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Birthdays
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Deaths
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- 1901 Actor Clark Gable
- 1937 Singer Don Everly
- 1968 Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley)
- 1902 Langston Hughes
- James Joyce
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- 0525 Saint Brigid
- 1328 King Charles IV of France
- 1502 - Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor
- 1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am,"
stops thinking
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- 1208 James I of Aragon
- 1905 Ayn Rand
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- 1594 Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina - composer
- 1907 Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
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- 1809 Composer Felix Mendelssohn
- 1894 Artist Norman Rockwell
- 1907 Writer James A. Michener
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- 1468 Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer
- 1924 US President
Woodrow Wilson
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- 1902 Aviator Charles Lindbergh
- 1921 Betty Friedan
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- 1971 - British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
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5 |
1914 William Burroughs
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- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, in London at 85
- 1972 - Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
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6 |
- 1564 Poet Christopher Marlowe
- 1895 Babe Ruth
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- 1497 Jean d' Ockeghem, composer
- 1515 Aldus Manutius the Elder (Manutius was a leading typographer, printer,
publisher and author whose work was significant in making printed books
more affordable, more popular, and more easily-accepted by the upper
classes.The Aldine family possibly printed as many as a thousand editions
during the sixteenth century and was doubtless one of the most important
forces in the history of printing and typography.)
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- 1477 Saint Thomas More
- 1867 Laura Ingalls Wilde
- 1812 Charles Dickens
- 1885 Sinclair Lewis
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1823 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies
at 58
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- 1291 King Afonso IV - Afonso the Brave, King of Portugal
- 1828 Jules Verne
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- 1957 - John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53
- 1587 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44
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- 1893 - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
- 1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
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- 1881 - Feodor M Dostoevski (Crime & Punishment),
dies at 5
- 1977 - Gaus, an orangutan who lived to be 59
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1890 Boris Pasternak |
- 1837 - Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
- 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on Praries),
dies at 90
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11 |
- 1466 Elizabeth of York (later Queen of England)
- 1847 Thomas Edison
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- 1962 Poet Sylvia Plath committed suicide
- 1986 Frank Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
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- 1809 Charles Darwin
- 1809 Abraham Lincoln
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- 1554 - Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17
- 1942 - Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
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- 1903 Georges Simenon
- 1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford
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- 1542 - Catharine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
- 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer
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1894 Jack Benny
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- 1546 Martin Luther
- 1400 - Richard II, king of England, murdered at 33
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1564 Praetorius, Michael (or 1571 depending on who you ask)
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- 1857 Michael (Mikhael) Glinka, composer
- 1961 - Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena
707 crash
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Feb 16 LeVar Burton - Lt. Comdr. Geordi LaForge
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1987 Dmitri Kabalevsky, composer |
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1963 Michael Jordan, basketball player |
- 1600 - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake
- 1856 - Heinrich Heine, German poet
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- 1922: Helen Gurley Brown
- 1934: Audré Lorde
- 1931: Toni Morrison
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- 1455 - Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter
- 1546 - Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer
- 1967 - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb
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1473 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
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- 1568 - Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible)
- 1997 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish),
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20 |
- 1902Adams, Ansel
- 1924 Poitier, Sidney
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- 1626 - John Dowland, composer
- 1895 - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave,
anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
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- 1903: Anaïs Nin
- 1927: Erma Bombeck
- 1936: Barbara Jordan
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- 1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany)
- 1677 - [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44
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- 1732 1st US President George Washington
- 1925 Edward Gorey
- 1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 1778 Artist Rembrandt Peale
- 1810 Composer Frederic-Francois Chopin
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- 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer
- 1875 - Charles Lyell, British geologist
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- 1939 Actor, director Peter Fonda
- 1868 W.E. B. Du Bois, 1868
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- 1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter
- 1821 - John Keats, Romantic poet, of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
- 1995 - James Herriot, Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small)
- 1968 - Edna Ferber, US author (Giant, Showboat)
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1947 Actor Edward James Olmos |
- 1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer
- 1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor
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- 1841 Artist Pierre Renoir
- 1873 Opera tenor Enrico Caruso
- 1909 Comedian Zeppo (Herbert) Marx
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- 777 Saint Walburga (patroness of sailors)
- 1547 Vittoria Colonna - poet and friend of Michelangelo
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- 1802 Author Victor Hugo
- 1928-Fats Domino
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- 1561 Jorge de Montemayor (This Portuguese-born musician and author
wrote the first Spanish pastoral novel: Los siete libros de la Diana
(The Seven Books of the Diana).)
- 1994 - Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi)
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- 1807 Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 1902 Writer John Steinbeck
- 1913 Novelist Irwin Shaw
- 1934 Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader
- 1807 HenryWadsworth Longfellow
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- 1887 - Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer
- 1936 - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904)
- 1989 - Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973)
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- 1915 Actor Zero (Samuel) Mostel
- 1940 Race Car Driver Mario Andretti
- 1533 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (Montaigne's Essais (Essays),
in which he examined a variety of subjects with wit and skepticism, gave
the
word "essay" its modern meaning and created it as a literary
genre.)
