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This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Weddings

1901 - Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1988 - Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
2009 - Actress and skating champ Kristy Swanson (39) weds 1993 World Pair Skater Champion
          Lloyd Eisler (45) at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California

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This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Novelist Charles Dickens (1812)                Actor Ashton Kutcher (1978)


1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
1556 - Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
1589 - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
1612 - Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1655 - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1688 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
1693 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
1700 - Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen)
1707 - Carl August Thielo, composer
1710 - William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music
1739 - Joseph Pouteau, composer
1740 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
1753 - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
1758 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
1801 - John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1809 - Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
1812 - Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
1817 - Leroy Pope Walker, US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
1822 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer
1823 - Richard Genee, composer
1824 - William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
1825 - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer
1833 - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1834 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
1837 - James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
1839 - Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
1847 - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
1862 - Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
1863 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
1864 - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
1864 - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer
1866 - Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
1869 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
1871 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1872 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
1875 - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
1875 - Walter Courvoisier, composer
1877 - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
1877 - Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
1877 - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
1878 - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer
1883 - Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
1883 - Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
1887 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
1889 - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
1891 - Joachim Stutschewsky, composer
1891 - Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
1896 - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
1896 - Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein)
1897 - Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer
1898 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
1899 - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1901 - Bob den Doolaard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
1902 - Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
1904 - Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
1905 - Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist
1905 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
1905 - Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1906 - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1906 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
1907 - Arthur George Bottomley, politician
1907 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
1909 - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
1909 - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
1910 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
1912 - Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
1912 - Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
1912 - Russell Drysdale, Australian Artist {d. 1981}
1914 - David Ignatow, US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
1914 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
1914 - Ralph Whitlock, writer
1915 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 - Dick Emery, London England, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love)
1918 - Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
1919 - Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1920 - Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
1920 - Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1921 - Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
1921 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
1922 - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
1923 - George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)
1923 - Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
1923 - Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
1924 - Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
1924 - Dora Bryan, [Broadhurst], Southport England, actress (Taste of Honey)
1924 - Hattie Jacques, Kent England, actress (Carry on Doctor)
1924 - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
1925 - Arthur Berry, artist
1925 - H Eisenreich, writer
1925 - Marius Constant, Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost)
1925 - Romolo Valli, actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia)
1926 - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1927 - John Buller, composer
1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
1928 - Al "Fuzzy" Smith, baseball player
1932 - Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1932 - Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
1933 - John Anderton, English footballer
1934 - Earl King, [Solomon Johnson], rocker
1934 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew)
1934 - Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
1934 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
1934 - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta
1935 - Herb Kohl, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1938 - Juan Pizarro, baseball player
1938 - Robert Frank Baksa, composer
1938 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
1940 - Gary Bond, England, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
1941 - Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
1942 - Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP (CDA)
1943 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)
1944 - Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect (CDA)
1944 - Berry [AH] Esselink, Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 - Michael A Andrews, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1945 - Gerald Davies, British rugby player
1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor (The Boxer)
1945 - Ian Jack, Scottish journalist
1946 - Hector Babenco, director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1946 - Lawrence Ascott, rocker (Isotope)
1946 - Sammy Johns, rocker (Politics, Religion & Her), (d. 2013)
1947 - Joe Shea, American journalist
1948 - Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1949 - Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
1949 - Sunil Wettimuny, cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
1949 - Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
1950 - Burt Hooton, baseball player
1950 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (KC Royals)
1950 - Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
1951 - Benny Ayala, baseball player
1951 - Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
1952 - Vasco Rossi, Italian singer
1953 - Robert Brazile, NFLer
1953 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
1954 - Miguel Ferrer, Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
1954 - Dieter Bohlen German composer
1954 - Brian Morton, Scottish writer
1955 - Charlie Puleo, baseball player
1955 - Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1955 - Mario Coutinho, Brazilian physician
1956 - Emo Philips, American comedian
1956 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
1957 - Carney Lansford, baseball player
1957 - Damaso Garcia, baseball player
1957 - Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007)
1958 - Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
1958 - Michele Drake, La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
1958 - Matt Ridley, British science writer
1959 - Brian Travers, rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
1959 - Sammy Lee, British soccer player
1960 - James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
1960 - Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1962 - Garth Brooks, Tulsa Oklahoma, country vocalist (No Fences, Double Live)
1962 - Alan Sippy, cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
1962 - David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
1963 - Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St Paul Minn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1963 - Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan & Holland)
1964 - Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead, Riverside California, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
1964 - Dona L Speir, Norwalk California, playmate (March, 1984)
1964 - Gretchen Magers, Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio TX, tennis star
1965 - Jason Gedrick, Chicago IL, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
1965 - Kristal Parker-Gregory, Columbus OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th)
1965 - Reginald Thal, soccer player (MVV)
1966 - Chris Rock, comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
1967 - Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene, Dayton Ohio, long jumper (Oly-br-92, 96)
1967 - Richie Burnett, Welsh darts player
1967 - Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
1968 - Ashely Allen, San Antonio TX, playmate (Aug, 1992)
1968 - Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria)
1968 - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)
1969 - Bucky Richardson, US football quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Fiona Robinson, Collie Western Aust, basketball player (Oly-bronze-96)
1970 - Chris Gardocki, NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Denis Chasse, Montreal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Stanley Roberts, NBA center (LA Clippers, Minn Timberwolves)
1971 - Andrew Currey, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Marvin Graves, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Aftab Habib, cricketer (Leicestershire righty batsman 1996)
1972 - John Slaney, St John's, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1972 - Essence Atkins, American actress
1972 - Alex Bassi, American race car driver
1972 - Robyn Lively, American actress
1973 - Billy Baumhoff, St Louis MO, soccer midfielder/forward (Oly-gold-96)
1973 - Juwan Howard, NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 - Kristin Godridge, Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1973 - Leanne Schuster, Mesa Az, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995)
1973 - Sonia Paquette, St-Janvier Quebec, hurdler (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tim Bowens, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Ryan Phillips, linebacker (NY Giants)
1974 - Steve Nash, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1974 - Emma McLaughlin, American novelist
1975 - Alexandre Daigle, Montreal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1975 - Marika Lehtimaki, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1976 - Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir, Miss Universe-Iceland (1996)
1976 - Terry Battle, running back (Detroit Lions)
1976 - Sreto Ristić, German footballer
1977 - Christine Scheels, New Berlin Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1977 - Hillary Wolf, Chicago, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1977 - Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman competitor
1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
1978 - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
1978 - Endy Chávez, baseball player
1978 - David Aebischer, National Hockey League goaltender
1979 - Cerina Vincent, Miss Nevada Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Jon Leicester, American baseball player
1983 - Christian Klien, Austrian racing driver
1983 - Teshome Getu, Ethiopian footballer
1983 - Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer
1985 - Tina Majorino, actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman)
1985 - Clara Bryant, American actress
1986 - Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress
1986 - Michael Orozco, American footballer
1988 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer
1988 - Matthew Stafford, American college football player
1989 - Louisa Lytton - British actress
1990 - Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 - Rachel Sibner, American actress
1992 - Miguel Andres Matienzo Guerra, Mexican athlete
1992 - Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
1993 - David Dorfman, American actor
1993 - Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1996 - Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer

