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B02--1935 Roy Jensen, Calgary Alberta, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
B02011552 Sir Edward Coke, England, jurist/politician (defended common law)
B02011763 Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
B02011801 Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
B02011805 Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
B02011810 Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black
B02011827 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
B02011833 Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
B02011839 James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
B02011841 William H.H. Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
B02011844 Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
B02011848 Adhémar Esmein, French rechts leader
B02011859 Victor Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
B02011874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
B02011882 Louis St Laurent, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
B02011884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
B02011885 Camille Chautemps, premier France
B02011887 Dirk Roosenburg, architect
B02011889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
B02011892 K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist
B02011895 John Ford, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
B02011897 Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
B020119-- Bill Leydon, Chicago Ill, TV host (Musical Chairs)
B020119-- Brandis Kemp, Palo Alto Calif, comedienne (Fridays)
B020119-- Don Amendolia, Glassboro NJ, actor (Dino-Mama Malone)
B020119-- Leo Burmester, Luoisville Ky, actor (Randy-Flo, Chiefs)
B020119-- Randy Josselyn, actor (Rodney-Family Matters)
B02011901 Clark Gable, actor, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara
B02011902 Langston Hughes, poet/translator (The Weary Blues)
B02011904 S.J. Perelman, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
B02011906 Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You)
B02011907 Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
B02011907 Günter Eich, German literary (Untergrundbahn)
B02011907 John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
B02011907 Sándor Veress, Hungarian pianist/composer
B02011908 Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
B02011915 Sir Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
B02011918 Muriel Spark, Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
B02011920 Pierre Jonquéres d'Oriola, France, equest jumper (Oly-gold-1952, 64)
B02011922 Renata Tebaldi, Italy, opera singer (Lo Bohéme)
B02011926 Stuart Whitman, SF Calif, actor (Cimarron Strip)
B02011927 Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
B02011929 Stuart Whitman, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Revenge)
B02011931 Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
B02011931 Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
B02011931 Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B02011932 John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
B02011934 Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
B02011935 Vladimir V Aksyonov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
B02011937 Don Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
B02011937 Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
B02011937 Ray Sawyer, [Dr Hook], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
B02011938 Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of the Year 1961)
B02011938 Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
B02011940 Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
B02011941 Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
B02011941 Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
B02011942 Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, The Beast Within)
B02011943 Terry Jones, Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
B02011943 Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
B02011946 Bert Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
B02011952 Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
B02011954 Billy Mumy, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
B02011954 Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
B02011957 Donna Adamek, Duarte Calif, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
B02011964 Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
B02011965 Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
B02011965 Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
B02011965 Stephane Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
B02011966 Donna Edmondson, Greensboro NC, playmate of the year (Nov, 1986)
B02011968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough, (Elvis' daughter)
B02021502 Damiao de Góis, Portuguese Humanist scholar
B02021600 Gabriel Naudé, France, librarian (Mazarin Library)
B02021649 Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
B02021754 Charles de Talleyrand, French statesman
B02021780 Johannes van den Bosch, gov-gen (Neth West Indies)
B02021802 Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
B02021803 Albert Sidney Johnston, general (mortally wounded at Shiloh)
B02021820 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
B02021835 Luigi Manzotti, Milano, ballet choreographer
B02021850 Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker
B02021852 Hâmid Abdülhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright
B02021859 Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
B02021861 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22)
B02021861 Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard the Titanic)
B02021875 Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
B02021878 Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake)
B02021881 Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
B02021882 James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)
B02021882 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold)
B02021884 Julis Deutsch, Austrian politician
B02021884 S.Z. Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
B02021890 Charles Correll, actor (Andy-Amos & Andy radio program)
B02021890 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
B02021891 Antonio Segni, premier Italy
B02021891 Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
B02021895 George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
B02021899 Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
B020219-- Greg Antonacci, NYC, actor (Vinnie-Busting Loose)
B020219-- Michael Weiss, Chicago, actor (Michael Horton-Days of our Lives)
B020219-- Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
B02021901 Connie Gilchrist, Bkln NY, actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives)
B02021901 Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, US violin virtuoso
B02021903 Frank McGrath, Mound City Mo, actor (Wagon Train)
B02021905 Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)
B02021906 Gale Gordon, actor (Here's Lucy)
B02021907 Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
B02021908 Cal Tinney, Okla, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
B02021908 Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, swimmer/actor (Olympic-gold-1932)
B02021908 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
B02021911 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
B02021912 Burton Lane, broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
B02021919 Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
B02021919 Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss singer
B02021920 Dr An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
B02021923 Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
B02021923 Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
B02021923 James Dickey, author/actor (Deliverance)
B02021923 Liz Smith, Ft Worth Tx, gossip columnist (NY Daily News, NBC-TV)
B02021923 Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
B02021926 Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
B02021926 Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
B02021926 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, pres of France (1974-81)
B02021926 Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
B02021927 Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
B02021928 Howard Caine, Nashville Tn, actor (Californians)
B02021928 Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy (1988- )
B02021931 Andreas van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA)
B02021932 Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
B02021937 Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
B02021937 Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
B02021940 Alan "Tea" Caddy, rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter)
B02021940 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
B02021942 Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
B02021942 Graham Nash, rocker (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
B02021944 Andrew Davis, Ashbridge, England, conductor (New Phil Orch-London)
B02021944 Katherine Crawford, LA Calif, actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings)
B02021944 Ursula Oppens, NYC, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
B02021945 Thomas M Disch, US, sci-fi writer (Man Who Had No Idea)
B02021946 Farrah Fawcett-Major, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
B02021947 Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
B02021947 Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
B02021948 Alan McKay, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
B02021948 Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
B02021949 Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
B02021949 Ross Valory, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now)
B02021949 Ross Valory, rocker (Journey-Open Arms)
B02021949 Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
B02021951 Kim Zimmer, Mich, actress (Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live)
B02021954 Christie Brinkley, [Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation)
B02021955 Brent Spiner, actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
B02021955 Michael Talbott, Waverly Iowa, actor (Stan-Miami Vice)
B02021958 Dexter Manley, NFLer (Wash Redskins)
B02021958 Holly Hunter, Conyers Ga, actress (Broadcast News, Once Around)
B02021973 Sergio Gonzalez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
B02031368 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
B02031805 Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
B02031807 Joseph E Johnston, general (Commander army of Tennessee)
B02031809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
B02031811 Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
B02031820 Elisha Kent Kane, US arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
B02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
B02031826 Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
B02031830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
B02031842 Sidney Lanier, US, musician/poet (Hall of Fame)
B02031851 Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
B02031878 Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
B02031879 Charles Follis, 1st black US football player (Shelby, Ohio)
B02031882 Trÿntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland)
B02031883 Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
B02031889 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Leaves from Satan's Body)
B02031890 Charles Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & the Colonel)
B02031890 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Problem des Bösen)
B02031894 Juan Negrín, PM of the Spanish Republic (1936-39)
B02031894 Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
B02031895 Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
B02031895 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (found APRA party in Peru)
B02031898 Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
B02031898 Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
B02031899 Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
B020319-- Brenda Dickson, Long Beach Ca, actress (Young & Restless, Deathmaster)
B020319-- Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman
B020319-- Mariclare Costello, actress (Rosemary-Waltons)
B020319-- Nathan Lane, Jersey NJ, actor (One of the Boys)
B020319-- Stephen McHattie, Nova Scotia, actor (Call Me, Death Valley)
B020319-- Thomas Calabro, Bkln NY, actor (Michael Mancini-Melrose Place)
B020319-- Trisha Noble, Sydney Australia, actress (Executive Suite)
B02031900 Mabel Mercer, English cabaret singer (Fly Me to the Moon)
B02031902 Ramón (J) Sender (Garcés), Spanish writer (El Lugar del Hombre)
B02031904 Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal
B02031904 Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
B02031907 James A Mitchner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
B02031908 Oddbjörn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02031909 Simone Weil, Paris, mystic/social philosopher/Resistance fighter
B02031910 Blas Galindo, San Gabriel México, composer (A la Patria)
B02031910 Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
B02031912 Jacques Soustelle, French politician
B02031918 Helen Stephens, US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02031918 Joey Bishop, Bronx, comedian/talk show host (Joey Bishop Show)
B02031920 Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
B02031920 Dr Henry Heimlich, inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
B02031920 Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist
B02031922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist (Italian Flute Concertos)
B02031925 John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
B02031926 Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
B02031926 Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
B02031926 Shelley Berman, Chicago, actor (Son of the Blob, Love American Style)
B02031928 Mr "Fred" Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
B02031929 Russell Arms, Berkeley Calif, singer (Your Hit Parade)
B02031932 Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
B02031933 Paul Sarbanes, (Sen-D-Md)
B02031934 Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
B02031935 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rocker guitarist
B02031938 Victor C Buono, US, actor (Untouchables)
B02031939 Deszö Nowak, Hungary, soccer play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
B02031940 Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minn Vikings)
B02031940 Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
B02031941 Angelo D'Aleo, tenor vocalist (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
B02031941 Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
B02031941 Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
B02031943 Blythe Danner, Philadelphia, actress (Butterflies are Free)
B02031943 Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
B02031943 Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
B02031944 Bridget Hanley, Budapest, actress (Here Come the Brides)
B02031945 Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)
B02031945 Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], singer/actress (De kleine waarheid)
B02031947 Dave Davies, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Lola, You Really Got Me)
B02031947 Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
B02031947 Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], singer (Nog vele jaren)
B02031947 Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, singer/songwriter (Candles in the Rain)
B02031949 Oscar Benton, [Ferdinand van Eis], blues singer/guitarist
B02031950 Morgan Fairchild, Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
B02031951 Felipe Munoz, México, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
B02031952 Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, Calif, Baltimore)
B02031956 Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
B02031957 Tony Butler, rocker (Big Country-Wonderland)
B02031958 Lee Crystal, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind)
B02031959 Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
B02031960 B.J. Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
B02031961 Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
B02031962 Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
B02031966 Freedom Williams
B02031990 Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
B02041688 Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne)
B02041693 George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant)
B02041698 Heinrich A Fouqué, Prussian general
B02041747 Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, (NY Bridge)
B02041768 Maurits C van Hall, heer van Heicop en Boeicop, lawyer/politician
B02041802 Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
B02041819 Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA
B02041841 Clément Ader, French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft)
B02041849 Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
B02041875 Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
B02041881 Fernand Léger, France, painter/ceramist/cubist (The City)
B02041881 Kliment J Worosjilow, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
B02041885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montréal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
B02041893 Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
B02041893 Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
B02041895 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, historian (Erflaters)
B02041897 Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany (CDU)
B020419-- Gil Rogers, Lexington Ky, actor (Hawk-Guiding Light, Doctors)
B020419-- Jeannie Wilson, Memphis Tenn, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
B020419-- Marie Masters, Cincinatti Oh, actress (Susan-As the World Turns)
B020419-- Stephanie Williams, actress (Young & Restless, Simone-Gen Hospital)
B02041900 Jacques Prévert, France, poet/screenwriter (Paroles)
B02041902 Charles A Lindbergh, Detroit, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic)
B02041903 Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
B02041903 Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brig General (Answers for Americans)
B02041904 MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist (Andersonville)
B02041905 Eddie Foy Jr, New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
B02041906 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
B02041906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Bekennende Kirche)
B02041906 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (1933)
B02041908 Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
B02041909 Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
B02041910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
B02041912 Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
B02041912 Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna, Aust, available conductor & banana eater
B02041913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist
B02041913 Woody Hayes, college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year)
B02041914 Alfred Andersch, German writer (The Red Head)
B02041914 Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
B02041915 William Talman, Detroit Mich, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason)
B02041918 Norman Wisdom, London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
B02041919 Frank van Klingeren, architect (De Meerpal, Dronten)
B02041921 Betty Friedan, Peoria Ill, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique)
B02041923 Conrad Bain, Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
B02041931 Isabel Perón, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
B02041932 Ivan Davis, Electra Tx, pianist
B02041935 Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
B02041936 Dan van Golden, speed artist
B02041936 Gary Conway, Boston Mass, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
B02041937 Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
B02041937 John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
B02041937 Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
B02041939 Jacques Charlier, Belgian speed artist
B02041939 John Schuck, Boston Mass, comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo)
B02041941 John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
B02041943 Cheryl Miller, Sherman Oaks Calif, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free)
B02041944 Florence LaRue Gordon, Penn, rocker (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
B02041945 David Brenner, Philadelphia, comedian/TV talk show host
B02041946 Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968)
B02041947 Dan Quayle, (Sen-R-Ind), 44th US VP, rich draft dodger
B02041948 Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (School's Out)
B02041948 Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
B02041949 Michael Beck, Memphis Tn, actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
B02041950 Pamela Franklin, Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls)
B02041952 Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It)
B02041952 Lisa Eichhorn, Reading, Pa, actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks)
B02041958 Mary Ann Pascal, actress (Samantha-Brothers)
B02041959 Lawrence Taylor, NFL line backer (NY Giants)
B02041959 Zenani Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
B02041960 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
B02041962 Clint Black, country singer
B02041963 Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
B02041963 Tracie Ruiz, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
B02041966 Marissa Laakso, Boston Mass, Miss Mass-America (1991)
B02051626 Mme Marie de Sévigné, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
B02051723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
B02051744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
B02051770 Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, minerologist/geologist (Tertiary)
B02051778 Sir Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46), founded Tories
B02051804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet
B02051833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
B02051837 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist
B02051840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
B02051848 Belle Starr, outlaw (wild west)
B02051848 Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
B02051860 Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)
B02051866 Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, comic
B02051871 Jovan Ducic, Swedish poet (Blauwe Legend)
B02051878 André-Gustave Citroën, France, auto maker
B02051891 Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbeld)
B02051897 Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister
B020519-- Duff McKagan, rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
B020519-- Jason Bieler, rock guitarist (Saigon Kick-New World)
B020519-- Tommy Skeoch, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)=
B02051900 Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
B02051903 Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
B02051903 Joan Whitney Payson, owner of NY Mets & horse stables
B02051903 Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
B02051906 John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
B02051907 Jan Klasesz, governor Surinam (1949-56)
B02051907 Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
B02051907 Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
B02051912 Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
B02051914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist
B02051914 William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
B02051915 Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist
B02051917 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
B02051919 Melina Mercuri, actress (Never on a Sunday)
B02051919 Red Buttons, Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure)
B02051921 Sir John Pritchard, London England, conductor
B02051922 Bernard Kalb, State Dept spokesman
B02051926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
B02051927 Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Comes The Brides, Primus)
B02051929 Fred Sinowatz (SPÖ), Neufeld an der Leitha, chancellor of Austria
B02051933 Jörn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness)
B02051933 Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)
B02051934 Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)
B02051937 Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], dancer (Sylphides)
B02051937 Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion
B02051937 Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
B02051939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
B02051941 Barrett Strong, Detroit, singer (Money, That's What I Want)
B02051941 David Selby, Morgantown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
B02051941 Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)
B02051942 Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
B02051942 Cory Wells, rocker (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
B02051942 Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
B02051943 Charles Winfield, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
B02051943 Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
B02051943 Larry Tamblyn, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
B02051944 Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
B02051946 Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
B02051947 Mary L Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61B, STS-30)
B02051948 Barbara Hershey, Atlanta Ga, (Stuntman, Shy People, A World Apart)
B02051948 Christopher Guest, actor (SNL, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride)
B02051948 David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
B02051948 Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
B02051951 Elizabeth Swados, US, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)
B02051955 Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
B02051969 Bobby Brown, singer (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)
B02051971 Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
B02061461 Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet
B02061564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)
B02061608 Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher
B02061637 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
B02061665 Queen Anne, Stuart, of England (1702-14)
B02061724 Paul-Louis Cyfflé, Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine)
B02061756 Aaron Burr, Newark, NJ (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler
B02061778 Ugo Foscolo, Italy, writer (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
B02061788 Károly Kisfaludy, Hungary, romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819)
B02061832 John B Gordon, Major General (ANV Corps Commander)
B02061833 J.E.B. Stuart, Major General ( Commander of Cavalry, ANV)
B02061838 Sir Henry Irving, England, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
B02061874 Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
B02061893 Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
B02061895 George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
B02061897 Alberto (de Almeida) Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby)
B020619-- Axl Rose, rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
B020619-- John Sanderford, actor (Ryan's Hope)
B02061902 Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
B02061904 Claudio Arrau, Chile, pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
B02061905 Wladislaw Gomulka, premier Poland
B02061908 Amintore Fanfani, premier Italy
B02061908 Gen Edward Lansdale, model for "Quiet American" & "Ugly American"
B02061910 Irmgard Keun, West German writer (Das kunstseidene Mädchen)
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), 40th pres (R) (1981-89)
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, actor/president USA
B02061912 Eva Braun, mistress of Adolph Hitler
B02061913 John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
B02061915 Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
B02061917 Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
B02061919 Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
B02061922 Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
B02061924 Billy Wright, English soccer player
B02061924 Paolo Volponi, Italian poet
B02061929 Keith Waterhouse, writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?)
