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Author Topic: On This Date in History Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-19-2006 08:36 PM                        Rated G On this day in history .. 0197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon 0356 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 0607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia 1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike 1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czechoslovakia), expelled 1574 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Netherlands 1582 Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant 1619 Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague 1634 Battle at Smolensk Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1674 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English) 1700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark 1736 George Frideric Händel's "Alexander's Feast" premieres 1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France 1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 1807 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles 1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1825 Franz Grillparzer's "König Ottokars Glück" premieres in Vienna 1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania 1846 Texas state government formally installed in Austin 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH 1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington DC (12 members) 1869 US Assay Office in Boise ID authorized 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents the gramophone (phonograph) 1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal 1906 W K Kellogg & Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI 1910 English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" 1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box 1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin 1915 British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris) 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations 1922 Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer 1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres 1923 Philip Barry's "You & I" premieres in New York NY 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal 1928 2nd Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland 1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady NY 1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1933 Prussian minister Göring bans all Catholic newspapers 1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry 1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months 1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in New York NY 1936 Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1941 Nazis raid Koco Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1942 New York Yankees announce 5,000 uniformed soldiers will be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin 1942 Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champion 1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber 1942 Japanese troop land on Timor 1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" 1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland 1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days 1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated 1945 US 5th Fleet (30,000 US Marines) launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese 1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League 1947 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3" 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1949 Mass arrests of communists in India 1952 French offensive at Hanoi 1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board 1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet 1953 William Inge's "Picnic" premieres in New York NY 1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect 1956 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico 1959 Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts 1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" 1961 Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize 1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US 1965 NFL adds 6th official 1967 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater 1968 1st US Teachers strike (Florida) 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for book-making 1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK 1971 Walt Wesley becomes the 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 points in a game 1972 Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223 vs West Indies at Kingston 1974 1st American Music Award 1976 Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara 1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner 1977 19th Grammy Awards This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band 1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 vs New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released 1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1978 "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 performances 1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.8) 1978 Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in New York NY 1980 Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 meter in 1 15.18 1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" 1982 Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 1982 Hanneke Jelgersma (Jagersma?) installed as Netherlands' 1st Communist mayor 1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 meter freestyle swimming record 1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million 1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at the Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1984 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances 1984 14th winter Olympics games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain 1985 ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy 1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola 1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China 1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville KY 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1986 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO 1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson 1987 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances 1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner 1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires 1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland 1988 Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 meter (1:32.55) 1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances 1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1990 Soyuz TM-9 lands 1992 Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You" premieres at the Shubert Theater in New York NY for 1622 performances 1992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie 1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA 1994 Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV 1995 Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200 meter (22.10 seconds) 1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize 1995 Linford Christie runs European record 60 meter indoor (6.47 seconds) 1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds) 1995 Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake" premieres 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM 1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls 1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands 1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan Famous birthdays for this day .. 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer in Torun - Poland 1717 - David Garrick, actor & producer & writer 1833 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss writer & pacifist (Nobel 1902) 1843 - Adelina Patti, Spanish operatic coloratura 1859 - Svante August Arhenius, founder of physical chemistry (Nobel 1903) 1865 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer of Tibet & scientist 1889 - Jos‚ Eustasio Rivera, Colombian poet & novelist (The Vortex) 1911 - Merle Oberon, in Tasmania 1912 - Stan Kenton, band leader 1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey 1924 - Lee Marvin, actor 1932 - Joseph P. Kerwin, U.S. astronaut (Skylab 2) 1940 - Smokey Robinson, singer 1955 - Margaux Hemingway, in Portland Oregon 1960 - Prince Andrew, of Britain 1966 - Justine Bateman, in Rye NY - Family Ties  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-19-2006 08:37 PM                        Rated G On February 20 in history .. 1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert François I's army 1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII 1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies 1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth 1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London) 1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands 1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty 1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna 1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania) 1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance 1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state 1811 Austria declares bankruptcy 1816 Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome 1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole 1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow 1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean 1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake 1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia 1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore 1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die 1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms 1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm 1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida 1865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school 1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis 1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags 1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (New York NY) 1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine 1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School (University of California/San Francisco) 1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY 1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes 1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) 1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance 1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire 1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO 1899 Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system 1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes 1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco 1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge 1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture 1915 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco 1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die 1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!" premieres in New York NY 1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt 1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran 1922 WOR-AM in New York City NY begins radio transmissions 1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies" premieres in New York NY 1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1923 Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves 1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US 1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field 1930 Capelle soccer team forms 1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge 1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China 1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition 1933 Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana's speech 1933 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn" premieres in New York NY 1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York NY 1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica 1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA 1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany 1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues" 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation 1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland 1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands 1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers 1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México) 1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia 1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League 1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers 1944 US takes Eniwetok Island 1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA 1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India 1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns 1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS) 1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour 1950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC 1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) 1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York NY 1953 August A Busch buys the Cardinals for $3.75 million 1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia 1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match 1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner 1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility 1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7) 1963 Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract 1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson 1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot" 1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data 1965 Turkish government of Uergüplü forms 1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR 1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M 1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth 1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season 1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda 1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109) 1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater 1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee 1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins 1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA 1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono 1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1977 "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus 1978 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope 1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion 1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances 1980 Actress Susan Dey of "LA Law" weds producer Bernard Sofronski 1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds 1981 James Sanford equals 50 meter indoor world record (5.61 seconds) 1982 New York Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game 1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) 1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champion cross-country cycling 1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket 1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY 1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America", after 11 years 1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating 1988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0 1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million 1988 André Hoffmann skates world record 1500 meter (1:52.06) 1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds) 1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2) 1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters) 1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players 1989 Total eclipse of the Moon 1991 "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 78 performances 1991 33rd Grammy Awards Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey 1992 "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances 1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands 1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show 1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp 1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31 1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) 1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals 1997 "Stanley" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC 1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9 million 2 year contract 1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal 1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days) Famous birthdays on February 20 .. 1844 - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (statistical mechanics) 1886 - Bela Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Car manufacturer 1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, US sportsman 1902 - Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera 1921 - Joseph A. Walker, X-15 pilot 1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, Don't my jeans look great 1925 - Director Robert Altman, M*A*S*H 1927 - Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess & A Raisin in the Sun) 1931 - Amanda Blake, actress (Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke) 1934 - Bobby Unser, auto racer 1937 - Nancy Wilson, jazz singer in Chillicothe Ohio 1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, folk singer in Maine 1942 - Phil Esposito, NHL player 1946 - Sandy Duncan, in Texas 1949 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress (Summer of '42) in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1954 - Patty Hearst, in San Francisco -- famous kidnap hostage  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-20-2006 09:15 PM                        Rated G Birth datesFebruary 21 1417 Louis IX Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt) 1484 Joachim I Nestor elector (Brandenburg, Constitution) 1556 Sethus Calvisius composer 1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius composer 1684 Justus van Effen writer/founder (Holland Spectator) 1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg composer 1710 Willem van Haren Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life) 1728 Peter III Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine 1730 Charles L Fournier Flemish writer/painter 1744 Eise J Eisinga Frisia, built planetarium Franeker 1776 Vincenzo Lavigna composer 1779 Friedrich C von Savigny German lawyer 1785 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense German officer/author (Die Sterner) 1794 Antonio López de Santa Anna President of México (1833-36) 1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva composer 1800 John Henry Winder Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 1801 John Henry Newman England, cardinal/churchman/author (Dream of Gerontius) 1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer 1802 George Douglas Ramsey Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1882 1805 David Tod US diplomat/(Governor-R-OH, 1861-63) 1814 Nicolo Gabrielli composer 1815 Ernest Meissonier French painter/sculptor 1817 José Zorrilla y Moral Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco) 1821 Charles Scribner US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog) 1829 Johnson Hagood Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 1831 Eduard Rappoldi composer 1836 Léo Delibes Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Coppélia) 1836 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes composer 1836 Emil Hartmann composer 1837 Rosalía de Castro Spanish writer (Canteres Gallegos, Follas Novas) 1844 Charles-Marie Widor Lyons France, composer/professor (Paris Conservatory) 1852 [James] Burner Matthews US playwright/critic (New York Times) 1855 Alice Freeman Palmer educator (Hall of Fame) 1856 Hendrik P Berlage architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam) 1857 Jules de Trooz baron/premier of Belgium (1907) 1861 Pierre Breville composer 1867 Otto Hermann Kahn Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Company 1875 Jeanne Louise Calment France, world's oldest woman (died at 122) 1876 Constantin Brancusi Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X) 1877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius] South African poet/theologist 1878 Fritz Cortolezis composer 1880 Frank Orth Philadelphia PA, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers) 1881 Savilly Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1883 J M M "Mick" Commaille cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer representative) 1885 Sacha Guitry France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat) 1887 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1888 Florence Bates Texas, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio) 1888 Willem Banning Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up) 1889 Felix Aylmer actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan) 1893 Andrés Segovia Linares Spain, classical guitarist 1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter) 1896 Sylvain Poons Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets) 1897 Celia Lovsky Vienna Austria, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek) 1898 Vassily Vainonen Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh) 1900 Madeleine Renaud French actress/theater director (Plaisir) 1900 Sydney Arnold English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son) 1902 Arthur D Nock English/US historian (St Paul) 1902 Bob [Hijman] Scholte Dutch vocalist 1902 John Smallenbroek Dutch minister of Internal Affairs 1903 Anaïs Nin Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense) 1903 Thomas Yawkey baseball owner (Boston Red Sox) 1903 Eric Fogg composer 1903 Madeleine Renaud Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day) 1903 Raymond Queneau [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit) 1904 Armand Preud'homme Flemish organist/poet 1907 Wystan Hugh Auden US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948) 1909 George G F van Renesse Dutch pianist/music director 1909 Hans Erni Switzerland, painter/sculptor 1909 Helen O Dickens [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist 1910 Douglas R S Bader British pilot (WWII) 1912 Arline Judge actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent) 1912 Nikita Magaloff Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert) 1912 Patrick Murphy English multi-millionaire 1913 Glenn M Anderson (Representative-D-CA, 1969- ) 1914 Arnold S Denker New York, US chess champion (1944-46) 1914 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA) 1915 Ann Sheridan Denton TX, actress (Dodge City, Good Sam, Another World) 1915 Godfrey Brown England, 4 X 400 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1936) 1917 Victor G M Marijnen Dutch premier (1963-65) 1922 Murray "the K" Kaufman NYC DJ (5th Beatle) 1922 Uros Krek composer 1923 Zvi Zeitlin Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/professor (Eastman School) 1923 Lola Flores entertainer 1923 Lucille Bremer dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies) 1924 Robert G Mugabe Premier/President of Zimbabwe 1925 Al Fann Cleveland OH, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor) 1925 Jack Ramsay NBA coach 1925 Sam Peckinpah Fresno CA, film director (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) 1926 Hans Andreus [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language) 1927 Erma Bombeck Dayton OH, humorist (The Grass is Always Greener...) 1927 Hubert de Givenchy Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn) 1927 Patricia Benoit Ft Worth TX, actress (As The World Turns, Nancy-Mr Peepers) 1927 Pierre Mercure composer 1930 Elizabeth Adams madame 1931 Larry Hagman TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas) 1932 Harald V King of Norway (1991- ) 1933 Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, singer/pianist ("I Loves You Porgy") 1934 Rue McClanahan Healdton OK, actress (Maude, Golden Girls) 1935 Mark McManus actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night) 1936 Barbara Jordan Houston TX, (Representative-D-TX, 1972-78) 1937 Gary Lockwood Van Nuys CA, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant) 1937 Ron Clarke Australia, runner (held 19 world records) 1938 Beryl F Anthony Jr (Representative-D-CA, 1979- ) 1939 Richard Beymer Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank) 1939 Ron Nagle rock producer (Riding with the King) 1940 Peter McEnery England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners) 1940 John Lewis (Representative-D-GA) 1941 Charlie Shelburne English earl/large landowner 1942 Margarethe Von Trotta Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne) 1943 David Geffen Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffen, Asylum) 1943 Duncan Swift jazz pianist 1943 Roberto Faenza director (Cop Killers, Corrupt) 1944 Kitty Winn Washington DC, actress (Beacon Hill) 1944 Herman de Coninck Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work) 1945 Paul Newton rock bassist 1945 Sudhir Naik cricketer (Indian Test batsman in 2 Tests 1974) 1946 Tricia Nixon Cox Richard Milhaus Nixon's daughter (or 0202) 1946 Tyne Daly Madison WI, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained) 1946 Alan Rickman actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves) 1946 Desmond Lewis West Indies cricket batsman/keeper (average 86.33 in 3 Tests) 1947 Jill Eikenberry actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law) 1947 Olympia J Snowe (Representative-R-ME, 1979- ) 1948 Larry Ragland Richmond VA, comedian (Keep on Truckin') 1949 Jerry Harrison Milwaukee WI, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-And She Was) 1951 John Parker cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70s) 1951 Michael Cotten rock synthesizer (Tubes) 1951 Vince Welnick rock keyboardist (Tubes) 1952 Jean-Jacques Brunel rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime) 1953 Christine Ebersole Park Forest IL, actress (Saturday Night Live, Barbara-Valerie, My Favorite Martian, Tootsie) 1953 William L Petersen actor (Return to Lonesome Dove) 1954 Ivo van Damme Belgium, 800/1500 meter dash (Olympics-silver-1976) 1956 Woody Brown Dayton OH, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life, Flamingo Road, Dominion) 1958 Jack Coleman Easton PA, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty) 1958 Jake Steinfeld exercise expert (Body by Jake) 1958 Alan Trammell Garden Grove CA, infielder (Detroit Tigers) 1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter Princeton NJ, country singer (This Shirt, Shooting Straight in the Dark) 1961 Christopher Atkins Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon) 1961 Ranking Roger rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning) 1961 Yobes Ondieki Kenya, 10K runner (world record) 1963 Greg Turner Dunedin New Zealand, Australasia golfer 1963 Michael Gostigian Newtown Square PA, pentathlete (Olympics-16th-88, 92, 96) 1964 Alana Soares Redondo Beach CA, playmate (March 1983) 1964 Mark E Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut 1964 Scott J Kelly Orange NJ, Lieutenant USN/astronaut 1964 Willie Pless CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) 1965 Jayson Meyer Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany) 1965 Keith Arthurton cricketer (Charlestown, Nevis West Indies lefty bat) 1966 Bronwen Booth London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Glory & Honor) 1966 Chris Donnels US baseball infielder (Houston Astros) 1966 Edie Boyer St Paul MN, discus thrower 1966 Tommy Hendricks rocker 1966 Wendy James London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen) 1967 Bas Roorda Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, NEC) 1967 Leroy Russel Burrell Philadelphia PA, long jumper (Olympics-96) 1967 Patrick Lodewijks Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen) 1968 Todd Ferich computer language expert 1968 Pellom McDaniels NFL defensive end (Kansas City Chiefs) 1968 Terry Allen NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins) 1969 Dean Noel CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats) 1969 Petra Kronberger Austrian alpine skier (Olympics-gold-1992) 1970 Javier De La Hoya Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins) 1970 Marc Woodard NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles) 1970 Michael Slater cricketer (devastating Australia opening bat since 1993) 1970 Patrick Pilloni hockey forward (Team Austria 1998) 1970 Will Moore NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars) 1971 Arco Jochemsen Dutch soccer player (SVDB, Vitesse) 1971 Jeff Schmidt US baseball pitcher (California Angels) 1971 Jey Phillips WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals) 1971 Jose Solano actor (Baywatch) 1971 Terry Mickens NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) 1972 Karl DeWolf hockey defenseman (Team France 1998) 1973 Brian Rolston Flint, NHL left wing (Olympics-1994, New Jersey Devils) 1973 Les Gutches Medford OR, 180½ lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympics-1996) 1974 Alexei Lojkin NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98) 1974 Rohsaan Griffin Texas City TX, 200 meter runner 1975 Troy Slaten actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose) 1975 Scott Miller Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96) 1976 Robin Confer soccer forward (Olympics-96) 1976 Ryan Smyth Banff, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers) 1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt Waco TX, actress (Party of Five, Time of Your Life, The Audrey Hepburn Story, I Know What You Did Last Summer) 1986 Amedeo Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz Deaths which occurred on February 21: 0556 Maximianus van Ravenna bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies 1513 Julius II [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Roman Catholic Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 1554 Hieronymus Bock German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1595 Robert Southwell English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1624 Dirck van Baburen Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28 1648 Christian IV king of Denmark/Norway, dies 1653 Adriaen Pauw master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71 1677 [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza philosopher, dies at 44 1684 Pieter van den Abeelen Dutch jeweller, dies at about 75 1689 Isaacus Vossius Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies 1711 Joan van Hoorn Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57 1730 Benedict XIII [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81 1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer, dies at 64 1803 Edward Despard last person drawn & quartered in England 1842 Wojciech Zywny composer, dies at 85 1852 Nikolai Gogol Russian playwright (Dead Souls), dies 1862 Justinus A C Kerner German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 1864 Jeffery Forrest US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1872 Pavel P Gagarin Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82 1876 Henry John Gauntlett composer, dies at 70 1879 Peter P van Bosse Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 1884 John Pike Hullah composer, dies at 71 1894 Gustave Caillebotte French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45 1919 Giovanni Bolzoni composer, dies at 77 1919 Habib Ullah Chan emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 1919 Karl von Hohenzollern Prince of Belgium, dies 1919 Kurt Eisner premier Bayern (socialist), murdered at 51 1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi composer, dies at 78 1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan composer, dies at 52 1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 1938 George Ellery Hale astronomer, dies 1938 Albert Huybrechts composer, dies at 39 1945 Eric Liddell Scottish runner (Olympics-gold 1924), dies at 43 1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond composer, dies at 80 1949 Ernest Walker composer, dies at 78 1951 Anton Roemer Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63 1956 Edwin Franko Goldman composer, dies at 78 1961 Blaise Cendrars [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Switzerland, poet, dies at 73 1965 Malcolm X [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York NY at 39 1968 Anthony Asquith British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 1969 José de Capriles Mexican-born US Olympics fencer, dies 1971 Adolph Weiss composer, dies at 79 1976 Frieda Inescort Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74 1979 Glendon Gibbs cricketer (Test Cricket West Indies vs Australia 1955), dies 1979 Ray Whitley composer, dies 1980 Chester H Lauck actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78 1984 Michail A Sholochov Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies 1985 Louis Hayward actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75 1985 Eric Herfst Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47 1985 Ina Claire actress/comedienne (3 Broadway Girls), dies of stroke at 92 1991 Dame Margot Fonteyn ballerina, dies of cancer at 71 1991 Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 1992 Eva A Jessye US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 1992 Franc Holden British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies 1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving singer, dies at 83 1992 Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85 1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies 1992 William S Magginetti dies at 98 1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin architect, dies at 68 1994 William Elgin Swinton child Psychiatrist, dies at 54 1995 Robert Bolt British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 1996 Horace Leonard Gold science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81 1996 Jean Burroughs educationalist, dies at 67 1996 Morton Gould composer, dies at 82 1996 Terence Edward Armstrong polar geographer, dies at 75 1997 Kenneth Rowntree painter, dies at 81 1997 Michael Hollings catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75 On this day...in History February 21 1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1564 Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comté 1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders 1583 Groningen Netherlands begins using Gregorian calendar 1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar 1613 Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet 1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland 1764 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" 1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag 1782 US congress resolves the establishment of a US mint 1792 Congress passes Presidential Succession Act 1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British 1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales 1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia 1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC 1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell MA 1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces 1857 US issues flying eagle cents 1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US 1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston MA) 1861 Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief 1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico 1862 Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent 1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore MD 1864 Battle at Okolonam MS 1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree 1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication 1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 1878 1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued (New Haven CT) 1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours 1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins 1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington DC) 1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday 1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn) 1895 North Carolina Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass 1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation 1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC 1904 National Ski Association formed, Ishpeming MI 1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead) 1909 John Galsworthy's "Strife" premieres in London 1910 John Galsworthy's "Justice" premieres in London 1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique) 1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China 1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders 1916 Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties) 1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die 1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die 1918 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine 1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss incorporation of Austria 1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona 1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, "Le Train Bleu" premieres in Paris 1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions 1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die 1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence 1923 André Charlot's musical "Rats" premieres in London 1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published 1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg 1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch" premieres 1930 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" premieres in New York NY 1931 Alka Seltzer introduced 1931 Chicago White Sox & New York Giants play 1st exhibition night game 1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin 1932 André Tardieu becomes premier of France 1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms 1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General 1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn 1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht 1943 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews 1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia 1944 "The War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC (NYC only) 1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties 1945 British Army captures Goch 1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line 1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt 1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land 1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" 1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champion 1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting 1951 South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated 1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement) 1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition 1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding) 1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81 1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances 1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises 1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances 1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote) 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open 1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km 1961 Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Die Physiker" premieres in Zürich 1961 Gabon adopts constitution 1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US 1966 Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution 1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin 1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) 1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators 1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand" 1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy 1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana killing 117 1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic 1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China 1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren" premieres in New York NY 1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out 1974 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London 1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez 1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution 1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album is released 1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 years 1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 performances 1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht 1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York NY 1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period 1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km) 1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom) 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44 1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k) 1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4 1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured 1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances 1982 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic 1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds 1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit) 1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skating race 1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator 1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks 1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut 1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane 1988 During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months) 1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20) 1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value) 1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling 1990 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win 1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances 1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable 1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating 1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City 1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters) 1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans 1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado 1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit 1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition" premieres 1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands 1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-22-2006 07:58 AM                        Rated G This date in history: February 22 Birthdates 1403 Charles VII king of France (1422-61), drove out English 1440 Ladislaus V Posthumus King of Hungary/Bohemia 1514 Tahmasp I shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah) 1533 Péter Bornemisza Hungarian vicar/author/publisher (Tragoedia) 1542 Santino Garsi composer 1573 Gemignano Capilupi composer 1599 Anthony Van Dyck Antwerp Belgium, painter 1634 Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten fortress architect 1684 William Pulteney