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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on February 01:
1552 Sir Edward Coke England, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1603 Michael Trumper composer
1605 Isaac Aboab de Fonseca Portuguese/Netherlands rabbi/mystic
1633 Gabriel Schutz composer
1659 Jacob Roggeveen Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
1669 Miguel Lopez composer
1690 Francesco Maria Veracini Italian opera composer
1710 Konrad E Ackermann German actor (Die Oberpfalz)
1757 John P Kemble England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1763 Thomas Campbell founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1789 Hippolyte-André-Baptiste Chelard composer
1791 Charles J Sax Belgian music instrument builder
1801 Thomas Cole US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1801 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad composer
1805 Auguste Blanqui France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1807 Henri Klimrath French lawyer (Mémoire sur lesson Olim)
1807 William Bowen Campbell Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1810 Charles Lenox Remond Salem MA, famous black
1819 Henry Lawrence Eustis Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1821 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg composer
1827 Alphonse de Rothschild French banker
1829 John Potts Slough Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1833 Henry McNeal Turner black methodist bishop
1839 James A Herne [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
1841 William H H Davenport Buffalo, stage medium
1844 Granville Stanley Hall US, psychologist
1844 Eduard Adolf Strasburger German botanist (Angiospermen)
1848 Adhémar Esmein French lawyer
1859 Victor August Herbert Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1869 Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
1872 Paul Fort French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1873 Clara Butt Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1875 Eddie Pola composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
1877 Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer
1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1879 Sydney Baynes composer
1880 Antonio Guarnieri composer
1880 Francesco Balilla Pratella composer
1881 Jose Ignacio Quinton composer
1882 Louis St Laurent Compton Québec Canada, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1883 Jevgeni B Vachtangov Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1885 Camille Chautemps premier France
1887 Dirk Roosenburg Dutch architect
1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, Southern Arabia)
1891 James Price Johnson composer
1892 K Rudolf Mengelberg composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
1895 John Ford Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1896 Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza General/President of Nicaragua (1937-56)
1897 Denise Robins London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
19-- Bill Leydon Chicago IL, TV host (Musical Chairs)
19-- Don Amendolia Glassboro NJ, actor (Emory Battis-Twin Peaks, Dino-Mama Malone)
1900 Stephen Potter humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders)
1901 Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1902 Langston Hughes poet/translator (The Weary Blues)
1902 Carlo Borbolla composer
1903 Georg Rendl Austria miner/bee-keeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
1904 S J Perelman Brooklyn NY, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1905 Emilio Segre
1905 Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
1906 Hildegarde Adell WI, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You)
1906 Pierre Cardevielle French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
1907 John Canaday art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
1907 Alan Strode Campbell Ross professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
1907 Camargo Guarnieri Brazil, composer/conductor
1907 Günter Eich German literary (Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo)
1907 Mozart Camargo Guarnieri composer
1907 Sándor Veress Hungarian pianist/composer
1908 Albie Booth collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1908 Edward Staempfli composer
1908 George Pal Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1909 Douglas Hall Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
1909 Helen Chandler Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
1910 H Stanley Cayzer
1910 Jahangir Khan cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
1910 Michael Kanin Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
1913 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill Test pilot
1914 Hans Zülig Swiss dancer
1915 Sir Stanley Matthews 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1916 Gordon Hobday Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
1918 Maurice Laing life president (John Laing)
1918 Muriel Spark Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1920 Pierre Jonquéres d'Oriola France, equestrian jumper (Olympics-gold-1952, 64)
1920 Kenneth Bond former vice-chairman
1921 Peter Sallis actor (Taste the Blood of Dracula)
1922 Renata Tebaldi opera singer (La Bohéme)
1922 Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski professor of Cushtic Languages
1922 Clifford McWatt cricketer (West Indies wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
1926 Douglas Johnson historian
1926 Peter Crill Bailiff of Jersey
1926 Stuart Whitman San Francisco CA, actor (Captain Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip, Revenge)
1927 Galway Kinnell Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1928 Peter Gordon Dorrell archaeologist/photographer
1928 Sam Edwards physicist
1928 Thomas Eric Evans dean (St Paul's)
1928 Tom Lantos (Representative-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 Ursula Mamlok composer
1930 Peter Tapsell British MP
1931 Boris Yeltsin Ural Mountains USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 Madeline Berthod Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1956)
1931 Barrel [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
1931 Mark Richmond CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
1931 Ton [ABM] Frinking Dutch MP (CDA)
1932 John Hart Denver CO, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1932 John Nott British MP
1933 Reynolds Price US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light)
1934 Bob Shane vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 Ruth Clarke Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1936 G H Blake Principal (Collingwood College, Durham University)
1937 Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 Ray Sawyer [Dr Hook] Alabama, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 Garrett Morris New Orleans LA, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Martin, Carwash)
1938 Jacky Cupit golfer (Rookie of the Year 1961)
1938 Sherman Hemsley Philadelphia PA, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
1938 Jimmy Carl Black rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1939 Del McCoury bluegrass singer/musician
1939 Paul E Gillmor (Representative-R-OH)
1939 Ray Sawyer rocker
1940 Herve Filion sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1940 Bibi Besch Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
1941 Anatoliy Firssov USSR, ice hockey play (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 Franco Nones Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1968)
1941 Robert Walmsley British Vice-Admiral
1942 Bibi Besch Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, The Beast Within)
1942 Dave Sincock cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Australia 1964-66)
1942 Terry Jones Colwyn Bay North Wales, actor/comedian (Monty Python)
1943 Tina Sloan New York, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1943 Josceline Dimbleby cookery writer
1943 Lord Mountevans
1944 Leo Burmester Louisville KY, actor (Flo, Chiefs, The Abyss, Odd Jobs)
1944 Tommy Duffy rocker (Echos)
1945 Ole Buck composer
1946 Bert Braverman Los Angeles CA, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1947 Adam Ingram British MP
1947 Terry Hibbitt soccer star
1948 Debbie Austin LPGA golfer
1948 Jennifer Adams superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
1949 Jimmy Lee Thorpe Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1951 Andrew Smith British MP
1951 Brandis Kemp Palo Alto CA, actress/comedienne (Fridays)
1952 Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1953 Andy Mill skier/husband of Chris Evert
1953 C A Barnett headmaster (Whitgift School)
1954 Mike Campbell guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1954 Billy Mumy California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1955 Kate Ashbrook General Secretary (Open Spaces Society)
1957 Donna Adamek Duarte CA, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958 Maureen Madill Coleraine Northern Ireland, golfer (British Open Amateur 1979)
1959 Anthony LaPaglia Adelaide South Australia, actor (Murder One, Criminal Justice, Betsy's Wedding)
1959 Carolyn Hill Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1959 Mike Horan NFL punter (New York Giants)
1959 Wade Wilson NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 Daniel M Tani Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961 Gabrielle Carteris Phoenix AZ, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1961 Gina Hull Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1964 Jani Lane rocker (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 Dwayne Rudolph Goettel musician
1964 Kaitlin Hopkins New York NY, actress (Kelsey-Another World)
1964 Sharon Bruneau Toronto Ontario, actress (Sensuous Muscle)
1965 Brandon Lee Emerson CO, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1965 Sherilyn Fenn Detroit MI, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
1965 David Callaghan cricketer (South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992)
1965 Stephanie Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
1966 Donna Edmondson Greensboro NC, playmate of the year (November 1986)
1966 Eddie Zambrano Venezuelan/US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1966 Michelle Akers Santa Clara CA, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1967 Laura E Dern Los Angeles CA, actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1967 Tim Naehring Cincinnati OH, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1968 George Quigley Jr Cincinnati OH, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1968 Javier Sanchez Spain, tennis star
1968 Kent Mercker Dublin OH, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles)
1968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson Memphis TN, (Elvis' daughter)
1968 Mark Recchi Kamloops, NHL right wing (Montréal Canadiens)
1968 Pauly Shore Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
1968 Sean Millington CFL fullback (British Columbia Lions)
1969 Bryan Jacob Palatka FL, 59 kg (130 lbs) weightlifter (Olympics-1992, 96)
1969 John Moore Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1970 Eric Mobley NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 Malik Sealy NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers)
1971 Ajay Jadeja cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1971 Derek Byrd NFL cornerback (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Robert O'Neal WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Tommy Salo Surahammar Sweden, NHL goalie (Team Sweden, New York Islanders)
1972 [Thomas] Carlton Bruner US, 1500 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 Brian Krause actor (December, Sleepwalkers, Return to Blue Lagoon)
1972 Geoff Sanderson Hay River, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1972 Richard Becker Aurora IL, outfielder (Minnesota Twin)
1973 Andrew DeClercq NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics)
1973 Elena Makarova Moscow Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Val)
1973 Michael Joyce Santa Monica CA, tennis star (1989 USTA National Boys' 18)
1973 Tlia Reima ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics-98)
1974 Jennifer Lien actress (Hannah Moore-Another World)
1974 Lisa Marie Scott Pensacola FL, playmate (February 1994)
1974 Randy Josselyn Los Angeles CA, actor (Fever Lake, Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure)
1974 Walter McCarty NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 Martijn Reuser Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1980 Courtney Hamilton Miss Arizona Teen-USA (1996)

