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Events
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
1704 – Queen Anne s War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.
1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.
1864 – American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails – plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1916 – Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
1932 – TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William Alfalfa Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
1936 – Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations
1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden s Consul General in San Francisco.
1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
1952 – The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
1956 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
1960 – An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
1960 – Family Circus makes its debut.
1964 – In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
1972 – Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
1980 – Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1984 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader.
1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town
1996 – A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.
2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising.

Births
1468 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
1692 – John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763)
1724 – Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick (d. 1822)
1736 – Ann Lee, American founder of Quakers (d. 1784)
1792 – Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
1812 – Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880)
1840 – John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
1852 – Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936)
1860 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d. 1929)
1896 – Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
1896 – William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975)
1904 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
1904 – Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965)
1904 – Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)
1908 – Balthus, French-Polish painter (d. 2001)
1908 – Dee Brown, American writer (d. 2002)
1908 – Alf Gover, English cricketer (d. 2001)
1916 – Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1920 – Arthur Franz, American actor (d. 2006)
1920 – James Mitchell, American actor
1920 – Michèle Morgan, French actress
1920 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991)
1920 – Ivan Petrov, Russian operatic bass (d. 2003)
1924 – Al Rosen, American baseball player
1924 – David Beattie, New Zealand Governor-General (d. 2001)
1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador
1928 – Joss Ackland, English actor
1928 – Terry Lewis, Australian police commissioner
1928 – Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer
1932 – Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
1932 – Gene Golub, American mathematician (d. 2007)
1932 – Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver (d. 1985)
1932 – Reri Grist, African-American coloratura soprano
1936 – Jack Lousma, American astronaut
1936 – Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Alex Rocco, American actor
1940 – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer
1944 – Phyllis Frelich, American actress
1944 – Dennis Farina, American actor
1944 – Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator
1944 – Ene Ergma, Estonian politician
1948 – Jiro Akagawa, Japanese novelist
1952 – Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television personality
1952 – Tim Powers, American writer
1952 – Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier
1952 – Bart Stupak, American congressman
1956 – Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian entertainer
1956 – Bob Speller, Canadian politician
1956 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
1956 – J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebrity journalist
1956 – Jerry Fry, Baseball player
1960 – Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician
1960 – Khaled, Algerian raï musician
1960 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer
1960 – Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
1964 – Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player and Boston radio personality
1964 – Jahred Shane, Afro-Brazilian rapper/singer of Hed PE
1968 – Suanne Braun, South African actress
1968 – Chucky Brown, American basketball player
1968 – Pete Fenson, American curler
1968 – Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress
1968 – Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist
1968 – Bryce Paup, American football player
1968 – Wendi Peters, British actress
1968 – Eugene Volokh, American law professor
1968 – Frank Woodley, Australian comedian
1972 – Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-born actor
1972 – Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002)
1972 – Saul Williams, American rapper, poet, and actor
1972 – Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American Real World housemate and AIDS activist (d. 1994)
1976 – Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
1976 – Emma Barton, English actress
1976 – Terrence Long, American baseball player
1980 – Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
1980 – Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league footballer
1980 – Chris Conley, American musician
1980 – Ruben Plaza, Spanish cyclist
1984 – Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Darren Ambrose, English footballer
1984 – Adam Sinclair, Indian field hockey player
1984 – Cullen Jones, American swimmer
1988 – Scott Golbourne, English footballer

Deaths
1528 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504)
1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
1604 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683)
1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
1880 – Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812, also on 29 February)
1908 – Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger
1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
1928 – Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841)
1940 – Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (b. 1867)
1944 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
1956 – Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890)
1964 – Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909)
1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886)
1980 – Gil Elvgren, American artist (b. 1914)
1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897)
1992 – Earl Scheib, American car repainter (b. 1908)
1996 – Shams Pahlavi, Persian princess (b. 1917)
2000 – Dennis Danell, American artist (b. 1961)
2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915)
2008 – Janet Kagan, American author (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith – Day 4 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) (in leap years only) – days in the Bahá í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Discordianism – St. Tib s Day.
February 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 February 28th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/february-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today February 28th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty s rule over China
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1787 – The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted.
1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing 8 United States Cabinet members and several others.
1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor.
1850 – The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1861 – Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith is lifted.
1922 – The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1935 – Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers.
1939 – The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
1939 – The erroneous word Dord is discovered in the Webster s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
1972 – The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan.
1972 – Sino-American relations: The United States and People s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
1974 – After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1995 – Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport
1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 – Lebanon s pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2007 – Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
2008 – Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile.