B02061929 Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skiier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)
B02061931 Rip Torn, Tx, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
B02061932 François Truffaut, France, director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
B02061933 Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) (or 0202)
B02061939 Mike Farrell, St Paul Minn, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
B02061940 Tom Brokaw, Yankton SD, news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982- )
B02061941 Gigi Perreau, LA Calif, actress (Journey to Center of Time)
B02061943 Fabian Forte, Phila Pa, singer (Turn Me Loose, Tiger)
B02061943 Gayle Hunnicutt, Ft Worth Tx, actress (Legend of Hell House, Dallas)
B02061944 Michael Tucker, Balt MD, actor (Stuart Markowitz-LA Law)
B02061945 Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae singer (& the Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae)
B02061947 Charles Hickcox, US, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1968)
B02061949 Manuel Orantes, tennis star
B02061950 Mike Batt, composer/arranger
B02061950 Natalie Cole, LA, singer (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
B02061950 Punky Meadows, rocker (Angel)
B02061956 Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor (Jason-Waltons)
B02061957 Jerry Marotta, rocker (Orleans-Love Takes Time)
B02061957 Robert Townsend, actor (Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy)
B02061958 Barry Miller, LA Calif, actor (Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married)
B02061960 Megan Gallagher, actress (Slap Maxwell)
B02061966 Rick Astley, rock vocalist (Never Gonna Give You Up)
B02061969 April Lerman, Chicago Ill, actress (Lila-Charles in Charge)
B02071478 Sir Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
B02071589 Jacob de Witte, mayor (Dordrecht)/accountant
B02071753 Rhijnvis Feith, writer/mayor (Zwolle)
B02071764 Ann Radcliffe, London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho)
B02071801 John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
B02071809 Frederik Paludan-Müller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
B02071812 Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
B02071817 Frederick Douglass, Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US govt
B02071824 William Higgins, discovered nature of spiral "nebulae"
B02071834 Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
B02071837 Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
B02071842 Alexandre Ribit, premier France
B02071862 Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
B02071866 Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
B02071867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
B02071869 Jindrich S Bar, Czech writer (Jan Cimbura)
B02071870 Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
B02071872 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
B02071877 Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
B02071883 Eubie Blake, ragtime (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You)
B02071885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
B02071896 Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
B02071897 Quincy Porter, New Haven, Ct, composer
B02071899 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
B020719-- Jason Adams, Calif, actor (Ryan's Hope, Nightmare on Elm St)
B020719-- José José, spanish singer
B020719-- Lieux Dressler, actress (General Hospital)
B02071901 A den Doolard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], writer (Druivenplukkers)
B02071902 Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
B02071904 Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
B02071905 Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
B02071905 Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
B02071906 Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
B02071908 Buster Crabbe, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932), actor (Flash Gordon)
B02071912 Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
B02071912 Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
B02071917 Dick Emery, London, comedian/TV personality
B02071919 Dom Hélder Câmara, Brazilian bishop
B02071919 Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
B02071919 Jock Mahoney, actor (Range Rider, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
B02071920 Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
B02071920 Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk singer (Draw Me a Laugh)
B02071923 Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
B02071932 Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
B02071932 Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
B02071942 Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B02071944 Berend Nearst, [Baron van Nearst], Dutch (CDA) foreign state sect
B02071944 Berry [AH] Esselink, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B02071948 Jimmy Greenspoon, keyboardist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
B02071949 Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
B02071950 Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
B02071951 Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
B02071954 Miguel Ferrer, actor (Robocop)
B02071955 Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/Wheel of Fortune host
B02071958 Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish singer
B02071959 Brian Travers, rocker (UB40-Red Wine)
B02071960 James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
B02071960 Steve Bronski, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
B02071962 David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
B02071962 Garth Brooks, Tulsa Okla, country singer (No Fences)
B02071964 Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead, Riverside Calif, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
B02071964 Dona L Speir, Norwalk Calif, playmate (March, 1984)
B02071965 Jason Gedrick, actor (Heavenly Kid)
B0208 412 St Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople
B02081291 Afonso IV, king of Portugal (1325-57)
B02081577 Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
B02081612 Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
B02081764 Joseph von Eybler, Austrian composer
B02081795 Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
B02081819 John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaëliet)
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general (War is hell)
B02081822 Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
B02081828 Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
B02081885 Dame Edith Evans, England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield)
B02081886 Charlie Ruggles, LA Calif, actor (The Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show)
B02081888 Matthÿs Vermeulen, composer/music critic
B02081890 Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist, opponent of US colonialism
B02081891 Edgar Palm, Curaçaian pianist/composer
B02081892 Fritz Todt, German Republic minister (Organization Todt)
B02081895 King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
B020819-- Alice Kramden, fictional character of the Honeymooners
B020819-- Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
B020819-- Louis Giambalvo, Bkln NY, actor (Robert-Oh Madeline)
B02081901 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
B02081902 Lyle Talbot, [Lysle Hollywood], Pittsburgh, actor (Glen or Glenda)
B02081906 Chester F Carlson, inventor (xerography (xeroxing))
B02081919 Buddy Morrow, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
B02081920 Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
B02081922 Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
B02081924 Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
B02081925 Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
B02081925 Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
B02081930 Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
B02081931 James Dean, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
B02081932 Jan H Christianse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
B02081932 John Williams, Flushing, NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
B02081933 Jack Larson, LA Calif, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
B02081934 Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)
B02081934 Nick Nolte, Omaha Nebr, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
B02081936 Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
B02081939 Barry Mann, singer (Who put the Bump)
B02081940 Susan Clark, Ontario, actress (Katherine-Webster)
B02081940 Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, news anchor (ABC Nightline)
B02081941 Nick Nolte, actor (Under Fire, Teachers, 48 Hrs, North Dallas 40)
B02081941 Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
B02081942 Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
B02081943 Creed Bratton, rock guitarist (Grass Roots-Sooner or Later)
B02081946 Adolfo De La Parra, rocker (Canned Heat-Hot Money)
B02081946 Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
B02081949 Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
B02081949 Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympic-bronze-1964)
B02081950 Dan Seals, rocker (England Dan & John Ford Coley-Tell Her Hello)
B02081950 Michael Goodroe, bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
B02081952 Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
B02081958 "Sensational" Sherri Martel, New Orleans, WWF Woman's Champ
B02081958 Barry Miller, NYC, actor (Joe & Sons, Szysznyk)
B02081959 Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980)
B02081959 Pamela Jean Bryant, Indianapolis In, playmate (April, 1978)
B02081960 Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)
B02081961 Vince Neil, Calif, rock vocalist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls Girls)
B02081966 Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
B02081967 Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
B02081981 Tommy Michaels, Staten Island NY, actor (Timmy Hutton-All My Children)
B02091404 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
B02091772 Frans Mikael Franzén, Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo)
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
B02091814 Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
B02091830 Abdül Aziz, Istanbul, Ottoman sultan (1861-76)
B02091846 Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
B02091853 Sir Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
B02091865 Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
B02091865 Mrs Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Sean O'Casey's mistress)
B02091866 George Ade, US, journalist, playwright, humorist (Fables in Slang)
B02091871 Franc S Finzgar, writer (Ons bloed)
B02091871 Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
B02091874 Amy Lowell, US, critic/Imagist poet (Patterns)
B02091874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical producer/director/actor
B02091876 Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
B02091879 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist
B02091884 Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], poet/politician)
B02091885 Alban Berg, Vienna, Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
B02091887 Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
B02091887 Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Kalverliefde)
B02091891 Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
B02091891 Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Acad Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
B02091892 Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama)
B02091897 Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator
B02091899 Brian Donlevy, Portadown Ireland, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment)
B020919-- Alejandra Guzman, spanish entertainer
B020919-- Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives)
B020919-- Darren Dalton, actor (Chris-Best Times)
B020919-- Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
B020919-- Ronnie Claire Edwards, Okla City Ok, actress (Corabeth-Waltons)
B02091907 Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
B02091908 Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
B02091909 Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
B02091909 Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
B02091910 Jacques Monod, French biochemist
B02091913 Irwin Shaw, US playwright
B02091913 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
B02091914 Bill (Rhymes with Wreck) Veeck, baseball club owner
B02091914 Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
B02091914 Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
B02091914 Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, the stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
B02091914 Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Circus Time)
B02091922 Jim Laker, British cricket bowler
B02091923 Brendan Behan, Ireland, author (Hostage)
B02091923 Kathryn Grayson, US, singer/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
B02091923 Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
B02091928 Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
B02091934 John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977- )
B02091942 Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
B02091942 Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
B02091943 Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
B02091943 Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
B02091943 Squire Fridell, Oakland Calif, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
B02091944 Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
B02091945 Mia (Maria) Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
B02091949 Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
B02091950 Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
B02091951 Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
B02091951 Dennis Thomas, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
B02091951 Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
B02091960 Holly Johnson, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
B02091966 James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
B02101609 Sir John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
B02101670 William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
B02101775 Charles Lamb, England, critic/poet/essayist
B02101868 William Allen White, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
B02101880 Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
B02101890 Boris Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
B02101892 Alan Hale, Wash DC, actor (Little John-Adv of Robin Hood)
B02101893 Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
B02101893 William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
B02101894 [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, (C) British PM (1957-63)
B02101896 Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
B02101897 John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
B02101898 Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)
B02101898 Dame Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
B021019-- Elaine, [Kaufman], NYC, restauranteur (Elaine)
B02101900 Rebecca Negrin
B02101902 Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
B02101905 Walter Brown, an organizer of the NBA
B02101906 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
B02101906 Lon Chaney Jr, Okla City Okla, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
B02101906 Walraven (Wally) van Hall, banker/poet/resisted Nazis
B02101910 Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
B02101914 Larry Adler, hamonica player (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
B02101922 Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
B02101922 Neva Patterson, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
B02101923 Cesare Siepi, Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
B02101924 Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, singer (Nat King Cole Show)
B02101925 Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Nichols, Doc Elliot)
B02101927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
B02101928 Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
B02101929 Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
B02101929 Henk Heidweiler, Dutch ambassador to Surinam
B02101929 Jim Whittacker, 1st American to climb Mt Everest
B02101930 John Gilpin, English ballet dancer (Études, Alice in Wonderland)
B02101930 Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
B02101937 Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
B02101937 Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
B02101939 Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
B02101939 Boris Pickett, singer (Monster Mash)
B02101939 Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
B02101940 Mary Rand, England, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1964)
B02101942 Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
B02101944 Peter Allen, Australia, singer/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
B02101945 Klas Tuinstra, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B02101946 Donovan [P Leech], Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow)
B02101950 Mark Spitz, US swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1968, 7 gold-1972)
B02101951 Roxanne Pulitzer, author (The Prize Pulitzer)
B02101953 John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
B02101955 Greg Norman, Australia, golfer "The White Shark"
B02101963 Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Phila Phillies)
B02101965 Marjolein Macrander, actress (Drowned)
B02101967 Laura Dern, LA Calif, actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Small Talk)
B02111380 Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist
B02111506 Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau
B02111535 Gregory XIV [Nicolo Sfondrato], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
B02111568 Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (L'Astrée)
B02111657 Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
B02111657 Bernard le Bovier sieur de Fontenelle, French philosopher (Plurality)
B02111764 Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
B02111783 Jarena Lee, famous African
B02111802 Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
B02111812 Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States
B02111833 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
B02111839 Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
B02111846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, NJ, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
B02111867 August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
B02111889 John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
B02111893 Johan C P Alberts, literary (Feestelijke ommegang)
B02111898 Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
B021119-- Deena Freeman, Palo Alto Calif, actress (April-Too Close For Comfort)
B021119-- John Fink, Detroit Mich, actor (Dr Adam Hudson-Nancy)
B021119-- Stephen Gregory, NYC, actor (Chase-Young & Restless)
B02111900 Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39)
B02111904 Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79)
B02111904 Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
B02111905 Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary)
B02111908 Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, British geologist
B02111909 Joseph L Mankiewicz, film writer/director (Sleuth)
B02111909 Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
B02111912 Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season)
B02111912 Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
B02111914 Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, singer (Matt Dennis Show)
B02111917 Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline)
B02111919 Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948)
B02111920 Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family)
B02111920 Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)
B02111920 Faroek I, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
B02111921 Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi)
B02111921 Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-Tx) (1989 Dem VP nominee)
B02111922 Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
B02111925 Dr Virginia E Johnson, sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
B02111925 Kim Stanley, New Mexico, actress (Frances, Right Stuff)
B02111926 Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
B02111928 Conrad Janis, NYC, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino)
B02111930 Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
B02111932 Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
B02111934 Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
B02111934 Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
B02111935 Gene Vincent, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
B02111936 Burt Reynolds, Waycross Ga, actor (Dan August, Gunsmoke, The End)
B02111937 Louis Boer, playwright
B02111938 Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
B02111938 Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian dictator (-1990)
B02111938 Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
B02111939 Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
B02111939 Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood)
B02111941 Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
B02111942 Archie, comic book character
B02111949 Charlie Hargett, rocker (Blackfoot)
B02111953 Philip Anglim, SF Calif, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds)
B02111953 Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
B02111954 Catherine Hickland, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV)
B02111956 Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx)
B0211196- Bianca Ferguson, actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital)
B02111961 Carey Lowell, NYC, actress (Guardian, Dangerously Close)
B02111961 Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92)
B02111962 Scott Kolden, Torrance Calif, actor (Scott-Me & the Champ)
B02111969 Shannon Long, Gladstone Australia, playmate (Oct, 1988)
B02111976 Brice Beckham, Long Beach Calif, actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedare)
B02111980 Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery Pa, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break)
B02111980 Natasha Bobo, Watsonville Calif, actress (Sally-Together We Stand)
B02121567 Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
B02121585 Caspar Bartholin, Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
B02121663 Dr Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
B02121760 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
B02121768 Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
B02121775 Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, 1st lady (1825-1829)
B02121791 Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
B02121809 Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th pres (1861-65)
B02121809 Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of species)
B02121818 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
B02121828 George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat)
B02121831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
B02121841 Bert van Tienhoven, burgemeister of Amsterdam/foreign minister
B02121850 Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (stichtte De Flemish Vlagge)
B02121865 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland)
B02121867 Joe Howard, NYC, singer (Gay Nineties Revue)
B02121868 Johan HA Schaper, Dutch politician (SDAP/2nd Chamber)
B02121869 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of OKW (VVD)
B02121880 John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers)
B02121883 Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
B02121893 Marcel G J Minnaert, astronomer
B02121893 Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II "The GI General"
B02121898 Leroy "Roy" Harris, Okla, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
B02121898 Wallace Ford, Batton England, actor (The Deputy)
B021219-- Andrew Cassesse, actor (Revenge of Nerds II, TV 101)
B021219-- Lillian Lehman, Selma Ala, actress (Tenafly, Fay)
B021219-- Pat St John, radio DJ (WPLJ-FM NYC)
B021219-- Raphael Sbarge, NYC, actor (Brian-Better Days)
B02121902 William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader
B02121904 Ted Mack, Denver Colo, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
B02121905 Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
B02121909 Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, singer (Your Hit Parade)
B02121910 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist, founder of Samsung Business
B02121911 Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02121911 Sylvstre A Guzmán Fernández, president (Dominican Republic)
B02121912 Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
B02121914 Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
B02121915 Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
B02121916 Joseph L Alioto, (Mayor-SF)
B02121917 Thomas K Scherman, NYC, conductor (Little Orch Society 1947-75)
B02121918 Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
B02121918 Julian S Schwinger, US physicist
B02121919 Forrest Tucker, Plainfield Ind, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail)
B02121923 Franco Zeffirelli, Italy, director (Romeo & Juliet)
B02121926 Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
B02121927 Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
B02121932 Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
B02121933 Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)
B02121934 Bill Russell, US, NBA star (Olympic-gold-1956)
B02121935 Ray Manzarek, keyboardist (The Doors-Light My Fire)
B02121936 Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
B02121936 Paul Shenar, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Carrington-Roots)
B02121937 Charles Dumas, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
B02121938 Judy Blume, author (Wifey)
B02121941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest
B02121945 Cliff DeYoung, LA Calif, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment)
B02121945 Joe Schermie, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
B02121945 Maud Adams, Lulea Sweden, actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
B02121949 Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
B02121950 Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
B02121951 Gil Moore, rocker (Triumph)
B02121952 Dr Salvador Pineda, Mexico City
B02121953 Joanna Kerns, SF Calif, actress (Maggie Seaver-Growing Pains)
B02121953 Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge England, actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal)
B02121955 Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete (Olympics-1976)
B02121956 Ad P Melkert, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B02121956 Arsenio Hall, comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America)
B02121958 Andie MacDowell, [Rosalie Anderson], Gaffney SC, actress (Green Card)
B02121958 Ruth Guerri, St Louis Mo, playmate (July, 1983)
B02121959 Nancy Remy, reporter (NYC's Shadow Traffic)
B02121959 Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report)
B02121959 Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
B02121967 Stephen Baldwin, actor (William Cody-The Young Riders)
B02121968 Chynna Phillips, LA Calif, singer (Wilson Philips-Hold On)
B02121969 Josh Brolin, actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
B02121970 Bryan Roy, soccer star (Ajax)
B02121976 Christopher Pettiet, LA Calif, actor (Young Riders)
B02121980 Christina Ricci, actress
B02131599 Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena, Italy, pope (1655-67)
B02131610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of the Lagardists
B02131682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
B02131764 Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster
B02131768 Édouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35)
B02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
B02131805 Peter Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
B02131805 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician (getallen theory)
B02131849 Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
B02131852 Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
B02131861 Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
B02131870 Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
B02131883 Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
B02131885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52)
B02131886 Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
B02131887 Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
B02131892 Grant Wood, artist (American Gothic)
B02131892 Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
B02131902 Blair Moody, New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)
B02131902 Karl Menger, US mathematician
B02131903 Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
B02131908 Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
B02131908 Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02131910 William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
B02131912 French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
B02131912 Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
B02131912 Margaretta Scott, actress
B02131914 George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino, CA, composed "Tubby the Tuba"
B02131915 Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
B02131916 James Griffith, LA Calif, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
B02131917 Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
B02131918 Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02131918 Patty Berg, Minn, golfer (1943, 1955 AP Sports Woman of the Year)
B02131919 Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
B02131919 Joan Edwards, NYC, singer (Joan Edwards Show)
B02131919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol Tn, country singer/actor (pea picker)
B02131920 Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, operatic soprano
B02131921 Henk van Galen Last, journalist
B02131921 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
B02131922 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
B02131923 Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break the sound barrier)
B02131924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
B02131929 Omar Torrÿos Herrera, president Panama
B02131930 Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters)
B02131931 Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1952)
B02131933 Caroline Blakiston, actress
B02131933 Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
B02131933 Kim Novak, actress
B02131933 Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- )
B02131934 George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
B02131937 Sigmund Jähn, 1st German (East) space traveler (Soyuz 31/29)
B02131937 Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place)
B02131938 Oliver Reed, England, actor (Big Sleep)
B02131939 Valeri I Rozhdestvensky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
B02131941 Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
B02131942 Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
B02131942 Donald E Williams, Lafayette Ind, Capt USN/astro (STS 51D, STS 34)
B02131943 Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
B02131944 Peter Tork, Wash DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
B02131944 Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, The Big Bus, Without a Trace)
B02131945 Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
B02131946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun)
B02131947 Tony Butler, bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country)
B02131950 Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds)
B02131951 David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Seperate Vacations)
B02131952 David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
B02131952 Ed Gagliardi, bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
B02131953 Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
B02131955 Scott Smith, rocker (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
B02131956 Liam Brady, British soccer player
B02131956 Peter Hook, rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
B02131958 Mark Fox, congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
B02131959 Ali Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
B02131960 Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
B02131960 Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
B02131961 Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
B02131962 Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-Bronze)
B02131963 Roberta Vasquez, LA Calif, playmate (November, 1984)
B02131965 Stephen Manley, LA Calif, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
B02131966 Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
B02131967 Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
B02141546 Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian
B02141707 Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon, French writer (Le sopha)
B02141760 Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
B02141766 Thomas Malthus, population expert
B02141806 Lajos, Count Batthyány, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
B02141835 François Haverschmidt, writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
B02141845 Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
B02141847 Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
B02141853 Jan van Rÿswÿck, Flemish journalist/burgemeister of Antwerp
B02141856 Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves)
B02141858 Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
B02141859 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
B02141864 Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
B02141864 Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology/marginale mens)
B02141869 Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
B02141882 George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
B02141892 Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
B02141894 Jack Benny, [Benny Kubelski], Waukegan, Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
B02141898 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (supernovae)
B02141899 John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
B021419-- Alan Hunter, MTV vee-jay
B021419-- Brian Kelly, Detroit Mich, actor (Flipper, Straightaway)
B021419-- Lee Chamberlain, NYC, actress (Lucy-All's Fair, Barbara-Paris)
B021419-- Peg Murray, Denver Colo, actress (Me & Mrs C)
B02141902 Fred Scott, Fresno Calif, singer/actor (Vincent Lopez)
B02141902 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
B02141902 Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley Calif, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
B02141905 Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
B02141907 Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
B02141909 A Moses Klein, Montréal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
B02141912 Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
B02141913 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (De man zonder headed)
B02141913 James Pike, Okla City, bishop (Beyond Anxiety)
B02141913 Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
B02141913 Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, sportscaster (voice of the NY Yankees)
B02141916 Edward Platt, Staten Island NY, actor (Chief-Get Smart)
B02141917 Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
B02141921 Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
B02141921 Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
B02141923 Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
B02141924 Mountbatten, of Burma
B02141925 Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orch leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell)
B02141931 Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey star/beer spokesman
B02141931 Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters)
B02141931 Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
B02141934 Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
B02141935 David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
B02141935 Mickey Wright, San Diego Calif, golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
B02141936 Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
B02141940 Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
B02141941 Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
B02141943 Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, singer (Avalanche, Be True to You)
B02141944 Alan Parker, actor (Bugsy Malone)
B02141944 Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
B02141945 Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
B02141945 Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein
B02141946 Tim Buckley, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
B02141946 Tina Aumont, Hollywood Calif, actress (Master of Love)
B02141947 Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02141947 Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (Soyuz 37)
B02141948 Pat O'Brien, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
B02141948 Wally Tax, guitarist
B02141949 Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
B02141949 Jackie Martlin, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian (Howard Stern Show)
B02141951 Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager (Newcastle United)
B02141956 Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
B02141958 Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
B02141960 Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
B02141960 Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
B02141960 Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
B02141963 Zach Galligan, actor (Gremlins)
B02141967 Manuela Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player (1984 US Open Mixed)
B02141972 Mayne One, rocker (Young Nation)
B02141977 Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
B02141985 Jacob Parker, actor
B02151368 Sigismund, Nürnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
B02151483 Babur, founded Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
B02151497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germany, Protestant reformer
B02151519 Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, explored Florida, founded St Augustine
B02151564 Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
B02151571 Michael Praetorius, German music theorist/composer (Syntagma music)
B02151620 François Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
B02151650 Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of Frankrijk (hugenot)
B02151666 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist
B02151710 Louis XV the Well-Beloved, king of France (1710-74)
B02151726 Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
B02151748 Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher/economist
B02151774 W G Frederik, prince of Orange
B02151780 Carel Asser, rights leader
B02151795 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
B02151803 John Augustus Sutter, of Calif gold rush fame
B02151809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
B02151812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler
B02151820 Susan Brownell Anthony, woman's suffragette
B02151826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist
B02151828 Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook)
B02151834 Sir William Preece, English electrical engineer, wireless pioneer
B02151845 Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
B02151858 William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
B02151861 Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician/philosopher
B02151874 Earnest Shackleton, Ireland, explorer (Antarctica)
B02151882 John Barrymore, actor (or 0215) (Beloved Rogue)
B02151886 Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
B02151894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
B02151897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
B02151899 Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
B02151899 Georges Auric, Lodève France, composer (It Always Rains on Sunday)
B021519-- Claire Yarlett, LA Calif, actress (Rituals, Dynasty 2)
B021519-- Geoff Edwards, Westfield NJ, actor (Jeff-Petticoat Junction, Jackpot)
B021519-- Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
B021519-- Kevin Cloud, Hartford Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
B021519-- Renee Props, Okla, actress (Ellie-As the World Turns)
B02151901 Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
B02151904 Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
B02151905 Harold Arlen, composer (Over the Rainbow)
B02151907 Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man)
B02151908 Ypk fan der Fear, writer (Reade runen)
B02151911 Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
B02151912 George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
B02151913 Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske en Wiske)
B02151914 Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Howling)
B02151918 Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
B02151920 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (De duivel vart in ons/De nikkers)
B02151922 Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
B02151923 Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
B02151923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
B02151927 Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
B02151929 Graham Hill, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
B02151929 James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
B02151931 Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
B02151933 Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
B02151934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
B02151935 John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
B02151935 Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
B02151935 Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
B02151939 Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
B02151939 Ollie Ellefsäter, Norway, 3K steeplechase (Olympics-1960)
B02151943 Florinda Bolkan, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
B02151944 Alexander A Serebrov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8)
B02151944 Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks-Lola)
B02151944 Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B02151945 Douglas R Hofstadter, NYC, author (Gödel, Escher, Bach)
B02151947 John Adams, Worcester Mass, composerette (Nixon on China)
B02151947 Marisa Berenson, NY, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna)
B02151947 Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy)
B02151948 Ron "The Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
B02151949 Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
B02151951 Jane Seymour, Middlesex England, actress (East of Eden, Lassiter)
B02151951 Melissa Manchester, Bronx, NY, singer (Don't Cry Out Loud)
B02151954 Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
B02151955 Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
B02151960 Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
B02151968 Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville Ky, actor (Ned-General Hospital)
B02151968 Michael Easton, actor (Tanner-Days of Our Lives)
B02151991 Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin
B02161075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet
B02161514 Rhäticus [Rheticus], Austrian astronomer/mathematician
B02161519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
B02161620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
B02161684 Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
B02161740 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian printer/typeface designer
B02161746 Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
B02161812 Henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)
B02161821 Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer of Africa
B02161823 Brig Gen John D Imboden, organized 1st Virginia Partisan Rangers
B02161834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Germany, naturalist (Causes of Evolution)
B02161838 Henry Adams, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
B02161848 Hugo de Vries, botanist (Hoe soorten ontstonden)
B02161850 Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
B02161852 Charles Taze Russell, founded Jehovah's Witnesses
B02161852 William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
B02161858 Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
B02161866 Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King)
B02161866 William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
B02161876 George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North)
B02161886 Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
B02161893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic
B02161896 Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
B02161898 Katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St)
B021619-- Hunt Block, Wash DC, actor (Peter-Knots Landing)
B02161901 Chester Morris, NYC, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown)
B02161901 Wayne King, Savannah Ill, saxophonist/bandleader (the Waltz King)
B02161903 Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
B02161904 George F Kennan, US ambassador to Moscow
B02161906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
B02161907 Anghélos Terzakis, Greece, writer (Zonder God)
B02161909 Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
B02161909 Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, The Roaring Twenties)
B02161911 Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase)
B02161912 Del Sharbutt, Cleburne Tx, TV announcer (Your Hit Parade)
B02161912 Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, a creator of salsa music
B02161914 Jimmy Wakely, Mineola Ark, country singer (5 Star Jubilee)
B02161920 Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist
B02161920 Lee Russell, Cleveland Oh, singer (Vincent Lopez)
B02161920 Patty Andrews, Minneapolis Mn, singer (Andrews Sisters)
B02161922 Geraint Evans, British opera singer
B02161925 John Schlesinger, London England, director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling)
B02161929 Peter Porter, writer/poet (Chair of Babel, Automatic Oracle)
B02161930 Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, singer/actress (George Gobel Show)
B02161931 Ken Takakura, Japanese film star (A Story of the Antarctic)
B02161932 Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Okla, actress (Silk Stockings)
B02161934 Marlene Bauer Hagge, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete of the Year)
B02161934 Marlene Hagge, Eureka SD, golfer (LPGA champ 1956)
B02161935 Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue)
B02161935 Sonny Bono, Detroit, singer (Sonny & Cher, Mayor-R-Palm Springs, Ca)
B02161938 Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha)
B02161938 John Corigliano, NYC, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles)
B0216194- Jimmie Walker, comedian/actor (Good Times, At Ease, Bustin' Loose)
B02161941 Vitali Kuznetsov, USSR, judo (Olympic-silver-1972)
B02161942 Kim Chong-Il, son of President of North Korea, designated succesor
B02161943 Anthony Dowell, London, dancer (Royal Ballet)
B02161946 Aleksandr Shaparenko, USSR, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02161946 Ian Lavender, British actor (Stupid Boy in Dad's Army)
B02161950 William Katt, LA Calif, actor (Greatest American Hero, 1st Love)
B02161954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory)
B02161955 George Martin, NFL defensive back (NY Giants)
B02161956 James Ingram, singer (On the Wings of Love)
B02161957 LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
B02161958 Lisa Loring, actress (As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family)
B02161959 John P McEnroe, tennis player (US Open 1979-81,84 Wimb 1981,83,84)
B02161959 Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge NJ, NBA forward (Det Pistons, Utah Jazz)
B02161962 Alexa Kenin, NYC, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever)
B02161962 Andy Taylor, rock guitarist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
B02161962 Tony Kiley, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
B02161970 Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate (Jun, 1991)
B02161974 Kim Whipkey, rocker (PC Quest)
B02161974 Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
B02161985 Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69
B02171490 Karel van Bourbon, military man/mayor of Lombardije
B02171653 Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto grossi)
B02171723 Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
B02171774 Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
B02171781 René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, inventor (stethoscope)
B02171817 Frederick Douglas, famous African
B02171820 Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
B02171837 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister of child labor
B02171844 A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business
B02171853 Jaroslav Vrchlicky, [Emil Frída], Czech poet
B02171854 Friedrich A Krupp, arms manufacturer
B02171857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
B02171867 William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer
B02171870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist
B02171874 Thomas J Watson Sr, founded IBM
B02171879 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-the Month-Club)
B02171880 Alvaro Obregon, president Mexico
B02171888 Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
B02171889 H.L. Hunt, Texas oil millionaire
B02171892 Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis/Stalingrad)
B021719-- Christine Pickles, Yorkshire England, actress (Helen-St Elsewhere)
B021719-- Clayton Prince, actor (Reuben-Another World)
B02171902 Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto
B02171904 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Rond Jezus' kleed)
B02171906 Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
B02171907 Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
B02171907 Charles B Timmer, writer (Russia zwart on wit)
B02171908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
B02171909 Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
B02171914 Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)
B02171916 Raf Vallone, Italy, actor (El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon)
B02171919 Jock Mahoney, Chicago Ill, actor (Yancy Derringer)
B02171919 Kathleen Freeman, Chicago Ill, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
B02171923 Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
B02171924 Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist
B02171925 Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain)
B02171926 Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
B02171929 Chaim Potok, novelist (The Promise)
B02171929 Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader
B02171932 Buck Trent, Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
B02171933 Bobby Lewis, rocker (Tossin' & Turnin')
B02171934 Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman)
B02171934 Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage)
B02171936 Jim Brown, Ga, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns), actor (Dirty Dozen)
B02171939 Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actr (Diff'rent Strokes)
B02171941 Gene Pitney, singer/songwriter (Town Without Pity)
B02171941 Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960)
B02171942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
B02171944 Bernie Grant, British politician (Labour)
B02171945 Brenda Fricker, actress (My Left Foot)
B02171945 Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place)
B02171945 Willie JL Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B02171946 André Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle)
B02171946 Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B02171946 Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Gail-The Nurses)
B02171947 Ben Cramer, singer (clown)
B02171947 Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer
B02171947 Dodie Stevens, actress (Mary Hatman!)
