1919 - Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
1923 - German Republic day with laws against worker
1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1934 - Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1940 - Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
1943 - Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1944 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1945 - 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 - Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1945 - US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 - Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
1955 - Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1957 - "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 - Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 - KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1965 - Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 - 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 - John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in NYC
1967 - Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 - WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 - Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
1971 - Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1971 - George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1971 - Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1974 - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
1974 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1975 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in
           the United States.
1976 - Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1978 - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1979 - "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 - George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1980 - Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
1981 - People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981 - Spanish coup under lt-col Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1982 - Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London
1983 - 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 - USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a
           holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and
           evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1985 - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1986 - Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1987 - Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1988 - Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1990 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1991 - Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
1991 - Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1991 - NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
1991 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1991 - US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France
1992 - Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut, Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
1992 - World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313
1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1993 - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
1993 - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1993 - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
1994 - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs
           Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1995 - Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
1997 - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
1997 - American Express Senior Golf Invitational
1997 - Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic
1997 - NBC TV shows "Schindler's List," completely uncensored, 65M watch
1997 - Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a
           lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
1998 - Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1999 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President
           visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance.
2005 - Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
2006 - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports
           after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such
           as North Korea.
2007 - A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one
           person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a
           few similar accidents.
2008 - a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off,
           making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). The
            B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash; not one B-2 ever crashed.
2010 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into
             the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.
2012 - A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200

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This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Weddings

2002 - "Blue" country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (19) weds backup dancer Dean Sheremet (21) at
            Perkins Chapel in Dallas, Texas

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Composer George                                 Director Victor Fleming (1889)                  Actress Dakota Fanning (1994)
Friedrich Handel (1685)