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This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Deaths

                                           
Tyre Industrialist Harvey Firestone (1938)


590 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia
1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1593 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
1743 - Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 - William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
1820 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
1823 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1830 - Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1857 - Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1862 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
1865 - John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 - Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1881 - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
1911 - Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
1915 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1918 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 - Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
1931 - Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 - Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer, dies at 69
1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1940 - Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for Engld v Australia 1894-95), dies
1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1948 - "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
1954 - Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1957 - Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
1959 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 - Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1959 - Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1960 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1962 - Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 - Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Oly-gold-32), dies at 59
1965 - Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1968 - Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1968 - Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1969 - Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 - Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 - Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1980 - Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen of Greece (b. 1917)
1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 - Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
1986 - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1990 - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1990 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1991 - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
1991 - Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 - Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
1993 - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
1994 - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
1995 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 - Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
1996 - George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
1996 - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
1997 - Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
1998 - Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2002 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2009 - Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2012 - Patricia Stephens Due, African-American civil rights activist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at
           72
2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer, dies of natural causes at 80
2012 - Florence Holway, American rape victim and activist, dies at 96

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This Day in History for 8th February


Historical Events

                                             
Physicist & Mathematician                      Composer Tchaikovsky                           Animator Walter Elias Disney
Isaac Newton

                                             
Queen Elizabeth II                                    Basketball Player Bill Russell                Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt 

                           
NHL all-time top scorer                                   Actor Jack Nicholson
Wayne Gretzky


421 - Flavius Constantine becomes Co-Emperor as Emperor Constantius III of the Western Roman
          Empire with Honorius
1526 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
1575 - University Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis"
1600 - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1601 - Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
1622 - King James I disbands the English parliament
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1690 - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
1690 - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
1693 - William & Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1735 - 1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
1743 - Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
1744 - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
1750 - Minor earthquake in London
1775 - Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner
1776 - Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
1802 - Simon Willard patents banjo clock
1807 - Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1809 - Franz I of Austria declares war on France
1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
1849 - New Roman Republic established.
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1862 - Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the
           Royal Canadian Institute.
1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
1887 - Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
1887 - Under the Dawes Act indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
1887 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal
           land and divide it into individual allotments.
1889 - Flood ravages Dutch coast
1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1895 - Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
1896 - Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
1896 - Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
1904 - Russo-Japanese War begins
1905 - Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
1908 - Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
1909 - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1911 - US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
1914 - General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
1915 - "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
1916 - French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1916 - NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
1918 - "Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1920 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1922 - Radio arrives at the White House
1923 - Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1923 - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
1925 - Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC
1925 - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1926 - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
1926 - Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
1926 - Walt Disney Studios forms
1927 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1929 - KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
1930 - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1931 - Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
1933 - -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1934 - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
1934 - Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
1935 - 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
1936 - 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
1936 - 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
1936 - 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1936 - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1937 - Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC
1940 - Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC
1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
1941 - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941 - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 - Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
1942 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so
           they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1943 - Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 - Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1946 - Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US
1946 - Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
1947 - Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
1947 - KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 - 5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1949 - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
1952 - "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV
1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
1953 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1953 - WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
1955 - Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000
           km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1956 - Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1958 - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1958 - French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
1958 - KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1960 - Congress opens hearings looking into payola
1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and
           her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the
           name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1962 - KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1963 - AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London
1964 - Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964
           Civil Rights Act
1965 - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
1965 - Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
1967 - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1967 - Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1967 - Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
1969 - Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1969 - Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1971 - Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1971 - The Nasdaq stock market index debuts.
1972 - Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
1973 - Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC
1973 - Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ
1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974 - "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
1974 - Ringo releases "You're 16"
1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
1974 - Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1975 - 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
1976 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
1976 - Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
1977 - Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
1977 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
1978 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
1981 - "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1981 - "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
1981 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1982 - Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-
           Lopes-Garvey)
1983 - 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander
1983 - Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
1983 - Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
1983 - Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC
1983 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
1983 - Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays
           $10.6 million insurance
1984 - 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 - 1st time 8 people in space
1984 - A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
1984 - Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1985 - 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
1985 - Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
1985 - Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
1985 - Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
1986 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1986 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner
          Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two
           pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top
           explosive experts in the world.
1987 - 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
1987 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1988 - NASA launches DOD-2
1989 - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 - Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 - US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
1990 - David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
1990 - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to
           him by a gay magazine
1991 - Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
1992 - "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1993 - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1993 - GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show
           that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1994 - Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1994 - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
1995 - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
1996 - NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the
           Browns' name behind
1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
1998 - 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 - 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC
1998 - NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
2008 - Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method.

