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February 1st
1851 ~ Death of Mary Shelley, English Author (Frankenstein).
1896 ~ Puccini’s opera La Bohème premiered in Turin. 1920 ~ The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established. 1929 ~ Frenchman Charles Rigoulet became the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1960 ~ Four black college students began a sit-in protest against racial segregation at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service. 1970 ~ Birthday of Jill Kelly, Porn actress. 1979 ~ Patty Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Jimmy Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts. 2004 ~ Hundreds of people were killed and injured in a stampede duringthe Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. 2004 ~ Super Bowl XXXVIII: One team defeated the other team, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast was bared. |
February 2nd
1870 ~ The Cardiff Giant - supposedly the petrified remains of a human discovered in Cardiff, N.Y. - was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum.
1882 ~ Birthday of James Joyce, Irish author. 1887 ~ In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day was observed. 1905 ~ Birthday of Ayn Rand, Writer, Philosopher. 1943 ~ The German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad. 1969 ~ Death of Boris Karloff, English actor. 1970 ~ Death of Bertrand Russell, Mathematician & Philosopher. 1982 ~ Birthday of Brandy Talore, Porn actress. 1990 ~ At the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, President FW de Klerk announced the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa.. Feastdays & Holidays U.S. & Canada – Groundhog Day |
U.S. & Canada – Groundhog Day
Wasn't that tomorrow, or yesterday, or both? |
I suppose the answer to that question depends upon when you are.
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February 3rd
1809 ~ Birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, Composer.
1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gertrude Stein, Writer. 1894 ~ Birthday of Norman Rockwell, Illustrator. 1907 ~ Birthday of James Michener, American author. 1917 ~ The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after Germany announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1947 ~ You want winter weather? You want COLD? Snag, Yukon recorded a temperature of -62.8°C, the lowest official temperature ever measured in Canada. 1959 ~ Rock 'n' Roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Don McLean immortalized the tragedy in “American Pie”. 1966 ~ The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon. 1974 ~ Birthday of Julie Meadows, Porn actress. |
February 4th
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator. 1913 ~ Birthday of Rosa Parks, U.S. civil rights activist. 1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. 1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. 1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship". 1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 1998 ~ A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan, killing an estimated 5,000 people. 2004 ~ The online social network Facebook was founded 2006 ~ Death of Betty Friedan, American feminist. |
February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André-Gustave Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1897 ~ The Indiana House of Representatives passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of π. The bill died in the state Senate. 1917 ~ The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, a law severely curtailing the immigration of Asians. 1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists. 1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete. 1937 ~ President Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices; critics charged Roosevelt was attempting to "pack" the court. 1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence. 1982 ~ Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors. |
February 6th
1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete. 1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist. 1952 ~ The UK’s King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. 1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1971 ~ Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon. 1983 ~ Former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie extradited to France from Bolivia to stand trial for war crimes. 1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete. 2002 ~ Death of Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Doctoral students James Watson & Francis Crick ). 2004 ~ An explosion in a Moscow subway car during rush hour killed 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists. |
February 7th
1812 ~ Birthday of Charles Dickens, Novelist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements. 1883 ~ Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer. 1905 ~ The Great Baltimore Fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1964 ~ The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's “British invasion”. 1971 ~ Women became entitled to vote in Switzerland. 1979 ~ Death of Dr. Josef Mengele, accused Nazi war criminal. 1984 ~ Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk. 1990 ~ The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power. 1992 ~ The European Union was formed. |
February 8th
1587 ~ Mary, Queen of Scots was executed.
1828 ~ Birthday of Jules Verne, Author. 1855 ~ The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appeared in southern Devon. 1910 ~ The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1932 ~ Birthday of John Williams, Composer & Conductor. 1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth proclaimed herself Queen. 1957 ~ Death of John von Neumann, Mathematician. 1982 ~ Birthday of Erik Rhodes, Porn Actor. 1993 ~ General Motors sued NBC, alleging that the program "Dateline NBC" had rigged two crashes to show that GM pickups were prone to fires. NBC settled the lawsuit the following day. 1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Communications Decency Act at the Library of Congress. |
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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. 1900 ~ Davis Cup competition established. 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. 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 strikes and sinks 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. 1982 ~ Birthdy of Brent Everett, Porn Actor. 1996 ~ Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. :( 2005 ~ Death of Arthur Miller, playwright . 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. 1978 ~ China lifted a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens. 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. |
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