1417 - Pope Paul II [Pietro Barbo], Venice, Republic of Venice, Pope (1464-71)
1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1615 - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised
1633 - Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
1649 - John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
1685 - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
1700 - Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
1730 - Christian Joseph Lidarti, composer
1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1776 - John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)
1787 - Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
1792 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
1811 - George Washington Hewitt, composer
1817 - George Watts, London, painter
1818 - Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
1824 - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
1838 - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist
1842 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
1848 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
1850 - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1868 - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1876 - Agnes M Royden, writer
1876 - Wadi' Sabra, composer
1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)
1879 - Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist
1880 - Edgar Istel, composer
1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
1883 - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
1884 - Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
1884 - Herman Courtens, Belgian painter
1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
1886 - Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author
1887 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer
1889 - Cyril Delevanti, England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
1889 - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
1889 - Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1891 - Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
1892 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)
1895 - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
1898 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist
1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
1899 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1900 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer
1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
1901 - Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
1903 - Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director (Veselye Rebjata)
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer
1907 - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1909 - Frank Ward, cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
1911 - G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
1911 - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic
1913 - Charles Leonard, US, pentathelete (Olympic-1936)
1913 - Earl of Lincoln
1914 - Margaret Farrer, CEO (Central Midwives Board)
1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1915 - Jon Hall, Fresno California, actor (Ramor of the Jungle) (d. 1979)
1915 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
1916 - George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1916 - Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor
1916 - William Walsh, academic
1917 - Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]
1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
1919 - Johnny Carey, soccer star
1919 - Derek Ezra [Baron Ezra], British politician and Liberal Democrat Life Peer
1920 - David Wright, poet
1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1920 - Lord St Levan
1920 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1923 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
1923 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1924 - Lejaren Hiller, composer
1925 - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)
1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1926 - Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
1927 - Ivan Hrusovsky, composer
1928 - Duke of Beaufort
1928 - Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1929 - Eduard W "Ed" Bauer, [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets)
1929 - Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
1929 - Richard Moryl, composer
1930 - Gerry Davis, writer
1930 - Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)
1930 - Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker
1930 - Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1931 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist and sculptor (Great American Nudes) (d. 2004)
1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress
1933 - Donna J Stone, poet
1933 - Lee Calhoun, Laurel Miss, hurdler (Olympics-gold-56, 60)
1933 - Lee Quencey Calhoun, Laurel MS, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1934 - Lady Digby
1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)
1937 - Lord Tugendhat
1937 - Tom Osborne, college football coach
1938 - Diane Varsi, San Mateo California, actress (Peyton Place)
1938 - Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1939 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher
1939 - Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 - Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1940 - Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
1941 - Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College)
1941 - Robin Bynoe, cricketer (WI opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67)
1941 - Ron Hunt, baseball player
1942 - Beau Boulter, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1942 - Colin Sanders, founder (Solid State Logic)
1942 - John Lewis, Head Master (Eton College)
1943 - Bobby Wayne Mitchell, Chatham VA, PGA golfer (1971 Cleveland Open)
1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver
1943 - Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
1944 - James Cousins, British MP
1944 - Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss, guitarist (Silver Train)
1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1944 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
1944 - John Sandford, American novelist
1945 - Frank Murray, police Officer
1946 - Rusty Young, California, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef
1947 - Colin Sanders, British computer engineer (Solid State Logic)
1947 - Geoff Cope, cricketer (England off-spinner 1977-78)
1947 - Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
1947 - John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
1947 - Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
1948 - Bill Alexander, theatre director
1948 - Doug Moench, American comic book writer
1949 - Anna-Maria Muller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Larry Demps, US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1949 - Marc Garneau, Quebec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77)
1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP
1949 - Terry "Tex" Comer, bassist/guitarist
1949 - Terry Comer, rocker
1950 - Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
1950 - Steve Priest, London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes)
1951 - Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1951 - Nicholas Kenyon, controller (BBC Radio 3)
1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)
1952 - Brad Whitford, Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist
1953 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1958 - David Sylvian, vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1958 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots)
1959 - John Arthur Wilson, Ceres CA, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th)
1960 - Cindy Figg-Currier, Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 Brit Open-6th)
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
1960 - Maria Gloria von Schoenberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
1960 - Naruhito, crown prince of Japan
1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1962 - Melinda Mays, Augusta Ga, playmate (Feb, 1983)
1962 - Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrijche-Warning)
1963 - Bobby Bonilla, NYC, outfielder (NY Mets, Balt Orioles, Marlins)
1963 - Debbie Kruck, Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA (1994)
1963 - Reza Abdoh, theatre director
1963 - Robert Collins, keyboard player
1963 - Radosław Sikorski, Polish politician
1964 - Byron Evans, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 - Dana Katherine Scully, fictional character (X-Files)
1964 - John Norum, rocker
1965 - Helena Sukova, Prague Czech Rep, tennis star (1985 US Open's Double)
1965 - Kristin Davis, actress (Melrose Place)
1965 - Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1966 - John Druce, Peterborough, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers, LA Kings)
1966 - Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
1967 - Gord Murphy, Willowdale, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1967 - Pam Blundell, fashion designer
1967 - Steven C Stricker, Edgerton WI, PGA golfer (1994 Northern Telecom-2nd)
1967 - Tamsin Greig, English actress
1967 - Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1968 - Stephanie Seymour, SD California, actress/model (Sunny Side Up)
1969 - Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Michael Campbell, Hawera NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
1971 - Carin Hjalmarsson Koch, Kungalv Sweden, golfer (1995 Pinewild-7th)
1971 - Jason Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1971 - Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1971 - Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
1972 - Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Jamie Watson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1972 - Ryan Grigson, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Steve Papin, WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
1973 - Robert Pipkins, Staten Island NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Jack Case, American artist
1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)
1974 - Kenyon Cotton, full back (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1974 - Leko, American DJ
1975 - Bohdan Utihrach, Czech, tennis star
1975 - Chris Garner, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1975 - Michael Tricario, actor (Randy-Wonder Years)
1975 - Pat Barnes, quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1975 - Robert Lopez, American composer
1975 - Natalia Verbeke, Argentine actress
1976 - Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1976 - Jeff O'Neill, Richmond Hill, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 - Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)
1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
1978 - Karolina Rantamaki, ice hockey left wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1978 - René Pérez, Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
1979 - D-Roc, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
1980 - Yvonne Tousek, Kitchener Ontario, gymnistic (Olympics-96)
1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981 - Charles Tillman, American football player
1982 - Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor
1982 - Karan Singh Grover, Indian Television Actor
1983 - Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 - Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1983 - Emily Blunt, British actress
1986 - Holly Brook, American musician
1986 - Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 - Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress

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This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Deaths

                           
Romantic Poet John Keats (1821)            Novelist James Herriot (1995)


155 - Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested & burned at stake
943 - Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1447 - Eugene IV, [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1468 - John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
1554 - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed
1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer
1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1607 - Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1669 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68
1682 - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75
1704 - Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
1718 - Francois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63
1766 - Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
1806 - John Alcock, composer, dies at 90
1807 - Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61
1821 - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
1821 - Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
1859 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
1867 - George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90
1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1884 - Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23
1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68
1900 - William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies
1902 - Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
1903 - Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
1903 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
1906 - Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
1913 - Jimmy Sinclair, cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test S Afr career), dies
1915 - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
1916 - George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71
1920 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61
1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1927 - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
1930 - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
1930 - Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
1931 - Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
1934 - Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 - Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76
1935 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
1937 - Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
1944 - Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies
1945 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945 - Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
1957 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
1960 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
1961 - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies
1965 - Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74
1968 - Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
1969 - Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, King Saudia, dies at 67
1969 - Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75
1970 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1971 - King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73
1972 - Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81
1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1895)
1974 - Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63
1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 - Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74
1976 - L S Lowry, painter, dies
1976 - LS Lowry, English artist dies (b. 1887)
1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
1980 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
1983 - Adrian Boult, conductor, dies
1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71
1987 - Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
1990 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1990 - James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
1990 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1992 - Jacquelyn Hyde, actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
1992 - Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
1993 - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
1994 - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
1995 - Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69
1995 - David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52
1995 - James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1995 - Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95
1995 - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79
1996 - Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut & wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies
1996 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
1996 - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78
1997 - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80
1997 - Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51
1998 - Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74
1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2001 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2007 - Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2008 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b.
          1916)
2012 - Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer, dies at 74

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This Day in History for 24th February


Historical Events

                                             
Composer George Friedrich Handel         The Warrior Pope Pope Julius II        Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

                                             
Princess of Wales Diana Spencer            Comedian David Letterman                           Singer Elton John


303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1208 - St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1296 - Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
1387 - King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1389 - Battle at Falköping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
1496 - England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
1510 - Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1525 - Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French
1525 - Francois I captured at Battle of Pavia and 8700 killed
1527 - Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
1528 - Hungarian anti-king Janos Zapolyai & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1530 - 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
1538 - Treaty of Nagyvarad/Peace of Grosswardein signed between Ferdinand I of Austria and John
           Zápolya of Hungary.
1541 - Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
1552 - Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1597 - Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1607 - Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua
1708 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
1711 - Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
1739 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal
           emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1779 - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1786 - Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1793 - French troops conquer Breda
1803 - Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan
           destitute.
1807 - 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth
           Godfrey in England
1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1835 - Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 - Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1848 - King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
1855 - US Court of Claims forms for cases against government
1857 - 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
1857 - LA Vineyard Society organized
1863 - Arizona Territory created
1863 - Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
1864 - -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
1868 - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1875 - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing
           approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1876 - Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
1881 - De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
1881 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1888 - Louisville, Ky becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
1891 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
1893 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of
           America.
1894 - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1895 - Cuban war for independence begins
1896 - Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
1899 - Western Washington University is established.
1902 - Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
1903 - US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1909 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
1914 - Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
1917 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 - Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1918 - Estonia declares independence from Russia
1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 - NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
1920 - Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1921 - 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
1923 - Flying Scotsman goes into service
1923 - Mass arrests in US of mafia
1924 - Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 - Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs)
1924 - Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1925 - Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
1927 - John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
1932 - Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
1933 - Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
1938 - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1939 - Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1940 - Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1941 - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers
1943 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1945 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 - Manila freed from Japanese
1945 - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1950 - Labour wins British parliamentary election
1951 - "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
1951 - Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
1951 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
1952 - Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1955 - "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
1955 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1960 - Italian government of Segni falls
1960 - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
1962 - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
1962 - General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1965 - East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 - Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
1968 - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 - Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
1968 - Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
1968 - Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
1968 - US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1970 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1970 - Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
1970 - KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1976 - Cuba adopts its constitution
1976 - Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
1976 - Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
1977 - Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
1979 - Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1979 - War between North & South Yemen begins
1980 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1980 - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
1980 - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
1981 - Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1981 - Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and
           destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1983 - Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of
           Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
1985 - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
1985 - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1986 - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
1987 - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1987 - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1988 - Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1988 - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1988 - Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 - Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 - US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to
           his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
1991 - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
1991 - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 - US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins
1994 - Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 - Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman
           Catholic Church.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 - South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1998 - Elton John knighted
1998 - NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics
1999 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery,
            in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in
           eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2002 - Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic Gold Medal
2006 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in
           a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2010 - Sachin Tendulkar scored the the first double century in One Day International cricket.
2011 - Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).