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This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Divorces

2011 - Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (26) divorces rock band Fall Out Boy bassist
           Pete Wentz (31) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half years of marriage

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This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Actress Lana Turner (1920)                      Actor James Dean (1931)                             Writer John Grisham (1955)

412 - St Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57)
1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1552 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
1577 - Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
1586 - Jacob Praetorius, composer
1612 - Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
1649 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
1685 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
1708 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1741 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1764 - Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer
1789 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
1792 - Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
1795 - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
1795 - Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer
1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1807 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman
1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
1810 - Norbert Burgmuller, composer
1811 - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
1813 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
1817 - Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1818 - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
1819 - John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite)
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1822 - Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
1824 - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1828 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer
1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1847 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
1851 - Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
1852 - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20]
1859 - John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
1878 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)
1882 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist)
1882 - Thomas Selfridge, First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
1883 - Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance
1884 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
1885 - Edith Evans, London England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield)
1886 - Charlie Ruggles, LA California, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show)
1888 - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic
1888 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
1890 - Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of US colonialism
1891 - Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1892 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher
1895 - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
1896 - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
1900 - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer
1900 - John Cameron, judge
1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1901 - Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
1902 - Lyle Talbot, [Lysle Hollywood], Pittsburgh, actor (Glen or Glenda)
1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
1904 - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
1905 - Truman Bradley, MO, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
1906 - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
1906 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
1906 - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
1908 - Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
1908 - Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
1908 - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
1909 - Henry Roth, writer
1911 - Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)
1911 - Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
1911 - Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
1912 - Simon Jurovsky, composer
1913 - Betty Field, Boston MA, actress (Kings Row, Bus Stop)
1913 - John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
1914 - Bert Haas, baseball player
1914 - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1915 - Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
1918 - John Intoxication, resistance fighter
1918 - Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire
1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1919 - Buddy Morrow, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1920 - Buddy Blattner, baseball player
1920 - Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
1921 - Hoot Evers, baseball player
1922 - Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
1922 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
1923 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
1924 - Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
1924 - Joe Black, baseball player
1925 - Alvin Brehm, composer
1925 - Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
1925 - Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
1926 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
1927 - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
1927 - Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu)
1927 - Zdenek Zouhar, composer
1928 - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer
1930 - Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
1930 - Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977- )
1930 - Catherine Hardy, Carollton Ga, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1930 - Manuel Castillo, composer
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1931 - James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
1932 - Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
1932 - John Towner Williams, Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
1933 - Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)
1933 - Jack Larson, LA California, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
1934 - Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)
1934 - Nick Nolte, Omaha Nebr, actor (Teachers, 48 Hrs, Rich Man Poor Man)
1935 - Vincent Weir 3rd baron Inverforth, Scottish shipping magnate
1936 - Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
1936 - Larry Verne, singer (Custer)
1936 - Manohar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India v WI 1958-59)
1937 - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
1937 - Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor (Boxer)
1938 - Ray Sharpe, singer
1939 - Barry Mann, vocalist (Who Put the Bump)
1939 - Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)
1939 - José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1940 - Averil Cameron, British(?) historian
1940 - Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
1940 - Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, American journalist (ABC Nightline)
1941 - Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
1942 - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1942 - Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
1942 - Terry Melcher, Rip Chords, Doris Day's son
1943 - Bob Oliver, baseball player
1943 - Creed Bratton, California, rock guitarist (Grass Roots-Sooner or Later)
1943 - Jose de Almeida Prado, composer
1943 - Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University
1944 - Bunky Henry, golfer
1944 - Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
1946 - "Fito" Adolpho De La Parra, LA California, rocker (Canned Heat-Hot Money)
1946 - Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1947 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)
1948 - Dan Seals, McCamey Texas, country singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley-You Still Move Me)
1948 - Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1949 - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
1949 - Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
1949 - Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1950 - Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
1950 - Michael Goodroe, rock bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1950 - Ted Turner, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1950 - Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress
1951 - Camille LaPierre, NHLer
1951 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
1952 - Hans Van de Lubbe, Dutch bassist/singer (Dike)
1952 - Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
1953 - Mary Steenburgen, Newport Ark, actress (Parenthood, Time After Time)
1953 - Roger Clavet, Québécois politician
1954 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, [Russell], New Orl, wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1955 - Ethan Phillips, actor (Neelix-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 - Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)
1955 - John Grisham, writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief)
1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1956 - Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard)
1958 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1959 - Heinz Gunthardt, Switzerland, tennis star
1959 - Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Pamela Jean Bryant, Indianapolis In, playmate (April, 1978)
1960 - Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)
1960 - Linda Fratianne, LA California, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1961 - Sammy Llanas, rocker (Bodeans)
1961 - Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe)
1961 - Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin, cricketer (elegant Indian batsman 1984-)
1963 - Raleigh MCkenzie, NFL center/guard (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1963 - Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter
1964 - Dennis Gibson, NFL inside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 - Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru
1965 - Carmen Savy, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)
1965 - Jim Thornton, NFL tight end (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Lee Knight, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 - Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce)
1965 - Rod Bernstine, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Terry McDaniel, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders, LA Raiders)
1966 - Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, American actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
1966 - Kirk Muller, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 - Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
1968 - Joy Fawcett, Inglewood California, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ron Goetz, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
1969 - Herb Hohenberger, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1969 - Mary McCormack, actress, (Murder One, Private Parts)
1969 - Shiva Rose, American actress
1970 - Alonzo Mourning, NBA center (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets)
1970 - Cameron Cuffy, cricketer (St Vincent & WI fast bowler 1994-)
1970 - John Filan, Australian footballer
1971 - Heidi Mark, Columbus OH, playmate (Jul, 1995)
1972 - Adrian Rollins, cricketer (Derbyshire batsman, bro of Robert of Essex)
1972 - Marcus Pollard, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Andreas Gliatis, soccer player (NEC)
1973 - Dave Dopek, Bolingbrook Illinois, 200m runner
1973 - Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Michelle Brogan, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Tom King, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 - Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer
1974 - Seth Green, American actor
1974 - Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist
1975 - Damon Denson, guard (New England Patriots)
1975 - Joshua Morrow. Juneau Alaska, actor (Nicholas Newman-Young & Restless)
1976 - Holly Manthei, Edina Minn, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Jim Parque, Norwalk California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
1977 - Dave Farrell, American musician (Linkin Park)
1977 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
1978 - Christa Williams, Houston TX, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1979 - Tara Tucker, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Aaron Cook, American baseball player
1979 - Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
1980 - Ralf Little, English actor/comedian
1980 - Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet)
1980 - Stephen Wright, English footballer
1981 - Tommy Michaels, Staten Island NY, actor (Timmy Hutton-All My Children)
1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1982 - Eric Alexander, American football player
1982 - Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1982 - Danny Tamberelli, American actor
1983 - Jim Verraros, American singer
1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1987 - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
1988 - Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress
1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