B02171950 Rick Medlocke, rocker (Blackfoot)
B02171952 Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open)
B02171953 Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
B02171958 Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place)
B02171959 Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, US, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
B02171959 Richard Karn, actor
B02171961 Michael "Air" Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
B02171962 Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
B02171966 Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
B02171974 Jerry O'Connell, NYC, actor (Andrew Clements-My Secret Identity)
B02171974 Jerry Okennel
B02171974 Michael J O'Connell, actor (Andrew-My Secret Identity)
B02181516 Queen Mary I, [Bloody Mary] (1553-58), 1st reigning queen of GB
B02181559 Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
B02181609 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English lord chancellor
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)
B02181775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist, watercolorist
B02181795 George Peabody, US, merchant/philanthropist
B02181836 Ramakrishna, Hindu saint; preached unity of all religions
B02181838 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist
B02181844 Willem Maris, painter (Hagse School)
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker; famous for stained glass windows
B02181853 August Belmont Jr, breeder of Man 'O War/founded NY Jockey Club
B02181859 Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on Roof)
B02181860 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
B02181884 Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
B02181888 Gladys Cooper, England, actress (Margaret-The Rogues)
B02181890 Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born)
B02181890 Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago)
B02181890 Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
B02181892 Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate, author (One World)
B02181894 Andrés Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
B02181895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, Notre Dame football star
B02181895 Semjon Timosjenko, Russ marshal/inspecteur-general (WW II)
B02181896 André Breton, France, surrealist poet/writer (founder of surrealism)
B02181899 Sir Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
B021819-- Allan Melvin, KC, actor (Phil Silvers Show, Barney-All in the Family)
B021819-- Anthony Pera, actor (Miguel-Young & Restless)
B021819-- Breck Jamison, actor (As the World Turns)
B02181903 Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR
B02181907 Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World)
B02181909 Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
B02181909 Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
B02181912 Heinz Kühn, Dutch politician (SPD-min-pres North Region-Eastfalen)
B02181913 Dane Clark, Bkln, actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason)
B02181914 Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country singer (Pee Wee King Song)
B02181916 Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montréal (1954- )
B02181917 Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey)
B02181919 Heinz Kühn, German politician (Soc-Dem)
B02181920 Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host (over 20 different games)
B02181920 Jack Palance, Lattimer Pa, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not)
B02181922 Eric Gairy, premier Grenada
B02181922 Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher (Cosmopolitan)
B02181923 Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, All in Family)
B02181925 George Kennedy, NYC, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight)
B02181926 Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
B02181928 Jim McElreath, auto racer (1970 Ontario 500)
B02181929 Len Deighton, writer (Fighter)
B02181930 Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
B02181931 Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
B02181932 Milos Forman, Czech/US director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus)
B02181933 Bobby Robson, British soccer manager (PSV)
B02181933 Kim Novak, Chicago, Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
B02181933 Mary Ure, England, model/actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way)
B02181933 Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer(?)
B02181934 Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77)
B02181938 Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers)
B02181941 David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow)
B02181941 Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
B02181945 Judy Rankin, St Louis Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77)
B02181945 Michael Nader, St Louis Mo, actor (Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty)
B02181947 Dennis De Young, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
B02181947 Princess Maria Christina, [Marÿke], of Netherlands
B02181949 Cybill Shepherd, Memphis Tn, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show)
B02181949 Jess Walton, actress (Jill Abbott-Young & Restless)
B02181950 John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller)
B02181952 Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning)
B02181953 Derek Pellicci, rocker (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
B02181953 Robin Bachman, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Aint Seen)
B02181954 John Travolta, Englewood NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Grease)
B02181957 Vanna White, Conway SC, TV game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune)
B02181960 Andy Moog, NHL Goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988)
B02181960 Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief)
B02181962 Gary Reasons, NFL line backer (NY Giants)
B02181963 Rob Andrew, English rugby player
B02181964 Matt Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Little Darlings, Kansas)
B02181968 Molly Ringwald, Roseville Calif, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
B02181969 Alexander Mogliny, USSR, 1st soviet hockey star to defect to NHL
B02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Torún, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
B02191683 King Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
B02191717 David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
B02191743 Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
B02191817 William III, king of the Netherlands (1849-90)
B02191821 Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
B02191828 Johannes von Miquel, German politician
B02191833 Élie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902)
B02191843 Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, operatic coloratura (Lucia)
B02191859 Svante August Arhenius, founded physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
B02191863 Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo, president of Perú (1908, 1919)
B02191864 Airius S Talma, Dutch minister of building (Workswet 1911)
B02191865 Adrian van Oordt, writer (neoromantiek)
B02191865 Sven Hedin, Sweden, explored Tibet, scientist
B02191877 Louis (FM) Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
B02191889 José Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
B02191893 Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Richard III)
B02191894 Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
B02191895 Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
B02191896 André Breton, French poet/writer (Manifest of surréalism)
B021919-- Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
B021919-- Clay Anthony, rocker (Junkyard-Blooze Hot Rod)
B021919-- Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
B02191901 Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord
B02191902 John Bubbles, Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer
B02191902 Nydia Westman, NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
B02191903 Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
B02191906 Hendrik WC Spruit, conductor
B02191911 Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
B02191912 Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana)
B02191912 Stan Kenton, Wichita Kansas, jazz musician/orch leader (Music 55)
B02191915 John Freeman, British Labour politician/ambassador/TV host
B02191916 Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
B02191917 Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
B02191920 George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
B02191924 Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
B02191930 John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
B02191932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
B02191932 Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
B02191940 William "Smokey" Robinson, Det, singer (& the Miracles-Being With You)
B02191943 "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
B02191943 Lou Christie, Penn, rock vocalist (Lightnin' Strikes)
B02191948 Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
B02191948 Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
B02191952 Rudolfo Neri-Vela, Chilpancing Mexico, astronaut (STS 23)
B02191953 Stephen Nichols, Cincinatti Ohio, actor (Days of our Lives)
B02191955 Jeff Daniels, actor (Something Wild)
B02191955 Margaux Hemingway, Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
B02191956 George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
B02191957 Dave "Smoke" Stewart, Oakland Calif, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
B02191957 Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
B02191960 Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain
B02191962 Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
B02191963 Jessica Tuck, NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live)
B02191966 Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
B02191966 Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
B02191989 L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
B02201494 Johan Friis, chancellor of Denmark; helped establish Lutheranism
B02201507 Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
B02201523 Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)
B02201632 Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English chief minister/founded Tories
B02201790 Joseph II, Emperor of the Holy Roman empire, dies
B02201791 Carl Czerny, Wien (Vienna), pianist (could he turn out études!)
B02201835 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philospher
B02201844 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
B02201844 Mihály von Munkácsy, [Michael von Lieb], Hungarian painter
B02201861 Nicolas van Meeteren, Curaçao, folk singer
B02201870 Pieter C Boutens, poet (Beatrijs)
B02201870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
B02201883 Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through the Dark Night)
B02201886 Béla Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
B02201887 Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
B02201888 Dame Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
B02201888 Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
B02201888 Marie Rambert, [Cyvia M Ramberg], Polish/England, ballerina
B02201893 Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
B02201896 Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
B02201897 Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (The Door, The Window)
B02201898 Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
B02201899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
B022019-- Andrew Stele, Willmington Delaware, (Billy Campbell-Melrose Place)
B022019-- Claudette Wells, St Louis Mo, actress (Square Pegs)
B022019-- Henry Polic II, Pitts Pa, actor (When Things Were Rotten, Webster)
B022019-- Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
B022019-- Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
B02201900 Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
B02201901 Ali M Naguib, General of Egyptian Air Force
B02201901 Henry Eyring, Mexicans/US chemist
B02201901 Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory)
B02201901 Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
B02201901 René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease)
B02201902 Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
B02201903 Pierre Charles, Belgian boxer
B02201904 Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
B02201906 Gale Gordon, actor (Here's Lucy)
B02201907 Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
B02201910 Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
B02201910 Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
B02201911 Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
B02201914 John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
B02201914 Willem J H Bart, clergyman (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
B02201916 Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
B02201916 Paul Tripp, NYC, TV host (Mr I Magination)
B02201921 Amanda Blake, Buffalo, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
B02201921 Joseph A Walker, X-15 pilot
B02201924 Gloria Vanderbilt, don't my jeans look great, poor little rich girl
B02201924 Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun) or 1927
B02201925 Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
B02201925 Robert Altman, movie director (Nashville, M*A*S*H)
B02201926 Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder Digital Equipment Corp
B02201927 Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor" for Sen Joseph McCarthy
B02201928 Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
B02201929 Amanda Blake, actress (Miss Kitty-Gunsmoke)
B02201929 Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
B02201934 Bobby Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
B02201936 Larry Hovis, Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
B02201936 Marj Dusay, Rusell Ks, actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
B02201937 David Ackles, Illinois, singer/songwriter (American Gothic)
B02201937 Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz singer (Feel Like Making Love)
B02201937 Robert Huber, München, Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
B02201940 Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
B02201941 Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
B02201942 Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City)
B02201942 Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
B02201942 Phil Esposito, NHL player/coach/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
B02201946 J Geils, rock guitarist/vocalist (Freeze-Frame, Centerfold)
B02201946 Mieke HA Boers-Wÿnberg, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
B02201946 Sandy Duncan, Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family)
B02201947 André van Duin, [Kyvon], entertainer (Bloemkoole)
B02201947 Jennifer O'Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
B02201947 Peter Strauss, actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Space Hunter)
B02201949 Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Czech, wife of Donald Trump
B02201950 John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
B02201950 Walter Becker, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
B02201951 Edward Albert, LA Ca, actor (Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free)
B02201951 Randy California, LA, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
B02201952 Catherine Cummins, Clintwood Va, 1st of 5 siblings born on 2/20
B02201953 Carol Cummins, Clintwood Va, 2nd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
B02201953 Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
B02201954 Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
B02201955 Kelsey Grammer, actor (Dr Fraiser Crane-Cheers)
B02201956 Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
B02201958 Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985)
B02201960 Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
B02201961 Claudia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 4th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
B02201963 Charles Barkley, NBA forward (Phila 76ers, All Star 1987-90)
B02201966 Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
B02201966 Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
B02201967 Rebekka Lynn Armstrong, Bakersfield Ca, playmate (Sep, 1986)
B02201968 Lorraine Olivia, Geneva Ill, playmate (Nov, 1990)
B02201972 Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (Aug, 1991)
B02211417 Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
B02211484 Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg, Constitution J'ica)
B02211728 Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine
B02211730 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
B02211794 Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of México (1833-36)
B02211801 John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
B02211815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
B02211817 José Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
B02211821 Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
B02211836 Léo Delibes, Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Coppélia)
B02211844 Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
B02211855 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
B02211856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Beurs Amsterdam)
B02211867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
B02211877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South Africans poet/theologist)
B02211880 Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers)
B02211885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
B02211887 Savielly (Xavier) G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
B02211893 Andrés Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
B02211893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
B022119-- Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
B022119-- Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Barbara-Valerie)
B022119-- Patricia Benoit, Ft Worth Tx, actress (Nancy-Mr Peepers)
B022119-- Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
B02211902 Bob (Hÿman) Scholte, singer
B02211903 Anaïs Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
B02211903 Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
B02211904 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
B02211907 Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
B02211908 Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer
B02211909 Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
B02211914 Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
B02211915 Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Good Sam)
B02211915 Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
B02211922 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (The 5th Beatle)
B02211923 Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
B02211925 Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
B02211925 Sam Peckinpah, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
B02211927 Erma Bombeck, Ohio, humorist (The Grass Is Always Greener...)
B02211927 Hubert Givenchy, fashion designer
B02211927 Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
B02211931 Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
B02211932 King Harold, of Norway
B02211933 Nina Simone, Tyron NC, singer/pianist (I Love You Porgy)
B02211934 Rue McClanahan, Healdton Okla, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
B02211936 Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx)
B02211937 Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
B02211937 Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
B02211939 Richard Beymer, Iowa, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
B02211940 Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
B02211942 Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
B02211943 David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
B02211944 Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
B02211946 Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
B02211946 Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
B02211947 Jill Eikenberry, actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law)
B02211948 Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
B02211949 Jerry Harrison, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-& She Was)
B02211952 JJ Brunel, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
B02211958 Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
B02211958 Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
B02211958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter, singer (Shooting Straight in the Dark)
B02211961 Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
B02211961 Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
B02211964 Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
B02211966 Wendy James, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
B02211968 Todd Ferich, computer language expert
B02211975 Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
B02221403 Charles VII, king of France (1422-61), drove out English
B02221440 Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia
B02221732 George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97)
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
B02221778 Rembrandt Peale, portrait & historical painter (Court of Death)
B02221788 Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
B02221796 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
B02221810 Frédéric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer
B02221819 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
B02221822 Adolf Kuszmaul, German artist (magpomp/ziekte of Kuszmaul)
B02221838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
B02221840 F August Bebel, German social-democrat
B02221843 Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
B02221850 Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
B02221852 Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
B02221857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
B02221857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founded Boy Scouts, Girl Guides
B02221862 Connie Mack, baseball manager (Pirates, Phila A's 1900-1950)
B02221864 Jules Renard, France, writer (Carrots)
B02221868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
B02221879 Johannes Brφnsted, Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions)
B02221882 Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
B02221884 Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
B02221887 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
B02221891 Jan Wils, Holland, architect (designed Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
B02221892 David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
B02221892 Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
B02221895 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peruvian Aprista Party
B02221896 Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
B02221896 Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
B022219-- Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, SNL)
B022219-- Geoffrey Scott, Hollywood Calif, actor (Secret Empire, Dynasty)
B022219-- James Wick, actor (Linc-As The World Turns)
B02221900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
B02221900 Luis Bruñel, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
B02221900 Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
B02221901 Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
B02221903 Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
B02221904 Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of José Herrera)
B02221906 Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
B02221907 Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
B02221907 Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
B02221908 John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
B02221908 Rómulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
B02221915 Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing it Again)
B02221915 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
B02221918 Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
B02221918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
B02221918 Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
B02221925 Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (The Curious Sofa)
B02221926 Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
B02221927 Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
B02221928 Bruce Forsyth, British comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
B02221928 Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
B02221929 Ryne Duren, NY Yankee near-sighted pitcher
B02221930 Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
B02221932 Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass), (Don't let him drive)
B02221932 Piper Laurie, Detroit Mich, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Carrie)
B02221933 Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
B02221934 George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
B02221934 Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
B02221935 Ineke, [RM] Has-Berger, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
B02221937 Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
B02221937 Tommy Aaron, golfer (1969 Canadian Open)
B02221938 Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
B02221939 Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
B02221940 Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
B02221940 Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
B02221943 Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
B02221943 Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinatti, KC-Omaha, Phil)
B02221945 Oliver, singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
B02221948 Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
B02221949 Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
B02221949 Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
B02221950 Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
B02221950 Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
B02221952 James P Bagian, Philadelphia Pa, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
B02221955 Tim Young, athlete
B02221956 Amy Alcott, KC Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1980, 83)
B02221958 Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
B02221959 Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
B02221961 Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, singer/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
B02221964 Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rico, tennis player (1988 US Open Doubles)
B02221964 Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
B02221965 Pat LaFontaine, St Louis Mo, NHL center (Olym-1984, NY Islanders)
B02221966 Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
B02221972 Michael Chang, US tennis star
B02221975 Drew Barrymore, LA Calif, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
B02231417 Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italy, Pope (1464-71)
B02231614 Jacob Colÿn(s), painter
B02231633 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary, Memoirs)
B02231649 John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
B02231685 Georg Friedrich Händel, English/German organist/composer (De Messias)
B02231744 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founded House of Rothschild
B02231776 John Walter II, manager of The Times (London)
B02231787 Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
B02231792 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
B02231818 Maj Gen Jeremy F Gilmer, Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
B02231831 Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag)
B02231840 Carl Menger, Austrian economist
B02231859 Theodor Batthyányi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
B02231865 Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
B02231868 William EB Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
B02231874 Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
B02231875 Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch politician (SDAP) 2nd Chamber
B02231881 Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, philosopher
B02231883 Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/existentialist philosopher
B02231883 Victor Fleming, Pasadena Cal, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
B02231889 Frederik M baron van Asbeck, reichts leader (Volkenbond)
B022319-- Catherine Larson, actress (Ryan's Hope)
B022319-- Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrÿche-The Warning)
B022319-- Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Beth-Double Trouble)
B02231904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
B02231904 William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
B02231908 Sir William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
B02231911 G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
B02231913 Charles Leonard, US, pentathelete (Olympic-1936)
B02231916 George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02231917 Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds)
B02231920 Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
B02231928 Vasili G Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1)
B02231929 Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
B02231930 Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)
B02231930 Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
B02231930 Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
B02231933 Lee Calhoun, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
B02231938 Diane Varsi, San Mateo Calif, actress (Peyton Place)
B02231938 Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
B02231939 Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)
B02231939 Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
B02231940 Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
B02231941 William Hjörtsberg, NYC, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel)
B02231943 Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders, Montrèal Als)
B02231943 Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
B02231944 Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss, guitarist (Silver Train)
B02231946 Rusty Young, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
B02231947 Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who Would be King)
B02231949 Anna-Maria Müller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02231949 Marc Garneau, Canada, astronaut (STS 13)
B02231951 Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
B02231952 Brad Whitford, Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
B02231955 Howard Jones, rock vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
B02231956 Maren Jensen, Glendale Cal, actress (Battlestar Galactica)
B02231958 David Sylvian, vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
B02231958 Ria Brieffies, singer (Dolly Dots)
B02231960 Gloria von Thurm und Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
B02231962 Melinda Mays, Augusta Ga, playmate (Feb, 1983)
B02231965 Helena Sukova, Czech, tennis player (1985 US Open's Double)
B02231966 Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
B02231971 Jason Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
B02231971 Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
B02241304 Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
B02241463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
B02241500 Emperor Charles V, king of Spain (1516-56)
B02241536 Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
B02241545 Don John, of Austria the elder, Austrian general
B02241547 Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/son of Emperor Karel V
B02241557 Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
B02241619 Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (The Chancellor Séguier)
B02241697 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
B02241766 Samuel Wesley, Bristol, England, composer, organist (Exultate Deo)
B02241786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
B02241809 Edwin HK Freiherr von Manteuffel, general/mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n)
B02241836 Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
B02241843 Thephilo Braga, Portugese poet/writer/politician
B02241848 C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (The woman who did)
B02241852 George Moore, Ireland, novelist (Esther Waters)
B02241860 Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
B02241872 John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
B02241874 Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop for Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17)
B02241879 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Zon)
B02241885 Adm Chester Nimitz, commanded Pacific fleet in WW II
B02241885 Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
B02241885 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
B02241885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
B02241890 Marjorie Main, Action Indiana, actress (Another Thin Man)
B02241898 Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
B02241899 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Under Gang)
B022419-- Dorothy Parke, Toronto Canada, actress (Amanda-Hot Shots)
B022419-- James Sloyan, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Oh Madeline)
B022419-- Jenny O'Hara, Sonora Calif, actress (Facts of Life, My Sister Sam)
B022419-- Joan Diener, Cleve Oh, actress (54th Street Revue)
B022419-- Melinda Naud, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat)
B02241909 August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
B02241914 Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
B02241917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, superconductivity physicist
B02241921 Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
B02241922 Steven Hill, Seattle Wash, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl)
B02241924 Douglass Watson, Jackson Ga, actor (Another World)
B02241928 Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
B02241928 Paul B Elvström, Denmark, yachter (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60)
B02241929 Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
B02241930 Barbara Lawrence, actress (Joe Dakota)
B02241932 John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
B02241932 Michel Legrand, musician (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
B02241934 Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st Socialist premier
B02241934 Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
B02241934 Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
B02241934 Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
B02241934 Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
B02241938 James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
B02241940 Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
B02241942 Paul Jones, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
B02241944 Barry Bostwick, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce, Movie Movie)
B02241944 Nicky Hopkins, rocker (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver)
B02241944 Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
B02241945 Alain Prost, formula-1 racer (1985, 86 champ)
B02241945 Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Calif, actor (Scruples, Foul Play)
B02241947 Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
B02241947 Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
B02241947 Rubert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, singer (Piña Colda song)
B02241948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
B02241951 Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
B02241952 Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
B02241955 Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
B02241956 Eddie Murray, 1st baseman (Balt Orioles)
B02241956 Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
B02241957 Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
B02241958 Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
B02241962 Teri Weigel, Ft Lauderdale Fla, porn star/playmate (Apr, 1986)
B02241970 Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
B02241973 James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
B02241977 Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
B02251707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, dramatist (Love of the 3 Oranges)
B02251725 Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame)
B02251778 José Francisco de San Martín, liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú
B02251814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS)
B02251841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
B02251842 Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
B02251847 John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism)
B02251856 Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
B02251866 Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
B02251871 Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US singles 1890)
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
B02251876 Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
B02251881 William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
B02251882 Ludvig Nordström, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
B02251894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
B02251895 DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
B02251896 John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
B022519-- Jean Bruce Scott, Monterey Calif, actress (Magnum PI, Airwolf)
B022519-- Louise Williams, Scranton Pa, actress (Busting Loose)
B02251900 Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
B02251901 Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
B02251904 Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
B02251906 Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
B02251906 Howard Zahniser, Father of the Wilderness Act
B02251908 Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
B02251909 Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
B02251910 Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ) (Doonesbury)
B02251913 Gert Frobe, German actor (title role in Goldfinger)
B02251913 Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
B02251916 Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
B02251917 Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
B02251918 Bobby Riggs, tennis star (1939 US Open)
B02251919 F de Jong Edz, historian
B02251919 Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
B02251925 Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
B02251927 Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
B02251927 Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
B02251929 Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
B02251929 Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
B02251937 Basia Johnson, maid who inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune
B02251937 Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
B02251937 Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser)
B02251938 Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
B02251938 Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
B02251939 Marisa Mell, Vienna Austria, actress (Masuerade, Casanova)
B02251940 Jesús Lopez-Cobos, Toro Spain, conductor (Intl Conductor Competition)
B02251940 Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
B02251940 Ron Santo, Chicago Cub (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
B02251941 David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
B02251941 Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
B02251943 George Harrison, Beatle/Travelling Willberries (My Sweet Lord)
B02251943 Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
B02251944 Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
B02251944 Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
B02251945 Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
B02251945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
B02251947 Lee Evans, US, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
B02251950 Emitt Rhodes, musician (The Merry-go-Round)
B02251953 Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondant (Entertainment Tonight)
B02251955 Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty)
B02251957 Stuart "Woody" Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
B02251958 Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
B02251959 Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
B02251962 Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
B02251971 Sean Astin, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers, Like Father Like Son)
B02251976 Chris Pitman
B02261361 Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperor (1378-1400)
B02261361 Wenzel/Václav IV, King of Bohemia (1376-1400)
B02261675 Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas géographique)
B02261686 Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat
B02261802 Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
B02261808 Honoré Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
B02261832 John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
B02261837 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
B02261842 Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
B02261845 Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
B02261861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
B02261867 Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
B02261873 Ewoud van Everdingen, meteorologist
B02261876 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
B02261876 Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
B02261877 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism)
B02261883 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek)
B02261884 Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor
B02261885 Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
B02261887 Benegal N Rau, Indian pres
B02261887 Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
B02261887 Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
B02261893 Ivor Richards, English critic
B02261893 William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
B02261898 Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
B022619-- Barbara Meek, Detroit Mich, actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Melba)
B022619-- Christopher Templeton, Lake Forest Ill, actor (Carol-Young & Restless)
B022619-- Damita Jo Freeman, Palestine Tx, actress (Jackie Simms-Pvt Benjamin)
B022619-- Jonathan Schmock, La Jolla Calif, actor (Billy-Double Trouble)
B022619-- Kevin Best, NYC, actor (Harrison-General Hospital)
B022619-- Michael Bolton, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
B02261902 Menno ter Brak, writer/essayist (Carnaval der Burgers)
B02261902 Rudolf Moralt, German conductor
B02261902 Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le silence de la mer)
B02261906 Madeleine Carroll, English actress (The 39 Steps, Secret Agent)
B02261913 Jon Hall, Fresno Calif, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
B02261914 Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
B02261915 Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (Die vrou en ander verse)
B02261916 Jackie Gleason, actor (Honeymooners, Smokey & the Bandit)
B02261917 Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
B02261918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
B02261918 Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
B02261918 Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
B02261919 Hendrika Mastenbroek, Netherlands, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1936)
B02261919 Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
B02261920 A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
B02261920 Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
B02261921 Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
B02261922 Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
B02261924 Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
B02261924 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
B02261926 Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
B02261926 Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
B02261927 Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
B02261927 Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
B02261928 Anatoli V Filipchenko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
B02261928 Antione "Fats" Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
B02261930 Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
B02261931 Robert Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
B02261932 Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
B02261933 Sir James Goldsmith, Paris France, fiancier/corporate raider
B02261938 Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
B02261942 Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
B02261943 Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
B02261943 Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
B02261945 Mitch Ryder, rocker (& the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
B02261946 Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
B02261946 Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
B02261947 Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
B02261948 Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
B02261950 Jonathan Cain, keyboardist (Journey-Don't Stop Believing)
B02261957 Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Madison Wisc, 79k cyclist (Oly-gold-1984)
B02261957 Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02261958 Jeff Fithian, actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
B02261958 Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
B02261965 Brittany York, London England, playmate (Oct, 1990)
B02261970 Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
B02261970 Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
B0227 289 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity
B02271792 Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Spanish adventurer/field marshal
B02271807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
B02271823 William Buel Franklin, General (Union-Civil War)
B02271847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry, England, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
B02271850 Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
B02271861 Rudolf Steiner, Austria, founder of anthroposophy movement
B02271881 Luitzen (Bertus) Brouwers, mathematician
B02271881 Sveinn Björnsson, 1st president of Republic of Iceland (1944-52)
B02271886 Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
B02271887 James D Innes, English painter
B02271888 Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
B02271891 David Sarnoff, board chairman (RCA)
B02271892 William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
B02271898 Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
B02271899 Charles Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment
B022719-- Danny Rivera, spanish entertainer
B022719-- Michael Fox, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein)
B022719-- Stephen Yates, actor (Another World)
B022719-- Tim Topper, Balt Md, actor (Evan-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
B02271901 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
B02271902 Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32)
B02271902 John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
B02271902 Marian Anderson, singer, banned by D.A.R.