Births
1155 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
1261 – Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1409 – Elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442)
1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592)
1552 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632)
1573 – Elias Holl, German Architect (d. 1646)
1612 – John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882)
1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)
1824 – Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)
1833 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
1838 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1841 – Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
1851 – Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
1865 – Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940)
1878 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
1878 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
1882 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
1882 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959)
1882 – Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928)
1894 – Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964)
1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (d. 1974)
1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1900 – Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
1901 – Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1903 – Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988)
1908 – Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 – Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
1909 – Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995)
1912 – Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
1915 – Ketti Frings, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, (d. 1981)
1915 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1915 – Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)
1916 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984)
1921 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
1923 – Charles Durning, American actor
1926 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1925 – Harry H Corbett, English actor (d. 1982)
1929 – Hayden Fry, American football coach
1929 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect
1929 – John Montague, Irish poet
1929 – Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer
1930 – Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1930 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
1930 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor
1931 – Dean Smith, American basketball coach
1932 – Don Francks, Canadian actor
1933 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d. 1989)
1933 – Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
1933 – Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician
1939 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 – Tommy Tune, American dancer
1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
1940 – Joe South, American singer
1942 – Frank Bonner, American actor
1942 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
1942 – Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
1943 – Barbara Acklin, American soul singer (d. 1998)
1943 – Charles Bernstein, American composer
1944 – Win Aung, Burmese politician
1944 – Kelly Bishop, American actress
1944 – Sepp Maier, German footballer
1945 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor
1946 – Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
1947 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
1948 – Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate, U.S. Secretary of Energy-Designate
1948 – Mike Figgis, English director
1948 – Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
1948 – Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
1951 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
1952 – William Finn, American composer
1953 – Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian racing driver
1953 – Paul Krugman, American economist, Nobel laureate
1953 – Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler
1954 – Brian Billick, American football coach
1955 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian
1956 – Adrian Dantley, American basketball player
1956 – Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer
1956 – Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
1957 – Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
1957 – Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef
1957 – John Turturro, American actor
1957 – Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52 s)
1958 – Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress
1960 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress
1961 – Mark Latham, Australian politician
1961 – René Simard, French Canadian singer and TV host
1961 – Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver
1963 – Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
1964 – Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
1966 – Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
1967 – Colin Cooper, English footballer
1968 – Stéphan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
1969 – Tor Øivind Ødegaard, Norwegian track runner
1969 – Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)
1970 – Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket
1970 – Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete
1971 – Tristan Louis, American writer
1971 – Junya Nakano, Japanese composer
1971 – Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor
1972 – Rory Cochrane, American actor
1973 – Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver
1973 – Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 – Lee Carsley, Irish footballer
1974 – Moana Mackey, New Zealand politician
1975 – Mike Rucker, American football player
1976 – Ali Larter, American actress and model
1976 – Adam Pine, Australian swimmer
1976 – Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
1977 – Jason Aldean, American country singer
1978 – Jeanne Cherhal, French Singer-songwriter
1978 – Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier
1978 – Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
1978 – Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist
1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
1979 – Ivo Karlovic, Croatian tennis player
1979 – Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
1980 – Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
1980 – Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Quebec boxer
1980 – Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
1980 – Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
1981 – Brian Bannister, American baseball player
1981 – Florent Serra, French tennis player
1982 – Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel
1984 – Ben Fagan, American musician and reality show contestant
1984 – Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel
1985 – Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
1985 – Jelena Jankovic, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer
1988 – Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress
1989 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese R&B singer
1991 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
2007 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco