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This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Deaths

                                             
Russian Tsar Peter the Great (1725)     Baseball Legend Connie Mack (1956)          Mr Jaguar William Lyons (1985)

1124 - Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies
1245 - Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies
1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 - William II Longespee
1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1303 - Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies
1513 - Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curacao & Bonaire), dies
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator
1611 - Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1650 - John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74
1676 - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia, dies at 46
1686 - Francois Tak, Dutch diplomat on Java, murdered
1691 - Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect/composer, dies at 79
1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer, dies at 50
1725 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia (1682-1725) dies of uremia at
           52
1740 - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66
1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
1771 - Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies
1797 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81
1801 - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer, dies at 43
1821 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
1824 - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
1849 - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48
1849 - Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1874 - David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66
1878 - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83
1884 - Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76
1907 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
1909 - Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80
1909 - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32
1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
1920 - Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56
1921 - Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
1921 - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
1924 - Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies
1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang
1935 - Max Liebermann, Ger impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87
1937 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian, dies at 75
1942 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50
1944 - Clem Wilson, cricketer (bro of Rockley, 2 Tests for Engld 1896), dies
1946 - Miles Mander, actor/director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57
1947 - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65
1949 - Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81
1949 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54
1953 - Cliff Clark, actor (Golden Hoofs, Kid Glove Killer), dies at 63
1954 - Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
1956 - Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
1957 - John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53
1959 - William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76
1960 - Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
1960 - John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1961 - William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at 81
1963 - Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
1963 - George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55
1964 - Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91
1968 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1972 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
1973 - Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies
1974 - Fern Andra, dies at 80
1974 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75
1975 - Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75
1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1979 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1980 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 - John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 - Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71
1985 - Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75
1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer, dies at 84
1987 - Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
1987 - Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies
1987 - Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
1988 - Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67
1989 - Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1990 - Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
1991 - Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
1992 - Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93
1993 - Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
1993 - Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73
1993 - Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
1993 - Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
1993 - Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
1994 - Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
1994 - Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
1994 - Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1995 - B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70
1995 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
1995 - William Fulbright, US politician, dies
1996 - John Hartford Worlock, RC Bishop (Liverpool), dies at 76
1996 - Mercer Kennedy Ellington, trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76
1997 - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57
1998 - William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78
1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
1998 - Enoch Powell, British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b.1912)
1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2000 - Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (b.1942)
2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 - Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy playmate and tabloid fixture dies suddenly at 39
2007 - Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 - Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2009 - Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 - John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
2011 - Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2012 - Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian rock musician, dies from lung cancer at 62
2012 - Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi, dies at 99