B02271903 Reginald Gardiner, Wimbeldon England, actor (Great Dictator)
B02271904 James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
B02271905 Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
B02271909 Elisabeth Welsh, singer
B02271910 Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
B02271910 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon)
B02271912 Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
B02271913 Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
B02271913 Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man, Poor Man)
B02271920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
B02271922 Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
B02271923 Dexter Gordon, US tenor saxophonist
B02271925 Guy Mitchell, Detroit Mich, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show)
B02271926 Sir Peter Emery, British MP
B02271930 Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
B02271932 Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
B02271932 Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)
B02271933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
B02271933 Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-Wyo)
B02271933 Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
B02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
B02271934 Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
B02271935 Alberto Remedious, opera singer
B02271935 Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
B02271936 Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
B02271937 Barbara Babcock, actress (Liz-Dallas, Grace-Hill St Blues)
B02271937 L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
B02271939 Antoinette Sibley, ballerina
B02271939 Barbara Babcock, actress (Delancey Street: Crisis Within)
B02271939 Kenzo Takada, fashion designer
B02271939 Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
B02271940 Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
B02271941 Paddy Ashdown, New Delhi India, 1st leader of Britain's SLD Party
B02271941 Paddy Ashton, British MP leader (Soc/Lib Democrat)
B02271942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
B02271943 Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
B02271944 Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
B02271947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
B02271948 Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
B02271951 Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989- )
B02271952 Henk Westbroek, singer (Het goede doel)
B02271954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
B02271955 Garry Christian, rocker
B02271957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
B02271960 Andres Gomez, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
B02271960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
B02271960 Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
B02271961 Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
B02271961 James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
B02271962 Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
B02271962 Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place)
B02271966 Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders)
B02271969 Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America (1991)
B02271973 "Pooh" Clark, rocker (High-5)
B02271975 Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World)
B02281533 Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
B02281552 Jobst Bürgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
B02281675 Guillaume Delisle, Paris, cartographer/geographer
B02281683 René-Antoine de Réaumur, France, biologist/engineer
B02281712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran, France, general
B02281786 D François J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
B02281797 Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
B02281797 W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral
B02281799 Johann von Döllinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian
B02281820 John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
B02281823 Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
B02281824 Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
B02281833 Count Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general/field marshal
B02281865 Sir Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
B02281866 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russia, Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars)
B02281876 John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
B02281882 José Vasconcelos, Oaxaca México, politician/essayist/philosopher
B02281887 William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
B02281890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
B02281893 Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (The Front Page)
B02281895 Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
B02281895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright
B02281896 Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
B02281898 Molly Picon, actress (Milk & Honey)
B022819-- Billie Bird, Pocatello Idaho, actress (Mrs Cassidy-Benson)
B022819-- Richard Romanus, Barre Vt, actor (Foul Play, Strike Force)
B022819-- Rick Lohman, Cleve Oh, actor (Phyl & Mikhy)
B02281901 Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
B02281907 Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates)
B02281909 Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
B02281909 Stephen Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
B02281910 Vincente Minnelli, movie director (American in Paris)
B02281914 Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
B02281915 Sir Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
B02281915 Zero Mostel, actor, if I were a rich man (Fiddler on the Roof)
B02281917 Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
B02281917 John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
B02281923 Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
B02281925 Harry Corbett, British actor (Steptoe & Son/Jabberwacky)
B02281926 Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, author (My Life)
B02281928 Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
B02281929 Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Okla City)
B02281930 Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
B02281931 Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
B02281931 Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
B02281932 Brian Moore, British commentator (Big Match)
B02281932 Don Francks, Vancouver, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
B02281934 Willie Bobo, NYC, jazz drummer (Cos)
B02281939 John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
B02281939 Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (The Boyfriend)
B02281940 Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
B02281940 Mario Andretti, race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500)
B02281942 Brian Jones, rocker (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
B02281943 Barbara Acklin, Chicago, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman)
B02281943 Hans F Dÿkstal, Dutch politician (VVD) 2nd Chamber
B02281944 Bernadette Peters, Queens NY, actress (The Jerk, Song & Dance)
B02281945 Charles "Bubba" Smith, Tx, NFLer (Balt Colts)/actor (Police Academy)
B02281945 Mimsy Farmer, Chicago Ill, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
B02281945 Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
B02281947 Stephanie Beacham, England, (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
B02281948 Frank Bonner, Little Rock Ark, actor (Herb-WKRP, Sidekicks)
B02281950 Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
B02281951 Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1972)
B02281952 Cristina Raines, [Tina Herazo], Manila Phil, actress (Sentinel)
B02281952 Jennie Lynn, San Diego Calif, actress (Love & Marriage)
B02281952 Melissa Babish, SC, swimmer (Olympic)
B02281955 Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
B02281956 Adrian Dantley, NBA forward (Utah Jazz, 1981, 84 top scorer)
B02281957 Cindy Wilson, vocals/percussion (B-52's-Love Shack, Rock Lobster)
B02281957 Phil Gould, rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
B02281960 Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina)
B02281962 Rae Dawn Chong, Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire)
B02281965 Mikko Makela, Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
B02281967 Marcus Lillington, rocker (Breathe-All I Need)
B02281969 Elisa Fiorillo, singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
B02291468 Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
B02291692 Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
B02291728 Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
B02291736 Anna Lee, Manchester, England, founded Shaker movement in America
B02291792 Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
B02291792 Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
B02291828 Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela
B02291840 John Philip Holland, pioneer in submarine building
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
B02291869 W.E.B. DuBois, famous African
B02291896 William W Wellman, Brookline, Mass, director (Star is Born)
B022919-- John Roarke, Providence RI, comedian (Fridays)
B02291900 Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
B02291904 Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah Pa, orch leader (Stage Show)
B02291904 John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36)
B02291904CAdolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John
B02291904CKenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas
B02291904CUncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus
B02291904CWolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr., near Hamburg, Germany
B02291920 Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Invaders From Mars, Young Lions)
B02291920 James Mitchell, Sacramento Calif, actor (Palmer-All My Children)
B02291920 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72)
B02291920 Michele Morgan, actress (Bluebeard, Joan of Paris)
B02291930 Fran Tarkenton, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minn Vikings)
B02291936 Alex Rocco, actor (Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man)
B02291936 Alwin Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
B02291936 Henri "Rocket" Richard, NHL center (Montréal Canadiens)
B02291936 Jack R Lousma, Grand Rapids Mich, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3)
B02291944 Dennis Farina, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story)
B02291948 Nikolai Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
B02291948 Patricia [Anne] McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run)
B02291948 Yuri Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
B02291952 Raisa Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
B02291952 Tim[othy] Powers, US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves)
D02011294 Louis II, the Strong, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
D02011328 Charles IV, the Schone, King of France (1322-28), dies
D02011666 Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
D02011691 Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
D02011733 August II de Sterke, king of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
D02011747 Jacobus E J Capitein, slave/clergyman/merchant, dies
D02011832 Ecco Epkema, classic linguist (Fries/Oudfries), dies at 71
D02011851 Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley, writer (Frankenstein), dies at 53
D02011903 George G Stokes, British/naturalist/pres Royal Society, dies
D02011908 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), killed by mob
D02011908 Crown Prince Luis Phillip, of Portugal, killed by mob
D02011910 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
D02011944 Piet Mondrian, painter, dies
D02011945 Johan Huizinga, culture historian (Homo ludens), dies
D02011966 Buster, [Joseph Francis] Keaton, US comic (The general), dies
D02011966 Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
D02011968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US & Brit Opens 1934,35), dies
D02011974 Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
D02011975 Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & the Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
D02011976 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
D02011976 Werner C Heisenberg, German physicist (field theory), dies
D02011977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
D02011979 Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
D02011980 Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
D02011983 Tullio Campagnolo, Itallian fiat manufacturer, dies
D02011986 Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London
D02011987 Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
D02011988 Heather O'Rourke, "Poltergeist" star, dies at 12 of intestinal ailment
D02011991 HJ van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch politician (CPN) 2nd Chamber, dies
D02021435 Johanna II, Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61
D02021594 Giovanni Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68 (birth date unknown)
D02021660 Govert Flinck, painter (Isak zegent Jacob), dies
D02021685 Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies
D02021723 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66
D02021769 Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
D02021881 Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (De lummel), dies
D02021907 Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies
D02021918 John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
D02021931 Theodor Batthyányi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
D02021945 Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
D02021965 Richard P Blackmur, US, critic/publisher (good European), dies
D02021969 Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies
D02021969 Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
D02021970 Bertrand Russell, philosopher, MP, dies at 99 in Merioneth
D02021978 Wendy Barrie, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
D02021979 Sid Vicious, musician (Sex Pistols), dies of a heroin overdose
D02021980 William H Stein, US biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies
D02021987 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
D02021988 Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
D02021988 G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit
D02021989 John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies
D02021992 Bert Parks, TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
D02021992 Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies
D0203 474 Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
D02031399 Jan of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castilië & León, dies
D02031451 Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
D02031468 Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies
D02031558 Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
D02031853 August Kopisch, German writer (Der Mäuseturm), dies at 53
D02031875 Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies
D02031902 Isaac Frenchn van der Putten, premier 1866/minister of Cologne, dies
D02031924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres (1913-21), dies at his home in Wash at 68
D02031925 Jap Eden, World champion bicyclist & skater, dies
D02031945 Roland Freisler, German "July 20th plotter", dies
D02031958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
D02031959 Buddy Holly, dies in a plane crash
D02031959 Ritchie Valens, dies in a plane crash
D02031959 The Big Bopper, dies in a plane crash
D02031961 Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54
D02031961 Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia, dies at 67
D02031969 Eduardo C Mondlane, president Frelimo, Mozambique, dies
D02031970 Bertrand Russell, English philosopher/mathematician, dies
D02031971 Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72
D02031975 John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55
D02031984 Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies
D02031984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England
D02031991 Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
D0204 708 Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian Pope (708, 20 days), dies
D02041503 Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England, dies
D02041505 Johanna van Valois, Queen of Frankrij/saint, dies at 40
D02041746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
D02041939 Edward Sapir, US linguist/cultural antropologist (indian), dies
D02041943 Frank Calder, 1st hockey president, dies
D02041957 Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
D02041957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
D02041965 Greyhound, champion trotter, dies at 33
D02041965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
D02041978 Dr Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
D02041982 Sue Carol, actress, dies at 73 of a heart attack
D02041983 Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68
D02041983 Karen Carpenter, drummer/singer (Carpenters), dies at 32
D02041987 Liberace, pianist, dies at 67
D0205 45 -BC- Cato, Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide
D02051591 Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
D02051679 Joost van den Vondel, poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies
D02051822 Ali pasja van Janina, (Napoleon/Lord Byron), dies
D02051881 Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
D02051897 Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
D02051911 Petrus A Cronjé, Transval Boer general, dies
D02051922 Christiaam R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
D02051943 H Seyffardt, Lt-Gen/NSB-"minister", killed by resistance
D02051944 Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology/marginal mens), dies at 79
D02051948 Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered to Wageningen), dies
D02051958 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under the red ensign), dies
D02051961 Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
D02051967 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste anti God), dies
D02051968 Nick Adams, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel), dies at 36
D02051969 Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63
D02051973 LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
D02051978 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, historical (Omzien), in wonder, dies
D02051978 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies
D02051981 Barend Barendse, sports newscaster, dies
D02051981 Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75
D02051982 Dolores Maran, actress, dies at 56
D02051982 Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/nazi (doodvonnis), dies
D02051983 Derk Roemers, union leader/politician (soc dem), dies
D02051991 Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak/Rawhide/Oscar), dies
D02051991 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies
D0206 743 Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52
D0206 891 Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies
D02061140 Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies
D02061612 Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
D02061695 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies
D02061793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
D02061897 Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, dies
D02061914 J Albert Neuhuys, painter (Hague school), dies
D02061916 Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian feminist, dies
D02061917 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies
D02061918 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies
D02061919 Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies
D02061923 Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (discovered 5th moon Jupiter), dies
D02061942 Wobbe de Vries, linguist, dies at 78
D02061952 King George VI, of Britain (1936-52), dies, succeeded by Elizabeth II
D02061958 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash
D02061970 Roscoe Karns, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
D02061973 Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies
D02061982 Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies
D02061985 Charles Briggs, actor, dies at 53
D02061985 Dandy Nichols, actress, dies at 78
D02061991 Danny Thomas, comedian/actor, dies at 76 of a heart attack
D0207 590 Pelagius II, Pope (579-90), dies
D02071609 Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
D02071862 Prosper Ménière, French doctor (Ménière syndrome), dies at 62
D02071878 Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
D02071881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finish poet/literature critic, dies
D02071920 Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian conter-revolutionary, dies
D02071921 Prince Peter Kropotkin, Russ geologist/revolutionary anarchist, dies
D02071959 Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
D02071967 Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies
D02071968 Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
D02071984 Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
D02071987 David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Hüsker Du), commits suicide at 24
D02071988 Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost world of time), dies at 57
D02071990 Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
D02071990 Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
D02081124 Stefanus van Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies
D02081245 Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies
D02081513 Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curaçao/Bonaire), dies
D02081725 Peter I Aleksejevitsj, the Great, Russian tsar (Zaandam), dies at 52
D02081740 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
D02081824 Rhijnvis Feith, mayor/writer of Zwolle (Julia/het graf), dies at 71
D02081874 David F Strauss, German theologist, dies
D02081878 Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist, dies
D02081921 Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
D02081924 Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber (Nevada), dies
D02081935 Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter, dies
D02081942 Fritz Todt, German rÿksminister (Organisation T), dies
D02081954 Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
D02081963 Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad
D02081963 George Dolenz, actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55
D02081968 J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist-Chamber)/minister), dies
D02081974 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (supernovae), dies
D02081985 Marvin Miller (Michael Anthony of "The Millionaire") dies at 71
D02081985 Tom Greenway, actor dies of a heart attack at 75
D02081987 Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies
D02081990 Del Shannon, rock vocalist commits suicide at 55
D02091555 John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
D02091640 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Bagdad
D02091670 Frederik III, king of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
D02091811 Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
D02091906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
D02091932 Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese ministerof Finance, dies
D02091936 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies
D02091945 George J L Maduro, Antilles, poet (Dachau, Madurodam), dies
D02091961 Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
D02091964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
D02091968 Frederik M baron van Asbeck, reichts leader (Volkenbond), dies at 78
D02091977 Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
D02091978 Kimberly Leach, 12, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla
D02091981 Billy Haley, the 1st rocker, dies at 55
D02091984 Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
D02091984 Yuri Andropov, Soviet pres, in power only 15 months, dies at 69
D02091990 Del Shannon, singer (Runaway), shots self at 50
D02101134 Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
D02101162 Boudewijn III, son of king Fulco of Anjou/wife of Theodora, dies
D02101164 Hugo van Fosses/Prémontré, abbott of Prémontré, dies
D02101495 Sir William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
D02101567 Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots' husband, murdered
D02101829 Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
D02101902 J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
D02101915 Albert J-BJ Thÿs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies
D02101923 Wilhelm C Röntgen, physicist (r-straling, Nobel 1901), dies at 77
D02101932 R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies
D02101939 Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
D02101958 Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
D02101983 Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
D02101989 Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
D02101992 Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X/Roots), dies
D02101992 Mau Kopuit, head director New Israeli Weekblad, dies
D02101992 Thomas Graftdÿk, writer (Dr Faustus), dies
D0211 731 Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies
D0211 821 Benedict van Aniane, saint, dies
D0211 824 Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
D0211 867 Theodora de Heilige, Emperoress of Byzantine, dies
D02111141 Hugo van St-Victor, philospher/theologist/mystic, dies
D02111554 Lady Jane Grey, beheaded after 9 day rule
D02111650 René Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
D02111868 Jean B L Foucault, French physicist (slingerproef), dies
D02111868 Léon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
D02111911 Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker, dies
D02111922 Gerardus JPJ Bolland, philospher (B-Genootschap), dies at 67
D02111961 Eduard R Verkade, actor/director, dies at 82
D02111963 Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself, in London at 30
D02111971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
D02111976 Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
D02111982 Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer
D02111982 Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon/7 Samurais), dies
D02111982 Victor Jory, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79
D02111985 Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
D02111985 Henry Hathaway, director/actor, dies of a heart attack at 86
D02111986 Frank P Herbert, US, sci-fi writer (Dune/The heaven makers), dies
D02111986 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
D02111991 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies
D02121128 Toghtekin, slave of Damascus, dies
D02121554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed queen of England, beheaded
D02121787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italy, physicist/astronomer/philospher, dies at 75
D02121804 Immanuel Kant, philosopher, dies at 79 in Königsberg, Prussia
D02121896 Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%) dies at 35
D02121916 JW Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies
D02121945 Walraven [Wally] van Hall, banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39
D02121955 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
D02121965 Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53
D02121971 George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
D02121976 Clifton Williams, band master (Sinfonians), dies at 52
D02121982 Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (De schuldige), dies at 87
D02121982 Victor Jory, Alaskan actor, dies at 79
D02121984 Anna Anderson Manahan [Grand Duchess Anastasia?], dies in Virginia
D02121985 Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61
D02121986 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
D02121987 Lang Jeffries, actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
D02121992 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies
D02121992 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies
D02131130 Honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies
D02131199 Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies
D02131315 Jan I van Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchâtel, dies
D02131542 Katherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded
D02131602 Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
D02131882 Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia
D02131883 Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walküre), dies at 69 in Venice
D02131891 David D Porter, US Admiral (Civil War), dies at 77
D02131941 Naomi Uemura, Japanese mountain climber, dies on Mt McKinley
D02131943 William Walraven, journalist/writer (De miskende kankerar), dies
D02131952 Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies
D02131960 Delmar G Roos, designer of the jeep dies at 79
D02131963 Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies
D02131965 Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
D02131976 General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup
D02131980 David Janssen, actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
D02131982 Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman) dies at 17
D02131983 Marian Nixon, actress, dies of cancer at 78
D02131992 Bob den Uyl, journalist/writer (Rusteloze reizen), dies
D02141571 Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/author (Autobiography), dies at 70
D02141571 Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop/count of Beauvais, dies
D02141779 James Cook, British explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
D02141831 Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero dies
D02141891 William T Sherman, Union general (captured Atlanta), dies at 71[dup]
D02141891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
D02141950 Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies
D02141952 Comedian Joey Adams marries Cindy Heller
D02141967 Sig Ruman, actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
D02141979 Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
D02141982 Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor, dies at 79
D02141987 Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
D02141991 Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Republic), dies
D02141992 Roepie Kruize, hockey player (Olympic-bronze-48/silver-52), dies
D02151145 Lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies
D02151152 Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies
D02151580 Cunerus Petri, theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
D02151637 Ferdinand II, king of Bohemia/Hungarian/German Emperor (1619-37), dies
D02151818 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norweign (1814-18), dies
D02151849 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistische kromme), dies
D02151905 Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies
D02151919 Pieter K Pel, internist, dies
