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Bob Maar
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posted 02-02-2006 09:27 AM
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February 2..
On this day in history ..
1753 - Candlemas
1848 - 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF Mexico sells US; Texas - California - New Mexico & Az for $15 million
1876 - National Baseball League formed with 8 teams
1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef
1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court - Portage Wi
1962 - 8 of the 9 planets aligned for 1st time in 400 years
1981 - Late Night with David Letterman premiers
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1754 - Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat
1859 - Havelock Ellis, American physician & sex researcher
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian virtuoso violinist & composer
1882 - James Joyce, Irish novelist & poet (Dubliners & Ulysses)
1895 - George S. Halas (Papa Bear), end & coach for Chicago Bears
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, violin virtuoso
1920 - Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories
1923 - James Dickey, writer
1926 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of France (1974-81)
1928 - Elaine Stritch, actress
1937 - Martina Arroyo, Opera singer
1937 - Tom Smothers, comedian
1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of Richard Milhaus (or 0221)
1947 - Farrah Fawcett-Major, in Texas--Charlie's Angels
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posted 02-02-2006 08:45 PM
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On February 3 in history ..
1809 - Territory of Illinois organized
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11 -920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service
1945 - Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released
1945 - Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan
1964 - Meet the Beatles goes Gold
1966 - Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched
Famous birthdays on February 3 ..
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer
1811 - Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west)
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C) & British P.M. (1885-1902)
1842 - Sidney Lanier, poet
1874 - Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway
1894 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
1907 - James A. Mitchner, U.S. writer (South Pacific & Hawaii & Space)
1918 - Joey Bishop, comedian
1926 - Shelley Berman, comedian
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, in Canton Ohio
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1943 - Blythe Danner, in Philadelphia
1944 - Bridget Handley, in Budapest
1947 - Melanie (Safka), singer & songwriter
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, in Dallas Texas
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posted 02-02-2006 08:49 PM
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On February 4 in history ..
1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax
1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Famous birthdays on February 4 ..
1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics
1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
1918 - Ida Lupino, actress
1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique)
1923 - Conrad Bain, actor
1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president
1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks
1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension
1948 - Alice Cooper, singer
1950 - Pamela Franklin,
1952 - Lisa Eichhorn,
1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
1960 - Pamela Ferdin,
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posted 02-05-2006 07:27 AM
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February 5..
On this day in history ..
1663 - Earthquake in Canada
1887 - Snow falls on SF
1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
1906 - John Carradine, actor
1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright
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posted 02-06-2006 08:14 AM
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February 6...
On this day in history ..
1693 - College of William & Mary chartered in Williamsburg - Va
1788 - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between European & Natives of N Zealand
1900 - Spanish-American War ends
1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1922 - US - UK - France - Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations
1952 - Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain
1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one
1974 - 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1977 - 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unifier of Japan
1665 - Queen Anne of England, (1702-14)
1756 - Aaron Burr, (D-R) 3rd US VP (1801-05) & dueler
1885 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, baseball great
1902 - Louis Nizer, lawyer & author
1911 - Ronald Reagan, (R) actor & 40th US pres (1981-89)
1919 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Budapest
1931 - Rip Torn, actor
1932 - Francois Truffaut, French director (Jules & Jim & Fahrenheit 451)
1933 - Mamie Van Doren, in Rowena SD
1940 - Tom Brokaw, newscaster (NBC)
1943 - Fabian, singer
1945 - Bob Marley, reggae musician
1948 - Barbara Hancock, in Atlanta
1950 - Natalie Cole, in Los Angeles
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posted 02-07-2006 08:30 AM
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February 7
On this day in history ..