London, statesman (Earl of Bath) 1705 Peter Arctedius [Artedi], Swedish biologist 1732 George Washington Virginia, Father figure, 1st American President (1789-97) 1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho composer 1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist/1st biographer of Bach 1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg composer 1761 Jacob Kimball composer 1764 Alexander Campbell composer 1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer 1772 Joseph Lipavsky composer 1772 Karl Jacob Wagner composer 1773 Matthijs I van Bree Flemish (court)painter 1778 Rembrandt Peale portrait/historical painter (Court of Death) 1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert composer 1788 Arthur Schopenhauer Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist) 1796 Adolphe Quetelet Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician 1797 William I Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88) 1798 Charles Mynn Thruston Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873 1810 Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer 1810 Holger Simon Paulli composer 1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg composer 1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade Danish violinist/composer/conductor 1819 James Russell Lowell poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist 1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig composer 1821 Giovanni Bottesini composer 1822 Adolf Kuszmaul German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease) 1827 James Barnet Fry Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 1828 Robert Alexander Cameron Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 1833 Josef Foerster composer 1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel composer 1836 Eduard Wachmann composer 1838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discoverer of hydrogen in Sun 1840 F August Bebel German social-democrat 1842 Carl Rosa Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company) 1842 Léon Vanderkindere Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel) 1843 Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay France/Brazil writer (Inocencia) 1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer composer 1850 Isaac L Rice Germany, (namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium) 1852 Pieter K Pel internist (Pel-Ebstein fever) 1857 Heinrich Hertz physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves 1857 Lord Robert Baden-Powell founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) 1862 Connie Mack baseball manager (Philadelphia A's 1900-1950) 1862 Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen] Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli) 1864 Jules Renard France, writer (Poil de Carotte) 1865 Otto Modersohn German painter 1868 Henri Polak union leader/politician (Social-Democrat) 1873 Muhammad Iqbal Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher 1877 Yme C Schuitmaker Dutch potato salesman/dramatist 1879 Johannes Brønsted Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions) 1882 Eric Gill England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua) 1883 Alfred Wikenhauser German Roman Catholic exegetist (John-Apokalyps) 1883 Jaroslav Kocian composer 1883 Marguerite Clark voice (Snow White) 1884 Abraham "Abe" Attell boxing hall of famer 1886 Hugo Ball German playwright/co-founder Flametti 1887 Mary Ellen Chase educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award) 1889 Robin G Collingwood English philosopher (Roman Britain) 1891 "Chico" Marx New York NY, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers) 1891 Jan Wils Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympics Stadium) 1891 Lucien Cailliet composer 1892 David Dubinsky labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom) 1892 Edna St Vincent Millay poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) 1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach composer 1895 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre founder (Peruvian Aprista Party) 1896 Edvin Wide Sweden, 10K runner (Olympics-silver-1924) 1896 Enid Markey Dillon CO, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy) 1896 Nacio Herb Brown US composer 1896 Paul Van Ostaijen Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City) 1898 Anton de Kom Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1899 Dwight Frye Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein) 19-- Geoffrey Scott Hollywood CA, actor (Secret Empire, Dynasty) 1900 Giorgios Seferis Greece, poet (Nobel 1963) 1900 Luis Bruñel Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty) 1900 Evald Aav composer 1900 Sean O'Faolain [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) 1901 Charles E Whittaker Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62) 1901 Mildred Davis PA, actress (Grandma's Boy) 1901 Stefan Lorant writer 1902 Hanns Neupert German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord) 1903 Morley Callaghan Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy) 1904 Peter Hurd Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of José Herrera) 1905 Luis Sandi composer 1906 Edmund von Borck composer 1907 Robert Young Chicago IL, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) 1907 Sheldon Leonard New York NY, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie) 1908 John Mills England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace) 1908 Rómulo Betancourt President of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64) 1909 Roderick Barclay diplomat 1910 Al Sears jazz performer 1910 Muriel Monkhouse Red Cross worker 1910 Nicholas Monsarrat Liverpool England, novelist 1915 Dan Seymour Chicago IL, actor (We the People, Sing it Again) 1915 Gus Lesnevich light heavyweight boxing champion (1947 fight of year) 1917 Harmen van Rossum civil servant/resistance fighter (WWII) 1917 Jack Robertson cricketer (superb England batsman only played 11 Tests) 1917 Jane Bowles writer 1918 Charles O Finley baseball team owner (Oakland A's) 1918 Robert Wadlow Alton IL, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1") 1918 Sid Abel NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy) 1918 Don [Dominic G] Pardo Westfield MA, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live) 1919 Jiri Pauer composer 1920 Bettina Vernon-Warren dancer 1920 Del Wood singer 1920 Giulietta Masina Italy, actress (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) 1921 Jean-Bedel Bokassa dictator 1922 Andre Asriel composer 1922 Felix Werder composer 1925 Edward Gorey Chicago IL, author/artist (The Curious Sofa) 1925 Gerard Hoffnung Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician 1925 Guy Mitchell [Albert George Cernick], Detroit MI, actor/singer (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle) 1925 Raymond Joseph Cecil British architect 1926 Bud Yorkin producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy) 1927 Donald May Chicago IL, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45) 1927 David Ahlstrom composer 1928 Paul Dooley Parkersburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding) 1928 Bruce Forsyth London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game) 1929 Ryne Duren New York Yankee near-sighted pitcher 1929 Marni Nixon singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr) 1930 Allison Hayes Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman) 1930 JPS van Neerven Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily) 1932 Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (Senator-D-MA, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive) 1932 Piper Laurie Detroit MI, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Carrie) 1933 Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley England, Duchess of Kent 1934 George "Sparky" Anderson South Dakota, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers) 1934 Thomas Paul Chicago IL, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70) 1935 Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger Dutch MP (PvdA) 1936 Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans LA, rocker 1937 Dubravko Detoni composer 1937 Joanna Russ US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx) 1937 Noel Murphy British rugby player 1937 Samuel Whitbread English brewer/multi-millionaire 1937 Tommy Aaron Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters, 1969 Canadian Open) 1938 Ishmael Reed US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red) 1938 Bobby Hendricks US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling) 1939 Steve Barber pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees) 1940 Chet Walker NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls) 1940 Julian Chagrin London, mime/actor (Golddiggers) 1940 Johnson P Mlambo South African leader (Pan-African Congress) 1943 Dick Van Arsdale NBA all-star (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns) 1943 Tom Van Arsdale NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, Kansas City-Omaha, Philadelphia) 1943 David E Skaggs (Representative-D-CO) 1943 Louise Lopez singer 1944 E J Peaker Tulsa OK, actress (That's Life) 1944 Jonathan Demme Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift) 1944 Ranjit Fernando Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup) 1944 Tom Okker tennis star 1945 Oliver singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean) 1947 John Bryant (Representative-D-TX, 1983- ) 1948 Dennis Awtrey NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns) 1949 Leslie Charleson Kansas City MO, actress (Monica-General Hospital) 1949 Nikki Lauda Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champion 1975, 77, 84) 1950 Ellen Greene Brooklyn NY, singer/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors, One Fine Day) 1950 Julius Erving ABA/NBA forward (Virginia Squirers, New York Nets, Philadelphia 76ers) 1950 Julie Walters England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears) 1950 Sylvette "Miou-Miou" Hery Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage, Dog Day, My Other Husband) 1951 Harley O Staggers Jr (Representative-D-WV, 1983- ) 1952 James Philip Bagian Philadelphia PA, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40) 1952 Wayne John Levi Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open) 1955 Tim Young athlete 1956 Amy Alcott Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore, Vare Trophy 1980, 83) 1958 Kyle MacLachlan Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Twin Peaks, The Hidden) 1959 Susan Benjamin actress (Tracy-Accidental Family) 1961 Debbie Linden Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show) 1961 Don Van Spall guitarist (Sleeze Beez) 1961 Marla O'Hara Gardena CA, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991) 1961 Mike Morris NFL center (Minnesota Vikings) 1962 Lenda Murray Detroit MI, body builder (4X Ms Olympia) 1962 Lisa Jacquin equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96) 1963 Dave Besteman Madison WI, speed skater (Olympics-1994) 1963 Devon Malcolm cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95) 1963 Vijay Singh Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic) 1964 James Wlcek New York NY, actor (Trent-Walker Texas Ranger, Linc-As The World Turns) 1964 Gigi Fernandez [Beatriz], San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olympics-gold-96, 1988 US Open Doubles) 1965 Pat LaFontaine St Louis MO, NHL center (Olympics-1984, New York Islanders, New York Rangers) 1965 Chris Dudley NBA center (New York Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers) 1965 Joe Reekie Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals) 1966 Sheila Riggins Trussville AL, Miss Alabama-America (1990) 1966 Brent Severyn Vegreville Alberta Canada, NHL defenseman (New York Islanders) 1966 Suave singer 1966 Thorsten Kaye soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers) 1967 Marianne Ihalainen ice hockey right wing (Finland, Olympics-98) 1967 Steve Broussard NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks) 1968 Abeyratne Samarasekera UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup) 1968 Jayson Williams NBA center (New Jersey Nets) 1968 Jeri Ryan actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager) 1968 Johanne Samarasekera UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup) 1968 Reggie Rivers NFL running back (Denver Broncos) 1969 Kahryn Tough Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96) 1969 Leslie Spalding Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amateur-90, 91) 1969 Mark Chmura NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) 1969 Shawn Jefferson NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots) 1970 Adam Keefe NBA forward (Utah Jazz) 1970 Dominic Roussel Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets) 1970 Leo Stefan hockey forward (Team Germany 1998) 1971 Barry Smith 100 meter/200 meter runner 1971 Gilbert Brown NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) 1971 Jason Marshall Cranbrook British Columbia Canada, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) 1971 Lea Salonga Manila Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Saigon) 1971 Lisa Fernandez Lakewood CA, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96) 1971 Max Lane NFL tackle (New England Patriots) 1971 Mohammed Sylla soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues) 1971 Rico Mack WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals) 1972 Christin Didier Miss Montana-USA (1997) 1972 Michael Chang Hoboken NJ, tennis star (1989 French Open) 1973 James Christensen NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons) 1973 Kate Sage Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96) 1973 Kimberly Davies Melbourne Australia, actress (Baywatch) 1973 Ntala Skinner Sun Valley ID, biathlete (Olympics-1994) 1974 Aaron Gavey Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning) 1974 Kyoko Nagatsuka Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart) 1975 Charles O'Bannon NBA guard (Detroit Pistons) 1975 Drew Barrymore Los Angeles CA, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy, Altered States) 1975 Gregory Maddalone Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski) 1977 Melanie Schnell Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya) 1979 David Lopez Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter) Deaths which occurred on February 22: 0606 Sabinian Italian Pope (604-06), dies 1071 Arnulf III earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle 1076 Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered 1078 Johannes van Fécamp Italian mystic writer, dies 1078 John of Fécamp Italian mystic writer, dies 1213 Wibert of Gembloers benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies 1371 David II Bruce king of Scotland (1331-71), dies at 46 1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius) writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies 1512 Amerigo Vespucci Italian explorer (America), dies at 61 1674 John Wilson composer, dies at 78 1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully Paris, composer 1690 Charles Le Brun classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70 1695 Robert Southwell English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1727 Francesco Gasparini composer, dies at 58 1731 Frederik Ruysch Dutch anatomist, dies at 92 1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer, dies at 71 1770 Christopher Snider 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution 1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer, dies at 63 1816 Adam Ferguson Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92 1822 Johann Ignaz Walter composer, dies at 66 1824 John Davy composer, dies at 60 1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General, dies at 53 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poet, Weimar, Germany 1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld composer, dies at 65 1838 Friedrich Johann Eck composer, dies at 70 1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor composer, dies at 77 1846 Nikoli A Poveloi Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca composer, dies at 28 1875 Charles Lyell British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1878 Franz Hunten composer, dies at 84 1896 Thomas Hughes politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton 1903 Frederick William Farrar writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies 1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42 1912 Richard Andree German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76 1913 Suarez Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup 1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure Swiss linguist, dies at 55 1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President, assassinated in military coup at 39 1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72 1925 Nina David [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies 1925 Thomas C Allbutt English physiologist, dies at 88 1930 Godfried van Daalen Dutch General/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66 1934 Willem Kes violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78 1936 Johan M Skjoldborg Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74 1943 Christoph Probst German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies 1943 Hans Scholl German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Sophie Scholl German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1949 Russell Porter actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies 1956 Paul Léautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84 1957 Harry Sothern actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72 1958 Michael Todd film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash 1959 Helen Parrish actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36 1960 Hubert Cuypers composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86 1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran Chilean marquis, dies at 75 1964 Edie Martin actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84 1966 Paul de Keyser Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74 1967 Joe Forte actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70 1967 Fritz Erler German politician (SDP), dies at 53 1968 Omer CFL Tulippe Belgian geographer, dies at 71 1971 Barry Macollum actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81 1971 Matt McHugh actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77 1971 Rudolf Mauersberger composer, dies at 82 1972 Walter Sande actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65 1973 Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in London at 72 1973 Katina Paxinou actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72 1973 Winthrop Rockefeller US Governor (Arkansas), dies at 60 1976 Angela Baddeley actress (Mrs Kate Bridges-Upstairs, Downstairs), dies from pneumonia at 71 1976 Florence Ballard rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32 1976 Michael Polany Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 1977 Edith Barrett actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64 1977 Jack O'Connor cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies 1978 Ilka Chase actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74 1978 Phyllis McGinley US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 1980 Alfred Andersch German writer (Red Head), dies at 66 1980 Oskar Kokoschka Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1980 Richard Kallman actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46 1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman NYC DJ (The 5th Beatle), dies at 60 1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75 1983 Romain Maes Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70 1984 David spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 1985 Alexander Scourby actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71 1985 Efrem A Zimbalist Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95 1987 David Susskind TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66 1987 Andy Warhol pop artist, dies from complications following gall bladder surgery at 58 1987 David Susskind TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66 1987 Glenway Wescott US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85 1989 Joan Woodbury actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies 1990 Stephen Burns actor (Casey's Shadow), dies 1992 Richard Sheldon dies at 59 1993 Jean Lecanuet French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72 1993 Pieter A H Bos Dutch lawyer/procureur-General (Aruba), dies at 63 1994 "Papa" John Creach US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76 1995 Ed Flanders actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60 1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi Austrian circus director, dies at 80 1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies 1996 Helmut Schoen soccer coach, dies at 80 1996 Niall MacDermott lawyer/politician, dies at 79 1997 Austin Andrew Wright sculptor, dies at 85 1997 Frank Launder director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 1998 Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84 1998 Jose Maria de Areilza Spanish minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies 1998 Sandy Hume correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28 On this day...Events 1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108 0057 -BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India) 0606 Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor 1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I 1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV 1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV 1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree 1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais 1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving 1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site 1744 Battle at Toulon English-French & Spanish fleet 1746 French troops conquer Brussels 1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen 1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright 1775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10 1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland 1784 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from New York 1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty) 1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million 1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary 1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai 1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile 1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea 1847 Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army 1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan 1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh) 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown" premieres in New York NY 1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for the 1st time 1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn MS, strike successfully for higher wages 1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration 1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS 1864 Battle at Dalton, Georgia 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee 1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery 1865 Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals 1872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH) 1872 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH 1876 Johns Hopkins University opens 1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH) 1879 1st 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by Frank W Woolworth in Utica NY 1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY) 1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union 1889 President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state 1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London) 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms 1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Hawaii became a US territory 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water 1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA 1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London 1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka" premieres in St Petersburg 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia 1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph 1913 Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on its 1st campus) 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia 1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA) 1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins 1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA) 1924 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge) 1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine 1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum 1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) 1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted 1933 Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50 1934 "It Happened One Night" opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall 1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House 1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins 1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain 1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal 1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya 1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam 1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres 1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo) 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma 1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die 1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (revised edition) 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel" 1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win 1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958 1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days 1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes 1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts 1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) 1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit 1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) 1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew 1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border 1967 Barbara Garson's "MacBird" premieres in New York NY 1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL 1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "The Silent Sun" 1969 1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin) 1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances 1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1973 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington DC 1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators 1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN 1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's 1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain 1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated 1980 Afghanistan declares martial law 1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal 1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic 1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful) 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500 meter freestyle swimming record 1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India 1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Québec 1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.36 seconds) 1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter (39.10 seconds) 1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) 1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" 1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" 1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress 1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) 1990 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps 1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32) 1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal 1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA 1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton 1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC 1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox 1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37 1992 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament 1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours 1994 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya 1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters 1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km) 1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 29 performances 1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit 1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open 1998 "King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances 1998 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-22-2006 03:37 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 23: 1417 Paul II [Pietro Barbo], Italy, Pope (1464-71) 1614 Jacob Colijn(s) Dutch coat of arms painter 1615 Cornelis Galle II Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised 1633 Samuel Pepys London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs) 1649 John Blow composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized) 1685 George Frideric Händel Halle Germany, organist/baroque composer (Messiah) 1700 Wilhelmus Schortinghuis Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity) 1730 Christian Joseph Lidarti composer 1734 Mayer Amschel Rothschild Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild) 1776 John Walter II London, chief proprietor (The London Times, 1812-47) 1787 Emma Willard US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame) 1792 Istvan Ferenczi Hungarian sculptor 1811 George Washington Hewitt composer 1817 George Watts London, painter 1818 Major General Jeremy F Gilmer General/Chief Engineer Confederate War Department 1824 Herman N van der Tuuk Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar) 1824 Lewis Cass Hunt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1831 Hendrik W Mesdag Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag) 1834 Gustav Hermann Nachtigal German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunisia 1838 Gilbert Moxley Sorrel Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 1840 Carl Menger Austrian economist 1848 Thomas Paine Westendorf composer 1859 Theodor Batthyányi Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary 1863 Franz von Stuck German painter (Der Krieg) 1865 Barney Dreyfuss baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates) 1868 William E B Du Bois Great Barrington MA, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk) 1869 Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya Russian revolutionary (Social-Democrat) 1873 Dmitri Arakishvili composer 1874 Konstantin Päts Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40) 1875 Jozef E Stokvis journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP) 1876 Agnes M Royden writer 1876 Wadi' Sabra composer 1879 Agnes Arber English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye) 1879 Norman Lindsay Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist 1880 Edgar Istel composer 1881 Titus [Anno S] Brandsma Dutch philosopher 1882 Ladislav Vycpalek composer 1883 Victor Fleming Pasadena CA, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind) 1883 Karl Jaspers Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher 1884 Frank Cellier Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade) 1884 Herman Courtens Belgian painter 1886 Albert Edward Sammons composer 1886 Ventura García Calderón Peruvian diplomat/author 1887 Oskar Frederik Lindberg composer 1889 Cyril Delevanti England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye) 1889 Frederik M baron of Asbeck Dutch lawyer (League of Nations) 1892 Kathleen Harrison actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11) 1895 Richard Goolden London England, actor (School for Husbands) 1898 Reinhard Herbig German archaeologist 1899 E Langgässer writer 1899 Erich Kästner Dresden German author (Emil & the Detective) 19-- Catherine Larson actress (Ryan's Hope) 1900 Elinor Remick Warren composer 1901 Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel author (Mieke-serial) 1903 Grigori V Aleksandrov Russian director (Veselye Rebjata) 1904 William L Shirer historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich) 1904 Leopold Trepper Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina) 1905 Leonidas Zoras composer 1907 Anthony Standerwick Heal businessman 1908 Sir William McMahon PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72) 1909 Frank Ward cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s) 1911 G Mennen Williams Detroit MI, Sup Court Justice/(Governor-D-MI, 1949-60) 1911 Walter Ernest Allen writer/critic 1913 Charles Leonard US, pentathlete (Olympics-1936) 1913 Earl of Lincoln 1914 Margaret Farrer CEO (Central Midwives Board) 1915 Heinrich Schirmbeck German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth) 1916 George Abel Canada, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1972) 1916 Martindale Sidwell organist/conductor 1916 William Walsh academic 1917 Kenneth Tobey actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) 1918 Dom Aelred Watkin headmaster (Downside School) 1919 Johnny Carey soccer star 1919 Lord Ezra 1920 Hall Overton Bangor MI, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree) 1920 David Wright poet 1920 Lord St Levan 1923 Gery Florizoone Flemish poet 1924 Lejaren Hiller composer 1925 Ian Smith cricket leg-spinner (South Africa 1947-58 average 64.08) 1925 Louis Stokes (Representative-D-OH, 1969- ) 1926 Regine Crespin French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete) 1927 Ivan Hrusovsky composer 1928 Duke of Beaufort 1928 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A) 1929 Elston Howard Yankee catcher (1st black New York Yankee/1963 AL MVP) 1929 Eduard W "Ed" Bauer [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets) 1929 Régine Crespin Marseilles France, operatic soprano 1929 Richard Moryl composer 1930 Harry Boldt German Federal Republic, equestrian dressage (Olympics-gold-1976) 1930 Johnny Seven New York NY, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss) 1930 Gerry Davis writer 1930 Imre Gyongyossy film Maker 1930 Jef Geeraerts Flemish writer (Black Venus) 1931 Tom Wesselman US sculptor (Great American Nudes) 1933 Donna J Stone poet 1933 Lee Quencey Calhoun Laurel MS, 110 meter hurdler (Olympics-gold-1956, 60) 1934 Lady Digby 1937 David Ward president (Law Society) 1937 Lord Tugendhat 1937 Tom Osborne college football coach 1938 Diane Varsi San Mateo CA, actress (Peyton Place) 1938 Sylvia Chase St Paul MN, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) 1939 Josef Feistmantl Austria, lugeist (Olympics-gold-1964) 1939 Majel Barrett Columbus OH, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek) 1939 Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher 1940 Peter Fonda actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip) 1940 Jermyn P Brooks CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe) 1941 William Hjörtsberg New York NY, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel) 1941 Frank Gerstenberg Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College) 1941 Robin Bynoe cricketer (West Indies opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67) 1942 Beau Boulter (Representative-R-TX, 1985- ) 1942 Colin Sanders founder (Solid State Logic) 1942 John Lewis Head Master (Eton College) 1943 Fred Biletnikoff NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders) 1943 Jada Rowland New York NY, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm) 1943 Bobby Wayne Mitchell Chatham VA, PGA golfer (1971 Cleveland Open) 1944 Johnny Winter [John Dawson], Leland MS, guitarist (Silver Train) 1944 James Cousins British MP 1944 Mike Maxfield rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas) 1945 Frank Murray police Officer 1946 Rusty Young California, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night) 1947 Anton Mosimann chef 1947 Colin Sanders British computer engineer (Solid State Logic) 1947 Geoff Cope cricketer (England off-spinner 1977-78) 1947 Shakira Caine Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967) 1948 Bill Alexander theatre director 1949 Anna-Maria Müller German DR, Luge (Olympics-gold-1972) 1949 Larry Demps US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones) 1949 Marc Garneau Québec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77) 1949 Maureen Hicks British MP 1949 Terry "Tex" Comer Burnley Lancashire England, bassist/guitarist (Ace-How Long) 1950 Neil Jordan Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past) 1950 Steve Priest London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes) 1951 Ed "Too Tall" Jones NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys) 1951 Nicholas Kenyon controller (BBC Radio 3) 1951 Patricia Richardson Bethesda MD, actress (Home Improvement, Double Trouble) 1952 Brad Whitford Massachusetts, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun) 1953 Sallie L Baliunas astrophysicist 1955 Howard Jones rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better) 1956 Maren Jensen Glendale CA, actress (Battlestar Galactica) 1958 David Sylvian vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex) 1958 Lorraine Michaels Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981) 1958 Ria Brieffies Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots) 1959 John Arthur Wilson Ceres CA, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th) 1960 Cindy Figg-Currier Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 British Open-6th) 1960 Gloria von Thurm un Taxis Munich German Federal Republic, Princess 1960 Maria Gloria von Schönberg-Glauchau wife of prince Thurn un Taxis 1960 Naruhito crown prince of Japan 1962 Melinda Mays Augusta GA, playmate (February 1983) 1962 Michael Wilton rock guitarist (Queensrÿche-The Warning) 1963 Bobby Bonilla New York NY, outfielder (New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Marlins) 1963 Debbie Kruck Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA (1994) 1963 Reza Abdoh theatre director 1963 Robert Collins keyboard player 1964 Byron Evans NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles) 1964 Dana Katherine Scully fictional character (X-Files) 1964 John Norum rocker 1965 Helena Sukova Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1985 US Open Women's Doubles) 1965 Kristin Davis actress (Melrose Place) 1965 Sylvie Guillem France, ballerina (Royal Ballet) 1966 Marc Price actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties) 1966 John Druce Peterborough, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings) 1967 Gord Murphy Willowdale, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers) 1967 Pam Blundell fashion designer 1967 Steven C Stricker Edgerton WI, PGA golfer (1994 Northern Telecom-2nd) 1968 Stephanie Seymour San Diego CA, actress/model (Sunny Side Up) 1969 Ed McDaniel NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings) 1969 Michael Campbell Hawera New Zealand, Australasia golfer 1971 Jason Keller Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue) 1971 Shane Keller Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue) 1971 Carin Hjalmarsson Koch Kungalv Sweden, golfer (1995 Pinewild-7th) 1971 Torsten Kienass Berlin Germany, hockey defenseman (Team Germany) 1972 Greg Hill NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs) 1972 Jamie Watson NBA forward (Utah Jazz) 1972 Ryan Grigson NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions) 1972 Steve Papin WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores) 1973 Robert Pipkins Staten Island NY, luger (Olympics-1994) 1974 Herschelle Gibbs cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996) 1974 Kenyon Cotton full back (Baltimore Ravens) 1975 Bohdan Utihrach Czechoslovakia, tennis star 1975 Chris Garner NBA guard (Toronto Raptors) 1975 Michael Tricario actor (Randy-Wonder Years) 1975 Pat Barnes quarterback (Kansas City Chiefs) 1976 Dmitriy Dudarev hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998) 1976 Jeff O'Neill Richmond Hill, NHL center (Hartford Whalers) 1977 Angie Trostel Oxford OH, diver (Olympics-96) 1977 Dally Randriantefy Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille) 1978 Karolina Rantamaki ice hockey left wing (Finland, Olympics-98) 1980 Yvonne Tousek Kitchener Ontario, gymnastic (Olympics-96) Deaths which occurred on February 23: 0155 Polycarp disciple of Apostle John, arrested & burned at stake 1447 Eugene IV [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies 1468 John Gutenberg German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies 1554 Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed 1607 Herman Herbertsz vicar, dies at about 60 1660 Charles X Gustaaf king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 1662 Johann Crüger German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 1669 Lieuwe van Aitzema Frisian historian, dies at 68 1682 Abraham de Wicquefort Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75 1704 Georg Muffat French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 1718 François Fagel Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63 1766 Stanislaw Leszcynski duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies 1792 Joshua Reynolds English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68 1797 Antoine d'Auvergne French opera composer (Coquette Trompée), dies at 83 1806 John Alcock composer, dies at 90 1807 François Guichard composer, dies at 61 1821 John Keats Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1821 Marie-Anne Collot French sculptor, dies 1828 Mihály Fazekar Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies 1848 John Quincy Adams 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80 1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematician, dies 1867 George Thomas Smart composer, dies at 90 1884 Tambo Tambo Australian aboriginal/US circus attraction, dies at 23 1897 Woldemar Bargiel composer, dies at 68 1900 William Butterfield architect of the Gothic revival, dies 1902 Samuel R Gardiner British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72 1903 Albert Cahen composer, dies at 57 1903 Friedrich Grutzmacher composer, dies at 70 1906 Johann Hoch US murderer, executed 1913 Jimmy Sinclair cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test South Africa career), dies 1915 Robert Smalls Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in South Carolina 1916 George Clement Martin composer, dies at 71 1920 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky composer, dies at 61 1922 Henri Landru executed for having 11 wives, in France 1924 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 28th US President (1913-21), dies 1927 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson composer, dies at 79 1930 Horst Wessel German Nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22 1930 Mabel Normand actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35 1931 Nellie Melba [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies 1934 Augusto Sandino Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard 1934 Edward William Elgar English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76 1935 Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44 1937 Claude Buckenham cricketer (21 wickets in 4 Tests for England 1909-10), dies 1942 Stefan Zweig Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60 1944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland inventor (Bakelite), dies 1945 Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 1945 Aubrey Cousins Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle 1955 Paul Claudel French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 1961 Wilf Ferguson cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies 1965 Stan Laurel comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies in California of heart attack at 74 1968 Edna Ferber US author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80 1968 Fannie Hurst US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 1969 Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud King Saudia, dies at 67 1969 Joseph Messner composer, dies at 75 1971 King Lockwood dies of stroke at 73 1972 Michael Taube composer, dies at 81 1974 Florence Rice actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63 1976 Fuzzy Knight actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74 1976 L S Lowry painter, dies 1980 Robert Vandekerckhove Belgian politician, dies at 62 1983 Adrian Boult conductor, dies 1985 Alexander Scourby actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71 1987 Esmond Knight actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80 1990 Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 1990 James Gavin commandant US 82nd Airborn Division (Normandy), dies at 82 1990 Jose Napoleon Duarte President of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62 1992 Jacquelyn Hyde actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61 1992 Markos Vafiades leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies 1993 Edwin Louis Battle actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33 1994 Stuart Berger doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40 1995 Art Kane photographer, dies at 69 1995 David Melvin English Franklin singer, dies at 52 1995 James Herriot Scot author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78 1995 Norman Hunter writer, dies at 95 1995 Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes dies at 79 1996 Freddie Stocks cricket (center on debut & wicket on 1st ball, Notts), dies 1996 George Alan Dawson jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66 1996 Joseph Walker Barr banker/politician, dies at 78 1997 Oscar Lewenstein impressario, dies at 80 1997 Tony Williams jazz musician, dies at 51 1998 Philip Abbott actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74 On this day...February 23 0303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date) 1574 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots 1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden 1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued 1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam 1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England 1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge 1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners) 1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres 1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII 1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA 1820 Cato Street conspiracy uncovered 1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college 1822 Boston is incorporated as a city 1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated 1847 Battle of Buena Vista, México; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans 1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops 1854 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein 1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US 1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns 1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office 1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law 1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US 1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis) 1883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law 1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia) 1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed 1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad 1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred" premieres 1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco 1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die 1892 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA 1894 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play 1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia 1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56) 1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield 1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus 1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay 1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) 1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA 1904 Control of Panamá Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million 1905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago 1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds 1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet 1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia) 1910 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" premieres in London 1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin 1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law 1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin 1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun 1917 February revolution begins in Russia 1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy 1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA 1923 German Republic day with laws against worker 1923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% 1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor) 1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers 1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium 1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY 1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion 1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island 1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released 1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA 1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh 1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue 1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London 1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar 1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr 1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170 million in aid for European Jews 1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh) 1954 Syrian army drives out President Adib el-Shishakli 1955 Edgar Faure forms French government 1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow 1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin 1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances 1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913) 1958 Arturo Frondizi elected President of Argentina 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open 1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton CA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913) 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City 1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president 1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government 1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government 1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda 1967 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified 1967 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes" premieres in New York NY 1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner 1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War 1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points 1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Democratic People's Front for Liberation of Palestine 1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown WV (PBS) 1st broadcast 1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day) 1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service 1971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets and a dispute with the police 1971 Lieutenant Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina 1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak 1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London 1974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth" 1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract 1978 20th Grammy Awards Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win 1979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album 1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances 1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics 1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill 1980 13th Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1981 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips 1981 Spanish coup under Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails 1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" premieres in London 1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million) 1983 25th Grammy Awards Rosanna, Toto IV, Men at Work win 1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game 1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General 1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M) 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic 1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds) 1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604 1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor 1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member 1988 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta 1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94) 1990 Ian Smith 173 New Zealand vs India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat 1991 US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST 1991 Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho 1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested 1991 North Carolina is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games 1991 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1992 16th Winter Olympics games close in Albertville, France 1992 Andy Flower scores 115 on ODI debut, Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka 1993 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees 1993 India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England 1993 Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team) 1994 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23) 1995 "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 29 performances 1995 Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi 1995 Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33) 1996 Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve 1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands 1997 Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1 1997 American Express Senior Golf Invitational 1997 Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic 1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List", completely uncensored, 65 million watch 1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly" 1997 Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM 1998 Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand 1998 Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-22-2006 03:45 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 24: 1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa) 1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Italy, scholar/platonist 1500 Emperor Charles V king of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor 1501 Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius] German writer (Suzanna) 1536 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, last Counter-Reformation pope (1592-1605) 1545 Don John of Austria the elder, Austrian general 1547 Jan of Austria Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherlands 1557 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Vienna, Polish Jesuit/poet/Holy Roman emperor (1612-19) 1619 Charles Le Brun Paris, painter, designer (The Chancellor Séguier) 1679 Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer 1684 Catherine I Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia 1697 Bernard S Albinus [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist 1704 Hubert Renotte composer 1717 Bernhard Hupfeld composer 1750 Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet 1766 Samuel Wesley Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo) 1771 Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher 1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) 1797 Samuel Lover composer 1809 Albert Schäffle German sociologist (Abriss der Soziologie) 1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian) 1811 Daniel A Payne Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church 1811 Edward Dickinson Baker Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861 1824 John Crawford Vaughn Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 1827 Charles Davis Jameson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 1831 Georg Leo earl von Caprivi German chancellor/premier of Prussia 1833 Eduard earl von Taaffe Austrian premier (1868-93) 1836 Winslow Homer US, painter (Gulfstream) 1838 Thomas Benton Smith Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923 1842 Arrigio Enrico Boito composer 1843 [Joaquim] Theófilo F Braga Portuguese poet/author/politician 1846 Luigi Denza composer 1848 C Grant B Allen Canadian writer (Woman Who Did) 1848 Johanna C P Barbiers actress (Voddenraper of Paris) 1852 George A Moore Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters) 1854 Franz Courtens Flemish painter (Golden Rain) 1858 Arnold Dolmetsch Le Mans, musician 1860 Daniel Berkeley Updike printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types) 1866 Arthur Pearson Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor 1872 John Jarvis England, swimmer (won 108 titles) 1874 Honus Wagner HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17) 1876 Jean Poveigh composer 1876 Victor Moore Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch) 1877 Rudolf Ganz composer 1879 Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Sun) 1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII) 1885 Bert Lytell New York NY, actor (Henry-One Man's Family) 1885 Joseph Sprinzak Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59) 1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings) 1887 Mary Ellen Chase US linguistic/author (White Gate) 1890 Antonio Massana composer 1890 Marjorie Main [Tomlinson], Action IN, actress (Another Thin Man) 1898 Kurt Tank German WWII aircraft designer 1899 Jacob Presser Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall) 19-- Dorothy Parke Toronto Canada, actress (Amanda-Hot Shots) 19-- James Sloyan Indianapolis IN, actor (Oh Madeline) 19-- Joan Diener Cleveland OH, actress (54th Street Revue) 19-- Melinda Naud New York NY, actress (Operation Petticoat) 1905 E Boyland biochemist 1905 Guillaume Landre composer 1906 Alexis Curvers Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond) 1909 August William Derleth Sauk City WI, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) 1909 Jean Yves Morvan Marin broadcaster 1909 Max Black Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy) 1909 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay orientalist 1910 Lord Hazlerigg 1911 Konrad Lechner composer 1912 Julius Kowalski composer 1913 Richard Murphey Goodwin economist 1914 Zachary Scott Austin TX, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce) 1914 David Langdon cartoonist/illustrator 1915 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin trade unionist 1916 Gene Mitchell museum director 1917 William Fairbank Minneapolis MN, physicist (superconductivity) 1919 Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist 1919 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum 1920 Frank Rogers CEO (NPA Telegraph) 1921 Abe Vigoda New York NY, actor (Barney Miller, Fish) 1921 Douglass Watson Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World) 1921 Ingvar Lidholm composer 1921 Ludvig Aschkenazy writer 1922 Kanwar Rai Singh cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948) 1922 Richard Hamilton painter 1922 Steven Hill Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order) 1924 Lionel Dakers director (Royal School of Church Music) 1924 William Pillar British Admiral 1926 Reginald Freeson British MP 1927 David Mourao-Ferreira poet/politician 1928 Michael Harrington St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century) 1928 Paul B Elvström Denmark, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60) 1928 Al Lettieri New York NY, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway) 1929 Richard B Shull Evanston IL, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yo-Yo) 1929 David Houston Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland 1930 Barbara Lawrence Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota) 1931 Brian Close cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976) 1931 Inge Bernstein British judge 1931 Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov Russia, cosmonaut 1931 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism 1931 Marta Marzotto Italy, countess 1932 John Vernon Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry) 1932 Andrew Jacobs Jr (Representative-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- ) 1932 Everard Goodman English real estate developer (TOPS Estates) 1932 Michel Legrand composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind) 1934 Flemming Nielsen Denmark, soccer player (Olympics-silver-1960) 1934 Frank Chapot US, equestrian (Olympics-silver-1960, 1972) 1934 Linda Cristal Buenos Aires Argentina, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal) 1934 Renata Scotto Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata) 1934 Bettino Craxi Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87) 1934 Shuko Mizuno composer 1937 Jerry Wiggin British MP 1938 James Farentino Brooklyn NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown) 1938 Kathleen Richardson president (Methodist Conference) 1939 George Bain principal (London Business School) 1940 Jimmy Ellis WBA heavyweight boxing champion (1968-70) 1940 Denis Law British soccer player 1940 Theo Bosch Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt Amsterdam) 1942 David K Williamson Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists) 1942 Joe Lieberman (Senator-D-CT) 1942 Paul Jones England, rocker (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn) 1942 Stuart Henry British disc jockey 1944 Sheila Larkin Brooklyn NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer) 1944 Nicky Hopkins rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver) 1945 Alain Prost France, Formula 1 race driver (1985, 86, 89, 93) & current team owner 1946 Barry Bostwick San Mateo CA, actor (Spin City, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Lexx, Megaforce, Movie Movie, Scruples, Foul Play) 1946 Anthony Mayer chief executive (Housing Corporation) 1946 Jenny O'Hara Sonora CA, actress (Wishmaster, Facts of Life, My Sister Sam) 1946 Michael Radford director (1984, White Mischief) 1947 Edward James Olmos California, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph) 1947 Lonnie Turner bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra) 1947 Rupert Holmes Tenafly NJ, singer (Piña Colada song) 1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman London England, actor (Fair Exchange) 1948 Lord Melchett 1948 Lorri Menconi playmate (February 1969) 1949 John Lever cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81) 1950 Cathy Mant LPGA golfer 1950 G J M Gazdar computational linguist 1951 Helen Shaver Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women) 1951 Derek Randall cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman) 1952 Tom Burleson USA, basketball (Olympics-silver-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4" 1952 Simon Weinstock businessman/racehorse owner 1954 Marquess of Normanby 1955 Steven Jobs cofounder of Apple Computer 1955 Bob Abrams Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams) 1956 Eddie Murray Los Angeles CA, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians) 1957 Phil McConkey NFL wide receiver (New York Giants) 1958 Susan Scannell Lexington MA, actress (Nicole-Dynasty) 1958 Sammy Kershaw Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style) 1959 Beth Broderick Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina) 1959 Michael Roy Whitney cricket (great New South Wales & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92) 1961 Janice Gibson Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th) 1961 Persijn "Dakota" Joling Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red) 1961 Ruud Really soccer player (Feyenoord) 1962 Teri Weigel Ft Lauderdale FL, porn star/playmate (April 1986) 1962 Michelle Shocked singer/musician 1963 Fuad Reveiz NFL kicker (Minnesota Vikings) 1963 Matias Carrillo Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins) 1965 Paul Gruber NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) 1966 Billy Zane actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic) 1966 Rene Arocha Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) 1968 John Velddman soccer player (Sparta) 1968 Kendall Cross Hardin MT, 125½ lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympics-gold-92, 96) 1968 Vaughn Booker NFL defensive end (Kansas City Chiefs) 1970 Jonathan Ward Baltimore MD, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter) 1970 Jeff Garcia CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders) 1970 Wilson Alvarez Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chicago White Sox) 1971 Aki Rahunen Finland, tennis star 1971 Brian Savage Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montréal Canadiens) 1972 Larry Amar Camarillo CA, field hockey midfielder/captain (Olympics-96) 1972 Manon Rheaume Lac Beauport Québec Canada, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay) 1972 Patricia Regan Leines Medford OR, Miss Oregon-America (1996-3rd) 1972 Ron Davis NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) 1973 James Michael Kennedy Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) 1973 Alexei Kovalev Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (New York Rangers) 1973 Harold Morrow full back (Minnesota Vikings) 1973 Kavis Reed CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos) 1973 Oscar de la Hoya boxer 1974 Jeremy Laster Fullerton CA, water polo driver (Olympics-96) 1974 Simeon Rice defensive end (Arizona Cardinals) 1977 Alexis Jose Grullon New York NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) 1977 Floyd Mayweather Grand Rapids MI, featherweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96) 1978 Louise Woodward Elton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen Deaths which occurred on February 24: 1563 François Guise French General/duke, assassinated at 44 1624 Vicente Espinel Spanish adventure/chaplain (Marcos de Obrégon), dies at 72 1642 Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 1666 Nicholas Lanier composer, dies at 77 1686 Ferdinando Tacca Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 1692 Antimo Liberati composer, dies at 74 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier French composer (church music), dies 1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffman composer, dies at 56 1784 Anton Laube composer, dies at 65 1785 Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney, dies at 39 1799 Broerius Brorius theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41 1799 Georg C Lichtenberg German physicist/writer, dies at 56 1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 1810 Henry Cavendish physicist/chemist, dies 1812 Hugo Kollataj Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61 1815 Robert Fulton steamboat pioneer, dies 1825 Thomas Bowdler self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies 1829 Auguste Chouteau St Louis co-founder, dies 1836 Dániel Berzsenyi Hungarian poet, dies at 59 1848 Frans van Campenhout Belgian singer/composer (Brabançonne), dies at 69 1862 Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72 1871 Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny French painter/etcher, dies at 73 1874 Anselmo Clave composer, dies at 49 1876 Jan Pieter Heije Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 1895 Ignaz Lachner composer, dies at 87 1907 Otto Goldschmidt composer, dies at 77 1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn composer, dies at 66 1919 Josephine McGill composer, dies at 41 1922 Alfred Espinas French sociologist (Sociétes Animales), dies at 77 1922 Dmitri B Shostakovich father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies 1924 Edmond Picard French/Belgian writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87 1926 Eddie Plank pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51 1929 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager composer, dies at 75 1930 Jacobus van Looy Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74 1933 Spottiswoode Aitken actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64 1941 Oskar Loerke German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 1944 Leo H A Baekeland Belgian/US chemist (bakelite), dies at 80 1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament 1953 Karl R G von Rundstedt German General-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77 1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne] French poet, dies at 86 1960 Jean Binet composer, dies at 66 1961 Léon Jeunehomme Belgian teacher (Pédagogie en Cours), dies at 77 1964 Alexander Archipenko Ukrainian sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76 1964 Frank Conroy actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73 1967 Franz Waxman German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60 1969 Kenneth Green actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61 1970 Conrad Nagel actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73 1973 Art Smith actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73 1975 Nikolai A Bulganin marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79 1976 H Allen Smith TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68 1976 Charles Wilfred Orr composer, dies at 82 1976 Julian Rivero actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85 1982 Virginia Bruce actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71 1983 Herbert Norman Howells composer, dies at 90 1983 Tennessee Williams US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 1984 Uwe Johnson writer, dies at 59 1988 Irwan Chanin US theater builder, dies at 96 1990 Johnnie Ray singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61 1990 Malcolm Forbes CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70 1990 Sandro Pertini President of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 1990 Tony Conigliaro baseball player (Red Sox), dies in Salem MA at 45 1991 George Gobel Chicago IL, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies after surgery at 71 1991 Jean Rogers actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74 1991 Marcella Markham dies of breast cancer at 68 1991 Webb Pierce US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64 1992 Kay Loring dies after long illness 1993 Bobby Moore English soccer team captain (World champions 1966), dies 1993 Toy Caldwell guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45 1994 Dinah Shore singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76 1994 Donald Phillips pianist/composer, dies at 80 1994 Jean Sablon crooner, dies at 87 1994 Knut Anders Haukfield SOE Operative, dies at 83 1994 Lores Bonney aviator, dies at 96 1995 Richard Nicholson musician, dies at 89 1996 Anna Larina revolutionary, dies at 82 1996 Gene Mitchell museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1996 James Runcieman Sutherland academic, dies at 95 1996 Laurence Richard Deniz jazz guitarist, dies at 71 1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69 1998 Henny Youngman comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92 On this day...February 24 in History 0303 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy 1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos 1389 Battle at Falköping Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden 1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders 1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice 1525 Battle at Pavia Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king, François I caught taken/8700 killed 1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia 1528 János Zápolyai, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerainty 1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V 1538 King Ferdinand of Austria & King János Zápolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein 1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia 1552 Privileges of the Hanseatic League in England are abrogated 1581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission 1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1597 Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main 1607 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo" premieres in Mantua 1613 English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts 1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen 1711 Händel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London 1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes IN from British 1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India 1793 French troops conquer Breda 1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison) 1807 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England 1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain 1835 Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian language monthly magazine 1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days 1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia 1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared 1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government 1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to the government 1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized 1863 Arizona Territory created 1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN 1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost) 1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson 1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile AL) 1876 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo 1881 De Lesseps' Company begins work on Panamá Canal 1888 Louisville KY becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot 1891 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diéna West Sudan 1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) 1895 Cuban war of independence begins 1896 Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British 1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba 1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed 1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" premieres in New York NY 1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram) 1917 Russian revolution breaks out 1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000 1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence 1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbräuhaus Münich 1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida 1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service 1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia 1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic 1924 Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100 meter record (57:2/5 seconds) 1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail 1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY 1927 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC 1932 Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona 1933 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin 1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria 1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC 1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles 1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston 1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star" 1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague 1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam 1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) 1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers 1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WWII 1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war 1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany 1945 Manila freed from Japanese 1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege 1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia 1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km 1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement 1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election 1951 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances 1951 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of Germany 1951 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain 1951 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA 1952 Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament 1955 "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances 1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed 1960 Italian government of Segni falls 1960 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1 1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit 1962 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances 1962 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances 1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in the Bahamas 1965 East German President Ulbricht visits Egypt 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games 1968 "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances 1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) 1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam 1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records 1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem OR (IND) begins broadcasting 1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies 1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh 1974 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round skater 1976 Cuba adopts its constitution 1976 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in New York NY 1976 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU 1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights 1978 Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game 1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX 1979 War between North & South Yemen begins 1980 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders 1980 USA Olympics hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal 1980 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak 1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower 1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer 1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92 1982 24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy win 1983 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test 1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran 1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yards 1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson 1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I" 1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by 1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million 1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack 1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win 1987 Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point 1988 Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody 1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics 1st triple gold medalist 1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife 1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found 1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley 1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft 1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops 1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances 1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins 1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field) 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74 1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes 1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th) 1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp 1998 Elton John knighted 1998 NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accommodate the Olympics 2002 XIX winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City UT/Québec City  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-22-2006 03:53 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 25: 1635 Walraad the Elder, Dutch field marshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen 1643 Ahmed II 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) 1680 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz composer 1707 Carlo Goldoni Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of the 3 Oranges) 1725 Armand-Louis Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame) 1725 Karl Wilhelm Ramler German poet (Geistliche Kantaten) 1731 Simon Stijl Frisian physician/writer 1732 Robert Hudson composer 1735 Ernst William Wolf composer 1778 José Francisco de San Martín liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú 1788 Mateo Ferrer composer 1794 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam 1807 George Alfred Trenholm Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy), died in 1876 1808 James Bowen Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1809 George Washington Cullom Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 1811 Carl Schuberth composer 1814 Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian national poet/painter 1815 Robert Hall Chilton Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1832 Theodorus J I Arnold bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian) 1833 Clement Anselm Evans Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 1833 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet Flemish actress 1840 Alexis Hollander composer 1840 Otto Liebmann German philosopher (Climax of Theories) 1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor 1842 Karl May German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou) 1847 John Watson Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism) 1855 George Bonnor cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888) 1860 Menso Kamerlingh Onnes painter/water colors painter 1860 William James Ashley English economic-historian 1866 Benedetto Croce Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher 1868 Anthony J Block Dutch lawyer (strafproces) 1871 Oliver Samuel Campbell tennis champion (US Open-1890) 1873 Enrico Caruso Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust) 1876 Charles Freer art collector; endowed Freer Gallery 1879 Otakar Ostrcil composer 1881 William Foster Massachusetts, Communist Presidential candidate (1924,28,32) 1882 Ludvig Nordström Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk) 1882 Bruno Traven German writer (Sierra Madre) 1882 Jozef Goossenaerts Flemish philologist (Language boundary) 1887 Leonard Carey England, actor (Laughter) 1888 John Foster Dulles US Secretary of State (1953-59) 1890 Myra Hess London England, concert pianist 1894 Ernst Friedrich Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!) 