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This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Weddings

1613 - English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
1662 - English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31
           years his junior.
2007 - Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze
           medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in
           Wilson's Mills, North Carolina

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This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
US Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885)                Singer and Guitarist                     Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs (1955)
                                                                 George Thorogood (1950)


1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 - Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1501 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1545 - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
1547 - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1557 - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1595 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1619 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1693 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1697 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1717 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
1723 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1774 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1786 - Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1797 - Samuel Lover, composer
1809 - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1836 - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 - Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
1846 - Luigi Denza, composer
1848 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1848 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
1852 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1854 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
1860 - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1866 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1866 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
1872 - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
1874 - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
1876 - Jean Poveigh, composer
1876 - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1877 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1879 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1885 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1909 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1910 - Lord Hazlerigg
1911 - Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 - Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
1914 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1915 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
1916 - Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 - Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1920 - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1921 - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1922 - Richard Hamilton, painter
1922 - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
1923 - David Soyer, American cellist
1924 - Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 - William Pillar, British admiral
1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
1926 - Jean Alexander, English actress
1927 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1927 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1928 - Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1928 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1928 - Barbara Lawrence, American actress
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1930 - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
1931 - Inge Bernstein, British judge
1931 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1931 - Dominic Chianese, American actor
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1932 - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1934 - Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1934 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Thyolo, Nyasaland (Malawi), Malawi President (2004-2012), (d. 2012)
1935 - Renata Scotto, singer
1936 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Brooklyn, New York, actor (The Final Countdown), (d. 2012)
1938 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1939 - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
1940 - Denis Law, British(?) soccer player
1940 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
1940 - Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
1940 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1941 - Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 - Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
1942 - Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
1942 - Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1943 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
1943 - Terry Semel, American business executive
1943 - Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
1944 - Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
1944 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver)
1944 - Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 - Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
1946 - Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946 - John Stapleton, English television presenter
1947 - Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
1948 - Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 - Lord Melchett
1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
1948 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
1948 - Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
1948 - Tim Staffell, English singer
1949 - John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1950 - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
1950 - George Thorogood, Wilmington, Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware
           Destroyers-Bad to the Bone)
1951 - Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
1951 - Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1951 - Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
1952 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
1952 - Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1955 - Alain Prost, Formula One racing driver (Championships: 85, 86, 89, 93)
1955 - Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1955 - Steve Jobs, San Francisco, California, American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of
          Apple (d. 2011)
1956 - Eddie Murray, LA California, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)
1956 - Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
1956 - Judith Butler, American philosopher
1957 - Lan Burden, rocker
1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1958 - Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1958 - Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
1959 - Beth Broderick, Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1961 - Ruud Really, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer/musician
1962 - Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress
1963 - Fuad Reveiz, NFL kicker (Minnesota Vikings)
1963 - Matias Carrillo, Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Andy Crane, British children's television presenter
1964 - Todd Field, American actor and film director
1964 - Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 - Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver
1965 - Paul Gruber, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer
1965 - Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
1966 - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
1966 - Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1968 - John Velddman, soccer player (Sparta)
1968 - Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
1970 - Jeff Garcia, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
1970 - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1970 - Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets
1971 - Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
1971 - Brian Savage, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 - Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1972 - Larry Amar, Camarillo California, field hockey midfielder/captain (Oly-96)
1972 - Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
1972 - Patricia Regan Leines, Medford Or, Miss America (Oregon-3rd-1997)
1972 - Ron Davis, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Alexei Kovalev, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1973 - Harold Morrow, full back (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1973 - Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot)
1973 - Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
1974 - Jeremy Laster, Fullerton California, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Simeon Rice, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer
1975 - Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
1975 - Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller
1976 - Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio,Heavens)
1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1976 - Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist
1976 - Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1976 - Zach Johnson, professional golfer
1976 - Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1995)
1977 - Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Floyd Mayweather, Grand Rapids Mich, featherweight boxer (Oly-br-96)
1977 - Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player
1978 - Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
1978 - Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 - John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1979 - Jesse Billauer, American quadriplegic surfer
1980 - Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003)
1980 - Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 - Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer
1981 - Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
1981 - Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer
1982 - Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer
1982 - Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
1982 - Nick Blackburn, American baseball player
1984 - Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver
1984 - Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler
1986 - Wojtek Wolski, Polish Ice hockey player
1987 - Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
1987 - Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
1987 - Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
1989 - Kosta Koufos, American-Greek basketball player