1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
1905 - Dominican Rep. signs treaty turning over customs collection to U.S
1914 - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium
1940 - Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1973 - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in USSR
1977 - Soyuz 24 launched
1984 - Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
1986 - Haitians overthrow dictator - "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1478 - Sir Thomas More, lawyer & lord chancellor of England & saint
1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist & Tale of Two Cities)
1817 - Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
1824 - William Higgins, discoverer of nature of spiral "nebulae,"
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist
1877 - Godfrey H. Hardy, English number theorist
1883 - Eubie Blake, composer (I'm Just Wild About Harry & Memories of You)
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist & social critic (Main Street) (Nobel 1930)
1905 - Ulf Svante von Euler, Swedish physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1908 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer & actor (Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers)
1920 - Eddie Bracken, actor
1932 - Alfred M. Worden, U.S. astronaut (Apollo 15)
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posted 02-07-2006 09:44 PM
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On February 8 in history ..
1587 - Mary - Queen of Scots beheaded
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1693 - Charter granted for College of William & Mary - 2nd college in US
1861 - Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery - Ala
1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen
1910 - Boy Scouts of America founded
1911 - US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila - president of Honduras
1922 - Radio arrives in the White House
1926 - Walt Disney Studios formed
1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1969 - Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua - Mexico
1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
1977 - Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966
1984 - Soyuz T-10 is launched
Famous birthdays on February 8 ..
1612 - Samuel Butler, English poet & satirist (Hudibras)
1819 - John Ruskin, writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
1828 - Jules Verne, in France--pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1885 - Dame Edith Evans,
1906 - Chester F Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, in Seattle Washington & the stripper
1920 - Lana Turner, actress in Wallace Idaho
1925 - Jack Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses & Missing)
1931 - James Dean, stage & film actor (Giant & Rebel Without a Cause)
1940 - Ted Koppel, newscaster (ABC)
1949 - Brook Adams, actress
1968 - Gary Coleman, actor
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posted 02-09-2006 07:20 AM
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February 9..
On this day in history ..
1811 - Nevill Maskelyne - 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
1877 - US Weather Service is founded
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud.
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa
1943 - Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal - ending epic battle
1953 - Superman TV series premiers
1964 - 1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
1969 - Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun)
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4 1841)
1866 - George Ade, American journalist & playwright & humorist
1874 - Amy Lowell, American critic & Imagist poet (Patterns)
1909 - Dean Rusk, former Sec of State
1914 - Bill Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Carmen Miranda, singer
1914 - Ernest Tubb, singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (The Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson,
1928 - Roger Mudd, newscaster
1942 - Carole King, in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry
1945 - Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) LA
1950 - Andrew N. Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Judith Light, in Trenton NJ - Who's the Boss
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posted 02-10-2006 07:41 AM
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February 10...
On this day in history ..
1720 - Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time)
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
1942 - Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1775 - Charles Lamb, English critic & poet & essayist
1868 - William Allen White, editor
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist & poet (Dr. Zhivago) (Nobel 1958)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, comedian
1893 - William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player
1894 - Harold Macmillan, (C) British Prime Minister (1957-63)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (Mother Courage)
1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian educator & aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1914 - Larry Adler, actor
1922 - Harold Hughes, ex-Governor of New Jersey
1922 - Neva Patterson,
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Italian basso
1927 - Leontyne Price, operatic soprano
1930 - Robert Wagner, actor (Hart to Hart)
1939 - Singer Roberta Flack, in North Carolina
1944 - Peter Allen, singer
1950 - Mark Spitz, U.S. Olympic swimmer
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posted 02-12-2006 07:46 AM
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On February 11 in history ..
0660 - Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1650 - Rene Descartes - "I think therefore I am" - dies
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1868 - Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies
1929 - Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint - Mich. ends
1958 - 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his show
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin
1984 - Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth
Famous birthdays on February 11 ..
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court
1839 - J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist & A-bomb worker & peace activist
1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand prime minister (1960-72)
1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer & director
1909 - Max Baer, boxer
1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest & actress (Green Acres)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen ,(D) U.S. senator from Texas
1925 - Dr Virginia E. Johnson, sexologist (of Masters & Johnson)
1925 - Kim Stanley, actress in New Mexico
1934 - Mary Quant, in England
1934 - Tina Louise, NYC & actress (Gilligan's Island)
1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor (Deliverance & The End & Smokey & the Bandit)
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz musician (Brazil 66 & 77 & 88)
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posted 02-12-2006 07:48 AM
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On February 12 in history ..