Deaths
1261 – Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. c.1230s|1230)
1326 – Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 – Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 – Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1621 – Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1648 – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
1746 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1786 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1869 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
1916 – Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
1925 – Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
1929 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1941 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1942 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
1956 – Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
1963 – Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1966 – Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
1967 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1974 – Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)
1977 – Eddie Rochester Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 – Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1978 – Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
1979 – Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1985 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1991 – Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
1991 – Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1993 – Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
1998 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1999 – Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (b. 1924)
2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2003 – Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
2003 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
2003 – Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, Lens designer, and Engineer (b. 1903)
2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2004 – Carmen Laforet, famed Spanish novelist
2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 – Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)
2007 – Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
2008 – Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith – Day 3 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) – days in the Bahá í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Kalevala Day, The Day of Finnish Culture – Finland
Peace Memorial Day, the day of commemorating the 228 Incident – Taiwan
Mar Abba
Abercius (martyr)
Saint Hilarius (d. 468)
Saint Romanus (d. 463)
Saint Oswald (d. 992)
Saint Rufinus
February 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
1801 – Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. See District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801
1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 – A crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1939 – American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1945 – Lebanon declares Independence.
1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1967 – Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1974 – People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo.
1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that Kuwait is liberated.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria s first elected president since mid-1983.
2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair s handling of the evacuation.
2002 – Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2003 – Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 – Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
2007 – The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends.
2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

Births
272 – Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1691 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
1831 – Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
1862 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
1878 – Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1886 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
1888 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
1888 – Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
1890 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
1891 – Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
1892 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
1897 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1899 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
1902 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
1904 – James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 – Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
1910 – Clarence Kelly Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works (d. 1990)
1912 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1913 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
1917 – John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)
1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
1923 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
1925 – Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 – Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1930 – Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player
1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American writer
1934 – Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
1934 – Van Williams, American actor
1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
1936 – Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
1937 – David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
1939 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor
1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor
1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
1942 – Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer
1944 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher
1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
1951 – Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
1952 – Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1953 – Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
1954 – Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
1955 – Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
1957 – Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
1957 – Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
1957 – Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
1958 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player
1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
1962 – Grant Show, American actor
1963 – Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
1964 – Todd Bodine, American race car driver
1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor
1965 – Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
1965 – Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor
1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
1969 – Brad Vander Ark, American musician
1970 – Michael A. Burstein, American writer
1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
1970 – Matthias Lechner, German art director
1970 – Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
1971 – Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
1971 – Rozonda Chilli Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1973 – Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
1973 – Peter André, Australian singer – Husband to Katie Price, Glamour model
1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
1975 – Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player
1977 – Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
1977 – Ji Sung, South Korean actor
1977 – James Wan, Australian film director
1978 – James Beattie, English footballer
1980 – Bobby Valentino, American singer
1980 – Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
1981 – Josh Groban, American singer
1981 – Elodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
1983 – Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
1984 – David Noel, American basketball player
1984 – Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
1985 – Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian Footballer
1985 – Braydon Coburn, Canadian Hockey Player
1988 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 – Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer,Steven Gildea, American Ice Hockey Player
1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player

Deaths
1659 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
1706 – John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
1720 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
1735 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
1844 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
1892 – Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
1902 – Harry Breaker Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances
1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
1932 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1941 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
1969 – Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
1970 – Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
2003 – John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
2003 – Fred Rogers, American children s television actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
2005 – Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
2006 – Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
2006 – Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2008 – Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
2008 – Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – Equirria; horse races in honor of the war god Mars were held.
Bahá í Faith – Day 2 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) – days in the Bahá í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Dominican Republic – National Day.
First day of Maslenitsa in Russia (2006)
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
Saint Leander
Saint Honorine
February 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy s Nabonassar Era.
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655-1661), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1794 – Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1848 – The second French Republic is proclaimed.
1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.
1870 – In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
1885 – The Berlin Act, which resulted from the Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, is signed
1887 – At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
1929 – The Grand Teton National Park is created.
1935 – The Luftwaffe is re-formed.
1935 – The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1952 – United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1970 – National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.
1971 – Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
1984 – US troops withdraw from Beirut. President Ronald Reagan had sent the troops as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
1986 – People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1990 – The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
1991 – Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
1995 – The United Kingdom s oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
2001 – The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2003 – Generally said to be the starting date of the War in Darfur.
2004 – The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
2004 – Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 – Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.