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- 1784 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess
- 1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse
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- 1736 Founder of Shakerism Ann Lee
- 1792 Opera Composer Gioacchino Rossini
- 1904 Bandleader Jimmy Dorsey
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- 1852 - John Landseer, printer/engraver
- 0468 - Pope Hilarius (St. Hilary), calendar reformer
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Saints
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Events
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Ignatius, bishop (of Antioch), martyr
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World Wetlands Day Celebrations
Super Bowl XXXVIII Reliant Stadium Houston, Texas
National Potato Day (England)
Imbolc - The Return of Light (Northern hemisphere)
1788 Steamboat patented by Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet.
1862 Battle Hymn of the Republic first
published in Atlantic Monthly Magazine.
1898 The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford,
CT issued the first automobile insurance policy
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Purification of the Virgin (Candlemass) |
Ground Hog Day (US)
Duck-Billed Platypus Day
Forty Shilling Day, Wotton, near Dorking, Surrey
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| 3 |
St. Blase -- Bishop & Martyr. Patron of those with Throat Diseases
St. Ansgar -- Bishop. Patron of Scandinavia
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Blessing the Throats, St Ethelreda, London
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St Veronica - Virgin
Gilbert, abbot, confessor
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1194 King Richard I of England freed
Thank a Mailman Day |
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Agatha, virgin, martyr Patroness of Nurses
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1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
1922 - Reader's Digest
magazine 1st published
1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms
1967 - "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres
on CBS
1971 - Moonwalk by Alan B. Shepherd, Jr. Edgar D. Mitchell
1816 - Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres
in Rome
1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
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UNICEF Day for Change
Amitabha Buddha Day (Tibet)
Compliments Day |
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Richard, king, confessor
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Grenada celebrates its 30th Anniversary of Independence in 2004. |
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Sunday of Prodigal Son |
1693 Charter granted to found William and Mary college |
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St. Apollonia -- Virgin & Martyr, Patroness of Dentists
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1825 The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams president
since no candidate received a majority of electorial votes.
1861 Jeff Davis elected
President of the Confederate States of America.
1870 US Weather Bureau is established.
Clean Out Your Computer Day
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Scholastica, virgin
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1840: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert |
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Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes
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1862 - Secretary of the Navy directs formation of organization to evaluate
new inventions and technical development which eventually led to National
Academy
of Science (US).
Inventors Day |
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1999 Impeachment trial: Clinton acquitted by Senate
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government
employees
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb. |
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Martinianus, hermit (at Athens)
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1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets first heart and liver transplant.
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times—1286
words.
1974 Dissident Nobel writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn expelled from
USSR.
1920: League of Women Voters formed
Get a Different Name Day |
| 14 |
Valentine |
1989: Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah
Khomeini issues a death threat against British author Salman Rushdie
and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses. |
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1113 Knights Hospitaller formally named
and recognized
Susan B. Anthony Day
Daytona 500 |
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1898 - U.S. battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor.
Presidents' Day (US holiday on third Monday of February)
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Finnian, monk
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1864 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic
Random Acts of Kindness Day |
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Simeon, bishop
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Spenta Armaiti (Zoroastrian)
Parentalia and Feralia end (Roman)
Festival of Women as Cultivators (Persian)
Feast of Hsi Wang Mu (Chinese) |
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St. Conrad of Piacenza - - Hermit
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Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone Day (Mannasas, VA, USA)
1945 US Marines land on Iwo Jima.
House cleaning according to Tibetan
custom
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Adelaide Fringe Festival starts today (Australia)
1962 - John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth.
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King Harald's birthday (Norway holiday)
Al-Hijra (Islamic new year)
21st - 28th National Pubs Week (England)
Love Your Pet Day |
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1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain.
Chinese New Year ( Year
of the Monkey)
St. Lucia’s Day (Italian)
Parsley Day
Cheesefare Sunday
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| 23 |
St. Polycarp - - Bishop & Martyr
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Day of Fatherland Defenders (St. Petersburg, Russia) (Women traditionally
give men small gifts on this day.) |
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John the Baptist (Invention of his head)
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Mardi
Gras
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day (UK) |
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St. Tarasius - - Bishop
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Ash Wednesday |
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St. Porphyrius - - Bishop
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1919 The Grand Canyon established
as a National Park by the US Congress. |
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Adelaide Festival of Arts begins today (Australia) |
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1983 M*A*S*H aired its final episode with an estimated 125 million
viewers.
1993 US Federal agents had a showdown against
David Koresh's armed religious cult in Waco, Texas. |
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St. Oswald - - Bishop
Matthew, apostle
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1860 The electric tabulating machine invented by Herman Hollerith.
Leap Day |