Deaths which occurred on February 01:
0656 Sigebert III king of Austrasia, dies at about 25
1204 Alexius IV Angelus regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered
1248 Hendrik II duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies
1294 Louis II the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
1328 Charles IV the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies
1502 Olivier de la Marche Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies
1542 Hieronymus Aleander [Girólamo Aleandro], Italian diplomat, dies at 61
1650 Rene Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1666 Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
1669 Abandoned child Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31
1691 Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
1691 George Etherege English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
1694 John L baron van Elderen 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73
1733 August II the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
1743 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer, dies at 85
1747 Jacobus E J Capitein Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1795 Giacomo Insanguine composer, dies at 66
1818 Giuseppi Gazzaniga composer, dies at 74
1824 Maria Theresia von Paradis composer, dies at 64
1832 Ecco Epkema Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at 71
1838 Abraham de Veer Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71
1839 Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
1869 Frederik W Conrad hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
1871 Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov composer, dies at 51
1873 Matthew Maury hydrographer, dies
1875 William Sterndale Bennett composer, dies at 58
1877 Joseph-Leon Gatayes composer, dies at 71
1878 George Cruikshank English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1883 Pavel Melnikov Russian historian/author, dies
1889 Joseph Gungl composer, dies at 78
1902 Salomon Jaoassohn composer, dies at 70
1903 George G Stokes British physicist/presidential Royal Society, dies at 83
1904 Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
1905 Oswald Aschenbach German painter, dies at 77
1908 Carlos I King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
1910 Otto Julius Bierbaum German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
1916 Anton Simon composer, dies at 65
1922 William Desmond Taylor director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
1929 August Otto Halm composer, dies at 59
1937 Marguerite Audoux writer, dies
1944 Martin Lunssens composer, dies at 72
1944 Piet Mondrian abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1945 Johan Huizinga Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
1946 Hans Betghe writer, dies at 70
1949 Herbert Stothart composer, dies at 63
1950 Harry Blomberg Swedish author (Jacobs Dröm), dies at 56
1954 Julius P Hoste Belgian minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1957 Friedrich von Paulus German field marshal (Stalingrad), dies at 66
1958 Clinton Joseph Davisson dies
1959 Madame Sul-To-Wan [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85
1966 Nicholas Piantanida sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1966 Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1966 William Harrigan actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
1967 Ernie Bromley cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies
1967 Langston Hughes poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday
1968 Lawson Little amateur golfer (US/British Opens 1934, 35), dies at 57
1970 Blaz Arnic composer, dies at 69
1971 Jim A J Christy cricket (10 Tests for South Africa, 638 runs at 34 33), dies
1974 Lynda Ann Healy 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
1974 Marieluise Fleißer writer, dies at 71
1975 Richard Wattis actor (Dick & the Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
1976 Edgar Pangborn sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1976 Werner C Heisenberg physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
1979 Mort Marshall actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
1980 Jack Bailey TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1980 Romolo Valli actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
1981 Donald W Douglas US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88
1981 Ernst Pepping composer, dies at 79
1981 Nils Geirr Tveitt composer, dies at 72
1981 Wanda Hendrix actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies
1983 Tullio Campagnolo Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies
1986 Alva Myrdal Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 Dick James Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1987 Erin Westmore makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
1988 Heather O'Rourke "Poltergeist" star dies of intestinal ailment at 12
1988 Reinder Zwolsman Dutch businessman, dies at 75
1991 Carol Dempster actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
1991 H J van Ommeren-Averink Dutch MP (CPN), dies
1991 James G MacDonald cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 Phil Watson NHL coach (New York Rangers), dies
1992 George Berkeley actor (Life Stinks, Captains & the Kings), dies at 70
1992 Irving R Kaufman federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1994 Fouad Fram al-Boustani Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 Olan Soule radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
1995 George Abbot director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1995 John Smith CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1995 Michael Caesar pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 Clive Burton neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 Herb Caen columnist, dies of lung cancer at 80
1997 Mitchell Goodman writer, dies at 71
1997 Peter Morris historian of France, dies at 50
1997 Thelma Moss psychologist, dies at 78