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Deaths

                           
Commercial Steamboat Inventor             Publisher Malcolm Forbes (1990)
Robert Fulton (1815)


616 - King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1642 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1686 - Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 - Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1784 - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
1785 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1812 - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies at 49
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 - Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1862 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1874 - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
1876 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
1908 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1919 - Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
1930 - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 - Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 - Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 - Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
1976 - H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 - Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1984 - Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1988 - Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1994 - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
1994 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
1995 - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 - Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 - James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2011 - Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
2012 - Jan Berenstain, American author dies from a stroke at 88
2012 - Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer, dies at 92
2012 - Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker, dies from cancer at 77
2012 - Benedict Freedman,American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th February


Historical Events

                                             
Author Victor Hugo                                US President Abraham Lincoln              Playwright George Bernard Shaw

                                             
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco           Actor & Director Mel Brooks                   Singer Buddy Holly

                           
Pop Singer & Beatle                                   The Pianoman Billy Joel
 Paul McCartney

                           
Basketball Superstar                                Heavyweight Boxing Champion
 Michael Jordan                                                Mike Tyson


138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1095 - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
1358 - Dalmatie flees Venice
1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
1540 - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico
1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of
           Britain
1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804 - Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
1830 - Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.
1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1838 - London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
1847 - State University of Iowa is approved
1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln
1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1892 - James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
1901 - George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC
1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
1904 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
1905 - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1907 - George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London
1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1911 - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia
1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand
           Duchess of Luxembourg.
1913 - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
1921 - Georgian SSR proclaimed
1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1925 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
1930 - Check photographing device patented
1930 - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v Engld (114 & 112)
1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel
           Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1951 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf
1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament
1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
1953 - "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs
1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres
1960 - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC
1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
1962 - Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a
            hijacked jumbo jet.
1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC
1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
1973 - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC
1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the
           world, completed on August 27, 1975
1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
1981 - Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue
          of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
1987 - Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have
           children & no man can stand her for long
1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in
           Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1993 - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995 - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996 - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than
           50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
2011 - In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a
           sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
2012 - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
2012 - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th February


Famous Weddings

1828 - 6th US President John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
2011 - Actor and comedian Kelsey Grammer (57) weds Kayte Walsh (29) at the Longacre Theater in
           Manhattan, New York

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Painter & Sculptor                                Novelist Anthony Burgess (1917)                  TV Talk Show Host
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841)                                                                                    Sally Jessy Raphael (1943)