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This Day in History for 9th February


Historical Events

         
Pop Star Madonna

474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1499 - France & Venice sign treaty against Milan
1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
1540 - The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
1554 - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1574 - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
1621 - Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty
1674 - English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1682 - Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London
1742 - British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1775 - English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion
1788 - Austria declares war on Russia
1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1801 - France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville
1807 - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
1822 - American Indian Society organizes
1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1849 - Roman Republic declared
1861 - Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
1861 - Tennessee votes against secession
1861 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent
           with constitution of Confederate states
1863 - Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1870 - US Army establishes US National Weather Service
1871 - Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 - Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1893 - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1900 - Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1904 - Japan declares war on Russia
1906 - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
1909 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1912 - US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
1913 - -18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1916 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1916 - NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to
           22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
1918 - Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
1918 - Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris
1920 - International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
1920 - Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
1922 - Italian government of Bonomi falls
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1925 - German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
1925 - Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1929 - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1932 - America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
1933 - -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
1934 - -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
1934 - -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
1934 - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
1935 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1935 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 - Belgian Spaak government falls
1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - British troops conquer El Agheila
1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No
           Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1942 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 - Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 - German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp
1943 - Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1943 - NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears
1943 - Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
1945 - -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
1945 - The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.
1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
1948 - WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1951 - St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
1953 - "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1953 - WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes
           acting director of CIA
1954 - Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1956 - -5°F (15°C) in Sicily
1956 - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1956 - R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
1959 - Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2
1960 - AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1961 - Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - GI Joe character created
1964 - Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
1964 - NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1966 - Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1968 - Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
1969 - Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
1969 - KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 - World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
1971 - Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1972 - Brit government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly
           in Orissa, India.
1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1976 - Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
1979 - ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1979 - Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1979 - Nigeria amends constitution
1980 - Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
1982 - 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1984 - "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances
1985 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 - 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1986 - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1986 - Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1986 - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
1986 - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1987 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 - NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1988 - 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis
1988 - NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 - "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1990 - Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified
1991 - "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
1991 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
1991 - Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him
1991 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 - Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
1992 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
1992 - 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando
1992 - Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
1992 - Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
1992 - NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
1992 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary
1993 - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1995 - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
1995 - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
1996 - WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a
           large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
1997 - 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
1997 - 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1997 - LG Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
1997 - Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
1997 - Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
1997 - Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in
          cartoon history
1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze
2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a
           Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

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This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Parminder Nagra files for divorce from photographer James Stenson due to irreconcilable
           differences after 3 years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943)         Novelist Alice Walker (1944)                   Cricketer Glenn McGrath (1970)