On this day...
0772 Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1539 Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty
1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790 Supreme Court convenes for the 1st time (New York NY)
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
1793 France declares war on England & Netherlands
1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810 1st insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)
1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French
1810 US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication
1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York NY
1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar
1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized
1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1893 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
1896 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme" premieres in Turin
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1902 Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben" premieres in Berlin
1905 Hague soccer team ADO forms
1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS
1906 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910 1st British labour exchange opens
1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece
1914 New York Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed
1914 Tanganyika Railway opens
1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918 Franz Lehárs opera "Wo die Lerche singt" premieres in Budapest
1918 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York NY
1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)
1919 Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1920 Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1923 Noël Coward's "Young Idea" premieres in London
1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1924 Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1925 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch
1929 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
1930 Arnold Schönbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
1932 Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own
1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1935 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1941 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1942 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)
1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN
1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists
1947 Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1949 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope 1st used
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)
1951 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1952 S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "Jane" premieres in New York NY
1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female assistant Secretary of state
1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954 Soccer team The County forms in Doetinchem
1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1958 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958 WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 Wiffi Smith win LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959 WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960 34th Australian Women's Tennis Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (7-5 6-2)
1960 48th Australian Men's Tennis Rod Laver beats N Fraser (5-7 3-6 6-3 8-6 8-6)
1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies
1962 "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964 Suriname River dammed
1965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL
1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
1968 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President
1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1969 Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969 WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970 Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1970 WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1975 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to
1976 Judy Rankin win LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1978 Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1981 11th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981 31st NBA All-Star Game East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies" premieres in New York NY
1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981 Sandra Palmer win LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1981 Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1982 "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1985 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)
1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)
1985 Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1985 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987 Kathy Postlewait win LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1987 NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY
1991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs England at the WACA
1991 US Air & Skywest Fairchild commuter jet collide at Los Angeles Airport killing 32
1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 million)
1992 Denis Potvin's #5 becomes the 1st number retired by the New York Islanders
1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 performances
1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands
1994 Irina Privalova runs world record 50 meter indoor (6.03 seconds)
1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1995 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends
1995 Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 meter butterfly (26.73)
1995 Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record
1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
1998 "Street Corner Symphony" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2)
1998 Australian Mixed Doubles Tennis J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (6-2 6-1)
1998 NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Malaysia : Federal Territory Holiday (1974)
Nicaragua : Air Force Day
US : National Freedom Day
Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - - - - - ( Sunday )
Australia : Australia Day - - - - - ( Monday )
China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Pig (1995/4693) End of Sexageney
China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Ram/Sheep (2003/4701)