1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1635 - Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen
1643 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1663 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
1680 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges)
1714 - Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
1725 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
1727 - Armand-Louis Couperin, composer
1731 - Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer
1732 - Robert Hudson, composer
1735 - Ernst William Wolf, composer
1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1778 - Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru
1788 - Mateo Ferrer, composer
1794 - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
1807 - George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
1808 - James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1809 - George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1811 - Carl Schuberth, composer
1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
1815 - Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1832 - Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)
1833 - Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1833 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
1840 - Alexis Hollander, composer
1840 - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
1841 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
1842 - Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
1847 - John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
1855 - George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
1855 - Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
1856 - Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
1860 - Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
1860 - William James Ashley, English economic-historian
1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
1868 - Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
1871 - Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US Open-1890)
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1876 - Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
1877 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
1879 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer
1881 - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
1882 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1883 - Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
1885 - Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (d. 1971)
1887 - Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
1888 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
1890 - Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
1894 - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
1894 - Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
1894 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
1895 - DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
1895 - Henri Martelli, composer
1896 - John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
1898 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1899 - Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
1900 - Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
1901 - Federico Ghisi, composer
1901 - [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, NYC, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
1902 - Max Kommerell, German literary/author (Die Gefangenen)
1902 - Oscar Cullmann, Swiss theologist (Das Petrusproblem)
1903 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 - Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
1906 - Boris Papandopulo, composer
1906 - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
1906 - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
1906 - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
1907 - Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
1907 - Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
1908 - Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
1909 - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
1909 - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
1912 - Richard Wattis, England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
1912 - Brenda Joyce, American actress
1913 - Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
1913 - Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
1914 - John Arlott, cricketer (the doyen of cricket commentators & writers)
1916 - Ian Wallace, British CEO
1916 - Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
1916 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
1917 - Alex Gordon, architect
1917 - Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
1917 - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker
1918 - Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Robert Lorimer "Bobby" Riggs, US tennis star (US Open 1939, 41)
1918 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
1918 - Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
1919 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian
1919 - Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
1920 - Antony Duff, diplomat
1920 - Hayes Gordon, Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room)
1920 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
1922 - Matti Rautio, composer
1923 - Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
1925 - Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
1926 - Harvey McGregor, QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
1927 - Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
1927 - Jacques Monod, composer
1927 - Jane Nigh, Hollywood California, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1927 - Ralph Stanley, country singer
1928 - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal
1928 - Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H)
1928 - Richard Stern, US writer
1929 - Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
1929 - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, Brit church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
1929 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian
1929 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1930 - Erica Pedretti, writer
1931 - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
1931 - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
1932 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone)
1932 - Laurence New, Major-General
1932 - Martin William Karlins, composer
1932 - Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1934 - Lord Crickhowell
1934 - Michael Wheeler-Booth, Clerk of the Parliaments
1934 - Robert Neame, brewer
1934 - Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
1936 - Jonnie Nicely, playmate (Aug, 1956)
1936 - Norman Orville Scribner, composer
1937 - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1937 - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 - Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
1938 - Diane Baker, Hollywood California, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1938 - Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75)
1938 - Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 - Viktor Kosichkin, Rybnoye, Russia, Speed Skater (Olympic Gold 1960), (d. 2012)
1939 - A C F Verity, master (Dulwich College)
1939 - Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
1940 - Billy Packer, Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS)
1940 - George Paul, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1940 - Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist
1940 - Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
