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February 21 |
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February is:
Today is:
I've Got Your Number Day - This first telephone book was published on this day in 1878 in New Haven, Connecticut.
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1794: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican Revolutionary |
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1801: John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal |
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1821: Charles Scribner, Music Publisher |
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1838: Alexis De Rochon, Spyglass Developer |
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19??: Christian Artist Geoff Moore (Geoff Moore & The Distance) |
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1907: Poet W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden |
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1914: Actor Zachary Scott (Flamingo Road, The Young One, The Southerner,
Appointment in Honduras) |
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1915: Actress Ann (Clara) Sheridan (Appointment in Honduras, The Man Who
Came to Dinner) |
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1925: Director Sam Peckinpah (Convoy, The Getaway, The Wild Bunch) |
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1927: Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy |
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1927: Humorist and author Erma (Fiste) Bombeck (The Grass Is Always
Greener over the Septic Tank) |
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1933: Singer (Eunice Waymon) Nina Simone |
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1933: Movie director Bob Rafelson |
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1934: Actress Rue McClanahan |
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1937: Actor Gary (Yusolfsky) Lockwood (2001: A Space Odyssey, Terror in
Paradise, Firecreek) |
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1939: Actor-director Richard Beymer (The Diary of Anne Frank, West Side
Story, Twin Peaks, The Longest Day) |
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1940: Actor Peter McEnery (I Killed Rasputin, Negatives, Victim,
Pictures) |
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1943: Recording executive David Geffen |
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1946: Actor Alan Rickman |
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1946: Actress Tyne Daly |
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1946: Tricia Nixon Cox |
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1949: Rock musician Jerry Harrison (The Heads) |
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1953: Actor William Petersen |
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1955: Actor Kelsey Grammer |
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1958: Country singer Mary-Chapin Carpenter |
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1958: Actor Jack Coleman |
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1961: Actor Christopher Atkins |
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1961: Rock singer Ranking Roger (General Public, English Beat) |
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1963: Actor Billy Baldwin |
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1969: Blues musician Corey Harris |
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1970: Rock musician Eric Wilson (Sublime) |
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1979: Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Party of Five") |
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1986: Singer Charlotte Church
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1076: Emperor Henry IV defies Rome and Pope
Gregory VII |
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1198: Pope Innocent III ordained as a priest |
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1508: Michaelangelo's "Pope
Julius" put in place |
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1534: Anabaptists sieze Muenster |
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1554: Hieronymus Bock, German doctor,
founder of modern botany, dies |
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1595: Hanging of Robert Southwell, Jesuit
poet, for being a Catholic priest, at Tyburn, England |
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1598: Election of Boris Godenov as Czar of
Muscovy |
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1631: Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch
of Moscow, is elected Russian Tsar. |
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1630: Peter Paul Rubens knighted in England |
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1744: The British blockade of Toulon is
broken by 27 French and Spanish warships attacking 29 British ships. |
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1797: Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to
the British. |
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1804: 1st self-propelled locomotive on rails
demonstrated, in Wales. |
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1828: The first issue of the Cherokee
Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee
alphabet. |
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1838: The first burglar alarm is installed
in the United States. It is installed in Boston, Massachusetts by E. T.
Holmes. |
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1842: John J. Greenough of Washington, DC.