Religious Observances
old Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Brigid of Kildar, Irish nun

Religious History
1750 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace"), 24, wedded Mary Catlett. Their marriage lasted 40 years, before her death in 1790. John lived another 17 years, and died in 1807.
1791 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Probably I should not be able to do so much did not many of you assist me by your prayers.'
1803 Anglican missionary to Persia, Henry Martyn wrote in his journal: 'Oh, that I may learn my utter helplessness without Thee, and so by deep humiliation be qualified for greater usefulness.'
1949 The modern state of Israel formally annexed West Jerusalem.
1901 Pioneer American missionaries Charles (37) and Lettie (31) Cowman set sail for Japan. Later in the year they founded the Oriental Missionary Society. They labored in the foreign field until Charles' worsening health forced them to retire in 1917.

Thought for the day :
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."

Member bump!

Words fail me over Mzzzz Cindy Williams remarks.
However I DO have two words for her.

I like your choice of Ship for today.

ANy graphic with the Marine Flag raising at Iwo Jima has to be a good one. Thanks, GailA.

We had the same problem with our Vietnow Chapter, the same people were always doing all the work.

What we did was the 10 of us who were doing everything, contacted AmVets and started our own Post. We managed to get people in our post who wanted to be active and it's a small post but it's an active one. We just are selective in our activities.

It worked for us.

Good Poem Cote, Thanks. I was wondering how you were gonna get a poem in today.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintergrates on re-entry -

A brief look at the six Americans and Israel's first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia:

Commander Rick Husband, 45, Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Texas. The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. He made up his mind as a child that that was what he was going to do with his life.

"It's been pretty much a lifelong dream and just a thrill to be able to get to actually live it out," he said in an interview before Columbia's launch, his second spaceflight.

Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons. He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996. This was his first spaceflight.

Payload commander Michael Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man who grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force when NASA (news - web sites) chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of black astronauts. He traveled to Russia's Mir space station (news - web sites) in 1998. The lieutenant colonel was in charge of Columbia's dozens of science experiments. His home is in Spokane, Wash.

Kalpana Chawla, 41, emigrated to United States from India in 1980s and became an astronaut in 1994. On only other spaceflight, in 1996, she made mistakes that sent science satellite tumbling out of control. Other astronauts had to go on spacewalk to capture it.