1894 Howard Wendell Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake) 1895 DeBenneville "Bert" Bell PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles) 1895 Henri Martelli composer 1896 John J McClellan (Senator-D-AR) 1897 Lili Körber writer 1898 William Thomas Astbury English physicist/chemist (textiles) 1899 Leo J Weisgerber German linguist 19-- Jean Bruce Scott Monterey CA, actress (Magnum PI, Airwolf) 19-- Louise Williams Scranton PA, actress (Busting Loose) 1900 Jed Harris producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball) 1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx New York NY, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers) 1901 Federico Ghisi composer 1902 Max Kommerell German literary/author (Die Gefangenen) 1902 Oscar Cullmann Swiss theologist (Das Petrusproblem) 1904 Adelle Davis author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer) 1906 Domingo Ortega Spanish bullfighter 1906 Howard Zahniser Father of the Wilderness Act 1906 Boris Papandopulo composer 1906 Warren Hymer New York NY, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob) 1907 Mary Coyle Chase playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize) 1907 Shimen Rushkin Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time) 1908 Frank G Slaughter author (Sangaree) 1909 Edgar Pangborn US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy) 1909 John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather writer 1910 Millicent Fenwick New York NY, (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury) 1912 Richard Wattis England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl) 1913 Jim Backus Cleveland OH, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan's Island) 1913 Gert Froebe Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger) 1914 John Arlott cricketer (the doyen of cricket commentators & writers) 1916 Ralph Baldwin harness driver (set 11 major world records) 1916 Ian Wallace British CEO 1917 Anthony Burgess essayist/novelist (A Clockwork Orange) 1917 Alex Gordon architect 1917 Asta E R Elstak Suriname/Dutch social worker 1918 Henry Norwood Ewell Harrisburg PA, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1948) 1918 Robert Lorimer "Bobby" Riggs US tennis star (US Open 1939, 41) 1919 Monty Irvin baseball hall of famer (New York Giants) 1919 F de Jong Edz Dutch historian 1920 Antony Duff diplomat 1920 Hayes Gordon Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room) 1922 Matti Rautio composer 1923 Roger Parker Lord Justice of Appeal 1924 Peg Ridge peace campaigner 1925 Bert Remsen Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living) 1926 Harvey McGregor QC/warden (New College-Oxford) 1927 Dick Jones Snyder TX, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr) 1927 Jane Nigh Hollywood CA, actress (Lorelei-Big Town) 1927 Jacques Monod composer 1927 Ralph Stanley country singer 1928 Keith Williamson British RAF marshal 1928 Larry Gelbart writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, MASH) 1928 Richard Stern US writer 1929 Christopher George Royal Oak MN, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal) 1929 Tommy Newsom Virginia, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show) 1929 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff British church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity) 1930 Erica Pedretti writer 1931 Edward Kellett-Bowman British MEP 1931 J R Stephenson Lieutenant-Colonel/Secretary (MCC) 1932 Faron Young country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone) 1932 Laurence New Major-General 1932 Martin William Karlins composer 1934 Lord Crickhowell 1934 Michael Wheeler-Booth Clerk of the Parliaments 1934 Robert Neame brewer 1936 Jonnie Nicely playmate (August 1956) 1936 Norman Orville Scribner composer 1937 Bob Schieffer Austin TX, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) 1937 Basia Johnson maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune) 1937 Tom Courtenay England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy) 1938 Diane Baker Hollywood CA, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie) 1938 Herb Elliott Australia, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1960) 1938 Farokh Engineer Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75) 1939 A C F Verity master (Dulwich College) 1939 Marisa Mell Vienna Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70) 1940 Jesús Lopez-Cobos Toro Spain, conductor (International Conductor Competition) 1940 Jud Taylor actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare) 1940 Ron Santo Chicago Cub shortstop (1st baseball player to veto his trade) 1940 Billy Packer Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS) 1940 George Paul CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group) 1940 Hector MacKenzie trade unionist 1941 David Puttnam London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures) 1941 Susan Browning Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman) 1941 Ramon Pagayon Santos composer 1941 Stewart Sutherland Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University) 1943 George Harrison Liverpool England, rocker (My Sweet Lord, Beatles-Something, Traveling Wilburys-End of the Line) 1943 Sally Jesse Raphael Easton PA, TV talk show host (Sally) 1943 Maryann Amacher composer 1944 Karen Grassle Berkeley CA, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie) 1944 Kristina Holland Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father) 1945 Elkie Brooks Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer) 1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies) 1946 F Xaver Kroetz writer 1947 Eddie Thomson Australian soccer coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96) 1947 Lee Edward Evans Madera CA, 400 meter runner (Olympics-2 gold-1968) 1947 Lewis Moonie British MP 1948 G B Warren British biochemist 1949 Lord Sempill 1950 Emitt Rhodes musician (The Merry-go-Round) 1950 Anthony Lloyd British MP 1950 Neil Jordan director (Crying Game) 1950 Rick Flair [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champion (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA) 1952 James A Barcia (Representative-D-MI) 1953 Garrett Glaser entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight) 1954 Steve Rixon Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85) 1955 Leann Hunley actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek) 1956 Davie Cooper soccer star 1957 Jane Ackroyd British sculptor 1957 Stuart "Woody" Wood Scotland, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night) 1958 Kurt Rambis NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-alike 1959 Mike Peters rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime) 1960 Glen Bishop cricketer (South Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987) 1962 Birgit Fischer German DR, 500 meter kayaker (Olympics-gold-1980) 1962 Cammy Ciarelli Iowa City IA, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-2nd-1995) 1962 Foster Emerson Sylvers rocker 1963 Alison Roberts fashion designer 1963 Paul O'Neill Columbus OH, right fielder (Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees) 1963 Tom McHale NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins) 1964 Don Majkowski NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) 1964 Steve Nevius film editor (Eden, Fall Time, Damascus) 1965 Carrot Top [Scott Thompson], Florida, comedian (American Comedy Award-1994) 1965 Veronica Webb supermodel/actress (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) 1966 Don Anurasiri cricketer (Sri Lankan slow left-armer) 1966 Samantha Phillips Ft Meade MD, Penthouse Pet 1966 Stacey Cortez actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital) 1966 Tea Leoni New York NY, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth) 1967 Jenny Byrne Perth Australia, tennis star (1984 Futures-Wyong-Australia) 1967 Nick Leeson British banker (Baring bank) 1967 Rich Rowland US baseball catcher (Detroit Tigers) 1968 David Hulse US baseball outfielder (Texas Rangers) 1969 Donald Hodge NBA center (Charlotte Hornets) 1969 Kerry Dienelt Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96) 1969 Michelle Gibson equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96) 1970 Alfred Jordan CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders) 1970 Brian O'Neal NFL full back (San Francisco 49ers) 1970 Corey Mayfield NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars) 1970 Dave Brown NFL quarterback (New York Giants) 1970 Joe Bowden NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers) 1970 Troy Mallette Sudbury, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators) 1971 Andrew Hermann US 50K walker (Olympics-96) 1971 Byron Dafoe Sussex England, NHL goalie (Los Angeles Kings) 1971 David Fox US, 50 meter freestyle (Olympics-6th-96) 1971 Helen Dobson Skegness England, golfer (1993 State Farm Rail Classic) 1971 Jennifer LaVoie Nashua NH, playmate (August 1993) 1971 Nova Peris Darwin Australia, field hockey left halfback (Olympics-96) 1971 Sean Astin Los Angeles CA, actor (Goonies, Like Father Like Son, Toy Soldiers) 1972 Chris Harrison guard (Detroit Lions) 1972 Erwin van de Looi soccer player (Vitesse) 1972 Sean Harris NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears) 1973 Daryl Gardener defensive end (Miami Dolphins) 1973 Kirrily Sharpe Bankstown Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures-Saga-Japan) 1974 Detron Smith NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1974 Tamarick Vanover NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs) 1975 Hercules Kyvelos Montréal Québec Canada, boxer (Olympics-96) 1976 Chris Pitman rocker (Zaum, Tool) 1976 Samaki Walker NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks) 1992 Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan Columbia SC, sport pistol (Olympics-96) Deaths which occurred on February 25: 0779 Walburgis Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies 1247 Hendrik IV duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies 1495 Djem Sultan son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 1601 Earl of Essex executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabeth 1601 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth 1602 Everard van Reyd Dutch historian, dies at about 51 1634 Albrecht von Wallenstein German generalissimo, murdered at 50 1634 Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein German duke, murdered at 50 1634 Van Friedland/Mecklenburg General-Admiral, dies at 50 1643 Marco da Gagliano Italian opera composer, dies at 60 1682 Alessandro Stradella Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 1713 Frederik I King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55 1719 Giovanni Maria Casini composer, dies at 66 1723 Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 1819 Filinto Elísio [do Nascimento], Portuguese poet, dies at 84 1826 Piotr A von der Pahlen military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60 1851 Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer, dies at 53 1852 Thomas Moore writer (Odes of Anacreon), dies 1865 Otto Ludwig German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 1894 James Morrison Steele Mackaye US actor/author/director, dies at 51 1899 Paul Julius von Reuter founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies 1901 Jose Rogel composer, dies at 71 1902 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf composer, dies at 77 1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky Russian composer/conductor, dies at 44 1914 John Tenniel British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 1915 George Mimot physician (Nobel-1934), dies 1920 Aloys Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73 1922 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, guillotined at 52 1925 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia composer, dies at 81 1934 Daniel Protheroe composer, dies at 67 1934 John J McGraw manager (New York Giants), dies at 60 1942 Leo Ascher composer, dies at 61 1945 Mário R de Morais Andrade Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51 1947 Friedrich Paschen German physicist, dies at 82 1953 Jesus Garcia Leoz composer, dies at 49 1955 Marij Kogoj composer, dies at 59 1957 Kurt von Wolfurt composer, dies at 76 1957 Mark Aldanov [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70 1960 Everhardus J van Romondt Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51 1962 Wilhelm Pessler German sociologist, dies at 81 1964 Alexander Archipenko sculptor, dies 1967 John Griggs actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57 1968 Camille Huysmans Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 1969 Jan Zajic Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates 1970 Mark Rothko abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66 1975 Elijah Muhammad leader of the Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 77 1978 Daniel "Chappie" James Jr retired Air Force General, dies at 58 1982 J K Irani cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies 1983 Tennessee Williams writer (Streetcar Named Desire), chokes to death on a bottle cap at 71 1983 John Cowles Sr US publisher, dies at 84 1987 James Coco actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58 1988 Amapola Del Vando actress (Cowboy), dies at 78 1990 Deborra Hampton actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30 1992 Guy Deghy actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79 1992 John E Allen Jr actor (1 2 3), dies 1992 Ollie O'Toole dies after long illness at 79 1993 Eddie Constantine actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75 1993 Jan D Boeke Dutch organist/conductor, dies 1993 Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans Dutch PM (Social Democrat, 1965-69), dies 1993 John D Boeke organist/conductor, dies 1993 Troy Caldwell country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45 1994 Baruch Goldstein physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42 1994 Hugh Tayfield cricketer (170 wickets for South Africa in 37 Tests), dies 1994 Jersey Joe Walcott boxer, dies at 80 1994 Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki dies at 80 1994 Yann Piat French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44 1995 Jack Clayton British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 1995 Oh Jin Woo Korean minister of defense, dies 1995 Terence Weil cellist/teacher, dies at 73 1996 Haing S Ngor doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45 1996 Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett dies at 59 1996 Vehbi Koc industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 94 1997 Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky writer/critic, dies at 71 1997 Tony Williams jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51 1998 Luigi Veronesi Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 1998 Umberto Mastroianni Italian sculptor, dies at 87 On this day February 25 in events: 1095 Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus 1358 Dalmatië flees Venice 1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France 1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine 1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México 1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance 1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen 1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts 1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein 1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River 1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen 1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢) 1791 1st Bank of US chartered 1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home) 1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land 1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation 1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus 1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House 1830 Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris 1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm 1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours 1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West 1847 State University of Iowa is approved 1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence 1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act 1870 Hiram Revels, Mississippi, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Senator) 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill 1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds 1892 James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea 1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan 1901 George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son" premieres in New York NY 1904 J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theatre Society 1904 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games 1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic 1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer" premieres in London 1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1911 The opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia) 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax 1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon) 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed 1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark 1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3) 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska 1925 US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran 1925 US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords 1927 Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor 1930 Check photographing device patented 1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs England (114 & 112) 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yards in, posts on goal line) 1933 Thomas Yawkey purchases the Boston Red Sox 1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister 1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden 1940 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadiens) 1941 Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8) 1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front 1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier 1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) 1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen 1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina) 1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando FL 2 Ball Golf Tournament 1952 6th Winter Olympics games close at Oslo, Norway 1953 "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 performances 1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" 1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport 1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres 1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in New York NY 1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak 1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 meter at release to record 14,10 1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon 1962 India Congress Party wins elections 1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands 1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me" 1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship 1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea 1968 Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus 1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album 1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars 1969 Pension plan for baseball is agreed to 1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances 1971 P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" premieres in New York NY 1972 Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise 1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders 1973 Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theater in New York NY for 601 performances 1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 1975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured 1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 points 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth 1978 Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs New Zealand Christchurch 1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname 1981 New York Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames 1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes) 1981 Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue 1981 23rd Grammy Awards Sailing-Christopher Cross, Billy Joel win 1981 Executive Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved 1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain 1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs 1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph) 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel 1986 28th Grammy Awards We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins win 1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao 1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game 1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action 1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse 1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour" begins in Worcester MA 1988 South Korea adopts constitution 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career 1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 vs New Zealand at Eden Park 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt) 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas 1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long 1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup 1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs Sri Lanka (122 & 100) 1991 Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts 1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile, kills 28 1992 34th Grammy Awards Unforgettable, Marc Cohn win 1993 "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances 1993 Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy" 1993 Pakistan all out 43 vs West Indies, world one-day international record low 1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 1994 Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) 1995 British heavyweight Nigel Benn hits Gerard McClellan in hospital 1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead 1995 PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander 1996 "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances 1996 Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad vs Leeward Is 1998 40th Grammy Awards 1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-22-2006 03:58 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 26: 1361 Wenceslas of Bohemia Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400) 1588 Nicolaus Erich composer 1675 Guillaume Delisle Paris France, geographer (Atlas Géographique) 1675 Johann Philipp Treiber composer 1677 Nicola Fago composer 1686 Godefroi L Count d'Estrades French diplomat 1717 John Randall composer 1770 Antoine Reicha composer 1772 Caspar Furstenau composer 1802 Victor Hugo France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) 1808 Honoré Daumier France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist 1824 Carlos Calvo Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause) 1825 Hans Balatka composer 1831 Filippo Marchetti composer 1832 John George Nicolay US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer) 1834 Aleksander Zarzycki composer 1835 Richard Andree German geographer (Andree's Handatlas) 1837 Charles Woeste Belgian count/minister of Justice 1838 Wendelin Weissheimer composer 1841 Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer English Consul-General (Egypt) 1842 Camille Flammarion Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy 1845 Alexander III St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) 1845 Aleksander Rozycki composer 1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes 1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry 1857 Emile Coué French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion) 1861 Ferdinand I Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18) 1866 Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical) 1867 Siegfried Passarge German geographer (Cameroon/South Africa/America) 1868 Leonard Borwick British pianist 1869 Nadezjda K Krupskaja Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin 1873 Ewoud van Everdingen Dutch meteorologist 1874 Carl Vogler composer 1875 Emma Dunn actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway) 1875 Richard Wetz composer 1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2") 1876 Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38) 1877 Carel S Adama van Scheltema Dutch poet/writer (socialism) 1877 Russell Alexander composer 1879 Frank Bridge English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten 1882 Walter Lucht German artillery general (WWI/WWII) 1883 Erich R Jaensch German psychologist (eidetism) 1884 Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn pianist/composer 1884 Hildo Krop Dutch modernistic sculptor 1885 Lili Green [Alice Sally Mary], Netherlands/England dancer 1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs) 1887 Sir Benegal Narsing Rau India, president of UN Security Council (1950) 1891 Alan Bridge PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills) 1893 Ivor A "I A" Richards English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) 1893 William Frawley Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons) 1896 Andrei A Zjdanov Russian politician (against kosmopolitism) 1896 Eduard Flipse Dutch conductor/composer 1898 Julien de Valckenaere Flemish writer 19-- Barbara Meek Detroit MI, actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Melba) 19-- Christopher Templeton Lake Forest IL, actor (Carol-Young & Restless) 19-- Damita Jo Freeman Palestine TX, actress (Jackie Simms-Private Benjamin) 19-- Jonathan Schmock La Jolla CA, actor (Billy-Double Trouble) 19-- Kevin Best New York NY, actor (Harrison-General Hospital) 1900 Jean Negulesco Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica) 1902 Rudolf Moralt German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic) 1902 Vercors [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer) 1906 Madeleine Carroll English actress (The 39 Steps, Secret Agent) 1906 Nikos Ghika artist 1908 Tex Avery cartoon director (What's up, Doc?) 1909 Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock TV Chef 1911 Josef Smrkovsky Czechoslovakia MP chairman 1913 Jon Hall Fresno CA, actor (Ramor of the Jungle) 1913 George G Barker English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini) 1913 Hermann Lenz writer 1914 Robert Alda New York NY, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand) 1914 Witold Rowicki composer 1915 Elisabeth Eybers South African/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses) 1915 Pran Nath Chhuttani physician/teacher 1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) 1916 Mordecai Seter composer 1916 Ross Gregory cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WWII) 1917 Robert Taft Jr (Senator-R-OH) 1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers) 1918 Otis R Bowen US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1985-89) 1918 Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon US, sci-fi author (Starshine, A Way Home, Hugo, Caviar) 1919 Hendrika Mastenbroek 100 meter/400 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1936) 1919 Mason Adams New York NY, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season) 1919 Beppie Nooij actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien) 1919 Luc-Andre Marcel composer 1920 A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek Netherlands, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936) 1920 Antony Kearey TV producer 1920 Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney) 1921 Betty Hutton Battle Creek MI, actress (Greatest Show on Earth) 1922 Margaret Leighton Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart) 1922 Bill Johnston cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war) 1924 Mark Bucci New York NY, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award) 1924 Noboru Takeshita Japanese PM (1987-89) 1925 Frank Henry Copplestone TV executive 1925 James Moody US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader 1926 Cynthia Stone Peoria IL, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers) 1926 Konstantin P Feoktistov Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1) 1926 Arsene Souffriau composer 1927 Donald Gramm Milwaukee WI, bass-baritone 1927 Tom Kennedy Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune) 1928 Aldonis Kalnins composer 1928 Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16) 1928 Antoine "Fats" Domino New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill) 1928 Everton Weekes West Indian cricket player (one of the 3 W's) 1930 Lazar Berman Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956) 1931 Francisco Kroepfl composer 1931 Robert D Novak Joliet IL, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak) 1932 Johnny Cash Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue) 1933 Sir James Goldsmith Paris France, financier/corporate raider (Referendum Party) 1933 Godfrey Cambridge New York NY, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem) 1934 Ron Gaunt cricketer (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s) 1936 Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski cosmonaut 1936 Manmohan Desai filmmaker 1938 Jack Knight Somerville MS, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15) 1941 Keith Thomson cricketer (batted in 2 Tests New Zealand vs India 1968) 1942 Adriaan van Dis author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa) 1942 Joop van den Ende director (Alsmeer Studio) 1943 Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country) 1943 Bill Duke actor (Bird on a Wire, Predator) 1943 Bob van Reeth Flemish architect 1943 Paul Cotton Los Angeles CA, rocker (Poco) 1944 Marilyn Michaels comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour) 1945 Mitch Ryder rocker (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress) 1946 Bobby "Bingo" Smith NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers) 1946 Phyllis Eisenstein US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile) 1947 Sandi Shaw [Sandra Goodrich], Dagenham Essex England, rocker (Always Something There To Remind Me) 1948 Priscilla Lopez Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien) 1949 Emma Kirkby British soprano 1950 Jonathan Cain Chicago IL, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys) 1953 Bree Walker news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV) 1954 Michael Bolton New Haven CT, rock vocalist (How Am I Supposed To Live Without You, That's What Love Is All About) 1954 John Bolger actor (Captain Gabe McNamara-Another World) 1957 Keena Rothhammer US, 800 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972) 1957 Connie Carpenter-Phinney Madison WI, 79k cyclist (Olympics-gold-1984) 1958 Jeff Fithian actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies) 1958 Joe Fithian actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies) 1958 Susan J Helms Charlotte NC, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78) 1961 Sophie Winter actress (She's a Good Fighter) 1962 Sheila Cornell Encino FL, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96) 1965 Brittany York London England, playmate (October 1990) 1965 Alison Armitage London England, actress (Acapulco HEAT) 1965 Donald Narcisse CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1965 Matt Jackson Birmingham MI, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Payless) 1966 Jennifer Grant actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210) 1966 Wesley Walls NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints) 1967 David Howard Sarasota FL, infielder (Kansas City Royals) 1967 Roman Fortin NFL center (Atlanta Falcons) 1967 Scott Service US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds) 1968 Brendan Rogers CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts) 1968 Chris Green NFL safety (Buffalo Bills) 1968 J T Snow Long Beach CA, infielder (New York Yankees, California Angels) 1968 Leif Rohlin Vasteras Sweden, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks) 1968 René Groen soccer player (SC Heerenveen) 1969 Brandon Wilson US baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox) 1970 Katie O'Neill Los Angeles CA, actress (Together We Stand) 1970 Meeno Peluce Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears) 1970 Ben Maruquin Ventura CA, field hockey sweeper (Olympics-96) 1970 Radka Zrubakova Czechoslovakia, tennis star 1970 Sasha Danilovic NBA guard (Miami Heat) 1971 Erykah Badu singer 1971 Rick Lyle defensive end/defensive tackle (New York Jets) 1972 Clint McDaniel NBA guard (Sacramento Kings) 1972 Scott Turner NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins) 1973 Jenny Thompson Danvers MA, 400 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-92, 96) 1973 Marshall Faulk NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts) 1974 Ron Fox soccer player (Willem II) 1975 Cindy Werley Allentown PA, field hockey forward/midfielder (Olympics-96) 1975 Mike Wilson Brampton, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres) 1976 Froso Spyrou Miss Cyprus-Universe (1996) 1977 Tim Thomas NBA forward (Philadelphia 76ers) 1994 Creason Carbo Moss daughter of US actor Ronn Moss Deaths which occurred on February 26: 1076 Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Netherlands-Lutherian, murdered 1154 Rogier II Guiscard King of Sicily (1101-54), dies at 60 1266 Manfred bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies 1324 Dino Compagni Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies 1538 Worp van Thabor Frisian abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies 1577 Erik XIV Wasa King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43 1630 William Brade composer, dies 1686 Godefroi L Earl d'estrades French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78 1726 Maximilian II M Emanuel elect of Bavaria/governor of Netherlands, dies 1766 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer, dies at 30 1770 François Hanot composer, dies at 72 1770 Giuseppe Tartini Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77 1810 Johann Ernst Rembt composer, dies at 60 1813 Robert R Livingston US diplomat (Declaration of Independence), dies at 66 1823 John P Kemble English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at 66 1827 David Moritz Michael composer, dies at 75 1857 Ole Andreas Lindeman composer, dies at 88 1859 Ferdinand Lukas Schubert composer, dies at 64 1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched 1871 Charles Niellon Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 1901 Chi-hsui during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded 1903 Richard J Gatling US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84 1906 Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer, dies at 70 1909 Caran d'Ache [Emmanuel Poiré], French illustrator, dies 1913 Felix Draeseke composer, dies at 77 1920 Ludwig Rubiner writer, dies at 38 1921 Carl Menger Austrian economist, dies at 81 1926 Frederik Pijper Dutch vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67 1926 Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller composer, dies at 75 1930 Raffaele Merry del Val Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64 1931 Otto Wallach German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 1933 Antonio Nicolau Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74 1939 E Fernandez Arbós Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75 1941 Jan Keizer Zaanse February striker, shot to death 1947 Ben Webster actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82 1950 Harry Lauder (Maclennan) Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75 1953 Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies 1953 Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/linguist (spelling), dies at 58 1954 William R Inge English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93 1956 Herman Courtens Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72 1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52 1960 Aleksandar Belic Swedish linguist, dies at 83 1961 Karl Albiker German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83 1961 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at 51 1962 Harold Johnson comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70 1962 Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer, dies at 83 1963 Artturi A Leinonen Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1966 Minerva Urecal actress (Peter Gunn, Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71 1967 Harry McNaughton comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70 1968 Eric Feldary actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55 1969 Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli premier, dies; Golda Meir takes over 3/17 1969 Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86 1970 Ethel Leginska composer, dies at 83 1971 Edward van der Merwe cricket keeper (South Africa in 2 Tests in 30's), dies 1971 Fernandel [Contandin], French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67 1971 Joseph Desire Fernandel comedian, dies of cancer at 67 1971 Tullio Carminati actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at 76 1972 Tom Manders Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50 1973 Mary Finney actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68 1977 Bukka White rocker, dies at 43 1977 Maxime Jacob composer, dies at 71 1981 FC Terborgh [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79 1981 Howard Hanson US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84 1981 Munabi assistant to Ugandan President Obote, murdered 1982 Gabor Szabo Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45 1990 Cornell Gunther US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53 1990 Leslie Ames cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies 1990 Maurine Stuart Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies 1990 Scott Jarvis musician (Great Expectationa), dies 1992 Gerrit Schulte "Crazy Cyclist", Dutch 6-days bicyclist, dies at 76 1992 Jean R Yawkey owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of a stroke at 83 1993 Constance Ford US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64 1993 Fletcher Knebel author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81 1993 Mark Kolthoff Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92 1994 Avery Fisher US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87 1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84 1994 William "Bill" M Hicks comedian, dies at 32 1996 Audrey Angers charity pioneer 1996 Daniel John Chapman Cunningham physiologist, dies at 76 1997 David Doyle actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67 1997 Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone car Designer, dies at 82 On this day...Events in History 0747 -BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar 1266 Battle of Benevento 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000 1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht 1564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized 1590 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda 1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo 1732 1st mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia) 1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary) 1797 Bank of England issues 1st £1-note 1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad 1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I 1834 1st US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified 1839 Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) 1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" 1848 2nd French Republic forms 1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die 1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins 1862 Battle of Woodburn, KY 1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act 1866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health 1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states 1869 Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic" premieres 1870 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) 1881 SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool 1881 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill 1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II 1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England 1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG 1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park 1891 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo 1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan 1893 Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500 meter (48 seconds) 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine 1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01) 1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract 1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia 1917 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine 1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona 1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts) 1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins 1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government 1926 Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street 1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park 1930 "The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater 1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC) 1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell 1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering 1935 New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves 1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt) 1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen" 1936 Military coup in Japan 1937 C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London 1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1938 Rie Van Veen swims world record 200 meter free style (2:24.6) 1938 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer 1938 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee 1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY 1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California) 1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews 1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory 1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies 1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" 1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia 1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force 1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN 1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight 1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premieres in New York NY 1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia 1952 PM Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference 1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA 1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA 1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records 1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith 1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances 1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge 1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia 1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York 1962 Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York NY 1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation 1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls 1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania 1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell NM (CBS) begins broadcasting 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission 1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album 1970 "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances 1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125 1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m 1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris 1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show) 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in New York NY 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US 1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time 1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname 1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft 1981 Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 minute total 1981 French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run 1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released 1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs Australia Wellington, run out 9 1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks 1983 Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville NY) begins transmission 1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown" 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate 1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut 1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse 1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win 1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat 1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16) 1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs 1987 NASA launches GEOS-H 1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record 1987 Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record 1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair 1987 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65) 1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster 1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am 1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa) 1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991 1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital 1991 New York-New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 & 102) 1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion 1992 "Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 46 performances 1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die 