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- !February events - Version 9.06\=
- B02011810 Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black
- B02021928 Elaine Stritch, actress (Company, Providence, September) [1926]\-
- B02031956 Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
- B020519-- David Selby, actor (Falcon Crest) [1941]\-
- B02071817 Frederick Douglass, Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US govt\=
- B02071949 Alan Lancaster, rocker (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level) [dup]\-
- B02071949 Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)\=
- B020819-- Alice Kramden, fictional character of the Honeymooners
- B02081952 Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
- B02101937 Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)\=
- B02101937 Don Wilson, rocker (Ventures-Batman Theme) [dup]\-
- B021219-- Sigrid Thornton, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)\-
- B02121959 Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
- B02141760 Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church\=
- B02141960 Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)\=
- B02151925 Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (California Gold Rush) [1923]\-
- B02151953 Joanna Kerns, SF Calif, actress (Maggie Seaver-Growing Pains) [2/12]\-
- B02171953 Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
- B022319-- Woody Harrelson, Midland Texas, actor (Cheers)[July 23 1961]\-
- B02241947 Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
- B022519-- Sean Astin, actor (Goonies, Like Father Like Son) [1971]\-
- B02251929 Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)\=
- B02251936 Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires, actress (Cry Tough, High Chapparal)\-
- B02251939 Tommy Newsom, Portsmouth Va, orch leader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)\-
- B02251957 Stuart "Woody" Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
- B022619-- Jonathan Ward, actor (Charles in Charge [2/24/70]\-
- B022619-- Michael Bolton, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)\=
- B02261928 Antione "Fats" Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)\=
- B02261943 Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
- B02261950 Jonathan Cain, keyboardist (Journey-Don't Stop Believing)
- B02271948 Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
- B02271954 Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)\=
- B02271957 Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
- B02271960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)\=
- B022819-- Frank Bonner, actor (WKRP in Cincinatti, Just the 10 of Us) [1948]\-
- B022819-- Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want) [1955]\-
- B02281940 Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
- B02281942 Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist (Games People Play)\-
- B02281945 Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)\=
- B02281955 Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
- B02281957 Cindy Wilson, vocals/percussion (B-52's-Love Shack, Rock Lobster)\=
- B02291712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Vèran, France, general\-
- C02011992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)\-
- D02091906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
- D02111971 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
- D02131882 Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia
- D02151965 Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 65\=
- D02201936 John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
- D02211965 Malcolm X, black muslim leader, assassinated at 39 in NYC\=
- D02231915 Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
- 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
- D02261870 Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
- D02261965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
- D02281977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71\=
- I021519992[Christian] Shrove Monday
- S02011810 US Population: 7,239,881. Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
- S02011810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
- S02011871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an offical speech in
- S02011871CHouse of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
- S02011960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth\=
- S02011965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
- S02011967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
- S02011970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
- S02011992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
- S02021948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
- S02031956 Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
- S02031959 American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
- S02031964 Black & Puerto Rican students boycot NYC public schools
- S02031992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"
- S02041783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000. (Calabria, Italy)
- S02041966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
- S02041971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
- S02041971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
- S02051958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
- S02051962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racical segregated" schools, filed
- S02061820 US population announced at 9,638,453. (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
- S02061951 "Broker Special" train crashs in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
- S02061961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
- S02071812 Last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16) strikes New Madrid, Missouri
- S02071872 Alcorn A & M College opens
- S02071904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 builings destroyed in 80 blocks)
- S02071946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
- S02071962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
- S02081923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
- S02081925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
- S02081965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
- S02081968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
- S02091971 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 26 & causes over $½B damage
- S02101868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
- S02101964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
- S02101970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel
- S02101970Ckilling 40 Belgian, French, & German youths. (Val d'Isere, France)
- S02101973 World's largest storage tank explodes (Staten Island NY), crushing 40
- S02111961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
- S02111976 Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
- S02121865 Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps\=
- S02121948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
- S02121962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
- S02131349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Swizerland
- S02131957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
- S02141867 Morehouse College organizes in Augusta, Georgia
- S02141936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
- S02151848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
- S02151851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
- S02151961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash\=
- S02151970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
- S02161951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
- S02171926 75 buried in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah avalanche, 40 die
- S02191919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois
- S02201869 Tenn Gov WC Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
- S02201943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch. (México)
- S02201947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42² blocks in LA
- S02201968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
- S02211895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
- S02211971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
- S02221898 Black postmater lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
- S02231852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
- S02231869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
- S02231895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
- S02231965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
- S02231979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
- S02241868 House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson\=
- S02241970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
- S02251839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West
- S02251870 Hiram Revels, Ms, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen)\=
- S02251988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
- S02261869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
- S02261870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)\=
- S02261930 "The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
- S02261946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
- S02261951 22nd admendment to the Constitution is ratified
- S02261972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
- S02261984 Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
- S02261984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
- S02261991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
- S02271869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
- S02281704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
- S02281708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
- S02281778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
- S02281859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
- S02281871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
- S02281879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
- S02281940 US population at 131,669,275. (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
- S02281940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
- S02281942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
- S02281943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
- S02291960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
- S02291968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports
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- B02191948 Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)\=