D02151928 Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies
D02151933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-Chic), assassinated in Miami
D02151943 Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Hot chocolates), dies
D02151955 S.Z. Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
D02151961 Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
D02151965 Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 65
D02151967 William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies
D02151972 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, poet/Indonesian politician, dies
D02151973 Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
D02151981 Mike Bloomfield, guitarist/singer (Electric Flag), dies at 37
D02151982 Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 85
D02151984 Avon Long, dancer/actor, dies of cancer at 73
D02151984 Ethel Merman, singer/actress, dies in her sleep at 76
D02151984 Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
D02151988 Neil R[onald] Jones, author (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
D02151988 Richard P Feynman, physicist/author (Character of Physical Law), dies
D02151991 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
D02151992 William H Schuman, US composer (2x Pulitzer), dies
D02161279 Afonso III, king of Portugal (1248-79), dies
D02161391 Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies
D02161600 Giordano Bruno, burned at stake
D02161799 Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern), dies at 74
D02161857 Elisha Kane, Arctic explorer, dies at 37
D02161907 Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906), dies
D02161957 Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], Brit minister of Transport, dies
D02161966 Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies
D02161967 Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
D02161979 Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58
D02161979 William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73
D02161984 Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69
D02161986 Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76
D02161991 Col Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
D02161992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies at 51 of cancer
D02161992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A war quartet), dies
D02171600 Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds
D02171600Cburned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
D02171612 Ernst van Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Keulen, dies at 57
D02171673 Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author/dramatist (Learned Lady), dies
D02171673 Molière, French playwright, dies in Paris at 51
D02171688 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
D02171803 Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guémené, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68
D02171827 Johann H Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies
D02171856 Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris
D02171905 Serge Alexandrovitsj, gov-gen Moscow, dies
D02171908 Geronimo, Apache hero, dies at about 79
D02171909 Geronimo, last chief (Apaches), dies
D02171912 Count von Aerenthal, foreign minister Austria-Hungary, dies
D02171919 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian politician, dies
D02171928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, murdered (or 7/17)
D02171959 Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's NY Giants, dies
D02171962 Bruno Walter, symphony conductor, dies at 85
D02171962 Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55
D02171977 Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
D02171980 Jerry Fielding, orch leader (Lively Ones), dies at 57
D02171982 Lee Strasberg, father of method acting, dies of a heart attack at 80
D02171982 Theolonious S Monk, US, jazz pianist/composer (Blue Monk), dies at 64
D02171984 Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69
D02171985 Wanda Perry, actress, dies at 67
D02171989 Lefty Gomez, NY Yankee pitching great, dies at 80
D0218 999 Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
D02181217 Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
D02181478 Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel
D02181546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar, religious reformer, dies at 62
D02181564 Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet, dies
D02181817 Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies
D02181905 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (de International), dies at 75
D02181917 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
D02181925 James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies
D02181932 Frederik Augustus III, king of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66
D02181943 Henri Polak, union leader/soc-dem politician, dies
D02181957 Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies
D02181967 Robert Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies
D02181968 Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79
D02181976 Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81
D02181977 Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71
D02181978 Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84
D02181982 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer, dies at 82
D02181982 Tina Carver, actress, dies at 58
D02181985 Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbrugge], singer, dies
D02181990 Hulk, fictional character dies in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC
D02191260 Bonifatce, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop, dies
D02191401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned, London
D02191553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
D02191875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
D02191916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies
D02191950 Edyth Walker, US singer, dies
D02191951 André Gide, French writer (Les Faux-Monnzyeurs), dies in Paris at 81
D02191965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
D02191967 Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
D02191968 Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
D02191970 Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89
D02191983 Alice White, leading lady, dies at 78 of a stroke
D02191984 Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
D02191985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author of "Dick & Jane" books, dies
D02191985 George Holmes, actor, dies at 66
D02191986 Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
D02201054 Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies
D02201194 Tancredo van Lecce, king of Sicily, dies
D02201431 Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies
D02201595 Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41
D02201773 Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardina/Duke of Savoy (KE III), dies
D02201860 Henry Drummond, English banker, dies
D02201892 Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies
D02201895 Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, antislavery leader, dies at 78
D02201907 Henry Moissan, French chemist (Nobel 1906), dies
D02201910 Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, dies
D02201916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician, Nobel winner, dies
D02201920 Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies
D02201936 John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
D02201958 Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75
D02201966 Chester Nimitz, US naval officer, dies
D02201975 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
D02201975 Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
D02201983 James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident
D02201983 Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
D02201985 Clarence Nash, voice of Donald Duck, dies at 80 of leukemia, in Calif
D02201986 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies
D02201992 Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies at 63 of emphysema
D0221 556 Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (basilica S Stefano), dies
D02211513 Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies
D02211554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor, founder of modern botany, dies
D02211677 [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies
D02211689 Isaacus Vossius, [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
D02211730 Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
D02211803 Edward Despard, last drawn & quartered in England
D02211919 Kurt Eisner, soc premier Bayern, dies
D02211938 George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
D02211961 Blaise Cendrars, [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73
D02211965 Malcolm X, black muslim leader, assassinated at 39 in NYC
D02211968 Anthony Asquith, British director, dies
D02211969 José de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies
D02211976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies
D02211976 Frieda Inescort, actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
D02211984 Michail A Sjolochov, Rus writer (De stille Don, Nobel 1965), dies
D02211985 Ina Claire, comedienne, dies following a stroke at 92
D02211985 Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
D02211991 Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballerina, dies of cancer at 71
D02211992 Frank Holden, British astronomer (dubbelsterren), dies
D02211992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83
D02211992 Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns, nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies
D0222 606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
D02221078 Johannes van Fécamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
D02221478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
D02221512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 61
D02221690 Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
D02221695 Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
D02221770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
D02221816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies
D02221913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican pres, assassinated in milt coup
D02221913 Francisco Madero, president Mexico, dies
D02221913 Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
D02221925 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies
D02221943 Hans Scholl, German poet (Die Weisse Rose), dies
D02221943 Sophie Scholl, German poet (Die Weisse Rose), dies
D02221949 Russell Porter, dies
D02221956 Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami), dies
D02221957 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
D02221959 Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
D02221967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies
D02221967 Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
D02221972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
D02221973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 72
D02221978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
D02221980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (The Red Head), dies
D02221982 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (The 5th Beatle), dies at 60
D02221983 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist, dies
D02221985 Alexander Scourby, actor, dies at 71
D02221987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies at 58 of a heart attack
D02221987 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 56
D02231447 Eugene IV, [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
D02231554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, is executed
D02231792 Joshua Reynolds, painter, dies
D02231821 John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
D02231828 Mihály Fazekar, Hungarian botanicus/literary (H's kruidenbook), dies
D02231848 John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
D02231915 Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
D02231922 Henri Landru, executed for having 11 wives, in France
D02231930 Horst Wessel, German nazi writer (Die Fahne hoch), dies
D02231934 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
D02231934 Edward W Elgar, English composer/conductor (Coronation Ode), dies
D02231935 Jan Duiker, architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies
D02231942 Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies
D02231965 Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies in Calif
D02231969 Abd al-Aziz,ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saoed/King Saudia, dies
D02231990 James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
D02241624 Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer (Escudero Marcos de Obrégon), dies
D02241829 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
D02241924 Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
D02241930 Jacobus van Looy, writer/painter, dies
D02241945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
D02241953 Karl RG von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Ardennen), dies
D02241970 Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
D02241976 H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68
D02241982 Virginia Bruce, actress, dies at 72
D02241983 Tenessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a hot tin roof), dies
D02241990 Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
D02241990 Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies at 70 of a heart attack
D02241990 Tony Conigliaro, Red Sox, dies in Salem, Mass, at 45 of kidney failure
D02241991 George Gobels, comedian, dies
D02241991 Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye bye love), dies
D02251495 Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
D02251601 Earl of Essex, executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabeth
D02251634 Albrecht von Wallenstein, German generalissimo, murdered at 50
D02251713 Frederik I, king of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
D02251723 Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies
D02251865 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
D02251914 John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
D02251922 Henri-Désiré Landru, French murderer, guillotined at 52
D02251947 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies
D02251962 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
D02251967 John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
D02251969 Jan Zajic, Czech student (zelfverbranding), dies
D02251970 Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist, dies at 66
D02251975 Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, dies at 77 in Chicago
D02251978 Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
D02251983 Tennessee Williams, writer, chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71
D02251987 James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
D02261076 Godfried III with de Bult, duke of Neth-Lotharingen, murdered
D02261154 Rogier II, king of Sicily, dies
D02261266 Manfred, bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies
D02261577 Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43
D02261726 Maximiliaan II M Emanuel, ruler of Bayern, dies
D02261870 Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
D02261871 Charles Niellon, Belg brig general (Tiendaagse veldtocht), dies at 76
D02261921 Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies
D02261930 Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies
D02261931 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies
D02261933 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74
D02261953 Martinus Nÿhoff, poet (spelling), dies
D02261960 Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83
D02261961 Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, sultan/King of Morocco, dies
D02261962 Harold Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
D02261963 Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/politician (De profeet), dies
D02261965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
D02261966 Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
D02261967 Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
D02261969 Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies
D02261969 Levi Esjkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies
D02261971 Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor, dies
D02261972 Tom Manders, minature artist (Dorus), dies at 51
D02261973 Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
D02261982 Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
D02261992 Gerrit Schulte, [Le fou pedalant], 6 days bicyclist), dies
D02261992 Jean R Yawkey, owner (Boston Red Sox), dies at 83 of a stroke
D02261992 S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-Calif), dies at 85 of a stroke
D02271167 Robert van Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
D02271844 Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer, diplomat, statesman, & financier, dies
D02271955 Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
D02271956 Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
D02271958 Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
D02271961 Platt Adams, 1912 Olympic high jump gold winner, dies
D02271962 Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
D02271974 Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59
D02271980 George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
D02271982 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39
D02271985 Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
D02271991 Artie Mitchell, porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45
D02271992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch political president (CNV), dies
D02271992 S.I. Hayakawa, (Sen-Ca), dies of a stroke at 85
D02281618 Philips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies
D02281626 Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
D02281638 Henri, duc de Rohan, French soldier, Huguenot leader, dies
D02281844 Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
D02281844 Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
D02281913 Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
D02281916 Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
D02281925 Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
D02281929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reactie of P), dies
D02281941 Alfonso XIII, king of Spain (1902-31), dies at 54
D02281962 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
D02281966 Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
D02281966 Elliot M See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
D02281968 Frankie Lymon, singer, dies at 25
D02281968 Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
D02281972 Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
D02281977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
D02281978 Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
D02281978 Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
D02281979 Jane Hylton, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
D02281979 Mr. Ed, talking horse, dies
D02281985 Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
D02281986 Olof Palme, Swedish PM, assassinated in Stockholm
D02281992 Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
D02281992 La Lupe, cuban singer, dies of a heart attack at 53 in the Bronx
D0229 468 Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
D02291604 John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at about 74
D02291852 John Landseer, printer & engraver for the Royal Academy, dies
D02291868 [Charles] Louis I [Augustus], King of Bayern (Lola Montez), dies
D02291932 "Big Ed" Morris, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies
D02291980 Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61
D02291984 Roland Culver, actor, dies of heart problems at 83
D02291992 Earl Scheib, CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85
H0201 [Malaysia] Federal Territory Holiday (1974)
H0201 [Nicaragua] Air Force Day
H0201 [US] National Freedom Day
H0201 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0201 2[Australia] Australia Day
H02011995 [China] New Years-Year of the Pig (4693) End of Sexageney
H0202 [US] Groundhog Day (To ski or not to ski)
H0202 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0203 [Japan] Bean throwing Festival/Setsubun (last day of lunar cal winter)
H0203 [Paraguay] Patron's Day/San Blas, patrón
H0203 [Puerto Rico] Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)
H0203 [US] 4 Chaplains Memorial Day
H0203 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0204 [Angola] Outbreak of Fighting Against Portuguese
H0204 [Sri Lanka] Independence Day (1948)
H0204 [US] Kosciuszko Day
H0204 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0205 [Finland] Runeberg Day (1804)
H0205 [Japan] Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
H0205 [México] Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
H0205 [Roman calendar] Nonae Februarius
H0205 [San Marino] Liberation Day
H0205 [Tanzania] Birth of the Afro Shirazi Party
H0205 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0205 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H0206 [Massachusetts] Ratification Day (1788)
H0206 [New Zealand] Waitangi Day-New Zealand Day (1840)
H0206 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0206 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H02062000 [China] New Years-Year of the Dragon (4698)
H0207 [Grenada] Independence Day (1974)
H0207 1[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
H0207 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H0208 [Iraq] Ramadan Revolution
H0208 [Norway] Narvik Sun Pageant Day
H0208 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H02081997 [China] New Years-Year of the Ox (4695)
H0209 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H0210 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H0211 [Bangladesh] Shaheed Day
H0211 [Cameroon] Youth Day
H0211 [Flint Mich] White Shirt Day-end of blue collar sit down strike (1907)
H0211 [Florida] Gasparilla Carnival-rememberance of pirates
H0211 [Ft Myers, Florida] Pageant of Light (1884)
H0211 [Italy] Giorno della Conciliazione Day (1929)
H0211 [Japan] Empire Day
H0211 [Japan] Foundation Day (660 BC)-accession of Emperor Jimmu
H0211 [Liberia] Armed Forces Day
H0211 [Mauritius] Chinese Spring Festival
H0211 [US] National Inventors Day
H0211 1[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
H0212 [Booneville Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
H0212 [Burma] Union Day (1947)
H0212 [Georgia] Georgia Day/Oglethorope Day (1733)
H0212 [US] Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (Traditional)
H02121994 [China] New Years-Year of the Dog (4692)
H0213 [St Augustine, Florida] Fiesta de Menendez
H02132002 [China] New Years-Year of the Horse (4700)
H0214 [Arizona 1912, Oregon, 1859] Admission Day
H0214 [Bulgaria] Viticulturists' Day/Trifon Zarezan, cult of Dionysus
H0214 [Denmark] Gaekkebrev/Fjörtende Februar-gift exchanges by school kids
H0214 [Mexico] Day of National Mourning (Vincent Guerrero-1831)
H0214 [World] St Valentine's Day (269)
H0215 [Massachusetts] Spanish-American War Memorial Day (1898)
H0215 [US] Battleship Day, Remember the Maine (1898)
H0215 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0216 [Lithuana] Independence Day (1918)
H0216 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H02161999 [China] New Years-Year of the Hare/Rabbit (4697)
H0217 [Sri Lanka] Maha Shivaratree
H0217 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0218 [Gambia] Independence Day (1965)
H0218 [Iceland] National Bun Day
H0218 [Iran] Mohammed's Death
H0218 [Israel] Mother's Day
H0218 [Nepál] Constitutional Day (1951)
H0218 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0219 [Ethiopia] Martyr's Day (1930s)
H0219 [Gabon] Constitution Day (1959)
H0219 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0219 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0220 [US] John Glenn Day (1962)
H0220 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0220 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0221 [Bangladesh] Bangladesh Martyrs Day/National Mourning Day (1952)
H0221 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0221 2[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
H0222 [British Commonwealth] Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)
H0222 [Central African Republic] President's Birthday
H0222 [Egypt, Syria] Unity Day (1958)
H0222 [India] Mothers Day
H0222 [México] National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)
H0222 [Qatar] Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972)
H0222 [St Lucia] Independence Day (1979)
H0222 [Virgin Island] Donkey Races Day
H0222 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0223 [Brunei] National Day (1984)
H0223 [Guyana] Republic Day (1970)
H0223 [US] Iwo Jima Day (1945)
H0223 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0224 [Cuba] Baire Uprising
H0224 [Estonia] National Day (1920)
H0224 [Ghana] Liberation Day (1966)
H0224 [Indiana] Vincennes Day-George Clark's defeat of British (1779)
H0224 [México] Independence Day
H0224 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0225 [Kuwait] National Day
H0225 [México] Coronado Day (1540)
H0225 [Surinam] (Revolution day)
H0225 1[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
H0227 [Dominican Republic] Independence Day (1844)
H0227 [St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] Statehood Day (1967)
H0227 [St Kitts & Antigua] Independence Day (1967)
H0227 [Zambia] Nelson-Mandela-day (ivm bezoek 1990)
H0228 [Egypt] Independence Day (1922)
H0228 [Finland] Kalevala Day (1835)
H0228 [Luxembourg] Burgsonndeg-celebrates end of winter
I0201 107 [old RC] Commemoration of St Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr
I0201 525 [RC] Commemoration of St Brigid of Kildar, Irish nun
I020119954[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân, 1415 AH; fast begins
I020119992[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5759 AM)
I020199633[Christian] Shrove Tuesday
I0202 [Ang, RC, Luth, Cong] Candlemas (Presentation or Purification)
I0202 [Christian] Feast of St Cornelius
I0202 [Liechtenstein, Vatican] Candlemas/Feast of Presentation of Jesus
I0202 [Witch] Imbolg sabbat
I02021640 [RC] Commemoration of St Jeanne de Lestonnac, French foundress
I0203 316 [RC] Memorial of St Blase, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr (opt)
I0203 619 [Christian] Feast of St Laurentius, 2nd abp of Canterbury (604-619)
I0203 865 [RC, Ang, Luth] Memorial of Anskar, Hamburg archbsp, msny Denmk/Swed
I0204 Feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham
I0204 [Ang] Commemoration of Cornelius the Centurion
I02041373 [RC] Commem of St Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
I02041693 [RC] Commemoration of St John of Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
I0205 [Baptist] Roger Williams Day
I0205 251 [RC] Memorial of St Agatha, virgin/martyr
I02051550 [RC] Commemoration of St Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
I02051597 [Ang, Luth] Commemoration of 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama
I02051597 [old RC] Feast of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
I020519962[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5756 AM)
I020519974[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1417 AH)
I0206 [Christian] Commemoration of St Vedastus
I0206 [Christian] Feast of St Vaast (St Gaston)
I0206 96 [old RC] Commemoration of St Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor
I0206 300 [RC] Commemoration of St Dorothea, virgin/martyr
I0206 676 [Ang, RC] Commemoration of Ss Amandus [Apostle of Belgium] & Vedastus
I02061597 [RC] Commem of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
I02061597 [RC] Memorial of St Paul Miki & his companions, martyrs
I020619937[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5753 AM)
I0207 [Christian] Feast of St Theodore
I02071027 [Old RC] Feast of St Romuald, abbot
I020719931[Moslem] Night of Remembrance (Sha'bân 14, 1413 AH)
I0208 [Christian] Feast of Bl Jacoba (Bl Jacqueline)
I0208 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I02081213 [RC] Comm of St John of Matha, confessor/ransomer of captives
I02081537 [RC] Memorial of St Jerome Emiliani (opt)
I020820015[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat-Arbor Day (Shevat 15, 5760 AM)
I0209 [Lebanon] St Maron Day
I0209 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I0209 249 [RC] Commemoration of St Apollonia, deaconess/martyr
I0209 444 [Old RC] Commem of St Cyril of Alexandria, bp/confessor/doctor
I02091910 [RC] Commemoration of St Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadoran monk
I020919971[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I020919977[Moslem] 'Id al-Fitr-end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1417 AH)
I0210 [Malta] St Paul's Shipwreck
I0210 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I0210 547 [RC] Memorial of St Scholastica, virgin
I021019972[Christian] Shrove Monday
I0211 [Christian] Feast of St Adolph
I0211 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I0211 [Phil] Our Lady's Miraculous Apparitians of St Bernadette Soubirous
I0211 [Unification Church] True parents' birthday
I0211 731 [RC] Feast of St Gregory II, 89th Roman Catholic pope (715-31)
I0211 867 [Christian] Commemoration of St Theodora, Byzantine empress
I02111858 [RC] Memorial of the Apparition of the Virgin at Lourdes (opt)
I021119973[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I021119984[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat-Arbor Day (Shevat 15, 5758 AM)
I0212 [Christian] Feast of St Eulalia
I0212 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I0212 [Orth] Feast of the 3 Saints-Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian
I0212 C[Orth]& John Chrysostom (1/30 OS)
I0212 896 [Orth?] Commem of St Anthony of Cauleas, patriarch of Constantinople
I02121233 [old RC] Feast of the 7 Founders of the Servite Order
I021219947[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1414 AH)
I021219974[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I0213 [Christian] Feast of St Martinian
I0213 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I02131589 [Christian] Commemoration of St Catherine de Ricci, virgin/mystic
I02131818 [Ang] Commemoration of Absalom Jones, priest,
I021319941[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I0214 [Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
I0214 269 [RC] Commemoration of St Valentine, physician/martyr/patron of lovers
I0214 869 [Luth, Ang, RC] Memorial of Cyril, monk/missionary to the Slavs
I0214 885 [Luth, Ang, RC] Mem of St Methodius, bishop/missionary to the Slavs
I021419942[Christian] Shrove Monday
I0215 [Christian] Feast of St Georgia (St Georgette)
I0215 [Orth] Meeting of the Lord/Purification of the Virgin (2/2 OS)
I0215 117 [RC] Commemoration of Ss Faustinus & Jovita, martyrs
I02151730 [Ang] Commemoration of Thomas Bray, priest/missionary
I021519943[Christian] Shrove Tuesday
I021519992[Christian] Shrove Monday
I0216 [Christian] Feast of St Elias
I0216 [Christian] Feast of St Juliana of Nocomedia
I02161276 [RC] Commemoration of St Gregory X, pope (1271-76) (1/10?)