David Brown, 46, a Navy captain, pilot and doctor. He joined the Navy after a medical internship, went on to fly the A-6E Intruder and F-18. He became an astronaut in 1996. Columbia's mission was his first spaceflight.

Laurel Clark, 41, a Navy diving medical officer aboard submarines, then flight surgeon who became an astronaut in 1996. On board Columbia to help with science experiments. Has 8-year-old son. Her home is in Racine, Wis.

Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel in Israel's air force and the first Israeli in space. His mother and grandmother survived Auschwitz death camp. Father fought for Israel's statehood alongside grandfather. Ramon fought in Yom Kippur War 1973 and Lebanon War 1982.

He served as a fighter pilot 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, flew F-16s and F-4s. He was chosen as Israel's first astronaut in 1997, then moved to Houston the next year to train for shuttle flight. His wife and four children live in Tel Aviv.

The American Legion Auxiliary is the world's largest women's patriotic service organization. Through its nearly 10,500 Units located in every state and some foreign countries, the Auxiliary embodies the spirit of America that has prevailed through war and peace. Along with The American Legion, it sollidly stands behind America and her ideals.

Sad news. May they rest in peace.

Thank you, vets, one and all.

Nice graphic, Liz.

Thanks.

Thanks for the ping....

Usually I have something to post. A Graphic with music.....or something
Today.....I just can't think of anything except some music that I share with you.
I have looked at the great words and graphics that other Freepers have posted.
I can add nothing to it......
It is a sad day
God Bless the families of those lost in this most terrible event. God Please Receive and Bless the Brave Souls of those lost to us
God Bless we the grieving
God Bless Israel
God Bless America

Thanks Fiddlstix, it's a tough day again. Another tragedy strikes our Country and we grieve again.

From truthminers
Actress Cindy Williams wrote that up-coming military pay raises were more than they deserved! BOGUS.
The message claims that actress Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley) wrote a Nov. 12th article in the Washington Times denouncing military pay raises. The message includes a response to her from an airman from Hill AFB.

Unfortunately, this is an inexcusable case of mistaken identity. The Cindy Williams who wrote the article identified herself directly in the article as a Senior Research Fellow at MIT and a former Assistant Director for National Security in the Congressional Budget Office.

The article that MIT Cindy Williams wrote was not necessarily anti-military, but was about what she believe to be the gap in the wages of military vs. civilians. Lest anyone mistake the reason for my writing about this, I fully disagreed with her premises. Comparing the jobs of people who put their lives on the line for this country with people who work in offices is like comparing apples and artichokes. They might both be somewhat round in shape, but that's all they have in common.

The article was published January 12, 2000 (not Nov.) and was in the Washington Post, not the Washington Times. It seems that the originator of this message couldn't get anything correct here. It looks very much like the originator of the email piece had never read the Williams article, only the airman's response to it. The originator to the currently circulating message then made several assumptions and shot this email message off. Too bad he or she hasn't had the character and integrity to make an apology to Ms. Williams, since the message has hurt her badly, especially after it became quite popular after 9/11.

The airman, Michael Bragg is not the one responsible for this mistaken identity. Mr. Bragg told me that he directed his letter to Ms. Williams (MIT) alone. His father sent a copy to a few friends and it somehow ended up in the hands of someone who created the upsetting situation. Mr. Bragg says that the form of the letter we now see has been changed as well. One line that was changed made it seem like he was currently serving in a place of conflict. Alluding to the next line ("I will defend to the death your right to say it), Mr. Bragg said, "to borrow from Voltaire." The line was changed to "tomorrow in [Kabul/Sarajevo/Combat Zone]" - depending on which version you got. This had to be a deliberate change. He says this is not the only change to his letter. Mr. Bragg also told me is trying to find contact information for Cindy Williams (the actress) in order to convey his apologies to her for what has ended up happening.

As to Williams the actress, according to Snopes, Williams has said, "I've done everything to try to squelch it, but nothing seems to work," says Miss Williams of "Laverne and Shirley" fame. "I have people writing and calling me, even my friends, asking: 'Are you against a pay raise for the military?' And I reply, 'You know me, I'd fight [in the military] if I could, because I am such a patriot.'"

Worse, Williams has received much hate mail from people in the military, not because of the actual article the MIT Williams wrote, but because of this email message.

Still think there's no harm in forwarding this stuff? Two people have been harmed here: Williams and Bragg. Bearing false witness, slander and defamation of character are no laughing matter.
for more go to
http://www.truthminers.com/truth/cindy_williams.htm

Thanks a lot for that clarification Valin.

I've seen the Cindy Williams / Michael Bragg exchange before. It's been going around for a while.