1404 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
1441 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1578 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)
1579 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], Dutch historian
1602 - Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza
1607 - Abraham Megerle, composer
1645 - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
1666 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1735 - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian
1741 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
1744 - Amos Bull, composer
1748 - Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
1756 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer
1763 - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
1769 - Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
1771 - Daniel Belknap, composer
1773 - William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1775 - Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
1780 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1808 - Francesco Gomez da Rocha, composer
1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
1822 - Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
1826 - John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1834 - Felix Dahn, writer
1834 - Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1839 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
1846 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
1853 - Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1854 - Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
1854 - Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
1857 - Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
1863 - Anthony Hope [Hopkins], London, novelist
1865 - Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
1865 - Mrs [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Pygmalion)
1866 - George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)
1867 - Edward Naylor, composer
1871 - Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood)
1871 - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1874 - Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed)
1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)
1875 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
1876 - Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
1879 - Carl Natanael Berg, composer
1879 - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist
1880 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
1882 - Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12)
1884 - Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
1885 - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
1887 - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
1887 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
1890 - Jacobus J P Oud, Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl)
1891 - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
1891 - Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Acad Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
1892 - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice)
1892 - Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama)
1892 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936)
1895 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
1897 - Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator
1901 - Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island)
1901 - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
1902 - Blanche Calloway, US vocalist/dancer (12 Clouds of Joy)
1902 - Chester H Lauck, Allene AR, actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live)
1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
1903 - Georg Trexler, composer
1906 - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
1906 - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
1907 - Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
1908 - Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1909 - Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
1909 - Harald Genzmer, composer
1909 - Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
1909 - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist
1911 - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord
1911 - William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945)
1912 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist
1913 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
1914 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
1914 - Max Manus, resistance fighter
1914 - Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Circus Time)
1915 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
1916 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1921 - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director (RAF Nursing Service)
1921 - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
1922 - James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner
1923 - Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson, NC, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
1923 - Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1924 - George Guest, British organist
1925 - Vic Wertz, baseball player
1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
1926 - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
1927 - Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
1927 - Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1928 - Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1928 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
1928 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1929 - Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer
1929 - Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test WI v Aust 1955, 16 & 2-151)
1929 - Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
1929 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 - Emil Petrovics, composer
1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 - Robert Morris, sculptor
1931 - Xavier Benguerel, composer
1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
1932 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
1933 - Countess of Airlie
1933 - Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer
1933 - Justice Johnson
1933 - Lord Williams of Elvel
1934 - John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)
1935 - Paul Flynn, MP
1936 - Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1936 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer
1937 - Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist
1937 - Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
1937 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 - Barry Mann, R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)
1940 - Brian Bennett, London, rock drummer (Shadows)
1941 - Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress (Zelda-Dobie Gillis)
1942 - Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1942 - Charlie Morrow, composer
1942 - Milos Stedron, composer
1942 - Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
1943 - Barbara Lewis, US vocalist (Hello Stranger)
1943 - James King, New Orleans LA, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
1943 - Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Ryland Davies, tenor
1943 - Squire Fridell, Oakland California, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
1945 - Bill Bergey, NFLer
1945 - Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1946 - Annette Penhaligon
1946 - M J H Sterling, Vice-Chancellor (Brunel University)
1946 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
1946 - Vince Papale, American football player
1946 - Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
1947 - Joe Ely, Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
1947 - Major Harris, US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait)
1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
1949 - Bernard Gallacher, British golfer
1949 - Janet Issaca Ashford, writer
1949 - Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
1950 - Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Lloyd Weldon Keasor, Pumphrey Md, wrestler (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator
1950 - Richard F. Colburn, American politician
1951 - Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & Gang-Celebration)
1951 - Jay Inslee, (Rep-D-Washington)
1951 - Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing)
1952 - Danny White, quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player
1953 - Andre Sevard, NHLer
1953 - Antonius GM "Toon" Agterberg, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1953 - Gary Franks, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1953 - Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
1954 - Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut
1954 - Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
1954 - Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
1954 - Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives, Nanny)
1955 - Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
1956 - Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1957 - Gordon Strachan, soccer player
1957 - Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
1958 - Alexander W B Lyle, Shrewsbury England, PGA golfer (1988 Phoenix Open)
1958 - Sandy Lyle, British golfer
1958 - Cyrille Regis, English former footballer
1960 - Peggy A Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut
1960 - Holly Johnson, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
1961 - John Kruk, US baseball 1st baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1961 - Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
1962 - Diego Perez, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1963 - Bonnie Levin, Miami Beach Fla, WPVA volleyballer
1963 - Madusa Miceli, [Debra Ann], Milan Italy, wrestler (WCW)
1963 - Mike Rindel, cricketer (N Transvaal opening bat ODI ton v Pak 1995)
1963 - Travis Tritt, Marietta Ga, country vocalist (Country Club)
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
1964 - Rachel Bolan, rocker (Skid Row)
1965 - David Brandon, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater
1966 - Amanda Roocroft, opera singer
1966 - James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
1966 - Harald Eia, Norwegian TV - comedian
1967 - Kate Golden, Beaumont Texas, LPGA golfer (1992 Ping/Welch-5th)
1967 - Stevon Moore, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Todd Pratt, US baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Derek Strong, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Orlando Magic)
1968 - Marcus Meloan, Agana Guam, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 US Amat Champ)
1968 - Paul Claxton, Vidalia GA, Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th)
1968 - Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer
1968 - Rahul Roy, Indian actor
1969 - Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Jimmy Smith, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Peta Edebone, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1969 - Todd Lyght, US football quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1970 - Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)
1970 - Grant Moorhead, New Plymouth NZ, Australasia golfer
1971 - Gonzalo Floyd, CFL defensive end (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Jason Mathews, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Jim Miller, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Atl Falcons, Jaguars)
1971 - Ken Felder, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Pat O'Neill, NFL punter/place kicker (NE Patriots)
1971 - Sharon Case, Det Mich, actress (Sharon Collins-Young & Restless)
1971 - Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer
1972 - Jason George, actor (Michael Bourre-Sunset Beach)
1972 - Norbert Rosza, Hungarian swimmer (100m freestyle record)
1972 - Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
1972 - Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1973 - Amber Valletta, Phoenix AZ, model (Face, House of Style, Bazaar)
1973 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
1973 - Colin Egglesfield, American actor
1974 - Brad Maynard, punter (NY Giants)
1974 - John Wallace, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Orlando Bobo, guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 - Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete
1975 - Clinton Grybas, Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
1976 - Georgios Korakakis, Greek footballer
1976 - Charlie Day, American actor
1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Airton Daré, Brazilian racing driver
1978 - Daniel Mann, British television commentator
1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
1979 - Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball pitcher
1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
1980 - Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
1980 - Shelly Martinez, American wrestler
1981 - Joël Camathias, Swiss racing driver
1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
1982 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
1983 - Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
1984 - Han Kyung, Korean singer Super Junior
1984 - Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
1986 - Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
1987 - Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
1987 - Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
1989 - Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer
1990 - Camille Winbush, American actress
1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Deaths