Births
1361 – Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
1587 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
1714 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
1720 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
1746 – Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
1749 – Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (d. 1832)
1786 – François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
1799 – Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
1808 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
1808 – Nathan Kelley,American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d. 1871)
1814 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
1829 – Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1846 – William F. Buffalo Bill Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943)
1857 – Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
1858 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
1861 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1861 – Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Lenin s wife (d. 1939)
1866 – Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)
1879 – Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
1882 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1885 – Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
1887 – William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1887 – Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
1893 – I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
1896 – Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Soviet politician and art ideologist (d. 1948)
1899 – Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
1902 – Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
1907 – Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1908 – Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
1909 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1909 – Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
1911 – Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1912 – Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 – George Barker, English poet (d. 1991)
1914 – Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
1918 – Otis Ray Bowen, American politician (Indiana Governor) and physician
1918 – Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
1919 – Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1919 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
1920 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
1920 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 – Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
1926 – Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
1926 – H.M., Henry Gustav Molaison, the amnesiac patient (d. 2008)
1927 – Tom Kennedy, American game show host
1928 – Fats Domino, American musician
1928 – Anatoli Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
1928 – Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1930 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
1931 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1934 – Robert Novak, American political columnist
1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1938 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
1939 – Josephine Tewson, English actress
1941 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1943 – Bill Duke, American actor and director
1943 – Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
1945 – Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
1945 – Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
1945 – Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
1945 – Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
1945 – Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
1946 – Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer
1949 – Elizabeth George, American novelist
1949 – Emma Kirkby, British early music singer
1950 – Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1950 – Jonathan Cain, American musician (Journey, Bad English, The Babys)
1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer
1954 – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1955 – Andreas Maislinger, founder of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
1956 – Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 – David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
1957 – Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
1958 – Karen Berger, American comic book editor
1958 – Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1958 – Greg Germann, American actor
1958 – Tim Kaine, American politician, governor of Virginia
1959 – Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
1960 – Jaz Coleman, British musician
1962 – Kelly Gruber, former Major League Baseball player
1964 – Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
1966 – Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1967 – Currie Graham, Canadian actor
1968 – Tim Commerford, American bass player (Rage Against the Machine)
1968 – Ed Quinn, American Actor
1968 – J. T. Snow, American baseball player
1969 – Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1971 – Erykah Badu, American singer
1971 – Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
1971 – Hélène Ségara, French singer
1973 – Marshall Faulk, American football player
1973 – Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian retired footballer
1973 – Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
1976 – Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
1976 – Chad Urmston, American musician
1977 – Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
1977 – Greg Rikaart, American actor
1977 – Josh Towers, Major League Baseball player
1977 – Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
1978 – Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
1978 – Marc Hynes, British racing driver
1978 – John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and Muppeteer
1979 – Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
1979 – Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1979 – Shalim Ortiz, Puerto Rican singer/actor
1980 – Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
1980 – Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
1980 – Steve Blake, American basketball player
1981 – Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
1981 – Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
1982 – Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
1983 – Kara Monaco, American model
1984 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
1984 – Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
1985 – Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
1986 – Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
1986 – Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
1986 – Makelele, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Julia Bond, American porn star
1987 – Juliet Simms, Guitarist and vocals for the band Automatic Loveletter
1993 – Taylor Dooley, American actress