I021619944[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I021619971[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
I021619993[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I0217 [Ancient Rome] Quirinalia-Feast of Quirinus (a d xiij Kal Mar)
I0217 [Christian] Feast of St Silvinus
I0217 [Christian] Commemoration of Flight into Egypt
I02171233 [RC] Memorial of 7 Holy Founders of the Servite Order (opt)
I021719967[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1416 AH)
I021719972[Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable)
I021719994[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I0218 [Christian] Commemoration of St Bernadette
I0218 [Christian] Feast of St Angilbert
I0218 [Christian] Feast of St Constantia (St Constance)
I0218 110 [RC] Commemoration of St Simeon, bishop of Jerusalem, martyr
I0218 461 [Orth] Feast of St Leo I, the Great
I02181455 [RC] Commemoration of Bl Fra Angelico, Florentine painter
I02181546 [Luth] Commemoration of Martin Luther, renewer of the Church
I021819961[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I0219 [Christian] Feast of St Conrad
I021919962[Christian] Shrove Monday
I021919974[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0220 [Christian] Feast of the Chair of St Peter at Antioch
I0220 743 [RC] Feast of St Eucherius
I02201620 [Luth] Commemoration of Rasmus Jensen, pastor
I022019941[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
I022019963[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I0221 [Christian] Feast of Bl Noel
I02211072 [RC] Commem of St Peter Damian, bishop of Ostia, confessor/doctor
I02211595 [RC] Commemoration of St Robert Southwell, English Jesuit, martyr
I022119931[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I022119942[Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable)
I022119964[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I022119964[Moslem] 'Id al-Fitr; end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1416 AH)
I022119976[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022119991[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
I0222 [Christian] Feast of Blessed Isabel
I0222 [Moslem-Qatar] Amir's Assumption of Amirship
I0222 354 [RC] Commemoration of Chair of St Peter at Antioch
I02221297 [RC] Commemoration of St Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan tertiary
I022219932[Christian] Shrove Monday
I022219977[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022219981[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I022219992[Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable)
I0223 [Ancient Rome] Terminalia; festival of Terminus, god of boundaries
I0223 166 [Ang, Luth, RC] Memorial of St Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr
I02231072 [old RC] Feast of St Peter Damian, bp of Ostia/confessor/doctor (2/2)
I02231719 [Luth] Commemoration of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, missionary
I022319933[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I022319933[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1413 AH)
I022319944[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022319982[Christian] Shrove Monday
I0224 [Ang, Luth, RC] Comm of St Matthias the Apostle (nonleap years)
I022419934[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I022419945[Jewish] Fast of Esther (Adar 13, 5754 AM)
I022419983[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I022419994[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0225 [Christian] Feast of St Avertanus & Bl Romeo
I0225 [RC] Commemoration of St Matthias the Apostle (leap years)
I0225 779 [RC] Commemoration of St Walburga, abbess
I0225 806 [Orth?] Commemoration of St Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople
I02251921 [Luth] Commemoration of Elizabeth Fedde, deaconess,
I022519946[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022519946[Jewish] Purim-Feast of Lot (Adar 14, 5754 AM)
I022519961[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
I022519984[Christian] Ash Wednesday
I02252002 [Jewish] Fast of Esther (Adar 13, 5762 AM)
I0226 [Christian] Feast of St Nestor
I0226 616 [Christ] Commem of St Ethelbert, king of Kent; baptized by Augustine
I022619947[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022619951[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
I022619996[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I022619996[Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable)
I02262002 [Jewish] Purim-Feast of Lot (Adar 14, 5762 AM)
I0227 [Christian] Feast of St Leander
I02271633 [Ang] Commemoration of George Herbert, priest
I02271862 [RC] Commemoration of St Gabriel Possenti [Non leap years]
I022719952[Christian] Shrove Monday
I022719952[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1415 AH)
I022719997[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0228 [Christian] Feast of St Romanus
I0228 468 [RC] Comm of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), cal reformer (non leap years)
I02281862 [RC] Commemoration of St Gabriel Possenti (leap years)
I022819931[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
I022819953[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
I022819964[Ang, RC] Ember Day
I0229 468 [RC] Commemoration of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), calendar reformer
I0229 992 [Christian] Commemoration of St Oswald, archbishop of York
R0200 Biorhythm Health Month-National Meat Month
R0200 Flowers-violet & primrose Gem-amethyst
R0200 National Cherry-American Heart-TV Sweeps & Black History Month
R0200 [Ancient Rome] Kalendæ Februarius; Kalend Feb
R0200 [Plains Indians] Hunger Moon month
R0201 National Freedom Day
R0201 People's Day
R0201 [Hawaii] Pepeluali
R0201 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R02010219 Astrological sign: Aquarius
R0202 [Ancient Rome] Caput Nonarum in the Roman calendar (a d iv Non Feb)
R0202 [Scotland] Term Day (quarterly rents due today)
R0202 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R0203 [Ancient Rome] a d iij Non Feb
R0203 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R0204 [Ancient Rome] Prid Non Feb
R0204 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R0205 Italian & French dates are Old Style to 1582, New Style thereafter
R0205 [Ancient Rome] Nonæ Februarius; Nonæ Feb
R0205 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R02050210 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant near ε Aurigae
R0206 [Ancient Rome] Caput Iduum (a d viij Id Feb)
R0206 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R02060214 Theta Centaurid meteor shower, radiant in Lupus near Centaurus
R02060318 Delta Leonid meteor shower, radiant between τ & δ Leonis
R0207 [Ancient Rome] a d vij Id Feb
R0207 1NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
R0208 [Ancient Rome] a d vj Id Feb
R0209 [Ancient Rome] a d v Id Feb
R0210 [Ancient Rome] a d iv Id Feb
R0210 [Malta] St Paul's Shipwreck
R0211 [Ancient Rome] a d iij Id Feb
R0212 [Ancient Rome] Prid Id Feb
R0213 Lego National Build-off
R0213 [Ancient Rome] Idus Februarius
R0213 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
R0214 [Ancient Rome] Caput Kalendarum (a d xvj Kal Mar)
R0215 [Ancient Rome] Lupercalia, fertility festival (a d xv Kal Mar) (1583)
R0215 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R0216 [Ancient Rome] a d xiv Kal Mar
R0216 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R02161999 Annular eclipse visible over Indian Ocean & Australia
R02161999 Annular solar eclipse can be seen in Indian Ocean, Australia
R0217 World Day of Prayer
R0217 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R0218 [Ancient Rome] a d xij Kal Mar
R0218 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R0219 [Ancient Rome] a d xj Kal Mar
R0219 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R0220 [Ancient Rome] a d x Kal Mar
R0220 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R02200320 Astrological sign: Pisces
R0221 [Ancient Rome] Feralia, honoring the dead; a d ix Kal Mar
R0221 1Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
R0222 [Ancient Rome] a d viij Kal Mar
R0223 [Ancient Rome] a d vij Kal Mar
R0224 Bis-sexto calendas Martius, in leap years; a d vj Kal Mar
R0224 [?] Bis-sexto calendas Martius (in leap years)
R0224 [Ancient Rome] Regifugium; a d vj Kal Mar
R0225 [Ancient Rome] a d v Kal Mar (common years)
R0226 [Ancient Rome] a d iv Kal Mar (common years)
R02261998 Total eclipse visible over Central & South America & Caribbean
R0227 [Ancient Rome] Equirria (common years)
R0227 [Ancient Rome] a d iij Kal Mar (common years)
R0228 [Ancient Rome] Prid Kal Mar (common years)
R0228 [Sweden] Maria name day (most popular woman's name in Sweden)
R0229 [Ancient Rome] Prid Kal Mar
R0229 [World] Leap Day/Bachelor Day
S02-- 499 [Lawrence] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S02-- 824 Eugene II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S02--1851 University of Minnesota chartered
S02--1958 WSUR TV channel 9 in Ponce, PR begins broadcasting
S02--1965 1st computer dating service begins, Cambridge Mass
S02--1966 NBC commits to Star Trek for the fall schedule
S02--1981 Paterson releases IBM's 86-DOS
S0201 772 Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S02011709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
S02011783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
S02011788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
S02011790 Supreme Court convenes for the 1st time (NYC)
S02011793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
S02011810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
S02011810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French
S02011810 US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
S02011814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
S02011814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Phillipines erupts killing 1,200
S02011840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
S02011846 Théphile Gautier publishes "The Hashish Club" about his initiation
S02011860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
S02011862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
S02011865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
S02011865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
S02011865 JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
S02011871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an offical speech in
S02011871CHouse of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
S02011881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
S02011892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion
S02011892Cthus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
S02011893 The opera "Manon Lescaut" is produced (Turin)
S02011893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
S02011896 The opera "La Boheme" is produced (Turin)
S02011898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
S02011902 China's emperorin Tzoe-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
S02011906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
S02011909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
S02011914 NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
S02011914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
S02011914 Tanganyika Railway opens
S02011916 H Thiele discovers asteroid #1847 Stobbe
S02011918 Russia adopts Gregorians calender (becomes Feb 14)
S02011920 1st commercial armored car introduced, St Paul, Minn
S02011923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
S02011923 Fascists Free Will Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
S02011924 Amsterdam's Netherland Pers Museum opens
S02011924 New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
S02011926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
S02011926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
S02011929 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
S02011933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Surinam
S02011934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss desolves all political parties but his
S02011935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
S02011937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
S02011942 Gen von Paulus (Stalingrad) surrenders to Russian troops)
S02011943 Mussert directs NSB-shadow cabinet
S02011944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
S02011944 Upper state Soviet enlarges autonomist soviet republic
S02011945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
S02011946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
S02011948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
S02011949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used
S02011951 -50° F (-46° C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
S02011951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
S02011951 1st telecast of atomic explosion
S02011953 "General Electric Theater" premiers on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
S02011953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premiers on CBS television
S02011953 WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02011954 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" premiers
S02011956 WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02011957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
S02011958 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
S02011958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
S02011958 WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
S02011959 Lowell Observatory discovers asteroid #2847
S02011959 WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S02011960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
S02011961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
S02011963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing
S02011964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
S02011965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
S02011967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
S02011967 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02011968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
S02011968CFamous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a
S02011968CViet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
S02011969 WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
S02011970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
S02011970 WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02011972 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
S02011972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
S02011974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premiers on CBS TV
S02011975 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
S02011975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
S02011976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premiers on ABC TV
S02011976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
S02011977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
S02011977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
S02011979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
S02011979 Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
S02011980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
S02011980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
S02011981 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
S02011982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
S02011984 Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
S02011984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
S02011985 -69° F (-56° C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
S02011986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
S02011986 Singer Diana Ross marries Arne Naess in Switzerland
S02011987 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
S02011987 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
S02011989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
S02011989 Princess Diane of England visits NYC
S02011991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
S02011991 US Air & commuter jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
S02011992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
S02011992 Denis Potvin's #5 becomes the 1st number retired by the NY Islanders
S02021119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
S02021461 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrians defeat Yorkists
S02021536 Pedro de Mendoza finds the Argentine city of Buenos Aires
S02021653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later NYC)
S02021798 Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
S02021802 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25¢)
S02021811 Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of SF
S02021823 Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premiers in Venice
S02021829 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
S02021843 US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose governmental committee
S02021848 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF
S02021848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas
S02021848CCalifornia, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million
S02021854 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the persecution of Armenians"
S02021863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
S02021869 James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade
S02021870 Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, NY
S02021870 The Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
S02021876 Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago,
S02021876CCincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
S02021878 Cottenot discovers asteroid #181 Eucharis
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
S02021892 Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter, Baltimore
S02021892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in
S02021892CNameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
S02021893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
S02021894 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
S02021900 The opera "Louise" is produced (Paris)
S02021901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
S02021906 Pope encyclical against seperation of church & state
S02021909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
S02021910 M Wolf discovers asteroid #330 Adalberta
S02021912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
S02021913 NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
S02021913 NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
S02021916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #815 Coppelia
S02021918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #888 Parysatis
S02021919 Monarchy ends in Portugal
S02021920 Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
S02021920 France attacks (German) Memel
S02021922 James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
S02021923 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
S02021923 US signs friendships treaty with Central American countries
S02021924 International Ski Federation (FIS) founded
S02021925 Belgian episcopal rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
S02021925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
S02021926 3 men dance the Charleston for 22½ hours
S02021931 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
S02021932 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
S02021932 Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
S02021932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
S02021933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler disolves Parliament
S02021935 Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage Wisc
S02021942 LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
S02021942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
S02021943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II
S02021945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
S02021948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
S02021949 Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
S02021951 -35° F (-37° C), Greenburg, Indiana (state record)
S02021954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
S02021955 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
S02021957 Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
S02021957 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
S02021958 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
S02021958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
S02021959 Buddy Holly's last performance
S02021959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach the Green Bay Packers
S02021960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
S02021962 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88 m) (John Uelses-16¼', Milrose Games)
S02021962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
S02021963 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of the undercard)
S02021967 Bolivia adopts its constitution
S02021967 Formation of the American Basketball Association is announced
S02021969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02021970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
S02021971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become leader of Uganda
S02021973 James R Schlesinger becomes director of the CIA (until July)
S02021974 Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
S02021974 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
S02021975 Harvard College discovers asteroid #1940 Whipple
S02021977 Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer
S02021977 Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL record for a defenseman
S02021982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premiers on NBC
S02021982 San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
S02021986 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
S02021987 Philippines adopts constitution
S02021989 0° F (-18° C) or below in 15 US states
S02021989 FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's Nationalist Party leader
S02021989 NL announces Yanks' broacaster Bill White will be 1st black president
S02021990 Pres FW De Klerk of South Africa announces Mandela will be free soon
S02021990C& legalizes the ANC & 60 other political orgs
S02021991 US postage is raised from 25¢ to 29¢
S02021992 NFC beats AFC 21-15 in the pro bowl
S02031576 Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
S02031690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
S02031743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
S02031781 Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by the British
S02031783 Spain recognizes US independence
S02031809 Territory of Illinois organized
S02031815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
S02031823 The opera "Semiramide" is produced (Venice)
S02031836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention, Albany NY
S02031855 Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
S02031860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
S02031864 Sherman's march through Mississippi
S02031865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
S02031869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
S02031894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
S02031899 -16° F (-27° C), Minden Louisiana (state record)
S02031908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
S02031911 J Helffrich discovers asteroids #708 Raphaela & #709 Fringilla
S02031913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
S02031915 Turks attack on Suez Canal, fails
S02031916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
S02031916 Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
S02031917 US broke diplomatic relations with Germany
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
S02031919 Socialist conference in Berne Switzerland
S02031921 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #945 Barcelona
S02031924 Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of Peoples commission (succeeds Lenin)
S02031929 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1145 Robelmonte
S02031930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
S02031931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken
S02031931Cafter he calls the state the "apex of moronia"
S02031933 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
S02031935 Johnny Guitar Watson, guitarist
S02031935 S Arend discovers asteroids #1352 Wawel, #1969 Alain & #2689 Bruxelles
S02031943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
S02031945 Air attack on Berlin (3000 ton bombs)
S02031945 Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released
S02031947 -81° F (-63° C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
S02031947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
S02031948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
S02031951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
S02031953 J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on the Today Show
S02031956 Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
S02031956 Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep the 3 alpine events
S02031959 American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
S02031961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
S02031962 Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
S02031964 "Meet the Beatles," goes gold
S02031964 Black & Puerto Rican students boycot NYC public schools
S02031965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
S02031966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
S02031966 1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
S02031971 KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
S02031972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
S02031979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
S02031980 Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
S02031982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
S02031982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
S02031982 John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
S02031982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
S02031984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
S02031984 1st baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach, Calif
S02031986 Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
S02031989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
S02031989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
S02031990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
S02031990 NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
S02031992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"
S02031992 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
S0204 708 Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0204 900 Louis III, crowned king of Germany
S02041508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
S02041600 Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
S02041783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
S02041787 1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
S02041787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
S02041789 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
S02041794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
S02041797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000
S02041824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
S02041846 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in the west
S02041847 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
S02041849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
S02041854 Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
S02041855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
S02041858 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #52 Europa
S02041861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery
S02041861CAla, Ga, Fla, La, Miss & SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
S02041865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed
S02041866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
S02041887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
S02041888 A Charlois discovers asteroid #272 Antonia
S02041895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
S02041899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
S02041903 Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 & 1 tie for Stanley Cup
S02041908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #1345 Potomac
S02041913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
S02041913 National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
S02041914 US Congres approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
S02041915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
S02041920 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)
S02041922 WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
S02041924 1st winter Olympics close at Charmonix France
S02041924 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1017 Jacqueline
S02041927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
S02041929 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1664 Felix
S02041930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
S02041931 National League adopts a deader baseball
S02041932 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
S02041932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1239 Queteleta
S02041932 Japanese troop attack Harbin, Manchuria
S02041932 L Volta discovers asteroid #1238 Predappia
S02041934 Reinmuth disc asteroids 2824 Franke, 3219 Komaki, 3370 Kohsai & 3404
S02041936 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
S02041937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
S02041938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
S02041939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
S02041941 Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
S02041941 United Service Organization (USO) founded
S02041942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
S02041944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
S02041945 FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
S02041948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
S02041949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
S02041952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
S02041957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
S02041961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
S02041962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
S02041964 Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax
S02041964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Okla City
S02041966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
S02041967 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
S02041968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
S02041969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
S02041969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders
S02041971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
S02041971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
S02041971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
S02041972 Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
S02041973 Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
S02041973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
S02041974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
S02041974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
S02041976 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
S02041976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
S02041977 11 die in a elevated train crash in Chicago Ill
S02041977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
S02041977 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
S02041982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
S02041983 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3324
S02041984 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
S02041984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
S02041985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
S02041985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
S02041987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against the Lakers;
S02041987 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
S02041987Cfewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
S02041988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
S02041991 US postage raises from 25¢ to 29¢
S02051428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversive sermons
S02051576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
S02051631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
S02051644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
S02051663 Earthquake in Canada
S02051736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
S02051777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
S02051778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
S02051782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English
S02051783 Sweden recognizes US independence
S02051816 The opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome)
S02051817 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
S02051825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable collar
S02051846 1st US newspaper published on the Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator
S02051850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
S02051850 Push key adding machine patented
S02051861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
S02051861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
S02051861 Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
S02051864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
S02051870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
S02051873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone
S02051877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #172 Baucis
S02051881 Phoenix, Az incorporates
S02051887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
S02051887 Snow falls on SF
S02051887 The opera "Otello" is produced (Milan)
S02051897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
S02051901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
S02051917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
S02051917 Present Mexican constitution adopted
S02051918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
S02051918 Seperation of church & state begins in USSR
S02051921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
S02051923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saarland
S02051923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
S02051929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in the SF
S02051929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Gotha
S02051931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
S02051932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2897 Ole Romer, #3263 & #3426 Seki
S02051932 R Schorr discovers asteroid #1240 Centenaria
S02051934 Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2346 Lilio, #2444 Lederle, #2957 & #3707
S02051937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
S02051940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
S02051943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
S02051945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
S02051948 "The Nature of Things" science show premiers on NBC prime time
S02051948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
S02051948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
S02051949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
S02051953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
S02051954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
S02051955 Pierre Mendès France ends term as premier of France
S02051958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
S02051958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
S02051958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
S02051962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
S02051962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racical segregated" schools, filed
S02051962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16°
S02051963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
S02051963 Soviet lunar probe failure
S02051966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
S02051967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiers on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
S02051967 Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
S02051968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
S02051969 US population reaches 200 million
S02051969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins
S02051970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
S02051971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro
S02051971CAlan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
S02051972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
S02051973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
S02051973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
S02051974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
S02051974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
S02051977 General Mills Adventure Theater premiers on CBS radio
S02051977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
S02051978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
S02051979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
S02051979 Sears Radio Theater premiers on CBS
S02051981 Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
S02051982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
S02051982 Laker Airways collapes owing £270M ($351M)
S02051983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
S02051984 E Bowell disc asteroid #3486 Fulchignoni, #3526 Jeffbell & #3590 Holst
S02051986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
S02051987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
S02051988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
S02051988 Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grant jury for drugs
S02051989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
S0206 337 St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S02061508 Maximilian I becomes emperor of Roman Empire
S02061626 Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle
S02061693 Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
S02061778 England declares war on France
S02061778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
S02061788 Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
S02061815 NJ issues 1st US railroad charter
S02061820 86 free black colonists sail from NYC to Sierra Leone, Africa
S02061820 US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
S02061832 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
S02061832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
S02061840 Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand
S02061861 English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
S02061865 Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
S02061880 J Palisa discovers asteroid #212 Medea
S02061885 N R Pogson discovers asteroid #245 Vera
S02061899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
S02061902 Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in NYC
S02061911 Great fire in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
S02061916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #817 Annika
S02061918 Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote
S02061919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
S02061920 Saarland administrated by the League of Nations
S02061922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
S02061922 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
S02061932 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
S02061932 M Wolf discovers asteroid #1219 Britta
S02061933 -90° F (-68° C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
S02061933 112' ocean wave observed near Manila
S02061933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
S02061935 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
S02061935 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the 1st time
S02061936 4th Winter Olympic games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
S02061938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2350 von Lude
S02061938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1462 Zamenhof, #1463 Nordenmarkia,
S02061938C#1477 Bonsdorffia & #1478 Vihuri
S02061942 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2479 Sodankyla
S02061948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
S02061951 "Broker Special" train crashs in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
S02061951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
S02061951CArgonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
S02061952 England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
S02061956 Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
S02061958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
S02061959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
S02061959 US 1st successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile
S02061961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
S02061961 KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02061962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
S02061964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building canal tunnel
S02061964 WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
S02061967 Cultural Revolution in Albania
S02061967 P Wild discovers asteroid #1803 Zwicky & #3021
S02061968 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
S02061968 Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
S02061968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02061968 L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1772 Gagarin & #1890 Konoshenkova
S02061971 1st time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)
S02061973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
S02061973 P Wild discovers asteroid #2033 Basilea
S02061974 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
S02061976 George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
S02061977 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
S02061977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
S02061978 Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
S02061978 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3301
S02061978 Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
S02061981 N Thomas discovers asteroids #2779 Mary, #2999 Dante & #3352 McAuliffe
S02061983 13th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 20-19
S02061984 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3316 Herzberg & #3506 French
S02061984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
S02061986 NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes the 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
S02061987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
S02061989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government
S02061990 Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
S02061990 Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
S02061991 Mousey Davis becomes the 1st coach of the NY-NJ Knights
S0207 590 Pelagius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S02071550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
S02071639 Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language
S02071812 Last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16) strikes New Madrid, Missouri
S02071812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
S02071818 1st successful US educational magazine, Academician, begins, NYC
S02071827 Ballet introduced to US at Bowery Theatre (NYC)
S02071831 Belgium adopts it's Constitution
S02071836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
S02071839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
S02071872 Alcorn A & M College opens
S02071876 Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
S02071878 J Palisa discovers asteroid #182 Elsa
S02071882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
S02071889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
S02071891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
S02071896 M Wolf discovers asteroid #415 Palatia
S02071900 Labour Party forms in England
S02071901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
S02071904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 builings destroyed in 80 blocks)
S02071905 Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
S02071913 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #739 Mandeville
S02071914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
S02071919 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #909 Ulla
S02071924 Mussolini govt exchanges diplomats with USSR
S02071927 O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1584 Fuji
S02071928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
S02071934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
S02071935 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1720 Niels
S02071935 S Arend discovers asteroid #2084 Okayama
S02071936 A flag is authorized for the Vice President
S02071938 K Reinmuth disc asteroid #1481 Tubingia, #1674 Neveld & #2022 West
S02071940 British railroads nationalized
S02071940 Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
S02071942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
S02071944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
S02071945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
S02071946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
S02071947 Britain proposes partitioning Palestine between Arabs & Jews
S02071948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
S02071949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
S02071956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
S02071959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
S02071962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
S02071964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
S02071964 Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
S02071964 Cassius Clay becomes a black muslim
S02071965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed
S02071965 Operations begin at Gruop Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
S02071965 US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
S02071965 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02071966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02071968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02071969 1st US pari-mutual female jockey; Diane Crump rides at Hialeah, Fla
S02071969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes the president of PLO
S02071969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack
S02071969 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed
S02071970 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
S02071971 Women win the right to vote in Switzerland
S02071973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
S02071974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S02071975 NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
S02071976 Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
S02071976 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Bkln NY)
S02071976 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
S02071977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
S02071979 Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
S02071984 Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
S02071984 David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
S02071984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
S02071985 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¼"
S02071985 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
S02071986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France
S02071986CHenri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
S02071987 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
S02071987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
S02071988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
S02071989 Tennis superstar Björn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
S02081587 Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded
S02081672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
S02081750 Slight earthquake in London
S02081807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
S02081837 1st VP chosen by the Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
S02081856 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #39 Laetitia
S02081861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
S02081862 Battle of Roanoke Island, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
S02081862 The opera "The Lily of Killarney" is produced (London)
S02081865 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
S02081878 J Palisa discovers asteroid #183 Istria
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen
S02081887 Congress passes the Dawes Act, a homestead act for Indians
S02081887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
S02081889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #283 Emma
S02081894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
S02081904 Outbreak of hostilities in Russo-Japanese war
S02081907 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #636 Erika
S02081910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated
S02081911 US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Dávila of Honduras
S02081912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
S02081914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
S02081915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
S02081916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #816 Juliana
S02081920 Swiss men vote against women's rights
S02081921 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #947 Monterosa
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House
S02081923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
S02081923 Germany: NSDAP Völkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
S02081925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
S02081926 Sean O'Casey's "The Plough & the Stars" opens at Abbey Theatre Dublin
S02081926 Walt Disney Studios formed
S02081927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1154 Astronomia
S02081928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
S02081929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
S02081931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Mantsjoerije kills 3,000
S02081933 -23° F (-31° C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
S02081934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
S02081935 S Arend discovers asteroid #3228 Pire
S02081935C1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles)
S02081935CHe never plays in the league
S02081936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
S02081936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
S02081944 1st black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin
S02081945 Allies air attack Goch/Kleef/Kalkar
S02081946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
S02081947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02081953 WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
S02081955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
S02081957 SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
S02081958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02081960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
S02081960 Congress begins looking into payola
S02081962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02081963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
S02081963 Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
S02081965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
S02081965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
S02081967 French Diadème D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit
S02081967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
S02081967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
S02081968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
S02081969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México
S02081974 Ringo releases "You're 16"
S02081974 Skylab 4's astronauts land
S02081974 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
S02081975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
S02081975 Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
S02081976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
S02081977 Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
S02081978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
S02081981 N G Thomas discovers asteroids #2556 Louise & #2764 Moeller
S02081983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
S02081983 T Seki discovers asteroid #2880 Nihondaira
S02081983 Wayne Gretsky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
S02081983CChampion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found
S02081983CLloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
S02081984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
S02081984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
S02081984CE Bowell discovers asteroid #3031 Houston, #3032 Evans, #3065
S02081984CSarahill, #3315 Chant, #3354 McNair & #3355 Onizuka
S02081985 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot
S02081986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
S02081988 NASA launches DOD-2
S02081989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
S02081989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
S02081991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
S02081992 16th Olympic Winter games opens in Albertville, France
S02081992 Ulysses spacecreft passes Jupiter
S02091267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
S02091621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
S02091799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, W I
S02091822 American Indian Society organizes
S02091825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
S02091849 Roman Republic declared
S02091861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
S02091861 Tennessee votes against secession
S02091867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
S02091870 Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service
S02091870 US Army establishes US National Weather Service
S02091871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
S02091877 US weather service established
S02091882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #222 Lucia
S02091885 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
S02091886 Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of
S02091886Canti-Chinese violence
S02091891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
S02091893 Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
S02091895 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
S02091895 Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
S02091904 Japan declares war on Russia
S02091905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #558 Carmen
S02091909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