         
Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)

1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 - John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1567 - Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1588 - Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies
1617 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44
1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1640 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1670 - Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
1675 - Gerrit Dou / Gerard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1740 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
1751 - Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1765 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
1811 - Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies
1812 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1817 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1824 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1846 - Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1849 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1860 - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63
1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1891 - Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
1916 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
1916 - Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
1917 - Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
1918 - Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
1924 - Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1932 - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1935 - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
1936 - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
1938 - Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1943 - ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
1945 - George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
1945 - Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1948 - Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65
1949 - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1952 - Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies
1957 - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
1960 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1961 - Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1964 - Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1968 - Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
1968 - Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
1969 - Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Oly-gold 1928), dies at 68
1969 - [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 - Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1973 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1974 - Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
1975 - Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82
1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 - Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1977 - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1977 - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1978 - Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1979 - C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 - Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106
1980 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
1981 - Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 - Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
1984 - Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1993 - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1993 - Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
1993 - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
1994 - Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
1994 - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
1994 - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1995 - David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
1995 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 - Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
1996 - Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80
1996 - Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44
1996 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80
1996 - Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86
1996 - Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74
1997 - Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53
1998 - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 - Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author.
2008 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of
           the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 - Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
2009 - Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b.
          1970)
2010 - Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (b. 1956)
2010 - Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)

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This Day in History for 10th February


Historical Events

                                             
Military and Political Leader                30th US President Calvin Coolidge          Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
Simon Bolivar

                           
Playwright Arthur Miller                                Singer Rod Stewart

                           
Anti-apartheid activist/                          King of Pop Michael Jackson
South African President
Nelson Mandela


60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps     
           30 locals dead in two days.
1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1549 - Tomé de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil
1635 - Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1713 - Neth & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 - English Pelham government resigns
1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and
           then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1824 - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1846 - Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 - Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 - John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 - Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1866 - Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
1868 - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1878 - Peace of Zanjón
1878 - Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 - Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1880 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
1881 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
1882 - Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg
1883 - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 - -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam
1900 - Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur
           disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1906 - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 - Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1913 - Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC
1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
1917 - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor
1920 - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating
           restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1923 - Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC
1923 - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1924 - Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators)
1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
1925 - AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
1926 - Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 - Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in
           Honolulu
1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1931 - Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC
1933 - -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
1933 - Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1933 - Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 - Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 - Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC
1934 - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1934 - Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
1935 - 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
1937 - Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2)
1938 - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 - "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1940 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1940 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1941 - Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo
           Choo"
1943 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 - U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 - "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 - Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 - WW II peace treaties signed
1948 - Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1949 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 - "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1953 - Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB
1953 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB
1953 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
1953 - Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1954 - Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB
1954 - Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN
1954 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
1954 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
1956 - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
1959 - Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1960 - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs
1960 - Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres
1961 - AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1961 - Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
1962 - USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1963 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
1963 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
1964 - Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
1964 - WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1966 - Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1968 - "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1969 - LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
1970 - 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
1970 - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian,
           French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
1971 - American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
1971 - Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
1971 - John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC
1971 - Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1972 - BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 - Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 - 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1973 - Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin
1974 - "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
1974 - Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1974 - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 - Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
1974 - Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1975 - William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1977 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 perfs
1977 - Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
1977 - Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1979 - "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1979 - Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
1980 - Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in NYC
1980 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 - 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA
1981 - 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1981 - Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
1982 - 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
1983 - Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
1985 - Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
1985 - 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
1985 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 - "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
1987 - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
1988 - Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on
           homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1989 - Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1989 - Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
1989 - Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
1989 - Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
1989 - Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
1990 - 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
1990 - Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
1990 - South Africa president de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
1990 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1991 - "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances
1991 - 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
1991 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
1991 - Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
1991 - Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1991 - NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
1992 - "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1992 - Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1993 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1993 - "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56
           share, 90 million people
1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
1995 - Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
1995 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
1996 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov
1997 - 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 - 5th annual ESPY Awards presented
1997 - Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown
           Heights Brooklyn in 1991
1998 - AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to
           abandon that law.
2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of
           protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of
           South Korea.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Weddings

1840 - British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later
           the Prince Consort at St James' Palace
1863 - PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating
            restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1934 - British born actor "North by Northwest" Cary Grant (30) weds "City Lights" actress Virginia
           Cherrill (26)
1946 - 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
1951 - Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
2006 - "Creed" former lead singer Scott Stapp (32) weds Miss New York USA 2004 winner Jaclyn
            Nesheiwat (25) in Miami

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This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Divorces

2011 - Former Playboy model Camille Donatacci (42) divorces "Frazier" actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer
           (56) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Birthdays

                                             
Novelist & Poet                                               Opera Soprano                                Golfer Greg Norman (1955)
Boris Pasternak (1890)                           Leontyne Mary Violet Price (1927)