Deaths
1154 – King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
1200 – Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
1266 – King Manfred of Sicily
1360 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
1552 – Heinrich Faber, German composer
1561 – Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
1577 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
1608 – John Still, English bishop
1630 – William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
1638 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
1723 – Thomas d Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
1726 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
1770 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
1802 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
1813 – Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
1815 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
1821 – Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
1864 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1883 – Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
1889 – Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
1913 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
1921 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
1933 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
1943 – Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
1947 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
1950 – Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (b. 1870)
1961 – King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
1966 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
1969 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
1969 – Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
1971 – Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
1981 – Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
1981 – Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1990 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1938)
1993 – Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
1994 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
1995 – Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
1997 – David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
1998 – James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
1998 – Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
2000 – George L. Street III American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient.(b. 1913)
2001 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2002 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 – Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2004 – Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
2004 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2005 – Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2008 – Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies (b. 1947)
2008 – Dick Fletcher, Meteorologist (b. 1942)
2008 – Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith – February 26, Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) – days in the Bahá í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Nation of Islam – Savior s Day – commemoration of the birthdate of Wallace Fard Muhammad, believed to be Allah in human form, the saviour of the black race.
Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991).
Saint Nestor (died 251)
Saint Alexander of Alexandria
Saint Isabel of France
February 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 February 25th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/february-history/february-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/february-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today February 25th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1793 – George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain
1836 – Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1901 – J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1925 – Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
1925 – The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1933 – The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the US Navys first custom-built aircraft carrier.
1941 – February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
1942 – Battle of Los Angeles: a UFO flying over wartime Los Angeles causes a blackout order at 2:25 a.m. and attracts a barrage of anti-aircraft fire, killing 3 civilians.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1948 – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1969 – Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 – The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independence from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
1986 – People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis.
2008 – The country of Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.

Births
1398 – Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1591 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1643 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
1663 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
1692 – Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
1714 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
1714 – Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
1725 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
1752 – John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1778 – José de San Martín, Argentine general and liberator of South America (d. 1850)
1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)
1842 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
1845 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
1855 – George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912)
1855 – Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
1860 – Sir William Ashley, economic historian (d. 1927)
1861 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (d. 1925)
1866 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (d. 1952)
1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
1877 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
1883 – Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
1885 – Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (d. 1971)
1888 – John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1959)
1889 – Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
1890 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
1894 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
1895 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)
1901 – Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)
1903 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1908 – Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)
1910 – Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)
1912 – Brenda Joyce, American actress
1913 – Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)
1914 – John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991)
1916 – Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
1917 – Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)
1918 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
1918 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1918 – Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
1919 – Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
1920 – Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
1921 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
1927 – Ralph Stanley, American musician
1928 – Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer
1929 – Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
1929 – Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (d. 2007)
1932 – Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1932 – Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
1934 – Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
1935 – Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
1937 – Tom Courtenay, English actor
1937 – Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
1937 – Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
1938 – Diane Baker, American actress
1938 – Herb Elliott, Australian runner
1940 – Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster
1940 – Danny Cater, American baseball player
1940 – Ron Santo, American baseball player
1942 – Karen Grassle, American actress
1943 – George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
1943 – Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1945 – Herbert Léonard, French singer
1945 – Elkie Brooks, English singer
1946 – Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
1946 – Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari
1947 – Lee Evans, American athlete
1947 – Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
1948 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
1948 – Aldo Busi, Italian writer
1949 – Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
1950 – Neil Jordan, Irish director
1950 – Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
1950 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1951 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1951 – James Brown, American sportscaster
1951 – César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1952 – Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
1952 – Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1952 – Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
1953 – José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain
1953 – Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 – John Doe, American musician
1957 – Sérgio Marques, Portuguese politician
1958 – Kurt Rambis, American basketball player
1959 – Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
1959 – Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)
1960 – Tony Grimaud, Maltese-born singer and songwriter
1960 – Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player
1961 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 – Todd Blackledge, American football player
1962 – Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
1963 – Paul O Neill, American baseball player
1964 – Lee Evans, English comedian
1964 – Don Majkowski, American football player
1965 – Carrot Top, American comedian
1965 – Brian Baker, American guitarist
1966 – Alexis Denisof, American actor
1966 – Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
1966 – Téa Leoni, American actress
1966 – Nancy O Dell, American reporter and television personality
1966 – Samantha Phillips, American actress
1968 – Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
1968 – Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
1969 – Paul Trimboli, Australian soccer player
1970 – Julie Hesmondhalgh, English actress
1971 – Sean Astin, American actor
1971 – Dave Harris, American disc jockey
1971 – Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
1973 – Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
1973 – Anson Mount, American actor
1973 – Julio José Iglesias, Spanish singer
1973 – Normann Stadler, German triathlete
1975 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
1976 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician
1976 – Chris Pitman, American keyboardist and member of Guns N Roses
1977 – Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
1977 – Josh Wolff, American footballer
1979 – Jennifer Ferrin, American actress
1979 – David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor
1980 – Antonio Burks, American basketball player
1980 – Christy Knowings, American actress
1981 – Jamie Lynn, American model
1981 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
1981 – Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
1981 – Misty Giles, American beauty queen and Survivor contestant
1982 – Chris Baird, Irish footballer
1982 – Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 – Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
1982 – Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
1982 – Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
1983 – Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
1984 – Logan Leistikow, American director and actor
1984 – Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
1985 – Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1985 – Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
1986 – Justin Berfield, American actor
1986 – James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
1986 – Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1987 – Eva Avila, Canadian singer
1990 – Alejandra Andreu, Miss International 2008
1991 – Tony Oller, American actor
1998 – Brendon Baerg, American actor