1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123 1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm 1994 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1 1995 London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson 1997 39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes win 1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial 1998 Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders 1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-27-2006 07:51 PM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 27: 0280 Constantine the Great Roman emperor (306-37), adopted Christianity 1539 Franciscus Raphelengius Dutch book publisher 1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius Dutch painter 1649 Johann Philipp Krieger composer 1702 Johann Valentin Gorner composer 1745 Silverius Muller composer 1746 Gian Francesco Fortunati composer 1759 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab composer 1784 Elias Annes Borger Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine) 1784 Job Plimpton composer 1792 Don Joaquin B F Espartero Spanish adventurer/field marshal 1802 William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck Lord George Bentinck 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Portland ME, poet (Hiawatha) 1811 [Catherine] Mildred Lee sister of US General Robert E Lee 1822 Eugene Gautier composer 1823 Ferdinand Van Derveer Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 1823 William Buel Franklin Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 1827 Richard W Johnson Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 1832 Alfred Pollard Edward Civil War journalist, died in 1872 1835 Charles Cartuyvels Belgian pulpit orator 1835 Richard Garnett English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker) 1841 [Eleanor] Agnes Lee daughter of US General Robert E Lee 1846 Joaquin Valverde composer 1847 Dame Ellen Alice Terry Coventry England, Shakespearian stage actress 1848 Charles Hubert H Parry England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem) 1850 Henry Edwards Huntington US, railroad exec 1861 Rudolph Steiner Kraljevic Austria, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy movement) 1867 Irving Fisher US economist (compensating dollar) 1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger composer 1869 Alice Hamilton physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws) 1870 Louis Coerne composer 1874 Max Ettinger composer 1879 Jose Sancho Marraco composer 1881 Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers Dutch mathematician 1881 Sveinn Björnsson 1st President of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild) 1886 Hugo L Black Alabama, (Senator-D-AL)/78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71) 1887 James D Innes English painter 1888 Lotte Lehmann Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello) 1891 David Sarnoff US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA) 1891 Georges E Migot French composer 1892 William Demarest St Paul MN, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons) 1893 Joseph Messner composer 1893 Ralph Linton US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture) 1894 Robert-Lucien Siohan composer 1895 Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys) 1897 Bernard F Lyot French astronomer (Lyot filter) 1897 G Paul H Schuitema graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color) 1898 Allison Danzig sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History) 1898 Rutkowski Bronislaw composer 1899 Charles H Best Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer of diabetes treatment (Insulin) 1899 Ian Keith Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers) 1899 Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer 19-- Stephen Yates actor (Another World, Guiding Light) 19-- Tim Topper Baltimore MD, actor (Evan-Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) 1901 Marino Marini Italian sculptor/painter 1902 Gene Sarazen Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32) 1902 John Steinbeck Salinas CA, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962) 1902 Marian Anderson singer, banned by D A R 1902 Ethelda Bleibtrey 100 meter/300 meter US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920) 1903 Reginald Gardiner Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator) 1904 James Thomas Farrell US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy) 1904 Renaat Verheijen Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart) 1905 Franchot Tone Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey) 1905 Charles de Keukeleire Belgian director (Evil Eye) 1906 Alexander Matheson New Zealand cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31) 1906 H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet) 1907 Gerhard Alexander [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange) 1909 Elisabeth Welch singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon) 1910 Joan Bennett Palisades NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows, Little Women, Disraeli) 1910 Peter De Vries Chicago IL, author (Reuben Reuben, The Prick of Noon) 1912 Hugues Panassié French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France) 1912 Lawrence Durrell Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet) 1913 Frank Allaun British MP (L) 1913 Irwin Shaw US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man) 1915 Arthur Gilson Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958- ) 1917 John Bowden Connally Jr Floresville TX, (Governor/Senator-D/R-TX), Wounded in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy 1919 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati composer 1920 Jose Melis Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program) 1920 David Vere Bendall former diplomat 1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55) 1921 Andras Szollosy composer 1921 Michael Fox US, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein) 1922 Mervyn Jones author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers) 1923 Dexter Gordon US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection) 1923 Viktor Kalabis composer 1924 M M Shearer former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland 1924 Norman Marshall cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for West Indies 1955) 1925 Hugh Leggatt art dealer 1925 Michael Kaye director (City of London Festival) 1925 Richard AFM Auwerda Dutch journalist/writer 1926 Sir Peter Emery British MP 1927 Lord Belhaven & Stenton 1927 Michael Butler Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art) 1930 Joanne Woodward Thomasville GA, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel) 1930 Lieux Dressler actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital) 1931 Andrew Sloan Chief Constable (Strathcourt) 1932 Elizabeth Taylor London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes 1932 Lord Young of Graffham CEO (Cables & Wireless) 1932 Dolf Zwerver Dutch painter 1933 Edward Lucie-Smith poetry critic 1933 Raymond Berry Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts) 1933 6th marquess of Bute Scottish large landowner/bibliophile 1933 Geoffrey Maitland Smith CEO (Sears) 1933 Malcolm Wallop (Senator-R-WY, 1977- ) 1934 Van Williams Fort Worth TX, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon) 1934 [Navarre] Scott Momaday US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969) 1934 Ralph Nader Winsted CT, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed) 1935 Mirella Freni Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly) 1935 Alberto Remedios opera/concert singer 1936 Roger M Mahoney Hollywood CA, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- ) 1936 Chuck Glaser Spalding NB, singer (Glaser Brothers-Getting to Me Again) 1936 Timothy Spall actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance) 1936 Virginia Maskell actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs) 1937 L Jay Silvester US, discus thrower (Olympics-silver-1972) 1937 Barbara Babcock Pasadena CA, actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues) 1937 Donald MacKay CEO (Scottish Enterprise) 1937 Viscount Head 1938 Pascale Petit Paris, actor (Code Name Jaguar, End of Desire) 1939 Peter Revson auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner) 1939 Antoinette Sibley ballerina (Turning Point) 1939 Kenzo Takada Japanese director (Dream After Dream) 1939 Lester King cricketer (West Indies fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wickets) 1940 Howard Hesseman Salem OR, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class) 1940 Barbara Kelly CEO (Scottish Consumer Council) 1941 Paddy Ashdown New Delhi India, 1st leader of Britain's Social/Liberal Democrat Party 1941 Ian McGarry General Secretary (British Actors' Equity Association) 1941 Sandy Wilson director (Harmony Cats, American Boyfriends) 1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer) 1943 Mary Frann St Louis MO, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Lives) 1944 Alan Fudge Wichita KS, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls) 1944 Graeme Pollock cricketer (South African batting prodigy) 1944 Roger Scruton philosopher 1945 Daniel Olbrychski Poland, actor (La Truite) 1947 Gidon Kremer Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970) 1947 Ashley Woodcock cricketer (one Test Australia vs New Zealand 1974, only knock 27) 1947 Marian G Klaren Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage) 1948 Eddie Gray rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion) 1948 Stephen Curtis CEO (DVLA) 1950 Franco Moschino fashion Designer 1950 Julia Neuberger British Rabbi 1951 Lee Atwater Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91) 1951 Steve Harley London England, rocker (Cockney Rebel-Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)) 1952 Dwight Elmo Jones Houston TX, basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972) 1952 Henk Westbroek Dutch singer (Good Cause) 1952 Kevin Raleigh rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band) 1954 Neal Schon rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English) 1955 Garry Christian rocker 1955 Sally Spencer actress (M J McKinnon-Another World) 1957 Adrian Smith heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High) 1960 Paul Humphreys rock keyboardist/synthesizer player (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age) 1960 Stoney Jackson Richmond VA, actor (White Shadow, Insiders) 1960 Andres Gomez Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990) 1960 Bolik Dahan Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC) 1960 John van Grinsven soccer player (MVV) 1961 James Worthy NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP) 1961 Grant Shaud actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown) 1962 Adam Baldwin Chicago IL, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard) 1962 Grant Show Detroit MI, actor (Jake Hanson-Melrose Place) 1962 Kory Tarpenning Portland OR, pole vaulter 1962 Veronica Ribot-Canales Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96) 1963 Francesco Cancellotti Italy, tennis star 1964 April Heinrichs Littleton CO, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96) 1964 Ewen Vernal British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town) 1964 Richard de Vries soccer player (De Graafschap) 1965 Sandra Cecchini Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles) 1966 Gregg Rainwater actor (Buck Cross-The Young Riders) 1966 Chris Howard US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners) 1966 Pete Smith US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, New York Mets) 1967 Dallas Eakins Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets) 1967 Frantisek Kaberle Brno Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Czechoslovakian Republic) 1967 Robert Kron Brno Czechoslovakia, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers) 1968 Loy Vaught NBA forward (Los Angeles Clippers) 1968 Mike Sullivan Marshfield, NHL center (Calgary Flames) 1968 Ron Cox NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears) 1969 Victoria Fair Jackson MI, Miss Michigan-America (1990) 1969 Greg Stevenson Sherbrooke Québec Canada, rower (Olympics-11-92, 96) 1969 Robert Massey NFL cornerback (New York Giants) 1969 Robert Molenaar Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam) 1969 Willie Banks US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs) 1970 David White NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills) 1971 Ivan Robinson Philadelphia PA, US boxer (Olympics-92) 1971 Jaroslav Modry Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators) 1971 Rich Tylski guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars) 1973 "Pooh" Clark rocker (High-5) 1973 Terence Davis WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs) 1974 Chris Dishman guard (Arizona Cardinals) 1974 Jim Maher cricketer (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995 side) 1975 Christina Nigra actress (Out of This World) 1975 Dana Marie Lane Cheyenne WY, Miss Wyoming-America (1995) 1975 Duce Staley running back (Philadelphia Eagles) 1975 Marcus Robinson wide receiver (Chicago Bears) 1976 Tony Gonzalez tight end (Kansas City Chiefs) 1980 Chelsea Victoria Clinton Daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton Deaths which occurred on February 27: 1167 Robert of Melun English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies 1656 Johan van Heemskerk Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies 1706 John Evelyn diarist, dies 1731 Angelo Predieri composer, dies at 76 1733 Johann Adam Birkenstock composer, dies at 46 1735 John Arbuthnot physician/mathematician, dies 1779 Jan Nepveu Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59 1797 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele composer, dies at 61 1805 Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at 57 1844 Nicholas Biddle US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85 1852 Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at 69 1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23 1881 George Colley British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle at 46 1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin Russian composer, dies at 53 1913 Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58 1920 Alexandru D Xenopol Romanian historian, dies at 72 1921 Schofield Haigh cricketer (England all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies 1923 Charles Francis Abdy Williams composer, dies at 67 1929 Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry composer, dies at 65 1936 Ivan P Pavlov Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70 1940 Peter Behrens German architect, dies 1942 Karel WFM Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52 1943 Kostís Palamis Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basília), dies at 84 1945 HJ Lochtman Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1947 Mackinnon of Mackinnon cricketer (Tests England vs Australia 1879), dies at 89 1950 Ivan Goll writer, dies at 58 1952 Theodorus Pangalos Greek General/dictator 1926, dies at 74 1955 Tom Howard comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 1956 Frank Dailey orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 1956 Günther Ramin German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57 1958 Harry Cohn CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack 1960 Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1961 Platt Adams high jumper (Olympics-gold-1912), dies 1962 Willie Best actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 1966 Minerva Urecal actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81 1968 Johannes Tralow writer, dies at 85 1968 Ludvik Podest composer, dies at 46 1969 John Boles actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 1970 Robert Bruce Lockhart diplomat/writer, dies 1973 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72 1974 Pat Brady Toledo OH, actor (Roy Rogers Show), dies at 59 1975 Neville Cardus writer/cricketer, dies 1977 Allison Hayes actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 1978 Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov composer, dies at 65 1980 George Tobias actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78 1982 Malika A Sabirova Russian dancer, dies at 39 1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83 1985 David Huffman actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies 1985 Henry Cabot Lodge (Senator-R)/diplomat, dies at 82 1987 Joan Greenwood English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65 1989 Joe Silver actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66 1989 Konrad Lorenz Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85 1991 Artie Mitchell porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45 1991 H J of Royen manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orchestra), dies at 52 1991 Robert-Jan Akkerman Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered 1992 Marinus Ruppert Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 1992 S I Hayakawa (Senator-R-CA, 1977-83), dies from a stroke at 85 1993 José Duval actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72 1993 Lillian Gish US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96 1993 Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83 1994 Harold Acton English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 1994 Karl I Pelgrom Dutch sculptor, dies at 66 1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie jet pioneer, dies at 92 1994 Leopold "Hans" Kohr Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84 1995 Bernard Cornfield financier, dies at 67 1995 Philip Sherrington opus Dei Priest, dies at 51 1996 François Chaumette actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72 1996 George Ian Murray 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64 1996 Pat Smythe show jumper, dies at 67 1996 Sylvia Williams museum director/curator, dies at 60 1998 J T Walsh actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), dies from a heart attack at 54 2003 Fred[erick McFeely] Rogers [Mr. Rogers] children's television host, dies from stomach cancer at 74 On this day events in History... 0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral 1594 Henri IV crowned king of France 1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English 1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname 1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I 1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower 1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association 1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao 1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India 1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted 1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail 1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres 1816 Dutch regain Suriname 1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) 1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine 1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing 1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland 1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumter" 1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO 1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission 1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U 1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor 1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds 1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election 1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener) 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine 1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw 1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa 1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes 1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) 1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "The Planets" 1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY) 1921 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard 1921 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger 1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference 1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II" premieres in New York NY 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls 1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich 1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 vs England 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact 1929 Russia & US sign trade agreement 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead) 1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists) 1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo" premieres in Paris 1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6) 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes 1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain 1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes 1939 Belgian government of Pierlot falls 1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire 1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese 1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun 1942 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany 1945 Battle of US 94 Infantry 1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York NY) 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China 1951 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" 1956 Female suffrage in Egypt 1957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1959 Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers 1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens 1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed 1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances 1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 1966 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford Great Britain 1966 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of USSR 1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US 1966 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer Austria 1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK 1967 Dominica gains independence from England 1967 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne" 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin 1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance 1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox 1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius 1974 "People" magazine begins sales 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin 1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1980 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers) 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory" 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw 1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million 1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA 1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78 1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament 1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC 1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters) 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published 1985 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands) 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption 1987 "Washington Week In Review", 20th anniversary on PBS 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters) 1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34 1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland 1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez) 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London 1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated 1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr 1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC 1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards 1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati 1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-28-2006 07:07 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on February 28: 1533 Michel de Montaigne France, essayist/philosopher 1552 Jobst Bürgi [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician 1573 Elias Hill German architect/city builder (Augsburg) 1616 Kaspar Forster composer 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully Florence Italy, composer 1663 Thomas Newcomen English co-inventor (steam engine) 1675 Guillaume Delisle Paris, cartographer/geographer 1683 René-Antoine de Réaumur France, biologist/engineer 1690 Aleksei P Romanov Russia, son of Peter the Great 1712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran France, General 1747 Justin Morgan composer 1750 Ignacy Potocki Polish foreign minister 1764 Robert Haldane Scottish theologist/philanthropist 1771 French Jozef Kinsoen Flemish portrait painter 1779 Augustus Callcott landscape painter, Kensington 1786 D François J Arago French astronomer/physicist/politician 1792 Henriette countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont wife of King Willem I 1792 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer Estonian/German embryologist 1797 Mary Lyon US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame) 1797 W Frederik K prince of Netherlands/General/Admiral (10 day campaign) 1799 Johann von Döllinger German Old Catholic theologian/historian 1810 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink Dutch historian 1812 Berthold Auerbach German author (Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten) 1817 James Craig Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 1820 John Tenniel England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) 1822 Matthew Duncan Ector Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1823 Ernest Renan French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1824 Charles Blondin France, acrobat/aerialist 1824 John Creed Moore Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 1833 Alfred von Schlieffen Count/Prussian General-field marshal 1850 Hermann Schell German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist) 1854 Juliusz Zarebski composer 1857 Gustave Adolph Kerker composer 1858 Jacob P Vis Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries) 1865 Sir Wilfred Grenfell England, medical missionary 1865 Arthur Symons Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy) 1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov Russian philosopher/classical/Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars) 1874 Soledad Jiminez Santander Spain, actor (Phantom of the Range) 1875 Viliam Figus composer 1876 John Alden Carpenter Chicago IL, composer (Sea Drift) 1877 Sergei Bortkiewicz composer 1882 José Vasconcelos Oaxaca México, politician/essayist/philosopher 1882 Geraldine Farrar US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer) 1882 Richard Heinrich Stein composer 1886 José Gutiérrez Solana Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas) 1886 Max Vasmer German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo) 1887 William Zorach Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance) 1889 Victor Sutherland Paducah KY, actor (Captive City) 1890 Vaslav Nijinsky Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer 1893 Ben Hecht New York NY, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (The Front Page) 1895 Guiomar Novaes Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit) 1895 Marcel Pagnol French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire) 1896 Philip Showalter Hench Pittsburgh PA, physician (cortisone-Nobel) 1898 Molly Picon Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) 1899 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist 19-- Richard Romanus Barre VT, actor (Foul Play, Strike Force) 19-- Rick Lohman Cleveland OH, actor (Search For Tomorrow, Phyl & Mikhy) 1900 Edna Swithenbank Manley Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM 1900 Laura Z Hobson writer 1901 Linus Pauling chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962) 1901 Rudolf W Nilsen Norwegian poet (Hverdagen) 1905 Glyn Jones writer 1906 Bugsy Siegel gangster created casinos in Las Vegas 1907 Milton Caniff Hillsboro OH, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates) 1908 Billie Bird Pocatello ID, actress (Mrs Cassidy-Benson, Dear John, Jury Duty) 1909 Olan Soule La Harpe IL, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie) 1909 Stephen Harold Spender England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) 1910 Roman Maciejewski composer 1910 Vincente Minnelli Chicago IL, movie director (American in Paris, Gigi) 1911 Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji) 1912 Helmut Coing German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute) 1914 Jim Boles Lubbock TX, actor (Joe-One Man's Family) 1915 Sir Peter Medawar England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953) 1915 Zero [Samuel Joel] Mostel Brooklyn NY, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) 1917 Hans Deutgen Sweden, world champion archer 1918 Alfred Burke London England, actor (Backfire) 1920 Edward Kassner music publisher 1920 Jim Olin (Representative-D-VA, 1983- ) 1920 Marjorie M Sweeting English geomorphologist 1921 John Bouber [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo) 1921 Vladimir Sommer composer 1923 Charles Durning Highland Falls NY, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Fury, Sting, Tootsie) 1924 Robert A Roe (Representative-D-NJ, 1969- ) 1925 Harry H Corbett Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky) 1926 Svetlana Alliluyeva daughter of Josef Stalin, author (My Life) 1926 Seymour Shifrin composer 1926 Stanley Glasser composer 1927 Bernard Frank oriental scholar/writer 1927 John Swire British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific) 1928 Bettye Ackerman Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey) 1928 Smokey The Bear 1928 Tom Aldredge Dayton OH, actor (What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers) 1929 Frank O Gehry architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City) 1930 Frank Malzone baseball player 1930 Leon Cooper US physicist (Nobel 1972) 1931 Gavin MacLeod Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat) 1931 Gustav Thoni Italy, skier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75) 1931 Jack Thieuloy writer 1932 Brian Moore British commentator (Big Match) 1932 Don Francks Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow) 1934 Willie Bobo New York NY, jazz drummer (Cos) 1935 Clive Halse cricketer (South Africa fast bowler on 1963-64 Australia/New Zealand tour) 1938 Martin Olav Sabo (Representative-D-MN, 1979- ) 1939 John Fahey singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death) 1939 Tommy Tune Wichita Falls TX, dancer/choreographer (The Boyfriend) 1939 Charles Brown Cincinnati OH, featherweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-1964) 1940 Joe South Atlanta GA, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play) 1940 Mario Andretti race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500) 1941 Alice May Brock author 1941 Marty Sanders rock vocalist 1942 Brian Jones rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar) 1942 Frank Bonner Little Rock AR, actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love, Sidekicks) 1943 Barbara Acklin [Allen], Chicago IL, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman) 1943 Donny Iris singer 1943 Hans F Dijkstal Dutch minister of the Interior (VVD, 1994-) 1944 Colin Nutley director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack) 1944 Kelly Bishop Colorado, actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn) 1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith Texas, NFLer (Baltimore Colts)/actor (Police Academy) 1945 Mimsy Farmer Chicago IL, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina) 1945 Ronnie Rosman rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion) 1946 Graham Vivian cricketer (son of Giff, 5 Tests for New Zealand 1965-72) 1947 Stephanie Beacham England, actress (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys) 1948 Bernadette Peters [Lazzaro] Queens NY, actress (The Jerk, Song & Dance) 1948 Mercedes Ruehl Queens NY, actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People) 1948 Willie Donnell Smith 1950 Ilene Graff Brooklyn NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere) 1950 Stephen Chatman composer 1951 Gustavo Thoeni Italy, giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1972) 1951 John Roarke Providence RI, comedian (Fridays) 1951 Karsan Ghavri cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s) 1952 Cristina Raines [Tina Herazo] Manila Philippines, actress (Sentinel) 1952 Jennie Lynn San Diego CA, actress (Love & Marriage) 1952 Melissa Babish South Carolina, swimmer (Olympics) 1952 Eddie Manion saxophonist 1953 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA) 1955 Gilbert Gottfried comedian (Beverly Hills Cop) 1955 Randy Jackson New Orleans LA, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want) 1956 Adrian Dantley Washington DC, NBA forward (Olympics-gold-1976, Utah Jazz, 1981, 84 top scorer) 1957 Phil Gould rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water) 1957 Cindy Wilson Athens GA, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack) 1957 Ian Smith cricket wicket-keeper (New Zealand of the 80's) 1957 Ian Stanley keyboardist 1957 Jeff Woodland Papua New Guinea, Nike golfer (1991 Dakota Dunes Open) 1957 John Turturro Brooklyn NY, actor (Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever) 1958 Christine Lathan-Brehmer German DR, 400 meter runner (Olympics-gold-76) 1958 Mark Pavelich NHLer (New York Rangers) 1959 Sydney P Mufamadi South African leader (SACP) 1960 Dorothy Stratten Vancouver British Columbia, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina) 1961 Barry McGuigan British boxer 1961 Wayne Smith Albany WA, Australasia golfer 1962 Rae Dawn Chong Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire) 1962 Angela Bailey England, Canadian 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1984) 1962 Chunli Li Auckland New Zealand, table tennis player (Olympics-96) 1962 Steve Tsujiura hockey forward (Team Japan 1998) 1965 Mikko Makela Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (New York Islanders) 1965 Duane Ferrell NBA forward (San Francisco Warriors, Indiana Pacers) 1966 Erik van Kessel Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht) 1966 Jan Varholik Kosice Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia) 1966 Tim Goad NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns) 1966 Vincent Askew NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers) 1967 Antone Davis NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles) 1967 Jeff[rey] Pfaendtner Detroit MI, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996) 1967 Marcus Lillington rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need) 1968 J T Snow US baseball 1st baseman (New York Yankees, California Angels) 1968 Mike Milchin Knoxville TN, pitcher (Minnesota Twin) 1969 Elisa Fiorillo singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming) 1969 Robert Sean Leonard New Jersey, actor (Dead Poets Society, Mr & Mrs Bridge) 1969 Shawn McEachern Waltham MA, NHL forward (Boston Bruins, Senators) 1970 Jan Varholik hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998) 1970 Mika Stromberg Helsinki Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland) 1970 Noureddine Morceli Algeria, 1500 meter runner (Olympics-gold-96) 1971 John Buchanan actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man) 1972 Melisa Moses Jacksonville FL, diver (Olympics-4th-96) 1972 Scott Gragg NFL tackle (New York Giants) 1973 Demetrice Martin WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores) 1973 Denard Walker cornerback (Tennessee Oilers) 1973 Eric Lindros London Ontario, NHL center (Philadelphia Flyers) 1973 Gary Walker NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers) 1973 Henry Bailey NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1974 Katie Allen Australian field hockey full back/half back (Olympics-96) 1974 Kevin Abrams cornerback (Detroit Lions) 1974 Michael Manasseri actor (License to Drive) 1974 Michael Swift WLAF CB (Rhein Fire) 1975 Azhar Mahmood cricket pace bowler (Pakistani ODI 1996) 1976 Angie Kennedy Nambour Queensland Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96) 1977 Aki-Petteri Berg NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-bronze-1998, Kings) 1977 Debbie Koegel Norristown PA, dance skater (& Oleg Fediukov) 1978 Marissa Perez Miss Connecticut Teen-USA (1996) 1979 Virginia Ledgerwood Chester VA, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96) Deaths which occurred on February 28: 1261 Hendrik duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies 1573 Jan "Hans" Liefrinck Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54 1609 Paul Sartorius composer, dies at 39 1618 Filips Willem Prince of Orange, dies at 63 1626 Cyril Tourneur English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies 1638 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1665 Lodewijk van Nassau Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies 1737 Hercule Brehy composer, dies at 63 1742 Willem J 's-Gravesande Dutch physicist, dies at 53 1781 Richard Stockton US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 50 1784 Phillis Wheatly poetess, dies 1796 Friedrich Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at 56 1818 Adriaan Loosjes Pzn Dutch publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56 1844 Abel P Upshur Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1844 Thommas W Gilmer Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1876 Charles Edward Horsley composer, dies at 53 1903 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada Albanian poet, dies at 88 1905 Joseph C Juglar French physician/economist, dies at 85 1912 Bill Storer English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies 1913 Elephant seal 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in South Georgia (South Atlantic) 1916 Henry James US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 1922 Vicente Lleo composer, dies at 51 1925 Friedrich Ebert Social-Democrat president of Germany, dies 1929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54 1929 John Ebenezer West composer, dies at 65 1931 Ban Johnson created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness 1935 Alexander W F Idenburg Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1909-16), dies at 73 1936 Pedro Muñoz Seca La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55 1940 Johan C Braakensiek Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81 1941 Alfonso XIII de Borbón King of Spain (1902-31), dies 1949 Stanley Robert Marchant composer, dies at 65 1953 Jim Thorpe decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64 1959 Maxwell Anderson US dramatist (Key Largo, Bad Seed), dies at 70 1960 F S Flint British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 1960 Jonathan Hale actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68 1961 Joris Vriamont Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64 1962 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70 1963 Theodore Newton actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58 1964 Dirk Filarski painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78 1965 Adolf Schärf President of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 1966 Charles A Bassett II astronaut, dies in a crash of T-38 jet at 34 1966 Elliot McKay See Jr astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash at 38 1968 Frankie Lymon singer, dies at 25 1968 Juanita Hall actress (Captain Billy), dies at 66 1968 Doretta Morrow actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 1972 Victor Barna table tennis champion, dies 1973 Cecil Kellaway actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78 1973 Hope Landin actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79 1974 Mees Toxopeus Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89 1975 Istvan Kardos composer, dies at 83 1977 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71 1978 Philip Ahn Los Angeles CA, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66 1978 Eric Frank Russell sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73 1979 Mr Ed talking horse, dies 1979 Jane Hylton English actress (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52 1980 Ian Alexander Ross Peebles cricketer (45 wickets for England), dies 1984 Leslie Walcott cricketer (Test for West Indies vs England 1930), dies 1985 Charita Bauer actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in New York NY 1986 Olof Palme Swedish PM, assassinated in Stockholm 1986 Sven Olof Palme Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59 1987 Anny Ondra actress (Blackmail), dies at 83 1987 Nora Kaye US ballet dancer, dies at 67 1988 Mikha`il Na'imah Lebanese playwright, dies at 99 1989 Hermann Burger writer, dies at 46 1990 Colin Milburn cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies 1990 Fabia Drake actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86 1990 Tuppy Owen-Smith South Africa cricketer (batsman vs England 1929), dies 1991 Guillermo Ungo member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies 1992 Angelique Pettyjohn actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49 1992 Emilla Sherman choreographer/rockette, dies 1992 La Lupe Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53 1993 Fer A Olthoff Dutch WWII resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies 1993 Franco Brusati Italian director/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70 1993 Ishiro Honda Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81 1993 Joyce Carey [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94 1993 Ruby Keeler actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82 1994 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86 1994 Buster Holmes chef/restaurateur, dies at 88 1994 Elbert "Skippy" Williams tenor Sax player, dies at 77 1994 George Osborne Sayles historian, dies at 92 1994 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard dies at 90 1994 Pu Yi brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87 1995 Herman "Ace" Wallace blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69 1995 Keith Rigg cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies 1995 Max Rudolf conductor, dies at 92 1996 Daniel Chipenda Angolan politician, dies at 64 On this day events in History 0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople 1066 Westminster Abbey opens 1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas 1610 Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia 1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh 1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church 1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch 1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands 1692 Salem witch hunt begins 1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY 1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100 1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die 1728 Georg F Händels opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London 1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy 1749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published 1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages 1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves 1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church 1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin 1810 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid" 1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet 1827 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered 1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener" premieres in Vienna 1835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala" 1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento 1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI 1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery 1861 Territories of Nevada & Colorado created 1862 The opera "La Reine de Saba" premieres (Paris) 1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister GA 1864 Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond 1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford) 1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections 1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate 1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation 1882 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University 1883 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston) 1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes 1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres 1891 Oscar Grundén skates world record 500 meter (50.8 seconds) 1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" 1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar 1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal 1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo 1903 Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000 1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres 1906 Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens University (Kingston Ontario) in 2 games 1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran 1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50 1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic) 1914 Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco) 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI 1920 Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin" premieres 1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1922 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions 1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles 1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands 1924 US begins intervention in Honduras 1925 Congress authorizes a special handling stamp 1925 Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games) 1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1 1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms 1929 Chicago Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass 1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party 1933 1st female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion 1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) 1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit 1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers 1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain 1940 1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37) 1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published 1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%)) 1941 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month 1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania 1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies 1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit 1942 1st weapon drop on Netherlands 1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan 1943 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month 1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan 1950 "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances 1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates 1951 French government of Pleven dissolves 1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov 1954 Patty Berg/Pete Cooper win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1956 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA 1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory 1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket 1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit 1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players 1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances 1959 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain 1959 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN 1959 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA 1959 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA 1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4 1960 8th Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley CA close 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open 1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor 1962 WMGM-AM in New York City NY changes call letters to WHN 1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes 1966 Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers 1967 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal 1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air 1969 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain 1969 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR 1969 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR 1969 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA 1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge 1970 "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances 1970 Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) 1970 KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast 1970 WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam 1971 WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville KY (IND) begins broadcasting 1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident 1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China 1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders 1974 US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years 1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms 1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election 1974 Taiwan police shoot into crowd 1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop 1975 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession 1976 18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win 1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles CA) 1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends 1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in New York NY 1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes) 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws 1981 China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan 1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day 1982 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic 1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street 1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch 1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8 1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs 1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade 1988 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game 1988 15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada 1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) 1989 Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public 1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA 1989 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame 1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit 1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine 1991 Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain 1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam 1991 "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances 1991 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500 meter indoor (3:34:16) 1993 "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances 1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins 1993 Gun battle erupts at Waco TX between FBI & Branch Davidians 1993 Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46 meters) 1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife 1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect 1995 Denver International Airport opens 1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins 1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45 1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia 1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US 1998 "View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC 1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-01-2006 07:36 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 01: 0772 Po Tjiu-i Chinese poet/Governor of Hang-tsjow 1456 Wladyslaw Jagiello king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516) 1494 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini] Italian painter 1528 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach [the Generous], duke of Bavaria 1607 Giovanni Francesco Milanta composer 1610 Johann B Schup [Schuppius] German poet/historian 1630 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere Flemish painter, baptized 1690 Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel composer 1703 Dieudonne Raick composer 1709 Josef Antonin Gurecky composer 1711 Peregrinus Pogl composer 1734 Pieter Valck[x] South Netherlands sculptor 1771 Armand-Emmanuel Trial composer 1779 Jacob Gottfried Weber composer 1780 Léonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1826-30) 1788 Gheorghe Asachi Romania, writer/humanist/politician 1799 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky composer 1810 Frédéric Chopin Poland, composer/pianist (Concerto in F Minor) 1811 Robert Christie Buchanan Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1878 1820 George Davis Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1896 1820 Richard Redhead composer 1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 1822 Charles Champion Gilbert Brigadier General (Union volunteers) 1826 John Thomas composer 1828 James Fleming Fagan Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 1828 Vittorio Bersezio [Carlo Nugelli] Italian playwright 1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1832 Friedrich Grutzmacher composer 1835 Matthias J Scheeben German theologist (Natur und Gnade) 1837 Ion Creanga Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) 1837 William Dean Howells US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic) 1838 Gabriele dell' Addolorata [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest 1841 Blanche Kelso Bruce Farmville VA, (Senator-MS, 1875-1881) 1841 Romualdo Marenco composer 1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece) 1852 Theophile Delcassé French statesman 1856 Florimond Fonteyne Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw) 1858 Georg Simmel German philosopher/sociologist 1860 Suzanna Salter 1st US female mayor/temperance leader 1864 Rebecca Lee 1st black woman to get a medical degree 1865 Gerard Vissering Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java) 1874 Jean de Merode [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Netherlands 1878 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont composer 1880 Julian Myrick promoter of junior tennis 1880 Lytton Strachey biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923) 1882 Ida Moore Altoona KS, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki) 1883 Thomas Shelvin college footballer great (Yale) 1885 Lionel Atwill Croyden England, actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum) 1886 Oskar Kokoschka Russian/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960) 1890 Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Zonnestral) 1892 Ryunosuke Akutagawa Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa) 1893 Theo Frenkel actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy) 1895 G B "Duke" Keats hockey hall of famer (elected 1958) 1896 Dimitri Mitropoulos Athens Greece, conductor/composer 19-- Richard Shoberg actor (Tom-All My Children, Edge of Night, Somerset) 19-- Tom Mason Brooklyn NY, actor (Jack & Mike, Our Family Honor) 1900 Donald Keith Falkner singer 1903 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist) 1904 Glenn Miller bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood) 1904 Paul Hartman San Francisco CA, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction) 1905 Pol le Roy Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom) 1907 Lois Moran Pittsburgh PA, actress (Mom-Waterfront) 1909 David Niven Kirriemuir Angus Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Eye of the Devil) 1909 Richard de Guide composer 1909 Robert Selby Taylor bishop 1909 Terrence De Marney London England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo) 1911 Harry Golombek chess grandmaster 1913 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim photographer/collector 1914 Archibald J Gumede South African ANC member/chairman (UDF) 1914 Ralph Waldo Ellison US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast) 1915 Johannes J "Joop" Klant Netherlands/South Africa economist (Madame Sans Gêne) 1917 Dinah Shore Winchester TN, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet) 1917 Robert Lowell poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean) 1918 Roger Delgado London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June) 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind) 1920 Alfred Grant Goodman composer 1920 Harry Caray baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs) 1920 Howard Nemerov US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist/critic (Blue Swallows) 1921 Jack Clayton Brighton East Sussex England, film director (Great Gatsby, Something Wicked This Way Comes) 1921 Richard Wilbur 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep) 1921 Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke New York NY 1922 William M Gaines publisher (MAD Magazine) 1922 Yitzak Rabin premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994) 1923 Bonita Granville actress/producer (Perry Mason) 1923 Duncan White Ceylon, 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-silver-1948) 1924 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton Sparta WI, Major USAF/astronaut (Apollo 18) 1925 Al Rosen Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (American League MVP 1953)/New York Yankee president 1926 Cesare Danova Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas) 1926 Pete Rozelle NFL commissioner (1960-89) 1926 Robert Clary Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes) 1927 Harry Belafonte Harlem New York NY, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher) 1927 Lusine Amara opera/concert singer 1927 Robert Heron Bork judge, nominated for supreme court 1929 Sonny James singer (Young Love, Running Bear) 1930 C D Gopinath cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's) 1930 Pierre Max Dubois composer 1930 Raymond St Jacques actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses) 1932 Jacques Leduc composer 1933 Istvan Lang composer 1933 Myrlie Evers politician/commissioner (Los Angeles Board of Public works) 1934 Jim "Ed" Brown Sparkman AR, country singer (Nashville on the Road) 1934 Joan Hackett New York NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony) 1934 Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 1935 George Généreux Canada, trap shooter (Olympics-gold-1952) 1935 Judith Rossner author (Looking for Mr Goodbar) 1935 Robert Conrad [Conrad R Falk] Chicago IL, actor (Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep) 1936 Camille E Baly St Maartens poet (Sonny) 1936 Jean-Edern Hallier writer 1936 Marion Farouk-Sluglett political scientist 1937 Jed Allan Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, C C-Santa Barbara) 1938 Michael J[oseph] Kurland US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device) 1939 Leo Brouwer composer 1939 Warren Davis rocker (Monotones) 1940 David Broome Show Jumper (world champion-1970) 1940 Ralph Towner Chehalis WA, rocker (Oregon, Weather Report) 1941 Michael L Lampton Williamsport PA, astronaut (STS-45) 1942 Jerry Fischer rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1942 Peter Guber producer (Flashdance) 1943 Benjamin W Jipcho Mount Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Olympics-silver-1972) 1943 Franz Hohler writer 1943 Mauro Checcoli Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympics-gold-1964) 1943 Piet Veerman Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home) 1943 Wolfgang Scheidel German Democratic Republic, luge (Olympics-gold-1972) 1944 Dirk Benedict Helena MT, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica) 1944 John B Breaux (Representative-Democrat-LA, 1972-88) 1944 John Napier London, set designer (Royal Shakespeare Company) 1944 Mike D'Abo rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn) 1944 Roger Daltrey Hammersmith London England, rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy) 1944 Roger Daltrey rocker (The Who-Tommy) 1945 Burning Spear [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer 1946 Lana Wood [Svetlana Gurdin] Santa Rosa CA, actress (Diamonds are Forever) 1946 Tony Ashton Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) 1947 Alan Thicke Kirkland Lake Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains) 1948 Norman Connors singer (You Are My Starship) 1949 Sido Martens Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus) 1950 Shahid Israr Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test vs New Zealand 1976) 1951 Barbara DeAngelis talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show) 1952 Alice Ritzman Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester International-5th) 1952 David Allen Barr Kelowna British Columbia, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic) 1953 Bandula Warnapura cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain) 1953 Ron Howard Duncan OK, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days/Willow, Backdraft) 1954 Catherine Bach Warren OH, actress (Daisy Duke-Dukes of Hazzard) 1954 Janis Gill Torrance CA, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl) 1955 Jimmy Fortune Newport News VA, singer (Statler Brothers-Class of '57) 1956 Balwinder Singh Sandhu cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup) 1956 Mark Todd UK, New Zealand equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96) 1956 Timothy Daly New York NY, actor (Joe-Wings, Almost Grown, Diner, Made in Heaven) 1957 Jon Carroll Washington DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight) 1958 Nik Kershaw Bristol England, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good) 1958 Wayne B Phillips cricket wicket-keeper (Australia) 1960 Alicia Dibos Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th) 1961 Davis Daniel Arlington Heights IL, country singer 1961 Mike Rozier NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta) 1962 Bill Leen rocker (Gin Blossoms) 1962 Mark Gardner Los Angeles CA, pitcher (San Francisco Giants) 1963 Arnold Oosterveer soccer player (SC Heerenveen) 1963 Barb[ara] Marois Auburn MA, field hockey defender (Olympics-96) 1963 Magnus Svensson Leksand Sweden, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers) 1963 Maurice Bénard [Mauricio Morales] San Francisco CA, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital, Nico Kelly-All My Children) 1963 Robert James Affuso Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love) 1963 Ron Francis Sault Ste Marie Ontario, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins, Team Canada) 1963 Tony Castillo Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays) 1964 Jennifer McCarter Sevierville TN, singer (McCarter-The Gift) 1965 Les Miller defensive end (Carolina Panthers) 1966 Clinton Gregory singer 1966 John David Cullum actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After) 1966 Luis Sojo Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners) 1966 Steve Reed Los Angeles CA, pitcher (Colorado Rockies) 1967 Aron Winter Surinamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio) 1967 Tawnni Cable Salem OR, playmate (June 1989) 1968 Dave Zuniga Worland WY, 136½ lbs/greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96) 1968 Salil Ankola cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989) 1968 Sanjeeva Weerasinghe cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka vs India at 17) 1969 Azam Khan cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996) 1969 Doug Creek Winchester VA, pitcher (San Francisco Giants) 1969 Vincenzo Esposito NBA guard (Toronto Raptors) 1970 Lisa Eagen Harlan IA, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996) 1970 Ray Crittenden wide receiver (San Diego Chargers) 1970 Stuart Thompson Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996) 1971 Allen Johnson Washington DC, long jumper/110 meter hurdler (Olympics-gold-96) 1971 André Karnebeek soccer player (FC Twente) 1971 Austin Robbins NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints) 1971 Shepherd Clark Atlanta GA, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champion) 1971 Tim Prinsen CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats) 1971 Tyler Hamilton Marblehead MA, cyclist (Olympics-96) 1971 Zahoor Elahi cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman vs New Zealand 1996) 1972 Omar Daal Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montréal Expos) 1972 Profail Grier CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1973 Chris Webber NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards) 1973 Igor Murin Trencin Czechoslovakia, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998) 1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell) 1974 Stephen Davis running back (Washington Redskins) 1975 Maria Jose Suarez Miss Spain-Universe (1996) 1976 Maringo Vlijter soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles) 1977 Rod White Sharon PA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996) 1980 Rose VBL Windsor daughter of English prince Richard 1980 Shahid Afridi cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings) Deaths which occurred on March 01: 0965 Leo VIII Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies 1131 Stephen II King of Hungary (1116-31), dies 1383 Amadeus VI (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 1510 Francisco d'Almeida viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 1535 Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies 1619 Thomas Campion English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 1633 George Herbert English poet, dies at 39 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi Italian composer/organist, dies at 59 1693 Benedict Schultheiss composer, dies at 39 1771 Isfrid Kayser composer, dies at 58 1773 Jan Wagenaar Dutch historian, dies at 63 1773 Luigi Vanvitelli [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72 1777 Georg Christoph Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62 1788 Orazio Mei composer, dies at 56 1797 Juan Manuel Olivares composer, dies at 36 1804 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer, dies at 63 1817 Luigi Gatti composer, dies at 77 1826 J J Friedrich Weinbrenner German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 1859 Josef Theodor Krov composer, dies at 61 1865 Anna Paulowna Romanova great monarch of Russia, dies at 70 1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78 1870 Francisco S López President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43 1892 Archibald Scott Scottish chemist, dies at 60 1896 ... Albertone Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Arimondi Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Dabormida Italian General (Eritrea), dies in battle 1899 György earl Apponyi Hungarian MP, dies at 90 1901 Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68 1906 José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa Spanish writer, dies at 73 1906 Moriz Heyne German germanist (German Wörterbuch), dies at 68 1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 1914 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin composer, dies at 47 1918 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren composer, dies at 64 1920 Joseph Trumpeldor killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack 1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79 1924 Louise-Marie Amélie princess of Belgium, dies at 66 1926 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58 1928 Albert Herbert Brewer composer, dies at 62 1928 Jacob Adolf Hagg composer, dies at 77 1930 Aloïs Walgrave Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54 1932 Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 1940 Josef Swickard actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73 1944 ... Formans director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz 1947 J Boogaard Nazi collaborator, executed 1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard painter/lithographer/etcher, dies 1958 Giacomo Balla Italian painter, dies at 86 1962 Roscoe Ates actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70 1964 Sergius Kagen composer, dies at 54 1965 Boleslav Vomacka composer, dies at 77 1968 Georg von der Vring German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 1970 Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59 1972 Victor Babin composer, dies at 63 1974 Jos de Haes Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53 1976 Jean Martinon French conductor/composer, dies at 66 1979 Dolores Costello actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73 1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75 1980 John Jacob Niles composer, dies at 87 1984 Jackie Coogan actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69 1985 Eugene List US concert pianist, dies at 66 1988 Jean Le Poulain actor (The Gorillas), dies at 63 1988 Joe Besser comedian (3 Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80 1989 Henk van Stipriaan Dutch radio host, dies at 64 1989 Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets), dies at 72 1990 Claude Spaak Belgian dramatist, dies 1991 Edwin H Land inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 1991 Katharine Blake actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62 1991 Scott Huston composer, dies at 74 1992 Maria Déa French actress (Piéges), dies at 73 1993 Luis Kutner US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84 1993 Terry Frost actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86 1994 Eliseo Diego Cuban poet, dies at 74 1994 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga journalist/writer, dies at 75 1994 Manmohan Desai filmmaker, dies at 57 1994 Timothy Andrew James Souster composer Musician, dies at 51 1994 Walter Kent US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82 1995 Edmund Boyd Fisher publisher, dies at 56 1995 Vladislav Listyev Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38 1996 Margaret McKay politician, dies at 85 On this day... 0001 -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 0293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy 0492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited 0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus 1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten 1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen 1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder 1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV 1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the 1st incorporated American city 1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA) 1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London) 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized 1790 1st US census authorized 1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed 1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague 1803 Ohio becomes 17th state 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed 1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel 1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law 1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) 1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree 1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana 1867 Howard University, Washington DC, chartered 1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later) 1869 Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1871 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia 1872 Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park 1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington CT) 1879 Library of Hawaii founded 1890 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador 1896 Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs Australia 1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota 1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, New York NY 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, North Dakota 1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment) 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic 1917 1st federal land bank chartered 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy 1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England 1921 Rwanda ceded to England 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied; killing railroad striker 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank 1928 Paul Whiteman & his orchestraestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records 1932 Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1934 Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) 1937 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles 1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day 1940 12th Academy Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published 1941 "Captain America" appears in a comic book 1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN 1941 Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commisioner 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat 1942 Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough 1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premieres in Chicago 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews 1942 Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1945 FDR announces success of Yalta Conference 1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander 1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach 1946 British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1946 Panamá accepts its new constitution 1947 International Monetary Fund began operations 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champion 1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals 1950 Chiang Kai-shek resumed the Presidency of National China on Formosa 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1950 USSR issues golden rubles 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle WA (IND) begins 1953 WJZ-AM in New York NY becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission 1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona PA (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 Representatives 1954 Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die 1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War 1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast 1955 Pakistan vs India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Gary Sobers 365 vs Pakistan, 614 minutes, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260 1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 declare vs Pakistan 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 1962 K-Mart opens 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country 1962 US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike 1965 Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle Québec Canada) 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) 1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain 1967 House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116) 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore MD (IND) 1st broadcast 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands 1968 Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances 1969 After 88 weeks Sergeant Pepper drops off the charts 1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball 1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater 1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released 1970 End of US commercial whale hunting 1970 Kreisky's social-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington DC 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth" 1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones" premieres in New York NY 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma LA (IND) begins broadcasting 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens 1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November 1974 Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at Wellington 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards 1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles 1978 "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater 1980 Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI 1980 Snow falls in Florida 1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances 1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies) 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic 1982 5 die as ski lift malfunctions a Lúz-Ardiden in Pyrenees 1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data 1982 The New York Times raises it's price from 25¢ to 30¢ 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup 1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people 1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile 1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist 1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion 1989 Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution 1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay 1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 performances 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100 meter freestyle world record (1 :1.40) 1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100 meter freestyle US record (54.48 seconds) 1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians 1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks 1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win 1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland 1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution 1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow 1995 Belgium ends military conscript 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland 1995 Julio María Sanguinetti sworn in as President of Uruguay 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns 1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced 1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV 1998 "Art" opens at Royale Theater NYC 1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-02-2006 07:26 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 02: 1316 Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90) 1409 John II French duke of Alençon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc 1459 Adrian VI [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23) 1481 Franz von Sickingen German knight 1545 Sir Thomas Bodley England, diplomat/scholar 1555 Ludovico Spontoni composer 1609 Hadji Chalfa/Kâtib Tsjelebi Turkish literary (Djihannüma) 1755 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick composer 1759 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer 1760 Camille Desmoulins France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader 1769 DeWitt Clinton (Governor/Senator-NY) 1793 Sam[uel] Houston 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) 1810 Leo XIII [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903) 1813 George Alexander Macfarren composer 1815 Antonio Buzzolla composer 1817 János Arany Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda) 1820 Multatuli writer 1824 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau) 1824 Constantine D Uschinsky Russian theorist 1824 Henry Beebee Carrington Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 1829 Carl Schurz Major General (Union volunteers) journalist/political reformer/Civil War general 1838 David Duffle Wood composer 1844 Hermanus J A M Schaepman clergyman/Dutch politician 1862 John Jay Chapman US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays) 1875 Hans Lietzman German theologist/church historian 1876 Gösta Forsell Swedish radiologist 1876 Pius XII [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58) 1878 Wander J de Haas Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz 1882 Wallis Clark Essex England, actress (Postal Inspector) 1884 Leon Jongen composer 1893 Maxime Dumoulin composer 1894 Renaat Veremans Flemish composer/conductor 1895 Felix Bressart Eydtkuhnen East Prussia Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads) 1899 Pattie Maie Menzies Australian dame 19-- Nelson Ned Brazil, Spanish singer (Mi Manera de Amor) 19-- Paul Mones Newark NJ, actor (Renegades) 1900 Kurt J Weill Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany) 1901 Willem Bruynzeel Dutch timber-merchant 1902 Edward Uhler Condon atomic scientist (Manhattan Project) 1904 Dr Seuss [Theodor Geisel] children's book author (Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!) 