patented the sewing machine. |
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1846: Sara Bagley of Lowell, Massachusetts,
becomes the first female telegraph operator. |
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1849: In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh
Gough’s well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size
of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring British control of the
Punjab for years to come. |
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1862: The Texas Rangers win a Confederate
victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico. |
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1866: Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman
to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in
Cincinnati. |
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1874: Oakland Daily Tribune begins
publication. |
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1878: The first telephone directory was
issued, by the District Telephone Company of New Haven, Connecticut. |
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1885: The Washington Monument was dedicated. |
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1905: The Mukden campaign of the
Russo-Japanese War, begins. |
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1916: The World War One Battle of Verdun
began in France. |
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1918: The last known green and yellow
Carolina parakeet dies. |
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1925: "The New Yorker" magazine
made its debut. |
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1931: Alka Seltzer is introduced. Oh, what a
relief it is! |
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1932: William N. Goodwin of Newark, New
Jersey, patented the camera exposure meter. |
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1940: The Germans begin construction of a
concentration camp at Auschwitz. The hunt for Nazi war criminals spans
more than half a century and continues to this day. |
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1943: German tanks and two infantry
battalions break the Allied line and take Kasserine Pass in North Africa. |
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1944: Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of
the Japanese army. |
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1947: Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated
his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph
in 60 seconds. |
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1949: Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a
friendship treaty ending hostilities over their borders. |
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1950: The United States formally breaks
relations with Bulgaria. |
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1956: A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama,
indicts 115 in a Negro bus boycott. |
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1960: Havana places all Cuban industry under
direct control of the government. |
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1965: Former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X,
39, was shot to death in New York by assassins identified as Black
Muslims. |
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1967: Ford recalls 217,000 cars to check
brakes and steering. |
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1972: President Nixon began his historic
visit to China. The first American president to visit China and the first
president to visit a country not oficially recognized by the United
States. |
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1973: Israeli fighter planes shot down a
Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing more than 100 people. |
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1974: A report claims that the use of
defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for century. Defoliation was
meant to save lives by denying the enemy cover. But for some the 'cure'
was worse than the problem. |
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1976: Florence Ballard, one of the original
Supremes, died in Detroit, Michigan. She was 32. Ballard had said that she
never received a royalty check prior to 1967 for any of her work with the
Supremes, who featured Diana Ross and included Mary Wilson. |
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1981: Dolly Parton reached the top spot on
the pop music charts with "9 to 5", from the movie of the same
name, in which Dolly starred with Lili Tomlin and Jane Fonda. |
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1982: Legendary disc jockey, Murray The K
died in Los Angeles. |
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1988: TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart tearfully
confessed to his congregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that he was
guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit
temporarily. (Reports linked Swaggart to an admitted prostitute, Debra
Murphree.) |
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1989: President Bush called Ayatollah
Khomeini's death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman
Rushdie "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." |
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1990: Addressing the U.S. Congress,
Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel said his nation welcomed U.S. help
after decades of Soviet domination, but also said Europe should eventually
"decide for itself" how long American and Soviet troops should
remain. |
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1991: The Soviet Union announced that Iraq had agreed to a proposal for ending the Persian Gulf War but the Bush administration called the plan unacceptable. |
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1991: Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn died in Panama City at age 71. |
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1992: Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States
won the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Albertville Olympics;
Midori Ito of Japan won the silver, Nancy Kerrigan of the US the bronze. |
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1993: Four days after suspending Bosnian
relief operations because of interference from Serbs, Muslims and Croats,
the UN high commissioner for refugees (Sadako Ogata) ordered full
resumption of the aid effort, following a rebuke from UN Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali. |
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1994: With Bosnian Serbs complying with a
NATO ultimatum to remove its heavy guns from around Sarajevo, President
Clinton promised renewed US efforts to help "reinvigorate the peace
process." |
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1995: The United States and Mexico signed an
agreement to unlock $20 billion in U.S. support to stabilize the peso, but
under tough conditions. |
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1995: Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett
became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon,
landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada. |
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The Space Telescope Science Institute announced that photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a "black hole" equal to the mass of two billion suns in a galaxy some 30 million light-years away. |
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1997: Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr
reversed his decision to resign. |
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1997: The space shuttle
"Discovery" returned to earth after a mission to upgrade the
Hubble Space Telescope. |
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1997: A bomb exploded at a gay and lesbian
nightclub in Atlanta, injuring five people. |
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1998: UN Secretary-General Koei Annan began
formal talks with Iraqi officials in the standoff over weapons
inspections. |
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1998: New flash flood warnings went up in
northern California, as a powerful storm lashed the region with heavy
rains and strong winds. The storm dumped a half inch more of rain on San
Francisco, which has logged the wettest February since records began in
1849. |
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1998: Russia and Japan signed a breakthrough
treaty giving Japanese fishermen access to waters around the Kurile
islands, which lie at the heart of half a century of disputes between
Moscow and Tokyo. |
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1998: The UN reported that heavy rains
intensified in Peru as a result of the El Nino freak weather condition
that battered Peru since mid-December. Bridges and roads were distroyed
isolating towns and villages and bringing disease and an outbreak of
malaria. Mudslides and floods killed more than 200 Peruvians and left some
200,000 homeless. |
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1999: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
reported little progress toward a Kosovo peace settlement during talks in
Rambouillet, France. |
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2000: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced his entry into the presidential race, bidding for the nomination of the Green Party.
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