Deaths
1246 – Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1522 – William Lilye, English classical scholar
1536 – Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1553 – Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
1634 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
1643 – Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1655 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
1713 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
1715 – Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1723 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
1756 – Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
1798 – Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
1805 – Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1831 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
1850 – Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
1852 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
1860 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1899 – Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
1912 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1919 – Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
1922 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
1934 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
1945 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
1950 – George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1953 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
1957 – George Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
1964 – Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1966 – James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (b. 1903)
1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1975 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
1978 – Daniel Chappie James Jr., American general (b. 1920)
1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
1987 – James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
1993 – Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
1993 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
1994 – Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b. 1956)
1994 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
1996 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
1998 – Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
1999 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2001 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
2003 – Tom O Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
2003 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
2004 – Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
2005 – Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
2006 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
2006 – Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2007 – William R. Anderson, CO USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
2007 – Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2008 – Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008 – Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2008 – Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
2008 – Charles Chan, Father of Jackie Chan (b. December 18, 1914)

Holidays and observances
Kuwait s national day.
People Power Day, special holiday in the Philippines.
February 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani,OSB

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Events
303 – Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1387 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1538 – Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 – L Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, premieres.
1711 – The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1803 – The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
1804 – London s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad was inaugurated.
1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1839 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 – The first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 – The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1890 – Chicago is selected to host the Columbian Exposition
1893 – The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, which ended with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
1899 – Western Washington University is established.
1909 – The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if that country declares war on the United States.
1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
1925 – A thermite (magnesium) bomb is used for the first time to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam clogging the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, New York.
1938 – A nylon-bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product (DuPont) to
1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, lasting until the next day.
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
1970 – National Public Radio is founded in the United States.
1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar appointed as the new chairman.
1976 – Cuba : national Constitution proclaimed.
1981 – Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 – The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany s legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 – A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People s Republic of China, killing 61.
2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