1541 - Santiago - Chile founded
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC
1924 - Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporated
1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference
1947 - A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1980 - 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau
Famous birthdays on February 12 ..
1746 - Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot
1775 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
1809 - Abraham Lincoln ,(R) 16th U.S. president (1861-65)
1809 - Charles Darwin, Evolutionist--Shrewsbury England
1880 - John L. Lewis, leader of United Mine Workers of America
1893 - General of Army Omar Bradley, 'GI General'
1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) in Canada
1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor
1923 - Franco Zefferelli, motion picture director
1926 - Joe Garagiola, baseball player & announcer
1934 - Bill Russell, basketball player & coach
1936 - Joe Don Baker, actor
1938 - Judy Blume, author
1945 - Maud Adams, actress in Sweden
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posted 02-13-2006 06:47 AM
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On this day February 13 in history ..
1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1741 - 1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
1867 - Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
1937 - Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1937 - Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
1945 - Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
1960 - France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Flyers
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1542 - Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII
1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venetian painter
1764 - Talleyrand, in France--statesman
1805 - D Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had intl effects
1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer & law codifier
1805 - Peter Dirichlet, German number theorist & analysist
1849 - Randolph Churchill, English politician & father of William
1885 - Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman
1886 - Ricardo Giraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
1892 - Grant Wood, painted American Gothic
1901 - Henry R. Maar M.D. Father of Bob
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian mystery writer (The Snow Was Black)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer
1920 - Eileen Farrell, in Willimantic Conn
1931 - Dorothy McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, fashion designer
1936 - George Segal, actor & banjo player
1937 - Sigmund Jhn, 1st German space traveler (on board Soyuz 31)
1939 - Valeri I. Rozhdestvensky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Carol Lynley, actress born in NYC
1944 - Stockard Channing, in New York
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posted 02-14-2006 08:46 AM
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February 14..
On this day in history ..
1753 - Valentine's Day
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd State
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state
1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1921 - Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed
1950 - Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies
1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
1961 - Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California
1962 - Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
1972 - John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
1972 - USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns
1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
Famous birthdays for this day ..
1766 - Thomas Malthus, population expert
1856 - Frank Harris, English journalist & writer (My Life & Loves)
1859 - George Washington Ferris, engineer invented Ferris Wheel
1894 - Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny Oh Rochester!
1912 - Edmund George Love, American teacher & historian & author
1913 - James Pike, bishop
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared
1913 - Mel Allen, voice of the Yankees
1931 - Phyllis McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters
1934 - Florence Henderson, in Indiana -- keeps Brady Bunch in line
1944 - Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter (Watergate)
1947 - Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37)
1949 - Ewa Aulin,
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posted 02-14-2006 02:42 PM
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On February 17 in history ..
1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine
1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)
Famous birthdays on February 17 ..
1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
1774 - Raphael Peale, American painter
1781 - Ren-Thophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope
1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business
1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher
1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM
1888 - Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
1902 - Marian Anderson, operatic contralto
1908 - Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer
1924 - Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S
1925 - Hal Holbrook, actor
1929 - Chaim Potok, novelist
1934 - Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek)
1936 - Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)
1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1945 - Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place
1947 - Dodie Stevens,
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On February 18 in history ..
Famous birthdays on February 18 ..
1516 - Queen Mary I, (Bloody Mary) (1553-58) -- 1st reigning queen of GB
1745 - Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta, Count--invented battery
1795 - George Peabody, American merchant & philanthropist
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
1859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain)
1892 - Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
1894 - Andres Segovia, guitarist
1909 - Wallace Stegner, novelist & critic
1920 - Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host
1920 - Jack Palance, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not)
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, author & publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me
1926 - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers)
1933 - Kim Novak, in Chicago Illinois
1933 - Mary Ure,
1933 - Yoko Ono, aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan
1950 - Cybill Shepherd, in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting)
1954 - John Travolta, actor (Saturday Night Fever)
1957 - Vanna White, in SC--Wheel of Fortune's hostess
1968 - Molly Ringwald, in Los Angeles California -- Pretty in Pink
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