1905 Marc Blitzstein Philadelphia PA, composer (Cradle Will Rock) 1908 Jan Brasser Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist 1909 Hanoch Jacoby composer 1909 Jan Fabricius Dutch playwright 1909 Mel Ott 1st National League-er to hit 500 homeruns, hall of famer (New York Giants) 1910 Hope Clara Chenhalls food inspector 1911 William Hansen Washington DC, actor (Homebodies) 1912 Arthur Beaumont C Langton cricketer (South African pace bowler of 1930's) 1913 Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas) 1913 Marjorie Weaver Crossville TN, actress (Young Mr Lincoln) 1913 Mort Cooper baseball player (National League MVP 1942) 1915 Lona Andre actress (Case of Baby Sitter) 1916 Anne Vondeling Dutch politician (PvdA) 1916 Bernard George Stevens composer 1917 Desi Arnaz Santiago Cuba, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy) 1917 Jim Konstanty baseball player (National League MVP 1950) 1917 John Gardner composer 1918 Peter O'Sullevan Ireland, horse racing commentator 1919 Eddie Lawrence comedian 1919 Jennifer Jones [Phyllis Isley] Tulsa OK, actress (Farewell to Arms) 1919 Tamara Toumanova dancer 1920 Enrique Franco composer 1921 Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson composer 1922 Eric Feldbush composer 1922 Mario Zafred composer 1923 "Doc" Watson bluegrass musician 1923 Don Taylor cricketer (New Zealand 3 Tests, Auckland stands w/Sutcliffe in Wisden) 1923 Robert H Michel (Representative-Republican-IL, 1957- ) 1924 Albert Vogel Dutch elocutionist 1924 Rénos Apostolidis Greek author/poet (Katigoró) 1926 Murray Newton Rothbard economist/Libertarian Party founder 1927 Siegfried Kohler composer 1927 Witold Szalonec composer 1928 Philip K Dick writer 1929 Donald Gosling English parkeerplaatsenmagnaat/multi-millionaire 1930 Jan van Noor Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 1930 John Cullum Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure) 1931 Duane F Graveline Newport VT, astronaut 1931 Mikhail S Gorbachev Privolnoye USSR, Soviet Secretary-General (1985-91) 1931 Tom Wolfe Richmond VA, journalist/author (Right Stuff) 1934 Bernard Rands Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack) 1934 Howard "Hopalong" Cassady NFLer 1935 Al Waxman Toronto Canada, actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms) 1936 Henny Boskamp [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke) 1938 Alan Lewis English textile factory/multi-millionaire 1938 Donald Schwall baseball player (1961 American League rookie of year) 1938 Simon Estes Centerville IA, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos) 1939 Barbara Luna New York NY, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage) 1939 Gerard van Tongeren Dutch singer (Buffoons) 1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert chairman (South African Progressive Federal Party, 1979-86) 1942 John Irving Exeter NH, writer (World According to Garp) 1942 Lou Reed [Louis Firbank] Freeport NY, vocalist/guitarist (Walk on the Wild Side, Velvet Underground) 1942 Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan] London England, rocker (Drifters, Vipers) 1943 George Benson jazz/blues guitarist (Breezin', This Masquerade) 1943 Gordon Black English industrialist 1943 Rosa DeLauro (Representative-Democrat-CT) 1943 Stephen Dickman composer 1944 Katherine Crawford actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man) 1944 Leif Segerstam composer 1944 Pam Barnett LPGA golfer 1945 Gordon Thomson Ottawa Canada, actor (Adam Carrington-Dynasty) 1945 Joy Garrett actress (Jo-Days of Our Lives) 1946 Brian J Donnelly (Representative-Democrat-MA, 1979- ) 1948 Larry Carlton rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss) 1949 Eddie Money [Mahoney] Brooklyn NY, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight) 1949 Gates McFadden actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation) 1949 Rory Gallagher Ballyshannon Ireland, rock guitarist (See Here) 195- Molly Cheek Bronxville NY, actress (Garry Shandling Show) 1950 Karen Carpenter New Haven CT, vocalist/drummer (We've Only Just Begun) 1950 Matthew Laurance Queens NY, actor/identical twin of Mitchell (Mel-Beverly Hills 90210, Ben-Duet) 1950 Mitchell Laurance Queens NY, actor/identical twin of Matthew (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News) 1951 Cassie Yates Macon GA, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty) 1952 Laraine Newman Los Angeles CA, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live) 1953 William Simmons sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking) 1954 Stone Phumelele Sizani South African treasurer (UDF) 1955 Dale Bosworth TV host (America's Most Wanted) 1955 Dale Bozzio Boston MA, rock vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown) 1955 Jay Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donny & Marie) 1955 Shoko Asahara [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader 1955 Steve Small cricketer (stalwart New South Wales opening batsman) 1956 John Cowsill Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly) 1956 Mark Evans Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century) 1958 Ian Woosnam Welsh golfer 1958 Kevin Curren South Africa, tennis star 1959 Andrew Farriss Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt) 1959 Larry Stewart Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels) 1959 Laura Hurlbut LPGA golfer 1962 Al Del Greco NFL kicker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers) 1962 Jon Bon Jovi [Bongiovi] Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name) 1962 Philip Jonas Johannesburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Payless-2nd) 1962 Terry Steinbach New Ulm MN, catcher (Oakland A's) 1963 Suzette Charles Mays Landing NJ, replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America (1984) 1965 Ron Gant Victoria TX, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals) 1966 Judith Wiesner Hallein Austria, tennis star (1994 Schenectady) 1966 Stevie Rachelle rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around) 1967 Allan Boyko CFL slot back/twin of Bruce (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1967 Bruce Boyko CFL fullback/twin of Allan (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1967 Leo Gomez Canovanas PR, infielder (Chicago Cubs) 1968 Penny "Stamper" Davis Carlisle England, Canadian 470 yachter (Olympics-96) 1970 Kevin Miniefield NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears) 1970 Steve Holman Indianapolis IN, miler 1971 Amber Smith Tampa FL, actress (Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces) 1971 Donna Perry Glendale CA, playmate (November 1994) 1971 James Hammerstrand LaMesa CA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96) 1971 Ray Hall NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars) 1971 Ruffin Hamilton NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons) 1973 John Elmore guard (Baltimore Ravens) 1973 Paul Popowich actor (Tommy Tricker & Stamp Traveler) 1974 Martine Dessureault Montréal Québec Canada, 50 meter swimmer (Olympics-96) 1975 Arleen McDonald Miss Mississippi-USA (1997) 1976 Lars Bruggemann hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998) Deaths which occurred on March 02: 0986 Lotharius King of France (954-86), dies at 44 1122 Floris II the fat one, count of Holland, dies 1127 Charles the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered 1333 Wladyslaw IV the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies 1383 Amadeus VI count of Savoy, dies 1619 Anne of Denmark daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44 1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann German stucco worker, buried at 78 1772 Robert J Pothier French lawyer, dies at 73 1787 Jean Allamand French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 1797 Horace [Horatio] Walpole British horror writer, dies at 79 1800 Christian Friedrich Schale composer, dies at 86 1822 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, dies at 40 1840 Heinrich Olbers German astronomer (discoverer of comets & asteroids), dies at 81 1855 Nicholas I Pavlovitch tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 1862 Frederick West Lander US Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 1867 French A Durlet Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50 1868 Carl Eberwein composer, dies at 81 1882 Louis Kufferath composer, dies at 70 1887 August W Eichler German botanist, dies at 47 1887 Wilhelm Troszel composer, dies at 63 1895 Berthe MP Morisot French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54 1895 Ismail Pasha kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64 1916 Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72 1930 David H Lawrence poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth composer, dies at 73 1939 Howard Carter British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 1943 Alexandre Yersin Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 1957 Harry E Soref inventor (padlock), dies at 70 1959 Eric Blore actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70 1959 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer, dies at 67 1962 Charles-Jean baron de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian engineer, dies at 96 1967 Gordon Harker actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81 1971 Charles W Engelhard US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54 1972 Bill Lawrence news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 1973 Cleo Noel US ambassador to Sudan is assassinated 1974 Barbara Ruick actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41 1975 Jean Kurt Forest composer, dies at 65 1979 Edith Craig actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71 1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani Kurdish leader, dies at 75 1979 Sir Richard Sykes British ambassador is assassinated in Holland 1981 Janear Hines actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30 1982 Philip K[indred] Dick author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53 1984 Louis Basile actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 1985 John B Kelly Jr chairman US Olympics Committee, dies at 57 1985 Sir Michael Redgrave actor/writer dies at 77 of Parkinson's disease 1986 Marcel Liebman Belgian historian, dies at 56 1986 Zafer Masri mayor of Nablus, murdered 1987 Randolph Scott actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89 1991 Clark Mollenhoff US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies 1991 Freek Zoetmulder publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-Nazi, dies 1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell Negro baseball league great, dies at 87 1991 Serge Gainsbourg composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62 1992 Sandy Dennis actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 1993 Floortje Peneder Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 1993 Paul D Zimmerman US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54 1994 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon philosopher, dies at 80 1994 Tengiz Abuladze filmmaker, dies at 70 1995 Hugo Cole musician/critic, dies at 77 1995 Vladislav Listyev TV journalist, dies at 48 1996 Jacobo Majluta President of Dominican Republic (1982), dies at 61 On this day...Major Events 0871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army 1121 Dirk VI becomes count of Holland 1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia 1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island 1629 English King Charles I leaces house of commons 1675 Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel 1725 Georg F Händels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres in London 1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston 1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances 1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures 1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin PA 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized 1819 US passed its 1st immigration law 1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control 1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, New York NY 1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston 1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission 1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico 1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory 1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia 1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington DC 1861 US Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories 1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR 1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing 1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865 1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough 1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut 1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico 1867 Howard University established 1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead 1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education 1867 US Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act 1868 University of Illinois opens 1874 Baseball batter's box is officially adopted 1876 Rutherford B Hayes elected President 1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit MI 1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust 1890 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) 1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features 1896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians 1896 George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs South Africa at Johannesburg 1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England 1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in US) 1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens 1902 Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (National League) club to manage American League's new Boston Somersets 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY 1904 "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted 1904 Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio" premieres in Milan 1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal 1907 Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille" premieres in Paris France 1909 Great Britain, France, Germany & Italy ask Serbia to set no territorial demands 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die 1915 British Vice Admiral Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted 1918 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1920 Karel Capék's "Loupeznik" premieres in Prague 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth TX, begins broadcasting 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions 1923 Time magazine debuts 1925 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage 1925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted 1925 SDAP-Second-Faction (Dutch Socialists) of parliament demands drastic disarmament 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1929 Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game 1929 Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals 1930 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building 1933 "King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC 1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha 1936 Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes, SA vs Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil 1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA) 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII 1939 Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late 1940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, NYC 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland 1942 14th Academy Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper & Joan Fontaine win 1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win 1944 16th Academy Awards: "Casablanca", Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government 1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali 1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam 1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford CT) 1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round-the-world flight at Fort Worth TX, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hours 1950 Silly Putty invented 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston 1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open 1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father 1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop" premieres in New York NY 1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Féz, declares independence from France 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days 1958 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1958 Yemen announces it will join the United Arab Republic 1961 "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances 1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game 1964 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", George Harrison meets Patti Boyd 1965 "Sound Of Music" opens 1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney MI, founded 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam 1967 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night & Michele win 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit 1968 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain) 1968 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Lyudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov (USSR) 1968 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (USA) 1968 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria) 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approximately 70 die) 1969 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony 1969 Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season 1969 Pirate Radio Station 295 (England/France) begins transmitting 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 1970 Rhodesia becomes independent republic 1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years 1972 Jean-Bédel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Central African Republic 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby 1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum 1974 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler win 1974 1st class postage raised from 8¢ to 10¢ 1974 Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up 1974 Greg Chappell makes 247 vs New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six 1976 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances 1976 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants 1976 Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in New York NY 1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest 1977 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award 1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson 1977 Libya amends constitution 1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pittsburgh 1980 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC 1982 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier 1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru 1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced 1983 Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test 1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails 1984 John Long (Detroit MI) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1985 US approves screening test for AIDS 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US 1988 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley win 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil 1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game 1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike 1990 Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50 meter backstroke (25.06 seconds) 1991 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances 1991 "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances 1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history 1991 North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists 1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq 1992 Anita Hall swims female world record 200 meter freestyle (2 :5.35) 1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89 1993 Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't 1994 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan 1994 William Natcher, (Representative-Democrat-KY), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote 1995 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC 1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC 1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed 1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches 1996 Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator 1996 Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose 1997 Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters 1997 Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open 1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple 1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-03-2006 08:09 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 03: 1500 Reginald Pole English Cardinal/"heretic" 1549 Henric Spieghel Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) 1583 Edward Herbert of Cherbury English military/philosopher 1589 Gisbertus Voetius [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist 1606 Edmund Waller England, poet (Penshust) 1652 Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved) 1705 Michael Schevenstuhl composer 1747 Kasamir Pulaski US General (Revolutionary War) 1756 William Godwin philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams) 1793 Charles Sealsfield writer (The Making of America) 1809 Sophia Hawthorne writer 1811 Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review) 1814 Charles Kensington Salaman composer 1820 Eduard Douwes Dekker [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar) 1823 Guyla Andrássy Sr premier of Hungary (1867-71) 1828 Karl Collan composer 1831 George M Pullman inventor (railway sleeping car) 1838 George W Hill US astronomer (Moon orbit) 1841 John Murray Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean) 1845 Georg Cantor German mathematician (discovers transfinite numbers) 1846 Desiderio Pietri Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father 1847 Alexander Graham Bell Edinburgh Scotland, inventor (telephone) 1849 Jacques Oppenheim Dutch lawyer 1853 Vincent Van Gogh Dutch painter 1857 Alfred Bruneau composer 1865 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler composer 1867 Gustav Strube composer 1868 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer 1869 Henry J Wood English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms) 1872 Wee Willie Keeler outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897 1873 William Green president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52) 1877 Garrett Morgan African-American inventor 1880 Anne C Veth Dutch cartoonist/art critic 1882 Floris H L Prims Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp 1886 James Friskin composer 1886 Reginald Owen Morris composer 1889 Fritz Behrend composer 1890 Edmund Lowe San Jose CA, actor (Black Sheep, Front Page Detective,Dillinger ) 1890 Norman Bethune Canada, Doctor in Spain & China 1891 Federico Moreno Torroba composer 1891 Jan Donner Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council 1892 Rui Coelho composer 1893 Beatrice Wood potter/artist/author 1893 Bill Nestell California, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier) 1893 Karel Lotsy Dutch insurance director/Olympics-chief d'équipe 1895 Alexander Nicholas Voormolen Dutch composer 1895 General Matthew Ridgeway US, military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO) 1895 Juanita Hansen Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love) 1895 Ragnar Frisch Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969) 1895 Robert Gordon KS, actor (Loveless) 1897 Jose Moreno Gans composer 1899 Alfred M Gruenther US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56) 1899 Juri Olescha writer 19-- Darnell Williams London, actor (All My Children) 19-- Denise Pence actress (Guiding Light) 19-- Judy Pioli Brooklyn NY, actress (Moose-Star of the Family) 19-- Kevin Steele rocker (Roxx Gang-Things You Never Done Before) 19-- Larry Pine Tucson AZ, actor (Roger-One Life to Live) 19-- Lonnie Vencent rocker (Bulletboys-For the Love of Money) 1900 Edna Best Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo) 1902 Ruby Dandridge Memphis TN, actress (Father of the Bride) 1903 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer 1903 Rabbe A Enckell Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen) 1906 Artur Lundkvist Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir) 1906 Donald Novis Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo) 1906 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar journalist/diplomat 1907 Aar van de Werfhorst [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer 1907 Canada Lee New York NY, actor (Lost Boundaries) 1907 Joy Finzi [Joyce A Black], British painter 1908 Riccardo Nielsen composer 1909 Harry Hemsley billionaire New York landlord 1909 Jay Morris Arena inventor/pediatrician 1909 Kenton Kilmer poet/translator 1911 Francesco Siciliani opera composer 1911 Jean Harlow [Harlean Carpentier] Kansas City MO, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8) 1912 Joe Stydahar NFL tackle (Chicago Bears) 1913 Margaret Bonds US pianist/composer/arranger 1913 Roger Caillois French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes) 1914 Martin Ritt actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game) 1915 George Brian Snape businessman/rugby league entrepreneur 1917 Bert van Aerschot Flemish writer (Elevator, Women) 1918 Arnold Newman photographer (Faces USA) 1918 Arthur Kornberg US biochemist (Nobel 1959) 1918 Frank Wigglesworth composer 1920 James Doohan Vancouver British Columbia, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek) 1920 Julius Boros golfer (PGA Champion 1968, US Open 1952, 63) 1920 Julius Boros golfer (US Open 1952,63) 1920 Martin Ritt director (The Front, Nuts) 1921 Allen Ginsberg beat generation poet (1969 Arts & Letters Award) 1921 Diana Barrymore New York NY, actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife) 1921 Junior Parker Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train) 1922 Kazimierz Serocki composer 1925 Enzo Stuarti Italy, singer (Yesterday) 1925 Richard Vernon Reading Berkshire England, actor (Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night) 1926 James Ingram Merrill US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant) 1927 [Herman] Junior Parker rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark) 1927 Charles O Whitley (Representative-Democrat-NC, 1977- ) 1927 Frank Singleton librarian 1927 John McLaughlin commentator (McLaughlin Report) 1928 Dave Dudley singer (Six Days on the Road) 1928 Don Gibson singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me) 1928 G Pausewang writer 1928 Joe Conley Buffalo NY, actor (Ike-The Waltons) 1929 Nicos Mamangakis composer 1931 Henk Knol Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA) 1931 Piet [van] Bambergen Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones) 1932 Mara Corday Santa Monica CA, playmate (October 1958) 1933 Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY, princess (Jackie O's sister) 1933 Marco Antonio Muñiz Mexico, Spanish singer (Murmullos) 1933 Princess Lee Radziwell Ross New York NY (Jackie O's sister) 1934 Gia Scala Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water) 1935 Zhelyu Zhelev president of Bulgaria (1990- ) 1936 Jim Clark Formula 1 racer (1963 Champion) 1938 Douglas Leedy composer 1938 Lew De Witt singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall) 1938 Willie Chambers guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers) 1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole) 1939 M L Jaisimha cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties) 1942 Mike Pender Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins) 1942 Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4) 1943 Roger Swaybill actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point) 1944 Janice Garfat rocker (Dr Hook) 1945 Farooq Hamid cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan vs Australia 1964) 1945 Hattie Winston Greenville MS, actress (Nurse, Electric Company) 1946 James C Adamson Warsaw NY, Lieutenant Colonel USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43) 1947 Dave Mount Carshalton Surrey England, rocker (Mud) 1948 Byron MacGregor newscaster 1948 Reed Hundt FCC chairman 1949 Bonnie J Dunbar Sunnyside WA, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89) 1949 James S Voss Cordova AL, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69) 1950 Re Styles rock vocalist (Tubes) 1950 Tim Kazurinsky Johnstown PA, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Police Academy 2, 3, 4) 1951 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov Russian cosmonaut 1952 Robyn Hitchcock rocker (Moss Elixir) 1953 Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin Russia, cosmonaut 1953 Dave Amato rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling) 1954 Keith Carlton Fergus Temple TX, PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th) 1954 Merrick [Chris Hughes] rock drummer (Adam & The Ants) 1956 Jim Barton Lincoln NE, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996) 1956 John F Reid cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's) 1956 Miguel Bosé Panamá, Spanish actor (Lo Mejor del Año) 1958 Bob Bradley Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96) 1958 Miranda Richardson Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game) 1959 Romeo Zondervan Dutch soccer player (NAC) 1961 Mary Page Keller actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk) 1962 Herschel Walker WFL/NFL running back (New Jersey Generals, Dallas Cowboys) 1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee East St Louis IL, heptathlete (Olympics-gold-88, 92) 1963 Elizabeth Chavez Santa Monica CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-91) 1963 Jacqueline Sheen Dallas TX, playmate (July, 1990) 1963 Kelly Miller Detroit MI, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals) 1964 Arturo Huerta Mexico, Canadian walker (Olympics-96) 1964 Atif Rauf cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman vs New Zealand 1994) 1964 Laura Martinez-Herring Sinaloa Mexico, Miss USA-1985 (Texas)/(Carla-General Hospital) 1964 Lisa Ann Poggi Grand Rapids MI, actress (Jolie-Loving) 1965 A J Sager Columbus OH, pitcher (Detroit Tigers) 1966 Anthony Terrell Smith Los Angeles CA, rocker (Tone Loc-Let's Do It) 1966 Claus Boekweg Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle) 1966 Dmitri Volkov Russian swimmer (world record) 1966 Ellen Minzner Lawrence MA, rower (Olympics-96) 1966 Gary Parker WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores) 1966 Hope Marie Carlton Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985) 1966 Noelle Daghe Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st) 1966 Tone-Loc [Anthony Terrell Smith], Los Angeles CA, rocker (Let's Do It) 1966 Wendy Fletcher Boston MA, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993) 1967 Alexander Volkov Russia, tennis star 1967 Calvin Williams NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles) 1967 Elizabeth Cheshire Burbank CA, actress (Jill-Sunshine) 1968 Brian Leetch Corpus Christi TX, NHL defenseman (Team USA, New York Rangers) 1968 Diann Roffe-Steinrotter Warsaw NY, alpine skier (Olympics-gold/silver-92) 1968 Scott Radinsky Simi Valley CA, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1969 Ronald Humphrey NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts) 1970 Donovan Bergstrom US 3K steeplechase runner 1970 Inzamam-ul-Haq cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman) 1970 Kristine Radford Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham) 1970 Rick Mirer NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks) 1970 Scott Keswick Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96) 1970 Shawn Marie Brogan Miss Iowa-USA (1997) 1971 Terryl Ulmer CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1972 Christian Oliver actor (Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the Bell) 1972 Martin Prochazka Slany Czechoslovakia, NHL forward (Toronto, Czechoslovakia Olympics-Gold-98) 1973 Cory Raymer NFL center (Washington Redskins) 1973 James Dexter tackle (Arizona Cardinals) 1973 Jim Mills tackle (San Diego Chargers) 1973 Tisha Venturini Modesto CA, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96) 1973 Victoria Nika Zdrok Kiev Ukraine, playmate (October 1994) 1973 Winslow Oliver running back (Carolina Panthers) 1974 Jared Rushton actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids) 1975 Albert Fields Gary IN, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why) 1975 David Faustino California, actor (I Had 3 Wifes, Bud-Married With Children) 1977 Bas Zuiderent cricketer (Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup) 1977 Ronan Keating Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone) 1978 Carol Aquino Miss Guatemala-Universe (1997) 1978 Douglas Osmond Provo UT, vocalist (Osmonds 2ndG) Deaths which occurred on March 03: 0561 Pelagius I Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies 1191 Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52 1459 Ausias March Catalan poet, dies 1554 Johan Frederik de Greatmoedige ruler of Saxon (1532-47), dies at 50 1580 Jacob Hillebrand Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies 1635 Philips de l'Espinoy historian/mayor of Ghent, dies 1703 Robert Hooke scientific genius, dies in London 1706 Johann Pachelbel organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52 1707 Aurangzeb Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88 1717 Pierre Allix French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75 1766 Gregor Joseph Werner composer, dies at 73 1768 Nicola Antonio Porpora composer, dies at 81 1792 Robert Adam Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63 1800 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi composer, dies at 64 1822 Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at 81 1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at 70 1848 Heinrich Olivier German painter, dies 1858 József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54 1864 Ulric Dahlgren Union Colonel, dies in battle at 21 1889 Edward Sydney Smith composer, dies at 49 1902 Isaac D France van de Putte Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79 1921 Petrus Cuypers architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93 1926 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira composer, dies at 58 1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69 1932 Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at 67 1934 Norman Houstoun O'Neill composer, dies at 58 1935 Neville Knox cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies 1938 Arthur Koestler writer, dies at 32 1941 Constant W L Scheurleer archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59 1941 Ernst Cahn owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed 1942 Amedeo Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43 1943 George Thomson cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for England 1909-10), dies 1945 Arthur Vanderpoorten Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61 1945 Koos Speenhoff Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75 1948 Antonin Artaud writer, dies at 51 1956 Willem H Keesom Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79 1959 Lou Costello comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52 1960 Sammy White actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 1965 Carlo Gatti composer, dies at 88 1966 Alice Pearce comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52 1966 William Frawley actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89 1967 Georges Lonque composer, dies at 66 1974 Barbara Ruick actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43 1974 Frank Wilcox actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66 1975 László Németh Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73 1976 Alfred Sendrey composer, dies at 92 1977 Percy Marmont actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93 1982 Georges Perec French writer, dies at 45 1983 Arthur Koestler Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77 1985 Sarah Blanding 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86 1987 Danny Kaye comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74 1988 Lois Wilson actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies 1988 Sewall Wright US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98 1990 Frans Goedhart Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86 1990 Gerard Blitz Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Méd), dies at 88 1991 Arthur Murray dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia 1991 Clara Eggink [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84 1992 Robert Beatty actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82 1992 Sandy Dennis actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 1992 Ted Liss actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72 1993 Albert Sabin physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86 1993 Carlos Montoya flamenco guitarist, dies at 89 1993 Cyril Collard French composer/director/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35 1994 Anita Morris actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50 1994 Bob Crisp cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies 1994 Karel Kryl folk singer, dies at 49 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre French scholar, dies at 84 1995 Howard Hunter US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87 1995 Howard Yanks founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 1995 Pierre Tisseyre publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85 1995 Shiv Verma soldier, dies at 85 1996 David Bowman trade unionist, dies at 82 1996 John Joseph Krol cardinal, dies at 95 1996 Leo Malet writer, dies at 86 1996 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord journalist, dies at 76 1996 Lyle Talbot [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76 1996 Marguerite Duras writer, dies at 81 1996 Meyer Schapiro art historian, dies at 91 1997 Stanislav Shatalin Russian economist (500 Days), dies On this day...events 0078 Origin of Saka Era (India) 0468 St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius 0493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker 0561 Pelagius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1409 Austrian civil war ends 1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV 1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil 1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) 1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1776 US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas 1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages) 1791 Congress establishes US Mint 1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church 1801 1st US Jewish Governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia 1803 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms 1812 US Congress passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) 1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri 1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans LA 1837 Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 1837 US President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas 1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada 1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony 1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts) 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US 1845 1st US law overriding a Presidential veto (John Tyler's) 1845 Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery 1845 Florida becomes 27th state 1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin 1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized 1849 US Department of the Interior established by Congress 1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3¢ piece) 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress 1853 US Assay Office in New York NY authorized 1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use 1855 Registration of letters authorized by Congress 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom 1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO 1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City NV 1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia 1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired 1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress 1863 Idaho Territory forms 1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established to help destitute free blacks 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races 1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent 1871 Congress establishes the civil service system 1873 Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps 1873 US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively 1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montréal) 1875 Congress authorizes 20¢ coin, lasts only 3 years 1875 Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris France) 1877 Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President 1878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) 1879 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) 1879 US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy 1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission 1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates 1885 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government) 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton IA 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller 1891 Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) 1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova PA 1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized 1893 Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture 1894 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "New York Atlantis" 1894 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns 1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar 1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes 1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses 1905 US Forest Service forms 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montréal Wanderers, 8-3 1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations 1917 Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar 1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates 1918 Richard Göring's "Seeschlacht" premieres in Berlin 1918 Russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany & Austria 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria BC 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1920 Montréal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Québec Bulldogs 1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions 1923 Time magazine publishes 1st issue 1923 US Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague 1924 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed 1924 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami FL) 1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem 1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller) 1933 German Presidential candidate Earnest Thälmann (KPD) arrested 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated 1933 New York NY premiere of "King Kong" 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol 1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms 1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wickets in 5th Test vs South Africa 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down 1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) 1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label 1941 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Göring in Berlin 1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die 1943 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet" premieres in New York NY 1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea 1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony 1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 1945 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed 1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall 1946 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1946 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 points 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed 1955 Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance 1956 Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 meter freestyle (1 :4.2) 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in New York 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) 1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1957 World Ice Dance Championship in Colorado Springs won by June Markham & Courtney Jones (Great Britain) 1957 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada) 1957 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (USA) 1957 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco CA (IND) 1st broadcast 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis 1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") 1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco 1962 British Antarctic Territory is formed 1963 Senegal adopts constitution 1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR 1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter" premieres in New York NY 1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée 1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al) 1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke VA (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) 1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC 1968 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague 1968 Jean Beliveau (Montréal) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 points 1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days) 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA 1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances 1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances 1974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton 1974 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France (346 die) 1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal 1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms 1977 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (USSR) 1977 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR) 1977 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) 1977 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) 1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (West Indies vs Australia) 1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals 1981 New York Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie 1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams (D-NJ) 1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Toronto Maple Leafs (6) 1984 Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) 1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres 1985 "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike 1985 Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million 1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra 1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan), 1st black crowned 39th Miss USA 1991 "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances 1991 Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109 vs West Indies at Kingston 1991 Iraqi generals & General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire 1991 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR 1991 Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video 1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 meter indoor (22.24 seconds) 1991 Miguel Trovoada installed as President of Sao Tomé e Principal 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 1992 Charges are filed in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April) 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die 1992 Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd number retired by New York Islanders 1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings) 1994 "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances 1994 "Philoktetes Variations", with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels 1994 IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce 1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon 1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-04-2006 10:20 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 04: 1394 Prince Henry the Navigator sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery 1492 Francesco de Layolle composer 1651 John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700) 1678 Antonio Vivaldi Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons) 1719 Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter 1742 Johann Heinrich Egli composer 1747 Casimir Pulaski Count/American Revolutionary War general 1754 Benjamin Waterhouse physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer) 1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer 1757 Ignaz Malzat composer 1765 Charles Dibdin England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized) 1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer 1782 Johann Wyss Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson) 1789 Pavel P Gagarin Russian monarch 1798 John Joseph Abercrombie Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877 1813 Wijnand J J Nuijen romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) 1819 Charles Oberthur composer 1826 John Buford Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton Brigadier General (Confederate Army) 1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer 1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars) 1838 Paul Lacome composer 1841 Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl) 1844 Josip Jurcic Slovenian writer (10th Brother) 1862 Robert Emden Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop) 1875 Alberto Vaccari Italian Jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter 1875 Enrique Larreta [E R Maza] Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro) 1875 Suze Groeneweg 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37) 1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike composer 1877 Daniël G van Beuningen Dutch art collector 1879 Bernhard Kellermann writer 1885 Willem H Winkel Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao) 1888 Knute Rockne Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame) 1889 Pearl White [Victoria] US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) 1891 Dazzy Vance hall of fame pitcher (led National League in strike-outs 7-years) 1897 Francis "Lefty" O'Doul baseball player/organized Japanese baseball 19-- Anne Haney Memphis TN, actress (Evelyn-Lime Streets) 1900 Roberto Soundy El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympics-1968) 1901 Charles H Goren bridge master (26 US Titles) 1901 Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo Madagaskisch poet (Enfants d'Orphée) 1903 Harold Berens comedian 1904 George Gamow nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...'infinity') 1905 Lili Kràus Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978) 1907 Edgar Barrier New York NY, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered) 1908 Boris N Poveloi [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer 1909 Harry B Helmsley New York NY, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) 1910 Tancredo Neves president of Civil rights activist 1912 Afro [Basaldella] Italian painter 1912 John Garfield New York NY, actor (Air Force, Destination Tokyo, Juarez) 1915 Carlos Surinach Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) 1915 Eunice Catunda composer 1915 Petrus de Jong Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71) 1916 Giorgio Bassani Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure) 1916 Hans Eysenck psychologist 1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont Joseph OR, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50) 1920 Marcella Grady Jennings rancher 1921 Halim El-Dabh composer 1921 Joan Greenwood London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn) 1923 Patrick Moore England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy) 1923 Piero J d'Inzeo France, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-gold-1952, 64) 1927 Robert Di Domenica composer 1927 Thayer David Medford MA, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages) 1928 Alan Sillitoe Nottingham Nottinghamshire England, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) 1928 Samuel Adler composer 1929 Bernard Haitink Amsterdam Netherlands, conductor (London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78) 1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny composer 1931 Ernesto Rosenstand Arubian playwright (Kiko Ta Di Nos?) 1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky composer 1931 Han Jansen Dutch painter 1932 Guido Baggiani composer 1932 Hessel Rienks economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA) 1932 Miriam Makeba Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) 1933 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], singer 1934 Barbara McNair Racine WI, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show) 1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize) 1934 John Duffey bluegrass musician 1934 Mario Davidovsky Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Synchronisms) 1936 Aribert Reimann composer 1936 David Thompson British food magnate/multi-millionaire 1936 Eric Allandale rocker (Foundations) 1936 Jim Clark race car driver (Indianapolis 500) 1937 [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen musician 1937 Graeme Dowling cricketer (New Zealand, 239 vs India 1968) 1937 Ron Carter jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach) 1937 Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich Russian cosmonaut 1939 James Aubrey Turner scientist 1939 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa] San Antonio TX, actress (Parallax View, He & She) 1940 Kas Garas Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report) 1941 Adrian Lyne director (Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Jacob's Ladder) 1941 Ji-Tu Cumbuka Helena AL, actor (Roots, Man Called Sloane) 1941 John Aprea Englewood NJ, actor (Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2) 1941 John Hancock Hazen AR, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights) 1943 Zoltan Jeney composer 1944 Bobby Womack Cleveland OH, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It) 1945 Dieter Meier Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello) 1945 Jaime Tirelli New York NY, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four) 1946 Haile Gerima director (Ashes & Embers) 1946 Harvey Goldsmith impresario 1946 Michael Ashcroft English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire (Hawley-ADT) 1946 Ralph Kirshbaum Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester International Festival) 1946 Robert Raymond rocker 1948 Billy Gibbons rock guitarist (ZZ Top-Cheap Sunglasses, Legs, Fandango) 1948 Chris Squire London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water) 1948 Shakin' Stevens [Mike Barrett], Ely Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy) 1950 Emilio Estefan Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3) 1950 Judy Dickinson Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic) 1950 Kenny Dalglish soccer manager 1950 Rafael Canizares Poey Alacs Mountains Cuba, basketballer (Olympics-bronze-72) 1951 Chris Rea Middlesborough England, rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over, Heaven) 1951 Gwen Welles Chattanooga TN, actress (Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers, Angel On My Shoulder) 1951 Kenny Dalglish British soccer star (100+ goals) 1952 Ronn Moss Los Angeles CA, actor (Ridge-Bold & Beautiful, Santa Barbara) 1953 Christopher H Smith (Representative-Republican-NJ, 1981- ) 1953 Kay Lenz Los Angeles CA, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man) 1954 Catherine O'Hara Toronto Ontario, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV) 1954 Irina Ratushinskaya USSR, poet (Grey is the color of hope) 1954 Peter Erling Jacobsen Portland OR, PGA golfer (1990 Bob Hope) 1955 Benny Alexander Secretary-General (South African Pan-Africanist Movement) 1958 Patricia Heaton Cleveland OH, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond) 1959 Kelly Lynch Golden Walley MN, actress (Warm Summer Rain, Cocktail) 1960 Reggie McElroy NFL tackle (Denver Broncos) 1960 Russell Todd Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World) 1961 David "Tinker" Juarez Los Angeles CA, cyclist (Olympics-19th-96) 1961 Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini boxer (killed a boxer in the ring) 1961 Roger Wessels Port Elizabeth South Africa, golfer (1994 Canadian Masters) 1961 Steven Weber Queens NY, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings) 1962 Brant Ian Woodward Hurstville New Zealand, trap shooter (Olympics-96) 1962 Greg Kragen NFL nose tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers) 1962 Steve Fletcher London England, actor (Brad-One Life to Live) 1963 Anne Minter Australia, tennis star 1963 Jason Newsted US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All) 1963 MDV [Michiel de Vos] Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash) 1964 Emilia Eberle Romania, gymnast, scored a perfect 10 in 1980 Olympics 1964 Linda French Oak Park IL, badminton player (Olympics-96) 1964 Tom Lampkin Cincinnati OH, catcher (San Francisco Giants) 1965 Alexandra Harbold New York NY, sprint kayak (Olympics-96) 1965 Dana Brown Memphis TN, Miss Tennessee-America (1990-3rd) 1965 Stacy Edwards Glasgow MT, actress (Santa Barbara) 1966 Kevin Johnson NBA guard (Phoenix Suns) 1966 Mike Small Aurora IL, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Emerald Coast) 1966 Patrick Hannan English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure) 1967 Daryll Cullinan South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny) 1967 Juli Furtado New York NY, mountain cyclist (world champion-1991, 92) 1968 Brian Hunter Torrance CA, infielder (Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros) 1968 Dinky van Rensburg South Africa, tennis star 1968 Dionna Harris Wilmington DE, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96) 1968 Evan Dando rocker (Lemonheads) 1968 Patsy Kensit London, rocker/actress (Lethal Weapon 2, 21, Hanover St) 1969 Chastity Bono Los Angeles CA, daughter of Sonny & Cher 1969 Jeff Tinsley Shelbyville KY, outfielder (Boston Red Sox) 1969 Karrie Poppinga Manhattan Beach CA, volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4-95) 1969 Kenneth Benson CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts) 1970 Dave Stevens Fullerton CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins) 1970 Marja Helena Paluila ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98) 1970 Matt Gay WLAF safety (Rhein Fire) 1970 Tina Paternostro Williamsport PA, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple-57th) 1971 Edwin van Holten soccer player (FC Volendam) 1972 Chris Borg Lexington SC, canoe (alternate-Olympics-96) 1972 Martin St Pierre Ripon Québec Canada, 20k walker (Olympics-96) 1972 Robert Smith NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings) 1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993) 1973 Phillip Daniels NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks) 1974 Jarrett Deuling Vernon, NHL left wing (New York Islanders) 1974 Karol Kucera Bratislava Slovakia, tennis star (1995-Rosmalen) 1974 Sherry Wigginton Austin TX, diver (Olympics-96) 1977 Anna Baitchik Miss Russia-Universe (1997) 1993 Bobbi Kristina Brown daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown Deaths which occurred on March 04: 1172 Stephan III King of Hungary (1162-72), dies 1484 Kazimierz the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25 1595 Robert Southwell English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1615 Hans von Aachen German painter, dies 1617 Arcangelo Crivelli composer, dies at 70 1793 Isaac Ouwater Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 1804 Karl Leopold Rollig composer, dies 1805 Jean-Baptiste Greuze French painter, dies at 79 1831 Georg Michael Telemann composer, dies at 82 1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner pianist/composer, dies at 72 1851 Michael Henkel composer, dies at 70 1852 Nikolai Gogol writer, dies at 43 1864 Thomas Starr King Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies 1866 Alexander Campbell Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77 1876 Alfred Holmes composer, dies at 38 1877 Hendrik E van Rijgersma Dutch Governor (St Maarten), dies at 42 1883 Alexander H Stephens Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71 1888 Amos Bronson Alcott US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 1903 Joseph H Shorthouse English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 1916 Franz Marc German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36 1918 Eugene D'Harcourt composer, dies at 58 1922 Bert Williams famous black, dies at 46, in New York NY 1925 Moritz Moszkowski Polish/German composer, dies at 70 1933 Willie Walker US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36 1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors composer, dies at 64 1941 Edoardo Mascheroni composer, dies at 81 1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg composer, dies at 62 1943 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis Greek foreign minister, dies at 71 1943 Pieter C Boutens Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73 1948 Antonin Artaud French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 1948 Elsa Brändström [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies at 59 1953 Sergei S Prokoviev Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61 1954 Georg Gohler composer, dies at 79 1954 Noel Gay [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55 1958 Albert Kuyle [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54 1960 Leonard Warren US baritone, dies on stage at 48 1962 Cairine R Wilson 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77 1963 William Carlos Williams US physician/poet, dies at 79 1966 Janis Medins composer, dies at 75 1968 Alexandre Cellier composer, dies at 84 1974 Adolph Gottlieb US painter, dies at 71 1981 Torin Thatcher actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies 1983 Hergé [Georges Rémi], Belgian cartoonist (Rin-Tin-Tin), dies at 75 1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze composer, dies at 79 1986 Henri Knap Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75 1986 Richard Manuel rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40 1991 Vance Colvig actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72 1992 Arthur Babbitt Disney animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), dies at 84 of heart failure 1992 C Meijer Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies 1992 Christian K Nelson inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98 1992 Mary Osborne jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer 1992 Nestor Almendros Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61 1993 Art Hodes Russian/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies 1993 Richard Sale writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80 1994 Guus Verstraete Sr Dutch actor/director (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79 1994 John Candy actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43 1995 Eden Ahbez songwriter, dies at 86 1996 Barbara Lewis British obituarist, dies at 55 1996 Minnie Pearl country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 84 On this day...in History Events 1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England 1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda 1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury 1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia 1665 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands 1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) 1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives) 1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (Pennsylvania), takes office 1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands 1793 President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews 1801 1st President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) 1809 Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President 1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy MA 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball 1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres in Venice 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepción 1837 City of Chicago incorporates 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" premieres in London 1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 1845 James K Polk inaugrated as 11th President 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution 1849 US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US Vice President 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag 1861 Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living 1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office 1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee 1863 Territory of Idaho established 1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" 1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President 1873 New York Daily Graphic, 1st illustrated daily newspaper in US, published 1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap 1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow 1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 1881 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", 1st case together 1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President 1881 South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President 1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term) 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed 1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin 1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer) 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President 1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago 1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga" premieres in Berlin 1908 Collingwood OH primary school catches fire; 180 die 1909 President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm 1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US 1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed 1913 Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments 1913 Gabriel Fauré's opera "Pénélope" premieres in Monte Carlo 1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda) 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Representative-Republican-MT) becomes 1st female member of Congress 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas 1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office 1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles CA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated 1930 Mrs Charles [Emma] Fahning is 1st woman to bowl a santioned perfect [300] game 1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament 1933 FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" 1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member 1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms 1934 Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1941 NHL Chicago goalee Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor 1944 1st US bombing of Berlin 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy 1945 Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player 1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis 1954 JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent 1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die 1966 John Lennon says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP 1967 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler & Bernard Ford (Great Britain) 1967 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Ljudmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov (USSR) 1967 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (USA) 1967 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (Austria) 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to average 100+ points per game 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000 meter (1:18.5) 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK 1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty 1973 15th Grammy Awards: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America 1974 David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes in Toledo OH 1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain 1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family" 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V 1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational 1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114) vs New Zealand 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43 meter) 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space 1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank 1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW 1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances 1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion 1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit 1995 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years 1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital 1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker 1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds) 1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-05-2006 06:59 AM                        Rated G Birthdates which occurred on March 05: 1324 David II Bruce king of Scotland (1331..71) 1326 Louis I [the Great] King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82) 1512 Gerardus Mercator Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker 1574 William Oughtred England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule) 1578 Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes premier of France/Governor of Picardië 1585 Johan Georg I elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague) 1637 John van der Heyden Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher) 1658 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America 1668 Francesco Gasparini composer 1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice) 1733 Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer 1746 Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain 1748 William Shield composer 1750 Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison French classical (Apollonii Lexicon) 1751 Jan Krtitel Kuchar composer 1756 Thomas Linley composer 1774 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse composer 1794 Jacques Babinet French physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1805 Theodore Labarre composer 1817 Austen H Layard British archaeologist/diplomat 1824 Elisha Harris US, physician/found American Public Health Association 1824 James Merritt Ives lithographer (Currier & Ives) 1825 John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1825 Joseph Albert German photographer (albertotype) 1828 Johann Gungl composer 1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson Claremont NH, writer (Jupiter Lights) 1843 William F Sudds composer 1845 Alfonse Hasselmans composer 1850 Daniel Brink Towner composer 1852 Lady Isabella Gregory Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple) 1853 Arthur W Foote Salem MA, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E) 1853 Howard Pyle illustrator/painter/author (King Stork) 1867 Theodor Zöckler German theologist (Stanislauer Anstalten) 1868 Prosper Poullet Belgian viscount/jurist/minister 1869 Michael von Faulhaber cardinal/archbishop of Munich 1870 Franc[lin] Norris US, writer (McTeague, Octopus) 1871 Maria do Carmo Geronimo Brazilian lives to be at least 126 1874 Arthur van Schendel Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party) 1874 Henry Travers Berwick-Upon-Tweed Northumberland England, actor (Bells of St Mary's, High Sierra) 1877 Malcolm D Whitman tennis champion (US Open-1898) 1879 Walter Long actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol) 1886 Paul Radmilovic England, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1908) 1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz) 1888 Friedrich Schnack German journalist/writer (Rosewood) 1889 Frits Slomp [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter 1891 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson Chicago IL, comedian (Olsen & Johnson) 1893 Emmett J Culligan founder of water treatment organization 1894 Henry Daniell London, actor (Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers) 1895 Fritz Usinger German writer (Eternal Struggle) 1897 Mei-ling Soong Madame Chiang Kai-shek 1899 Patrick Hadley composer 19-- Dyango Barcelona Spain, Spanish singer (A Fin Solos) 19-- Jo De Winter Sacramento CA, actress (Dr Lawrence-Gloria) 19-- Ray MacDonnell Lawrence MA, actor (Dr Joe Martin-All My Children) 1900 Ludwig Donath actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again) 1901 Julian Przybos Polish poet (Sruby) 1903 Lowell Peters Cleveland TN, vocalist (Southernaires) 1905 Gilroy Roberts US chief engraver (1948-64) 1908 Rex [Reginald Carey] Harrison Huyton Lancashire England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle) 1908 Sophie Stewart Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe) 1909 Sutan Sjahrir premier of Indonesia (1945-47) 1911 Joseph Tomelty actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba) 1913 Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn composer 1914 Joan Sterndale-Bennett London England, actress (Those Fantastic Flying Fools) 1916 Horace Ian Parrott composer 1917 Joseph Stone lawyer 1917 Virginia Christine Stanton IA, actress (Tales of Wells Fargo) 1918 Halsey S Colchester British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest 1918 Ranga Sohoni Indian cricketer (pace bowler of late 40's average 101) 1920 Delbert L Latta (Representative-Republican-OH, 1959- ) 1920 Leontine Kelly 1st black female bishop (Methodist) 1920 Virginia Christine actress (Mrs Olson) 1921 Berkley Bedell (Representative-Democrat-IA, 1975- ) 1922 Ebrahim Maka Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952) 1922 James Noble Dallas TX, actor (Governor Gatling-Benson) 1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty) 1927 Jack [John Joseph Edward] Cassidy Richmond Hill NY, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She) 1929 Joan Shawlee Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women) 1930 Lorin Maazel Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orchestra 1941) 1931 Anthony Headges composer 1931 Barry Tuckwell Melbourne Australia, horn player (London Symphony Orchestra 1955-68) 1932 Walter Charles Marshall scientist 1933 Arlen Dean Snyder Rice KS, actor (Trauma Center) 1933 Norbert Linke composer 1934 James B Sikking Los Angeles CA, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser) 1935 Malcolm J Anderson tennis champion (US Open-1957) 1935 Philip K Chapman Melbourne Australia, astronaut (Apollo 14 support) 1936 Dale Douglass Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open) 1936 Dean Stockwell Hollywood CA, actor (Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet) 1937 Stephen Fitz-Simon entrepreneur 1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson Gary IN, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia) 1938 Paul Evans singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road) 1939 Charles Fuller US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story) 1939 Samantha Eggar London England, actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle) 1939 Terry Curry English multi-millionaire 1940 Mary Rose Oakar (Representative) 1942 Michael D[iamond] Resnick sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending) 1944 Paul Sands Los Angeles CA, comedian/actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere) 1945 Randy Matson US, shot putter (Olympics-gold-1968) 1946 Michael Warren South Bend IN, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues) 1946 Murray Head singer 1946 Rocky Bleier Wisconsin, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers) 1947 Eddie Hodges Hattiesburg MS, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 1948 Eddy Grant Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue) 1948 Jacques Kloes singer (Dizzy Man's Band) 1950 Eugene Fodor Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1972 Paganini Award, 1974 Tchaikovsky Award) 1950 Harvey Jacob Alperin Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail) 1951 Rodney Hogg cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84) 1952 Alan Clark keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing) 1953 Russel D Feingold (Senator-D-WI) 1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun Russian Colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24) 1954 Marsha Warfield comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court) 1955 Marcia McCabe actress (Alice-One Life to Live) 1955 Penn Jillette Greenfield MA, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead) 1956 Mark Handley writer (Nell) 1957 Mark E Smith English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole) 1957 Tim Holden (Representative-Democrat-PA) 1958 Andy Gibb Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold) 1958 Bill Timoney TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love) 1961 Dan Stuart US singer/songwriter (Green on Red) 1961 Zeke Mowatt NFL tight end (New York Giants) 1962 Elise Burgin Baltimore MD, tennis star 1962 Robert L Curbeam Jr Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 85, sk-99) 1963 Eddo Brandes cricketer (Zimbabwe Test pace bowler) 1964 Reggie Williams NBA forward/guard (Denver Nuggets) 1966 Greg Clark CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders) 1966 Michael Irvin NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys) 1966 Tracy Kerdyk Coral Gables FL, LPGA golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple) 1967 Nicole Boegman Australian long jumper (Olympics-88, 92, 96) 1968 Marq Mellor Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96) 1968 Roman Phifer linebacker (St Louis Rams) 1968 Shjon Podein Rochester, NHL left wing (Philadelphia Flyers) 1971 Amy Peistrup-Matthews Arlington Heights IL, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995) 1971 Brian Hunter Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros) 1971 Chad Fonville Jacksonville NC, infielder (Los Angeles Dodgers) 1971 James Roberson WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire) 1971 Jose Mercedes El Seybo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers) 1972 Brandon Hamilton CFL cornerback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 1972 Brian Grant NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers, Sacramento Kings) 1972 Hernan Gumy Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star 1972 Mikael Tillstrom Sweden, tennis star 1972 Tom Hipsz CFL defensive tackle (Montréal Alouettes) 1973 Nicole Pratt Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia) 1973 Paul Lieftink Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg) 1974 Brad Schumacher US, 400 meter/800 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96) 1974 Hans Bond Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam) 1974 Kevin Connolly actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Angus) 1975 Chris Silverwood cricketer (England Test pace bowler vs Zimbabwe 1996) 1975 Niki Taylor model (Elle, Marie Claire) 1976 Adriana Serra-Zanetti Modena Italy, tennis star (1995 Moscow semi) 1977 Bryan Berard NHL defenseman (Team USA Olympics-1998, New York Islanders) 1977 Natalie Bevins Miss West Virginia-USA (1997) 1978 Kimberly McCullough Bellflower CA, actress (Robin-General Hospital) [b]Deaths which occurred on March 05: 0254 St Lucius I Pope (253-54), dies 1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1561 Carlo Caraffa Italian cardinal, dies at 41 1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde Flemish viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies 1576 Don Luís de Requesens y Zuñiga viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70 1605 Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69 1625 James I (VI) king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 1644 Louise Juliana countess of Nassau, dies at 73 1732 Joseph-François Salomon composer, dies at 82 1770 Crispus Attuks slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre 1778 Thomas A Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 1794 Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62 1795 Josef Reicha composer, dies at 42 1827 Alessandro Volta Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1853 Georg A Kestner German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75 1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor composer, dies at 34 1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern], Fren author, dies at 70 1893 Hippolyte Taine French philosopher/historian, dies at 64 1893 Richard Samuel Hughes composer, dies at 37 1895 Nikolai Leskow writer, dies at 64 1904 Alfred von Waldersee Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71 1919 Jozef Surzynski composer, dies at 67 1932 Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered 1941 Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 1944 Max Jacob French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at 67 1947 Alfredo Casella Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 1948 Charles Prince cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies 1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov composer, dies at 63 1953 Josef V Stalin soviet leader responsible for 11 million murders, dies at 73 1953 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev composer, dies at 61 1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80 1956 Erich Itor Kahn composer, dies at 50 1962 Anne C Veth Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82 1962 Otakar Jeremias composer, dies at 69 1963 Cyril Smith actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70 1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41 1963 Patsy Cline country singer (Crazy, I Fall To Pieces), dies in a plane crash at 30 1966 Anna Achmatova Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 1966 Enrique E Ecker Curaçaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79 1967 Mischa Auer actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack 1967 Mohammed H Mossadeq premier of Persia (1951-53), dies 1971 Winnie Lightner actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71 1972 Nils Bjorkander composer, dies at 78 1973 Rupert Crosse actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45 1974 Billy Dewolfe actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67 1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok US impresario, dies at 85 1977 Lockrem Johnson composer, dies at 52 1977 Moses Pergament composer, dies at 83 1979 Vicente Ascone composer, dies at 81 1980 Jay Silverheels actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60 1980 Winifred Wagner-William German World Festival organizer, dies at 82 1981 Brenda De Banzie actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64 1981 Paul Horbiger actor (3rd Man), dies at 86 1982 John Belushi comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33 1984 Harry Salter orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85 1984 Michael Sklar California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39 1984 Tito Gobbi Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68 1984 William Powell actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91 1986 Teddy Hoad cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies 1990 Gary Merrill actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75 1990 Gloria Carter Spann President Carter's sister, dies at 63 from cancer 1991 August de Schryver Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109 1992 Andrew Samuel child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82 1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65 1993 Diana Ochoa dies after long illness at 80 1993 Peter Bierdrager Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash 1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal President of Yemen (1962-67), dies 1994 Joe Daley jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75 1994 Paul Vincze medallist, dies at 86 1995 Ed Flanders actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies 1995 Marguerite Kelsey English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86 1995 Peter John Norton naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 1995 Vivian Stanshall British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51 1996 Joshua Compston art impressario, dies at 26 1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed President of Bangladesh (1975), dies 1996 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner Spanish courtier, dies at 90 1996 Whit Bissell actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86 On this day...in History - Events 0254 St Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses 1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore 1528 Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht 1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz 1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston 1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen 1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York NY 1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French 1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi) 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France 1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays 1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun 1836 Mexico attacks Alamo 1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President 1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads 1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL 1864 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge 1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele" premieres in Milan 1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould 1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson 1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains 1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US 1896 Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns 1897 American Negro Academy forms 1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D 1900 American Hall of Fame is founded 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn 1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired 1908 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica 1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres 1910 Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die 1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released 1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York NY 1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin 1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM 1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief 1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property 1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" premieres in Berlin 1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday 1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) 1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo TX) 1935 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago) 1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia 1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany 1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville 1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne 1945 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO) 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson 1948 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height 1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea" premieres in London 1953 Josef Stalin's death announced 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances 1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show 1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson TN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 "King Kong" 1st televised 1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland 1957 Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvin Pelvin) 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring NE (ABC) 1st broadcast 1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army 1960 World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain) 1960 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul (Canada) 1960 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA) 1960 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (France) 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl" 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest 1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1966 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19 meter indoor world record 1966 Player representatives elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich CT (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris France 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany 1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" premieres in London 1970 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York NY 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives 1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances 1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot 1976 British £ falls below $2 for 1st time 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 performances 1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer 1981 World Ice Dance Championship in Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain) 1981 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & Igor Lisovski (USSR) 1981 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Hartfoed won by Denise Biellmann (Switzerland) 1981 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) 1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data 1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative) 1983 New South Wales beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield 1984 Supreme Court (5-4); city may use public money for Nativity scene 1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas 1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons 1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 1989 Blaine McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 meter indoor (8 :3.82) 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games 1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks 1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die 1993 Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game 1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship 1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) 1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber 1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop 1995 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins 1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election 1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg 1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5 :0.26) 1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame 1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame 1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola  |  IP: Logged

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