1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John sorryling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1637 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1670 - Norbert van Flowers, [Cephalus], Flemish painter
1670 - William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1685 - Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)
1686 - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany
1696 - Johann Melchior Molter, composer
1702 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer
1717 - Pierre de La Garde, composer
1728 - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)
1735 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1741 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer
1750 - Stanislao Mattei, composer
1775 - Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1788 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
1807 - Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 - Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
1819 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1821 - William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864)
1824 - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
1827 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder
1841 - Walter Parratt, composer
1846 - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee
1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1847 - A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1862 - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1866 - Bror Beckman, composer
1866 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1869 - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer
1870 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1872 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1879 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer
1880 - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
1884 - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1887 - [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]
1888 - G Ungaretti, writer
1889 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1890 - Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
1891 - Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada (1945-52)
1892 - Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
1893 - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
1894 - Roy D'Arcy, SF, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer
1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows)
1898 - Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
1898 - Robert Keith, Fowler IN, actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One)
1900 - Rebecca Negrin
1902 - Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste)
1902 - Stella Adler, NY, actress (My Girl Tisa)
1902 - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
1903 - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)
1905 - John Dierkes, OH, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)
1905 - Max Schubert, winemaker
1905 - Vilko Ukmar, composer
1905 - Walter Brown, sports organizer (NBA)
1906 - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
1906 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
1906 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1906 - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1907 - Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
1908 - Jean Coulthard, composer
1909 - Lord Milne
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1910 - Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return)
1910 - Joyce Grenfell, actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily)
1910 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
1912 - Lord Orr-Ewing
1913 - Philippa Bevans, actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient)
1913 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
1916 - Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1918 - Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1918 - Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman
1920 - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
1920 - J Heslop-Harrison, botanist
1921 - Adrian Cruft, composer
1922 - Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
1922 - Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile, NHLer
1924 - Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
1926 - Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player
1927 - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1927 - Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1927 - Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1928 - Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-St Louis, 1973- )
1928 - Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1929 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1929 - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
1929 - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
1930 - Peter Phillips, composer [or Jun 18]
1930 - Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
1931 - Gerhard Rosenfeld, composer
1931 - Makoto Shinohara, composer
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, writer
1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor
1932 - Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
1932 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 - Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
1935 - Salvator Pueyo, composer
1935 - Theodore Antoniou, composer
1936 - Olwyn Bowey, painter
1936 - Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
1937 - Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
1937 - Lord Justice Rose
1937 - Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
1939 - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
1939 - Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1940 - Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic
1940 - Jimmy Merchant, rocker
1940 - Mary Rand-Bignal-Toomey, England, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1964)
1940 - Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's)
1941 - John Hampshire, cricketer (of Yorkshire Century on debut for Eng 1969)
1941 - Michael Apted, director/researcher (Granada TV)
1942 - Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
1942 - Michael Bishop, CEO (British Midland Airways)
1943 - Ral Donner, [Ralph Stuart], Black Mountain NC, singer (Starfires)
1944 - Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1945 - Klas Tuinstra, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Keith Mans, MP
1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 - Conrad Cummings, composer
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 - Joe Lavender, NFLer
1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 - Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
1950 - Mark Spitz, Modesto California, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72)
1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, Glendale California, author (Prize Pulitzer)
1951 - Zeudi Araya, Asmara Ethiopia, Miss Ethiopia (1969)
1951 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1952 - Mike Varty, NFLer
1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1953 - Carl Joseph Stone, composer
1953 - John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 - Greg Norman, Queensland, Australia, PGA golfer (1984 Kemper)
1955 - Lusia Mae Harris, Minter City Miss, basketball player (Oly-silver-76)
1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
1957 - Debbie Brinkley, Tasmania, golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
1957 - Pranab Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982)
1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
1959 - Tonga, [Uliuli Fifita], wrestler (WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders)
1959 - Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 - Lionel Cartwright, Ohio, country vocalist (I Watched it on the Radio)
1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 - David Ward, cricketer (prolific Surrey batsman)
1961 - Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton)
1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
1962 - Cliff Burton, rocker (Metallica)
1962 - Jean-Marie Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1963 - Bennie Thompson, NFLer (Saints, Chiefs, Cleveland Browns/Ravens)
1963 - Harris Huizingh, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1963 - Joakim Nystrom, Sweden, tennis star
1963 - Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 - Francesca Neri, Trento Italy, actress (Ages of Lulu)
1964 - Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1964 - Roger Reijners, soccer player (MVV)
1964 - Sam Graddy, Gaffney SC, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1964 - Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1965 - Lenny Webster, New Orleans LA, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Marjolein Macrander, Dutch actress (Drowned)
1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
1966 - Daryl Johnston, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Laura Dern, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Jurassic Park, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1967 - Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 - Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFLer (NY Jets, St Louis)
1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1968 - Peter Popovic, Koping Swe, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Ryan Bowen, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1969 - Jayhawk Owens, Cincinnati Ohio, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1969 - Tim Clark, US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 - Laurie Dhue, American television personality
1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican/US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1971 - Kevin Sefcik, Oaklawn IL, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 - Marty Nothstein, Allentown Pa, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Wayne Gandy, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1972 - Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler v WI 1996)
1972 - Nancy Christian, Scottsdale Az, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1995)
1972 - Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1974 - Andrew English, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1974 - Lea Ghirardi-Rubbi, Colombes France, tennis star (1994 Futures NC)
1974 - Ty Law, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 - Tina Thompson, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1975 - Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case
1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1977 - Stephanie Ann Foisy, Concord NH, Miss America-NH (1996)
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 - Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress