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February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author. 1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet. 1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine. 1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure. 1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the U.S. State Department was infested with Communists. 1965 ~ The first U.S. combat troops were sent to South Vietnam. 1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1984 ~ Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev. 2001 ~ The submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) accidentally struck and sank the Ehime-Maru. |
February 10th
1840 ~ Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1890 ~ Birthday of Boris Pasternak, Poet, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature. 1898 ~ Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, Author. 1927 ~ Birthday of Leontyne Price, Soprano. 1933 ~ The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York. Sic transit gloria mundi. 1962 ~ Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1996 ~ Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. :( 2005 ~ Death of Arthur Miller, playwright . 2005 ~ North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons.. 2007 ~ Sen. Barack Obama announced his bid for president. |
February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist. 1938 ~ BBC Television produced the first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.') 1941 ~ Birthday of Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician (Brazil '66). 1945 ~ President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement. 1961 ~ The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. 1979 ~ Followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, after the religious leader returned to his home after his exile. 1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author. 1990 ~ South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. 2011 ~ Arab Spring: Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt. |
February 12th
1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist.
1924 ~ George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' premiered in New York City. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops enter Austria. 1942 ~ Birthday of Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel. 1976 ~ Birthday of Silvia Saint, Czech Porn Actress. 1984 ~ Birthday of Lolly Badcock, former Porn Actress. 1994 ~ Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen from a museum in Norway. 1999 ~ The U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. 2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. 2002 ~ The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began in The Hague. |
February 13th
1883 ~ Death of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Chuck Yeager, pilot of first supersonic flight. 1935 ~ A jury found Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. 1945 ~ The RAF & USAAF created a firestorm in Dresden, Germany which killed tens of thousands of civilians. 1960 ~ France tested its first nuclear weapon. 1974 ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature, was exiled from the Soviet Union. 1988 ~ Winter Olympic Games opened in Calgary, Alberta. 1991 ~ Hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed when a pair of laser-guided bombs destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad identified by U.S. officials as a military installation, but which Iraqi officials said was a bomb shelter. 1997 ~ Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope performed by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. 2002 ~ Death of Waylon Jennings, American musician. |
February 14th
1779 ~ James Cook was killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
1895 ~ First performance of Oscar Wilde's last play "The Importance of Being Earnest”. 1929 ~ The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage. 1943 ~ Death of David Hilbert, Mathematician & Physicist. Interestingly, one of his doctoral students was Emanuel Lasker, who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. 1945 ~ U.S. President Roosevelt met with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the US-Saudi diplomatic relationship. 1950 ~ Karl Jansky, Discoverer of cosmic radio waves. 1989 ~ The first of the 24 Global Positioning System satellites was placed into orbit. 1989 ~ Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of ''The Satanic Verses,'' a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous. 2003 ~ Death of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of Saint Valentine. |
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February 15th
1898 ~ The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260.
1942 ~ Sigapore fell to the Japanese. The Sook Ching massacre followed. 1954 ~ Birthday of Matt Groening, Satirist. 1965 ~ Death of Nat “King” Cole, Singer. 1965 ~ A new red and white maple leaf design was adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1970 ~ Death of Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. 1974 ~ Birthday of Gina Lynn, Porn actress. 1988 ~ Death of Richard Feynman, Physicist. 1995 ~ Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the more "secure" U.S. computer systems. 2005 ~ YouTube was launched. |
February 16th
1923 ~ Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1935 ~ Birthday of Sonny Bono, Singer & Congressman. 1937 ~ Wallace Carothers received a patent for nylon. 1942 ~ Birthday of Kim Jong Il, former North Korean leader. 1959 ~ Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. 1978 ~ The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was created in Chicago, Illinois. 1986 ~ The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 2001 ~ Death of William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (Masters and Johnson). 2005 ~ The Kyoto Protocol came into effect. 2006 ~ The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the U.S. Army. |
February 17th
1801 ~ An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved when Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the House of Representatives.
1844 ~ Birthday of Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder. 1867 ~ The first ship passed through the Suez Canal. 1904 ~ Madama Butterfly premièred at La Scala in Milan 1962 ~ Death of Bruno Walter, Conductor. 1972 ~ President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China. 1973 ~ Birthday of SaRenna Lee, Porn actress. 1979 ~ China invaded Vietnam. 1979 ~ Birthday of Dee, Puerto Rican Porn Actress. 1992 ~ Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. |
February 18th
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher. 1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. 1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published. 1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. 1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon. 1954 ~ Birthday of John Travolta, Actor. 1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry. 1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist. 2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date. |
February 19th
1743 ~ Birthday of Luigi Boccherini, Italian Composer.
1915 ~ The Battle of Gallipoli began. 1942 ~ Some 250 Japanese warplanes attacked Darwin, Australia. The attack killed at least 243 people. 1942 ~ President Franklin Roosevelt signed the order allowing the U.S. military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps. 1943 ~ Rommel's Afrika Korps began to spank the Allies in the Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia (Operation Torch). 1945 ~ About 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima. 1964 ~ Paul Simon wrote "The Sounds of Silence”, the song which would take him and Art Garfunkel to stardom. 1980 ~ Bon Scott, the lead singer of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, died after a night of heavy drinking. 1986 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. 1997 ~ Death of Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries. |
February 20th
1792 ~ President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
1902 ~ Birthday of Ansel Adams, Photographer. 1904 ~ Birthday of Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union. 1927 ~ Birthday of Sidney Poitier, Actor. 1952 ~ The film The African Queen opened in New York City. 1958 ~ An announcement was made that the Sheerness Docks, established the in the 17th century by Samuel Pepys, were to close. 1962 ~ John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth aboard Friendship 7. 1976 ~ Death of René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. 1993 ~ Death of Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer. 2001 ~ FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years. |
February 21st
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist. 1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer. 1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet. 1916 ~ The Battle of Verdun began. French casualties during the battle were estimated at 550,000 with German losses set at 434,000, half of the total being fatalities. 1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. 1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. 1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to a prostitute. 1995 ~ When he landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Steve Fossett became the first man to make a solo baloon flight across the Pacific Ocean. |
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