1940 - Ron Santo, shortstop (Cubs, 1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1941 - David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
1941 - Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
1941 - Stewart Sutherland, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1941 - Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress
1943 - George Harrison, rocker (Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord)
1943 - Maryann Amacher, composer
1943 - Sally Jessy Raphael, Easton, Pennsylvania, American TV talk show host (Sally)
1943 - Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1944 - Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1945 - Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1945 - Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1946 - F Xaver Kroetz, writer
1946 - Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari
1947 - Eddie Thomson, Australian soccer coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1947 - Lee Edward Evans, Madera California, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
1947 - Lewis Moonie, British MP
1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete
1948 - G B Warren, British biochemist
1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
1948 - Aldo Busi, Italian writer
1949 - Lord Sempill
1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
1950 - Anthony Lloyd, British MP
1950 - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
1950 - Neil Jordan, director (Crying Game)
1950 - Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
1950 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster
1951 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1952 - James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1952 - Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1952 - Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
1953 - Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
1953 - José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain
1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 - Steve Rixon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85)
1954 - John Doe, American musician
1955 - Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek)
1956 - Davie Cooper, soccer star
1957 - Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
1957 - Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1958 - Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
1959 - Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 - Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
1960 - Glen Bishop, cricketer (S Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987)
1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player
1962 - Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 - Cammy Ciarelli, Iowa City, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-2nd-1995)
1962 - Foster Emerson Sylvers, rocker
1963 - Alison Roberts, fashion designer
1963 - Paul O'Neill, Columbus OH, right fielder (Cin Reds, NY Yankees)
1963 - Tom McHale, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1964 - Don Majkowski, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Steve Nevius, film editor (Eden, Fall Time, Damascus)
1964 - Lee Evans, English comedian
1965 - Carrot Top, [Scott Thompson], Fla, comedian (Amer Comedy Award-1994)
1965 - Veronica Webb, supermodel/actress (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1965 - Brian Baker, American guitarist
1966 - Don Anurasiri, cricketer (Sri Lankan slow left-armer)
1966 - Samantha Phillips, Ft Meade MD, Penthouse Pet
1966 - Stacey Cortez, actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital)
1966 - Tea Leoni, NYC, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth)
1966 - Alexis Denisof, American actor
1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
1966 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
1967 - Jenny Byrne, Perth Australia, tennis star (1984 Futures-Wyong-AUS)
1967 - Nick Leeson, British banker (Baring bank)
1967 - Rich Rowland, US baseball catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1968 - David Hulse, US baseball outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1968 - Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
1969 - Donald Hodge, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 - Kerry Dienelt, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Oly-bronze-96)
1969 - Michelle Gibson, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 - Alfred Jordan, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Brian O'Neal, NFL full back (SF 49ers)
1970 - Corey Mayfield, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Dave Brown, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
1970 - Joe Bowden, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Troy Mallette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Andrew Hermann, US 50K walker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Byron Dafoe, Sussex England, NHL goalie (LA Kings)
1971 - David Fox, US, 50m freestyle (Olympics-6th-96)
1971 - Helen Dobson, Skegness England, golfer (1993 State Farm Rail Classic)
1971 - Jennifer LaVoie, Nashua NH, playmate (Aug, 1993)
1971 - Nova Peris, Darwin Australia, field hockey left halfback (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sean Astin, LA California, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers)
1971 - Dave Harris, American disc jockey
1972 - Chris Harrison, guard (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Erwin van de Looi, soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 - Sean Harris, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1973 - Daryl Gardener, defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Kirrily Sharpe, Bankstown Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Saga-JPN)
1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
1973 - Anson Mount, American actor
1973 - Julio José Iglesias, Spanish singer
1973 - Normann Stadler, German triathlete
1974 - Detron Smith, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 - Tamarick Vanover, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Hercules Kyvelos, Montreal Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
1976 - Chris Pitman, rocker (Zaum, Tool)
1976 - Samaki Walker, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician
1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
1977 - Josh Wolff, American footballer
1979 - Jennifer Ferrin, American actress
1979 - David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor
1980 - Antonio Burks, American basketball player
1980 - Christy Knowings, American actress
1981 - Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
1981 - Misty Giles, American beauty queen and Survivor contestant
1981 - Jamie Lynn, American model
1981 - Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
1982 - Chris Baird, Irish footballer
1982 - Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
1982 - Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
1982 - Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
1983 - Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
1984 - Logan Leistikow, American director and actor
1984 - Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
1985 - Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1986 - James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
1986 - Justin Berfield, American actor
1986 - Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1987 - Eva Avila, Canadian singer
1989 - Tony Oller, American actor
1992 - Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan, Columbia SC, sport pistol (Olympics-96)
1998 - Brendon Baerg, American actor