S02091912 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #729 Watsonia
S02091912 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #849 Ara
S02091912 US Tennis Assn ammends rule taking bye away from defending champion
S02091913 -18) 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
S02091916 Britains miltary service act enforced (conscription)
S02091917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #863 Benkoela
S02091918 Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe, Va
S02091920 International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
S02091922 Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
S02091923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
S02091924 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
S02091925 Haifa Techion (Israel), opens
S02091932 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
S02091933 -63° F (-53° C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
S02091934 -14.3° F (-25.8° C), coldest day in New York City
S02091934 -51° F (-46° C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
S02091934 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
S02091940 Joe Louis defends heavyweight boxing title beating Arturo Godov
S02091941 Nazis provoke 1st anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam
S02091942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
S02091942 Japanese troop land near Makassar, South-Celebes
S02091942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
S02091943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
S02091945 -Feb 10th, Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
S02091948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02091950 Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with communists
S02091953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premiers in syndication
S02091953 WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
S02091956 -5° F (15° C) in Sicily
S02091956 KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
S02091960 AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
S02091962 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
S02091963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
S02091963 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
S02091964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
S02091964 GI Joe character created
S02091964 NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
S02091969 KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
S02091969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
S02091971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth
S02091971 Earthquake shook Los Angeles, 64 die
S02091971 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 26 & causes over $½B damage
S02091971 Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
S02091975 L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #1963 Bezovec
S02091975 Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
S02091978 Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City, Fla; later executed
S02091979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
S02091979 Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
S02091979 Nigeria amends constitution
S02091980 Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
S02091981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2622 Bolzano & #3423
S02091981 T Seki discovers asteroid #2396 Kochi & #2621 Goto
S02091985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
S02091986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
S02091986 Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
S02091987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
S02091988 Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference 6-5 in NHL All Star Game
S02091989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
S02091990 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
S02091990 Galileo flies by Venus
S02091990 Namibia's constitution ratified
S02091991 US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
S02091991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence
S02091992 NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
S0210 60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
S02101098 Crusaders slay Army Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
S02101635 Académie Française is founded in Paris
S02101720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
S02101749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
S02101763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England
S02101807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
S02101824 Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú
S02101840 queen Victoria of Great Britain marries Albert of Saxon-Coburg
S02101846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
S02101859 Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
S02101861 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #63 Ausonia
S02101861 Asteroid 63, Ausonia, discovered (named after Auson, son of Odysseus)
S02101863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
S02101863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren
S02101868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
S02101870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) founded (NYC)
S02101879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
S02101881 The opera "Contes D'Hoffmann" is produced (Paris)
S02101897 NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
S02101899 -39° F (-39° C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest temperature record)
S02101906 Britains 1st modern battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
S02101907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #624 Hektor
S02101913 J H Metcalf discovers asteroids #740 Cantabia & #741 Botolphia
S02101920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball
S02101923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
S02101925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
S02101927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #933 Susi
S02101930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
S02101931 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #3211
S02101933 -54° F (-48° C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
S02101933 Delivery of the 1st singing telegram
S02101934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
S02101934 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1698 Christophe
S02101934 G Reiss discovers asteroid #1300 Marcelle
S02101935 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
S02101940 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1528 Conrada
S02101941 "Illegale Het Parool" begins publishing
S02101941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
S02101942 Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" goes gold
S02101943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
S02101943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
S02101943 Van der Veen begins fire in Amsterdam works bureau
S02101946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
S02101947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
S02101947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
S02101947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
S02101949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens on Broadway
S02101956 "My Friend Flicka" premiers on CBS (later NBC) TV
S02101961 AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
S02101962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
S02101962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
S02101964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
S02101964 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02101967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
S02101970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel
S02101970Ckilling 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
S02101971 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
S02101971 Bill White becomes the 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
S02101972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
S02101972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
S02101973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
S02101973 World's largest storage tank explodes (Staten Island NY), crushing 40
S02101974 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
S02101977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
S02101977CIsraeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
S02101981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
S02101982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Québec
S02101983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
S02101985 -61° F (-52° C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
S02101985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
S02101986 "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
S02101987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
S02101989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
S02101989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
S02101989 Ron Brown (D) chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party
S02101989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition &
S02101989Cnot a sport, in a NJ court
S02101990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to become heavyweight boxing champ
S02101990 Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
S02101990 S Afr Pres de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
S02101991 NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
S02101992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
S02101992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for the USA
S02101992 Mike Tyson found guilty of rape in Indiana
S0211 385 Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
S0211 660 -BC- Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
S0211 731 St Gregory II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S0211 824 St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S02111531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England
S02111573 Francis Drake sees the Pacific
S02111575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
S02111794 1st session of US Senate open to the public
S02111808 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
S02111809 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
S02111812 Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-the 1st "gerrymander
S02111837 American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
S02111840 The opera "La Fille du Regiment" is produced (Paris)
S02111843 The opera "I Lombardi" is produced (Milan)
S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
S02111858 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes
S02111861 President-elect Lincoln takes train to Washington
S02111861 US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference
S02111861Cwith slavery in any state
S02111873 Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
S02111878 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
S02111878 1st weekly Weather report published
S02111889 Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
S02111893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #357 Ninina
S02111894 F Courty discovers asteroid #384 Burdigala
S02111898 Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
S02111899 -15° F (-26° C), Washington, DC (district record)
S02111899 -61° F, Montana
S02111902 Demonstration for human rights in Brussel
S02111905 James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
S02111907 A Kopff discovers asteroids #625 Xenia & #626 Notburga
S02111907 Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322
S02111912 A Massinger discovers asteroid #727 Nipponia
S02111916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
S02111919 Friedrich Ebert, SPD, becomes president of Germany
S02111919 German republican govt takes power
S02111921 M Wolf discovers asteroid #946 Poesia
S02111922 US intervention army leaves Honduras
S02111926 Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transferres to New Zealand
S02111927 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1181 Lilith
S02111927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1111 Reinmuthia
S02111928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
S02111929 Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
S02111931 L Volta discovers asteroid #1191 Alfaterna
S02111932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1220 Crocus
S02111935 -11° F (-24° C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
S02111935 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, NY
S02111936 Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
S02111937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich ends
S02111942 "Archie" comic book debuts
S02111942 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2827 Vellamo
S02111945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
S02111949 Willie Pep is 1st 126lb to regain boxing championship
S02111950 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1598 Paloque
S02111957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02111957 NHL Players Association forms (NYC)
S02111958 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
S02111958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
S02111960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show
S02111961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
S02111962 Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
S02111963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
S02111963 CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
S02111964 Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
S02111964 Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
S02111965 Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
S02111968 Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
S02111968 Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
S02111968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
S02111969 Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
S02111970 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
S02111970 Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
S02111970CJohn Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting the South African
S02111970Crugby team playing in Scotland
S02111971 Montreal Candien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
S02111971 US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
S02111973 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
S02111973 Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
S02111974 Titan-Centaur test launch fails
S02111975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
S02111976 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
S02111977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
S02111977 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3578
S02111978 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
S02111978 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
S02111978 China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
S02111979 "They are Playing our Song" opens on Broadway
S02111979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
S02111980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2542 Calpurnia
S02111983 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
S02111983 E Bowell disc asteroid 2875 Lagerkvist, 3116 Goodricke & 3594 Scotti
S02111983 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3117 Niepce
S02111983 T Seki discovers asteroid #3150 Tosa
S02111984 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
S02111984 Wayne Gretsky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
S02111986 Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
S02111987 Philippines constitution goes into effect
S02111988 Anthony M Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court
S02111989 Barbara Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcoplian)
S02111990 40th NBA All-Star Game in Miami, East beats West 130-113
S02111990 James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
S02111990 Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
S02111992 F-16 jet crashes at Hengelose (No casualities)
S02121049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded (or 0224)
S02121733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
S02121772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
S02121793 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
S02121797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" 1st performed, Vienna
S02121818 Chile gains independence from Spain
S02121821 Mercantile Library of the City of New York opens
S02121839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
S02121840 Housatonic Railroad opens
S02121848 Ballet "Faust" premiers, Milan
S02121850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
S02121865 Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
S02121873 Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
S02121877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
S02121877 US railroad builders strike agains lower wages
S02121878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
S02121879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
S02121880 National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
S02121891 E Millosevich discovers asteroid #303 Josephina
S02121899 -47° F (-44° C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
S02121899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, MSG, NYC
S02121902 L Carnera discovers asteroid #481 Emita
S02121908 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
S02121908 Around the World Autombile Race begins in NYC
S02121908 Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins
S02121908CGeorge Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
S02121909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded
S02121909 Netherland's SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group
S02121912 China adopts the Gregorian calendar
S02121912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates
S02121915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
S02121921 Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
S02121921 Winston Churchill becomes England, minister of Colonization
S02121924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
S02121925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
S02121925 Estonia forbids communist Party
S02121926 S Belyavskij discovers asteroids #1084 Tamariwa & #1094 Siberia
S02121929 P Bourgeois discovers asteroid #1547 Nele
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporates
S02121934 France hit by a general strike
S02121935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into the Pacific Ocean
S02121936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2101 Adonis
S02121937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
S02121937 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1413 Roucarie & #1414 Jerome
S02121939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1541 Estonia
S02121942 L Oterma discovers asteroids #1680 Per Brahe & #2846 Ylppo
S02121945 SF selected for site of UN Conference
S02121947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
S02121947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
S02121948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
S02121949 Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
S02121950 Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees
S02121953 USSR breaks relations with Israel
S02121955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
S02121955 Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
S02121955 WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02121961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
S02121962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
S02121964 Beatles 1st NYC conert (Carnegie Hall)
S02121965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02121967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
S02121967 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
S02121973 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine
S02121977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
S02121979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
S02121980 2nd Islander scoreless tie-Jets at Nassau
S02121980 NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
S02121981 Cape Verde ammends its constitution
S02121981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
S02121982 Wayne Gretsky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record
S02121984 Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
S02121984 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics
S02121984Crecieving all perfect scores for quality & the gold medal
S02121987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
S02121989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
S02121989 Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
S02121989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
S02121991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
S02121994 17th Olympic Winter games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
S02131130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
S02131349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Swizerland
S02131601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
S02131635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
S02131668 Spain recognizes Portugal
S02131678 Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
S02131689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
S02131692 MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King Willem III
S02131741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (The American Magazine)
S02131777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
S02131795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
S02131799 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
S02131809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
S02131832 1st appearance of cholera at London
S02131837 Riot in NY over high price of flour
S02131858 Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
S02131861 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
S02131861CCol Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians
S02131864 Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
S02131866 Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri
S02131867 "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
S02131886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after
S02131886Ccontroversy over use of male nudes in a coed art class
S02131895 Moving picture projector patented
S02131899 -1° F (-18° C) New Orleans, La
S02131899 -2° F (-19° C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
S02131901 M Wolf discovers asteroids #473 Nolli & #474 Prudentia
S02131905 -29° F (-34° C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
S02131905 -40° F (-40° C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
S02131905 -40° F (-40° C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
S02131914 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
S02131920 National Negro Baseball League organized
S02131935 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
S02131935 H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1342 Brabantia, #1353 Maartje & #2378
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
S02131937 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
S02131937 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington
S02131939 A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1586 Thiele
S02131945 Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c 50,000 die
S02131945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany
S02131948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
S02131954 Furman basketball star Frank Selvy scores 100 pts in a game v Newb
S02131955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
S02131955 KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02131956 KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives cals to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
S02131957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
S02131959 Barbie doll goes on sale
S02131959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
S02131960 France explodes its 1st atomic bomb, in Algerian desert
S02131969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
S02131970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
S02131971 Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
S02131974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
S02131976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
S02131976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
S02131977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
S02131977 S J Bus discovers asteroid #2791 Paradise
S02131979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
S02131980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
S02131980 Harvard College discovers asteroids #2482 Perkin & #2658 Gingerich
S02131981 Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
S02131982 Dark Side of the Moon, is on the charts for 402nd week
S02131982 Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against the Flyers
S02131983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
S02131984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
S02131985 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3365
S02131989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
S02131989COklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged
S02131989Cwith selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
S02131990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
S02131990 US, England, France & England give Germany the OK to reunify
S02131991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
S02131992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
S02141130 Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as antiPope Anacletus II
S02141349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg Germany
S02141540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
S02141711 1st performance Händels opera Rinaldo
S02141778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
S02141794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
S02141803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
S02141848 James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
S02141859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
S02141862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
S02141867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
S02141867 Morehouse College organizes in Augusta, Georgia
S02141872 1st state bird refuge authorized, Lake Merritt, CA
S02141876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents
S02141876CSupreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
S02141883 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
S02141889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
S02141891 J Palisa discovers asteroid #304 Olga
S02141894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
S02141895 Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
S02141896 Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias 2-0 for the Stanley Cup
S02141900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
S02141903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
S02141907 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
S02141910 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #697 Galilea
S02141912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
S02141912 Arizona becomes 48th state
S02141918 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
S02141921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
S02141929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
S02141932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2290, #2560 & #2879 Shimizu
S02141936 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1377 Roberbauxa
S02141936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
S02141941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
S02141941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
S02141942 Japanese parachutists land in Palembang Sumatra
S02141944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
S02141944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
S02141945 Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador join the United Nations
S02141946 Bank of England nationalized
S02141949 1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
S02141951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
S02141952 6th Winter Olympic games opens in Oslo
S02141954 Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
S02141954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02141955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
S02141956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
S02141958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan comes into force
S02141961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
S02141962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
S02141963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
S02141966 Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
S02141966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
S02141967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
S02141968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
S02141971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
S02141971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
S02141972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
S02141972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & softland on moon
S02141972 USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on Moon, returns
S02141974 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2039 Payne-Gaposchkin
S02141978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
S02141980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
S02141980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
S02141982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
S02141982 L Brozek discovers asteroid #3424
S02141985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
S02141987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
S02141988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
S02141988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
S02141989 Boxer Mike Tyson & actress Robin Given divorce
S02141989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
S02141989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
S02141989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
S02141992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
S02151145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
S02151637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
S02151764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
S02151768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
S02151799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
S02151804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
S02151842 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
S02151845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
S02151848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
S02151851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
S02151861 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
S02151862 Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
S02151869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
S02151870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
S02151876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
S02151879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before the Supreme Ct
S02151895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
S02151898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
S02151899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #442 Eichsfeldia
S02151902 Autobahn opens in Berlin
S02151903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
S02151905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
S02151906 British Labour Party organizes
S02151912 Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
S02151913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
S02151917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #865 Zubaida
S02151917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
S02151918 1st WW I US army troopship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
S02151918 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar
S02151919 American Legion organizes in Paris
S02151920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #926 Imhilde
S02151926 Contract air mail service begins in US
S02151930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
S02151932 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold
S02151932Cin both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
S02151933 Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
S02151936 -60° F (-51° C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
S02151936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
S02151941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
S02151941 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1561 Fricke & #1785 Wurm
S02151942 Japanese troop march into Palembang, South-Sumatra
S02151942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
S02151944 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Netherlands, begins
S02151950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02151950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02151950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
S02151954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
S02151954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02151955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
S02151957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
S02151961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
S02151963 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
S02151963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
S02151964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
S02151964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
S02151964 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2417 McVittie & #3717
S02151965 Canada replaces the Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf
S02151965 John Lennon passes his driving test
S02151967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
S02151967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
S02151967 French Diadème 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit
S02151967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
S02151968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
S02151968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02151970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02151970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
S02151971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
S02151972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander GM
S02151973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
S02151973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
S02151977 W Sebok discovers asteroid #2491
S02151978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
S02151978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali for world heavyweight crown
S02151978 Zaire revises constitution
S02151979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
S02151979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
S02151980 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
S02151980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3592
S02151981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
S02151982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
S02151982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland-84 die
S02151983 N Thomas discovers asteroid 3367 Alex, 3413 Andriana, 3525 Paul & 3580
S02151985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
S02151985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
S02151986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
S02151986 Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
S02151987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
S02151987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a
S02151987Ctowel to make a shot
S02151989 Soviet military occupation of Afghánistán ends
S02151990 Baseball owners lock out players
S02151992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on the Fox network
S02151992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
S0216 374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
S02161349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
S02161486 Republic day of Frankfurt
S02161559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
S02161659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
S02161741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine begins publication
S02161751 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
S02161771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
S02161777 Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
S02161804 Lt Stephen Decatur attacks Tripoli pirates who burned USS Philadelphia
S02161840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
S02161862 Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
S02161868 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks founded in NY
S02161880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, NYC
S02161880 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #213 Lilaea
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication
S02161891 A Charlois discovers asteroid #305 Gordonia
S02161892 The opera "Werther" is produced (Vienna)
S02161900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes 1st issue, SF
S02161900 Montréal Shamrocks beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
S02161903 -59° F (-51° C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)
S02161905 1st US Esperanto club organize1s in Boston
S02161906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #585 Bilkis
S02161906 Metcalf discover asteroid #602 Marianna, #603 Timandra & #604 Tekmessa
S02161909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
S02161909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
S02161912 J Palisa discovers asteroid #728 Leonisis
S02161913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
S02161914 1st airplane flight to LA from SF
S02161918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
S02161920 M Wolf discovers asteroid #927 Ratisbona
S02161923 Allies accept Lithuania occupation of Memel
S02161923 Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
S02161929 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
S02161932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
S02161936 4th Winter Olympics in Germany closes
S02161936 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1391 Carelia, #1454 Kalevala
S02161936C#1448 Lindbladia & #1479 Inkeri
S02161937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
S02161938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
S02161942 German submarine overthrows Aruba
S02161943 -32° F (-36° C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
S02161945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
S02161945 Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
S02161946 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
S02161948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
S02161950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
S02161951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
S02161951 SF City Hall dome fire
S02161954 WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
S02161956 Britain abolishes the death penality
S02161959 Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba
S02161961 18 US figure skaters die in a plane crash in Belgium
S02161961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
S02161963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
S02161964 Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
S02161970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown
S02161972 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
S02161975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2548 Leloir
S02161975 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
S02161978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
S02161979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
S02161980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
S02161982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
S02161982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
S02161982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
S02161984 Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
S02161984 NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
S02161985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
S02161985 M Mahrova discovers asteroid #3492
S02161985 NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
S02161986 Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
S02161986 S Inoda & T Urata discovers asteroid #3394
S02161988 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
S02161989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
S02161989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden seperate after 16 years of marriage
S02161989 Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs record $7.5M-3 year contract
S02161992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
S02161992 LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
S02171568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace
S02171634 William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
S02171691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
S02171772 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
S02171776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" published
S02171791 Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
S02171795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
S02171801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
S02171817 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
S02171854 British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
S02171859 The opera "Ballo in Maschera" is produced (Rome)
S02171859 Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premiers in Napoli
S02171864 CSS "HL Hunley" becomes 1st submarine to sink an enemy ship
S02171865 Columbia SC burns down during the civil war
S02171867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal
S02171868 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #97 Klotho
S02171868 J Coggia discovers asteroid #96 Aegle
S02171870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
S02171873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #130 Elektra
S02171876 Sardines 1st canned (Eastport, Maine)
S02171878 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
S02171879 J Palisa discovers asteroid #192 Nausikaa
S02171879 Murder attempt on tsar Alexander in St Petersburg, fails
S02171896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
S02171897 Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers organizes (Wash DC)
S02171899 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #443 Photographica
S02171903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #506 Marion
S02171905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
S02171906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
S02171911 1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego
S02171913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect, in Oregon
S02171913 NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
S02171915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
S02171923 Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
S02171925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1330 Spiridonia
S02171926 75 buried in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah avalanche, 40 die
S02171926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
S02171931 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
S02171931 Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
S02171933 Blondie marries Dagwood; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him
S02171934 1st high school auto driving course offered, State College, Penn
S02171936 "The Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
S02171936 -58° F (-50° C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
S02171939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2535 Hameenlinna
S02171941 Joe Louis retains heavyweight boxing crown, KOing Gus Dorazio
S02171942 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2857
S02171944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22
S02171946 Humanistic Verbond forms in Amsterdam
S02171947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
S02171949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
S02171950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY
S02171950 S Arend discovers asteroid #2265 Verbaandert
S02171950C#3295 Murakami & #3440
S02171950CK Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1611 Beyer, #1719 Jens, #2572,
S02171953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
S02171955 KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
S02171955 Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
S02171957 Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
S02171957 Suez Canal reopens
S02171958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
S02171958 WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02171959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
S02171962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
S02171964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
S02171964 US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote
S02171964 WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02171965 US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
S02171966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
S02171967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
S02171967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit
S02171968 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
S02171969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
S02171970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
S02171970 Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
S02171972 President Nixon leaves Washingto DC for China
S02171974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
S02171976 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
S02171976 Organic statute makes Macao autonomous
S02171978 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2608 Seneca
S02171979 China invades Vietnam
S02171980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
S02171981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
S02171983 Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
S02171983 Netherlands adopts constitution
S02171985 1st class postage rises from 20¢ to 22¢
S02171985 3rd person to recieve an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
S02171986 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
S02171986 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
S02171987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
S02171988 Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
S02171989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
S02171989 Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
S02171989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
S02171989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
S02171989 Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
S02181129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
S02181503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
S02181574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
S02181678 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published
S02181688 1st formal protest of slavery in US-Friends in Germantown, Penn
S02181713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao
S02181735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
S02181804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, chartered
S02181815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed
S02181828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
S02181834 1st US labor newspaper, The Man, published, NYC
S02181839 Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today)
S02181849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
S02181850 Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
S02181856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
S02181857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
S02181861 King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia becomes king of Italy
S02181861 President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama
S02181865 Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
S02181865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, NC
S02181874 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #135 Hertha
S02181884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
S02181885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
S02181899 80° F, San Fransisco
S02181899 Montréal Shamrocks sweep Winnipeg Victorias in 2 for the Stanley Cup
S02181899 SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
S02181902 The opera "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo)
S02181908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued
S02181915 Germany begins a blockade of England
S02181921 British troops occupy Dublin
S02181922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
S02181922 WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
S02181923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
S02181924 US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
S02181930 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
S02181930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaug discovers Pluto
S02181932 Japan declares Manchuria Independence
S02181936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
S02181938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1480 Aunus
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
S02181942 Japanese troop land on Bali
S02181942 L Oterma discovers asteroids #1758 Naantali, #2828 Iku-Turso & #2912
S02181943 Poetry newspaper Trouw begins publishing
S02181947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
S02181950 S Arend discovers asteroid #2277 Moreau
S02181951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
S02181951 Nepál becomes a constitutional monarchy
S02181951 Netherland Radio School forms
S02181953 KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02181953 Premier of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
S02181955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
S02181960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California
S02181962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
S02181965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
S02181965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
S02181965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
S02181966 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2753 Duncan
S02181967 Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
S02181967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
S02181968 British adopt year-round daylight savings time
S02181968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
S02181969 Zürich (PLO-attack El-Al office)
S02181970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
S02181972 Calif Supreme Court strikes down it's death penalty
S02181972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
S02181973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
S02181973 Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000m in record 7:39.2
S02181974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
S02181974 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
S02181977 George Harrison releases "True Love"
S02181977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroids #2330 Ontake, #2960 Ohtaki,
S02181977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
S02181977C#2924 Mitake-mura, #3249 Musashino, #3391 Sinon & #3607 Naniwa
S02181978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
S02181979 -52° F (-47° C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
S02181979 Miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV
S02181979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
S02181979 Snow falls in the Sahara
S02181980 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
S02181980 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3085
S02181982 C Shoemaker & S J Bus discovers asteroid #3270 Dudley
S02181983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
S02181984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed
S02181986 San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20
S02181986Cpts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
S02181988 Anthony M Kennedy becomes a Supreme Court Justice
S02181989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at the same time being
S02181989Caccused of fathering children by 2 other women
S02183102 -BC- Origin of Kali Era (India)
S0219 607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
S02191700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark
S02191771 Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis &
S02191771CHydra & galaxy in Virgo)
S02191797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
S02191803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
S02191807 British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
S02191807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
S02191831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
S02191846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin
S02191856 Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio, obtains US patent on tin-type camera
S02191856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
S02191861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom (3/3 NS)
S02191864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, DC
S02191869 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
S02191878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph)
S02191881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
S02191903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #507 Laodica
S02191913 Mexican General V Huerta gets support of US authorities
S02191919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois
S02191920 Netherlands joins the League of Nations
S02191928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
S02191929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
S02191932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
S02191933 F L Whipple discovers asteroid #1252 Celestia
S02191934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry
S02191934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
S02191938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1733 Silke
S02191938 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2713 Luxembourg
S02191938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
S02191938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3212
S02191942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
S02191942 Japanese fleet under vice-adm Nagumo bombs Darwin, Australia
S02191942 Japanese troop land on Timor
S02191942 NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free
S02191942Cat each of their upcoming home games
S02191945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
S02191945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
S02191945 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
S02191949 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3282
S02191954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
S02191959 Gabon adopts its constitution
S02191959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
S02191963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
S02191964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US
S02191965 NFL adds 6th official
S02191970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
S02191970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
S02191971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
S02191971 Walt Wesley becomes the 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
S02191974 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #2055 Dvorak, #2073 Janacek & #3109
S02191977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3111 Misuzu
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino [Tokyo Rose]
S02191977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner
S02191980 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2747, #3313 & #3715
S02191980 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3243
S02191980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2315 Czechoslovakia & #2321 Luznice
S02191982 Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853
S02191982 Xinglong Station discovers asteroid #3481
S02191983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3414 Champollion
S02191983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m freestyle swimming record
S02191984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at
S02191984Cthe Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
S02191985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
S02191986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
S02191986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
S02191987 Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
S02191989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3m) "Legs Diamond" closes
S02191992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
S02201673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
S02201725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100/scalp bounty
S02201768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter, Pa
S02201792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance
S02201809 Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
S02201816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premiers in Rome
S02201823 English Capt James Weddell reaches 74° 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
S02201831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
S02201835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake
S02201839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
S02201846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
S02201856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg-many die
S02201864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
S02201865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
S02201869 Tenn Gov WC Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
S02201872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
S02201872 Toothpick manufacturing machine patented in US
S02201873 U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
S02201876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #160 Una
S02201877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
S02201877 International Association (minor baseball league) organized
S02201887 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh
S02201890 R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke
S02201895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
S02201899 Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
S02201901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
S02201901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #469 Argentina
S02201902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
S02201917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
S02201919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
S02201921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
S02201922 WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
S02201922 independence day of Vilnus Lithuania, votes for to seperate of Poland
S02201927 Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
S02201928 O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1090 Sumida
S02201929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
S02201931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
S02201933 House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
S02201934 O Bancilhon discovers asteroid #1333 Cevenola
S02201934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
S02201935 Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
S02201937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
S02201938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1482 Sebastiana & #3569
S02201938 UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
S02201938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1449 Virtanen, #1450 Raimonda & #2898
S02201941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camp (Plotsk Poland)
S02201941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
S02201941 Romania breaks relations with Netherland
S02201942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
S02201943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México)
S02201944 Batman & Robin comic strip premiers in newspapers
S02201944 US landing on Eniwetok atol
S02201947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42² blocks in LA
S02201948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
S02201950 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
S02201950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
S02201952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
S02201956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02201958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
S02201962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
S02201963 Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
S02201965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
S02201965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
S02201968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
S02201971 Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations
S02201971Cto go off the air. The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
S02201972 1st time Cleve Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
S02201973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
S02201974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 M from Houston Aeros, WHA
S02201978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
S02201980 Susan Dey of "LA Law" weds producer Bernard Sofronski
S02201981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
S02201982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2636 Lassell & #3193 Elliot
S02201982 NY Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game
S02201983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
S02201984 Asteroid #3731 discovered
S02201985 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3701
S02201985CAfter defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's
S02201985Ccheck for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
S02201986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany
S02201988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
S02201988 Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
S02201988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
S02201988 Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for #37.6 million
S02201989 Total eclipse of the Moon
S02201989CMembers of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April
S02201989Creunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
S02211431 England begins trial against Joan of Ark
S02211613 Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
S02211782 US congress resolves the establishment of a US mint
S02211797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British
S02211804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
S02211828 1st Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
S02211842 1st known sewing machine patent in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
S02211846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
S02211853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
S02211857 US issues flying eagle cents
S02211858 1st electric burglar alarm installed (Boston, Mass)
S02211861 Navaho indians elects Herrero Grande as chief
S02211862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
S02211864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
S02211866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
S02211874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
S02211874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
S02211878 1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued, New Haven, Conn
S02211882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
S02211885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, DC)
S02211887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens, in Brooklyn
S02211887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
S02211895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
S02211902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
S02211903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
S02211904 National Ski Association formed, Ishpeming, Mich
S02211906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #596 Scheila
S02211906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #586 Thekla
S02211907 Hoek van Holland & passenger ship SS Berlin collide (142 dead)
S02211915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
S02211915 World's Fair in SF opens
S02211916 Battle of Verdun begins (1 million casualties)
S02211916 M Wolf discovers asteroid #818 Kapteynia
S02211916 WW I Battle of Verdun begins
S02211917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
S02211917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
S02211918 Austrians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Palestine
S02211919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
S02211922 Great Britain give Egypt independence
S02211922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
S02211925 1st issue of New Yorker magazine published
S02211932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
S02211934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
S02211936 F Rigaux discovers asteroid #1378 Leonce
S02211944 "The War As It Happens" news show premiers on NBC (NYC only)
S02211945 British Army captures Goch
S02211947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
S02211950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
S02211952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
S02211952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
S02211952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
S02211953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
S02211961 Gabon adopts constitution
S02211961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
S02211964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
S02211968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
S02211969 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #3406
S02211971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
S02211972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
S02211973 Chicago Black Hawks, NHL record 262nd game without being shut-out
S02211974 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
S02211974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
S02211975 John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
S02211977 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
S02211979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
S02211979C2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters
S02211979CThe game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period
S02211980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
S02211980 L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3508 Pasternak
S02211981 "Yorkshire ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
S02211981 Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
S02211981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
S02211981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
S02211982 Bowell disc asteroid 2634 James Bradley, 2635 Huggins & 2939 Coconino
S02211983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
S02211983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
S02211985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
S02211986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
S02211988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
S02211988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
S02211989 US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
S02211989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)
S0222 57 -BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
S0222 606 Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S02221071 Battle of Cassel-Robrecht I de Fries vs Arnulf III/I
S02221281 Simon the Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
S02221288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolaas IV
S02221349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
S02221495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown
S02221630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
S02221774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
S02221775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10
S02221784 1st US ship trading with China, Empress of China, sails from NY
S02221784 Empress of China sets sail on 1st NY to China route
S02221819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
S02221821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
S02221825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
S02221854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
S02221856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party, Pittsburgh
S02221860 Organized baseball played in SF for the 1st time
S02221860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
S02221861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
S02221865 Tennesee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
S02221872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party, Columbus, Ohio
S02221872 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus, Ohio
S02221878 Greenback Labor Party formed at Toledo, Ohio
S02221879 1st 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by FW Woolworth in Utica, NY
S02221882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
S02221887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
S02221888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans, Yonkers, NY
S02221889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
S02221892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" byy Oscar Wile premiers at St James Theater
S02221898 Black postmater lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
S02221900 A Charlois discovers asteroid #453 Tea
S02221906 M Wolf discovers asteroids #587 Hypsipyle & #588 Achilles
S02221908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #661 Cloelia
S02221909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
S02221912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
S02221913 Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
S02221915 Germany begins "restricted" submarine war
S02221918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
S02221920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track, Emeryville, Calif
S02221922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
S02221923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US, Los Angeles
S02221923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
S02221924 1st presidential radio address Calvin Coolidge)
S02221928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
S02221928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1156 Kira
S02221930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1183 Jutta
S02221935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
S02221938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1451 Grano, #2397 Lappajarvi,
S02221938C#2733 Hamina & #2737 Kotka
S02221939 A Patry discovers asteroid #1510 Charlois
S02221944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen
S02221950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
S02221956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
S02221957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
S02221958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
S02221959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins
S02221962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
S02221963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
S02221964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
S02221965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 to earth orbit (Voskhod test)
S02221966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
S02221968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "The Silent Sun"
S02221969 1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin)
S02221969 Barbara Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
S02221971 Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
S02221972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
S02221973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan coml airliner (106 die)
S02221977 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2923 Schuyler
S02221979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
S02221979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
S02221980 Afghanistan declares martial law
S02221980 USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
S02221982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsucessful)
S02221983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m freestyle swimming record
S02221984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Québec
S02221989 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" wins Grammy as song of the year
S02221989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
S02221989 UK physiciast Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
S02221989 US authors demonstrate agains Iranian death treats against Salman
S02221989CRushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
S02221991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
S02221992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
S02221992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
S02221992 Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
S0223 303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
S02231455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
S02231574 5th War of Religion breaks out in France
S02231778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
S02231792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving
S02231792Cstations for distressed mariners)
S02231804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
S02231813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
S02231821 College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
S02231822 Boston is incorporated as a city
S02231836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
S02231846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
S02231847 Battle of Buena Vista México; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
S02231852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
S02231861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
S02231869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
S02231870 Mississippi is readmitted to US
S02231875 J Palisa discovers asteroid #143 Adria
S02231883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
S02231883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized at Philadelphia
S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
S02231887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
S02231892 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr, Penn
S02231894 Ottawa's hockey club refuses to go to Toronto to play in the 1st
S02231894CStanley Cup game, so the Cup is awarded to the Montréal AAA
S02231895 M Wolf discovers asteroid #399 Persephone
S02231895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in SF Bay
S02231903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
S02231904 Control of Panama Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
S02231905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
S02231906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for HW boxing champ in 20 rounds
S02231909 Russian tsar Nicolas II disolves Finland
S02231910 1st radio contest held, Philadelphia
S02231913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #742 Edisona
S02231916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
S02231919 Mussolini finds the Facist party of Italy
S02231920 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #928 Hildrun
S02231921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
S02231923 German Republic day with laws against worker
S02231923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
S02231927 US Radio Commission created (FCC predecessor)
S02231934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
S02231936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
S02231936 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2067 Aksnes
S02231938 E Delporte discovers asteroids #1491 Balduinus & #1722 Goffin
S02231942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
S02231945 Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army attacks Ruhr
S02231945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
S02231954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
S02231958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
S02231958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
S02231959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02231960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field
S02231965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
S02231967 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
S02231968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBA to score 25,000 points
S02231969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
S02231970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
S02231971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
S02231971 Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
S02231973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
S02231974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
S02231976 Harvard College discovers asteroid #2079 Jacchia
S02231979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
S02231979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
S02231980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
S02231980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
S02231981 Attempted military coup in Spain
S02231981 People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
S02231983 USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
S02231984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3519
S02231985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
S02231985 US Senated confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
S02231987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
S02231988 15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta
S02231991 US insists Iraq publically announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
S02231992 16th Olympic Winter games closes in Albertville, France
S02241496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
S02241525 Imperial forces defeat the French in battle of Pavia
S02241528 John Zápolya, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerai
S02241530 1st imperial coronation by a pope-Charles V crowned by Clement V
S02241541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
S02241552 Privileges of the Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
S02241581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission
S02241711 Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premiers, London
S02241711 The opera "Rinaldo" is produced (London)
S02241779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
S02241803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
S02241821 Mexico gains independence from Spain
S02241836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
S02241839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
S02241848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
S02241855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government
S02241857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to the government
S02241857 LA Vineyard Society organized
S02241863 Arizona Territory created
S02241863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
S02241868 1st US parade with floats, Mobile, Alabama
S02241868 House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
S02241881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
S02241888 Louisville, Ky becomes 1st gov't in US to adopt Australian ballot
S02241894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
S02241895 Cuban war of independence begins
S02241905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland opens
S02241917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
S02241917 Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
S02241918 Estonia declares independence from Russia
S02241920 NSDAP begins at Hofbräuhaus Münich
S02241920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
S02241921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
S02241923 Mass arrests in US of mafia
S02241924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
S02241925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
S02241928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3227 Hasegawa
S02241937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
S02241938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroids #1998 Titius & #2665
S02241938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
S02241938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1483 Hakoila, #1551 Argelander,
S02241938C#1552 Bessel, #2678 Aavasaksa, #2690 Ristiina, #3272 & #3281
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
S02241944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
S02241945 Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
S02241945 Manila freed from Japanese
S02241946 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
S02241948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
S02241949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
S02241955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
S02241961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
S02241964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for heavyweight championship
S02241965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in the Bahamas
S02241966 Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
S02241968 Discovery of first pulsar announced
S02241968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
S02241968 Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
S02241969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
S02241970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
S02241970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
S02241970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
S02241974 Pakistan offically recognizes Bangladesh
S02241976 Cuba adopts its constitution
S02241977 Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
S02241978 Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
S02241979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
S02241979 War between North & South Yemen begins
S02241980 Rangers scored 5 power-play goals against Islanders
S02241980 USA Olympic hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal
S02241981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
S02241981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
S02241982 John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" wins the Grammy
S02241982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
S02241984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3679
S02241985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
S02241985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
S02241986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
S02241987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
S02241988 Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
S02241989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
S02241991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
S02241991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
S02251540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
S02251570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegience
S02251751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)
S02251791 1st Bank of US chartered
S02251793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
S02251799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
S02251799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
S02251804 Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
S02251828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
S02251836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
S02251837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
S02251838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
S02251839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West
S02251847 State University of Iowa is approved
S02251859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
S02251862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
S02251863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
S02251868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
S02251870 Hiram Revels, Ms, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen)
S02251875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) turn self in at Fort Sill
S02251887 J Palisa discovers asteroid #265 Anna
S02251892 J Palisa discovers asteroid #324 Bamberga
S02251901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
S02251904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theatre Society
S02251904 Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 for Stanley Cup
S02251905 Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
S02251907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
S02251908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
S02251910 Dali Lama fleas Tibet from Chinese troop to the British-Indies
S02251911 The opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia)
S02251913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
S02251913 F Kaiser discovers asteroid #743 Eugenisis
S02251917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #867 Kovacia
S02251917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #866 Fatme
S02251919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
S02251919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon)
S02251921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
S02251923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
S02251924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
S02251930 Check photographing device patented
S02251933 1st aircraft carrier "USS Ranger" launched
S02251933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
S02251933 Thomas Yawkey purchases the Boston Red Sox
S02251938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
S02251940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
S02251941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
S02251941 February strike against Jews
S02251943 Vietminh forms Indochinese Democratic Front
S02251948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia
S02251950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premiers on NBC
S02251950CWriters include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
S02251951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
S02251956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
S02251957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
S02251961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
S02251961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
S02251962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
S02251963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
S02251964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, stops champion Sonny Liston in the
S02251964C7th round to win the world heavyweight title
S02251968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
S02251968 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2279 Barto
S02251969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
S02251969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
S02251972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
S02251972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
S02251974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride
S02251974Ca record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
S02251977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
S02251977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
S02251977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
S02251979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
S02251980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
S02251981 Calgary Flames score 11 goals against Islanders
S02251981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalites (392 mins)
S02251981 NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
S02251981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
S02251982 Record speed for a snowmobile-239 kph
S02251984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3389
S02251984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
S02251986 Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines
S02251986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
S02251986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
S02251987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
S02251987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
S02251988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
S02251988 South Korea adopts constitution
S02251989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed
S02251989 Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
S02251989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 rounds
S02251990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
S02251990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying
S02251990Cthat she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
S02251991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
S0226 747 -BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar
S02261266 Battle of Benevento
S02261531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
S02261564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
S02261616 Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
S02261732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
S02261773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
S02261815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
S02261832 Tsarist ukase decrees kingdom of Poland part of the Russian empire
S02261834 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
S02261848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
S02261852 British troop ship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
S02261859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
S02261866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
S02261869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
S02261870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
S02261877 Geheim compromise Dem-Rep over pres election result
S02261881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
S02261885 Conference of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
S02261891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
S02261893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
S02261895 Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
S02261907 Royal Olie & Shell merge to form British Petroleum
S02261912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
S02261913 J Rheden discovers asteroid #744 Aguntina
S02261914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
S02261915 Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (Germany) fire attack)
S02261917 1st Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) opens
S02261918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
S02261919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette N P), Maine
S02261919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
S02261919 US Congress opens Grand Canyon National Park
S02261923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge
S02261924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
S02261926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
S02261928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1091 Spiraea
S02261930 "The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
S02261935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
S02261935 NY Yankees release Babe Ruth
S02261938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
S02261938 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1452 Hunnia
S02261940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
S02261941 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declears double KO
S02261941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (Calif)
S02261941 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1632 Siebohme
S02261942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
S02261943 L Oterma discovers asteroid #2841 Puijo
S02261944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
S02261944 Sue Dauser becomes 1st woman captain of US marine
S02261945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
S02261946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
S02261949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
S02261951 22nd admendment to the Constitution is ratified
S02261952 PM Winston Churchill announced that Britain had its own atomic bomb
S02261954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
S02261955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
S02261956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
S02261960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
S02261962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
S02261966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
S02261968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
S02261970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
S02261972 Dam break in WV kills 107
S02261972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
S02261973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
S02261974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
S02261975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
S02261979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
S02261980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
S02261981 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
S02261981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 min total
S02261981 French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
S02261981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3268 De Sanctis
S02261983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
S02261983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
S02261984 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3575 & #3576
S02261984 Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
S02261984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
S02261986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
S02261987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
S02261987 NASA launches GEOS-H
S02261987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
S02261987 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
S02261989 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
S02261990 Moscow begins pulling 73,000 troops out of Czechoslovakia
S02261991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
S02261991 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
S02261992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
S02261998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
S0227 837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
S02271526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
S02271563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
S02271670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
S02271700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
S02271713 French troops bomb Willemstadt Curaçao
S02271801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
S02271803 Great fire in Bombay, India
S02271813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
S02271813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
S02271814 Beethoven's 8th symphony premiers
S02271827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
S02271861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
S02271864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
S02271865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
S02271869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
S02271871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
S02271874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
S02271877 US Electorial College declares R Hayes winner presidential election
S02271883 1st cigar-rolling machine patented by THE Oscar Hammerstein
S02271883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
S02271890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
S02271900 Boerengen Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
S02271900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
S02271906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
S02271912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoem-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
S02271919 1st public performance of Holst's "The Planets"
S02271919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed, NYC
S02271922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
S02271924 Belgian's Theunis cabinet falls
S02271925 Hitler's forms NSDAP political party in Munich
S02271927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
S02271930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
S02271930 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1665 Gaby
S02271932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
S02271933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2248 Kanda
S02271933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists
S02271938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
S02271939 Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes
S02271942 -Feb 28th; battle in Java Sea (Cruisers Java & De Ruyter sink)
S02271942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
S02271942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
S02271947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
S02271949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president
S02271951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms
S02271951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1649 Fabre
S02271957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
S02271957 Premier of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X":
S02271957C"The Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC
S02271959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
S02271959CBoston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists
S02271959CBoston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers
S02271967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
S02271967 Dominica gains independence from England
S02271967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
S02271969 Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria
S02271970 NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
S02271972 Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
S02271973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
S02271973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
S02271973 Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
S02271973 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids 1999 Hirayama, 2407, 2472, 2541 & 2901
S02271975 House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
S02271976 P Wild discovers asteroids #2080 Jihlava, #2081 Sazava & #2088 Sahlia
S02271976 R M West discovers asteroid #3004
S02271977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
S02271980 Grammy Awards feature a Barbra Striesand-Neil Diamond duet
S02271980 Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
S02271981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
S02271981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
S02271982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
S02271982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
S02271982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
S02271983 Eamonn Coghlan set mile record of 3:49.78
S02271984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
S02271985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
S02271985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
S02271985 US dollar is worth ƒ39355 (Netherland)
S02271987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
S02271987 NCAA cancells SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross
S02271987Cviolations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
S02271988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speedskating in record 39.1
S02271988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
S02271988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
S02271991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
S02271991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
S02271991 US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
S02271994 17th Olympic Winter games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
S02281066 Westminster Abbey opens
S02281610 Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
S02281638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
S02281692 Salem witch hunt begins
S02281704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
S02281704 Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
S02281708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
S02281749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
S02281778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
S02281794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
S02281810 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
S02281819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
S02281826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
S02281827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
S02281835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
S02281847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
S02281849 1st boatload of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
S02281854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
S02281859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
S02281861 Territory of Colorado created
S02281862 The opera "La Reine de Saba" is produced (Paris)
S02281871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
S02281878 J Palisa discovers asteroid #184 Dejopeja
S02281878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
S02281879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
S02281879 J Coggia discovers asteroid #193 Ambrosia
S02281882 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard
S02281883 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
S02281888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
S02281893 Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
S02281906 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Queen's Univ (Kingston Ont) for Stanley Cup
S02281908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
S02281911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #710 Gertrud
S02281913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
S02281914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
S02281917 AP reports México & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
S02281917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
S02281922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
S02281922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
S02281923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
S02281924 US begins intervention in Honduras
S02281925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
S02281925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
S02281929 Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
S02281931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
S02281932 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1310 Villigera
S02281932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1724 Vladimir
S02281940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's MSG)
S02281940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
S02281940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
S02281942 1st weapon drop on Netherland
S02281942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
S02281942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
S02281943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
S02281951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
S02281952 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1629 Pecker & #1630 Milet
S02281956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
S02281957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
S02281959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
S02281959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
S02281960 US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
S02281960CWinter Olympics at Squaw Valley Calif closes
S02281962 WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
S02281966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
S02281967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
S02281968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
S02281968 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1793 Zoya
S02281970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
S02281970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
S02281970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
S02281971 Jack Nicklaus completes his 2nd golf grand slam
S02281971 WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, KY (IND) begins broadcasting
S02281972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
S02281973 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #3407 & #3627
S02281974 US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
S02281975 41 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
S02281976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
S02281976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
S02281979 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2612 Kathryn
S02281979 P Wild discovers asteroid #2521
S02281980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premiers (takes 4 h 12 m)
S02281981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
S02281981 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2958
S02281981 S J Bus discovers asteroids #2780 Monnig, #3287, #3307 & #3602
S02281982 AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
S02281982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
S02281982 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #3288 Seleucus
S02281983 Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
S02281986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they
S02281986Cadmitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
S02281988 Pat Verbeek beomces 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
S02281989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
S02281990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
S02281991 Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
S02281991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a sieze fire
S0229 468 St Hilary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
S02291504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
S02291692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
S02291704 French & Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100
S02291784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
S02291796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
S02291836 Rossini's opera "Les Huguenots" premiers in Paris
S02291848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
S02291856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
S02291880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
S02291880 J Palisa discovers asteroid #214 Aschera
S02291892 Britian & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
S02291904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
S02291936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
S02291940 Frederic from G & S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
S02291940C"Gone with the Wind," wins 8 Oscars
S02291940CHattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
S02291944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
S02291952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title
S02291956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
S02291956 Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
S02291960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
S02291960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
S02291960 JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
S02291960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
S02291964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m
S02291964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
S02291964 NC high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
S02291968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
S02291968 Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
S02291968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports
S02291972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year
S02291972CJack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust
S02291972Ccharges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
S02291976 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2105 Gudy
S02291980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
S02291980 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England
S02291984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
S02291988 KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
S02291988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
S02291988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations
S02291992 The Professional Spring Football League begins
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