Births
1103 – Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 – Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer
1463 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
1500 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
1545 – Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
1557 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619)
1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1619 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
1622 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1684 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1693 – James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1723 – John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
1774 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
1786 – Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
1831 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
1836 – Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
1842 – Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918)
1846 – Luigi Denza, Italian composer (d. 1922)
1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
1852 – George Moore, Irish writer (d. 1933)
1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1866 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
1874 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955)
1877 – Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1885 – Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral (d. 1966)
1885 – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1890 – Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975)
1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot (d. 1983)
1909 – August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
1914 – Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)
1914 – Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1919 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (d. 2004)
1919 – Betty Marsden, English comedy actress (d. 1998)
1921 – Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1921 – Abe Vigoda, American actor
1921 – Douglass Watson, American actor (d. 1989)
1922 – Richard Hamilton, English painter
1922 – Steven Hill, American actor
1923 – David Soyer, American cellist
1926 – Jean Alexander, English actress
1926 – John Gunther Dean, American diplomat
1927 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1928 – Barbara Lawrence, American actress
1931 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
1932 – Michel Legrand, French composer
1932 – John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1933 – Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
1934 – Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
1934 – Linda Cristal, Argentina-born actress
1938 – James Farentino, American actor
1938 – Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1938 – Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British Baroness and Methodist reverend
1940 – Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 – Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1941 – Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
1942 – Joe Lieberman, American politician
1942 – Paul Jones, English singer (Manfred Mann)
1942 – Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1943 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
1943 – Terry Semel, American business executive
1943 – Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
1944 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994)
1945 – Barry Bostwick, American actor
1946 – Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946 – John Stapleton, English television presenter
1947 – Rupert Holmes, English musician
1947 – Edward James Olmos, American actor
1948 – J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
1948 – Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
1948 – Tim Staffell, English singer
1948 – Dennis Waterman, British actor
1950 – George Thorogood, American Singer and Guitarist
1951 – Tony Holiday, German singer (d. 1990)
1951 – Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
1951 – Helen Shaver, Canadian actress
1955 – Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer
1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver
1956 – Paula Zahn, American journalist
1956 – Judith Butler, American philosopher
1956 – Eddie Murray, American baseball player
1958 – Sammy Kershaw, American musician
1958 – Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
1959 – Beth Broderick, American actress
1959 – Owen Gleiberman, American film critic
1962 – Michelle Shocked, American musician
1962 – Teri Weigel, American pornography actress
1962 – Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress
1963 – Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Andy Crane, British children s television presenter
1964 – Todd Field, American actor and film director
1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 – Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver
1965 – Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer
1965 – Jane Swift, American politician
1966 – Billy Zane, American actor
1966 – René Arocha, Cuban baseball player
1968 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
1970 – Jeff Garcia, American football player
1970 – Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor
1970 – Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets
1971 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1971 – Brian Savage, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Manon Rhéaume, Canadian female ice hockey player
1973 – Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot)
1973 – Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
1973 – Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player
1973 – Richard Clapp, Canadian baseball player
1974 – Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
1974 – Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer
1974 – Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer
1975 – Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
1975 – Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller
1976 – Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio, Heavens)
1976 – Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1976 – Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist
1976 – Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1976 – Zach Johnson, American professional golfer
1976 – Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1995)
1977 – Floyd Mayweather Jr, American boxer
1977 – Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer
1977 – Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player
1978 – Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 – John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1979 – Jesse Billauer, American quadriplegic surfer
1980 – Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003)
1980 – Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer
1981 – Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
1981 – Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer
1982 – Nick Blackburn, American baseball player
1982 – Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer
1982 – Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
1984 – Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver
1984 – Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler
1986 – Wojtek Wolski, Polish ice hockey player
1987 – Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
1987 – Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
1987 – Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
1989 – Kosta Koufos, American basketball player

Deaths
616 – King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 – Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
1588 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1666 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
1674 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1704 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
1714 – Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 – Colonel Francis Charteris, known as The Rape-Master General. (b. 1675)
1777 – King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 – Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1799 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)
1810 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)
1812 – Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)
1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (b. 1754)
1856 – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
1876 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1914 – Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1925 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1929 – André Messager, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1953 – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
1970 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
1975 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1982 – Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (b. 1910)
1984 – Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 – Jim Connors, American radio personality (b. 1940)
1989 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
1990 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
1990 – Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)
1990 – Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)
1991 – John Daly, South African game show host (b. 1914)
1991 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
1991 – Webb Pierce, American music singer (b. 1921)
1993 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1993 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
1994 – Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
1994 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
1998 – Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1998 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
1999 – Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 – Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 – Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 – John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 – Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 – Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 – John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 – Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 – Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007 – Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 – Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances
Regifugium, in the Roman calendar.
Independence Day in Estonia (1918; the Soviet period is considered illegal annexation).
Flag Day in México.
Dragobete in Romania.
National Artist Day in Thailand.
St. Matthias
St. Modest
St. Sergius
February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type.
1660 – Charles XI becomes King of Sweden.
1778 – American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J accuse, a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Captain Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
1900 – In South Africa, the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart s Hill.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States in perpetuity.
1904 – The United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world s first service club.
1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1918 – First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser s German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
1919 – Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.
1934 – Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 – Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph s Orphanage Co Cavan , Ireland , killing 36 people (35 of whom were children)
1944 – Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznan, the city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
1945 – World War II: The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces. It would later be re-opened in 1975.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1957 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1975 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran s parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 – 23-F, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 – The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – Supernova 1987a: A supernova is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.
1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1992 – The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1997 – A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – Kissimmee Tornado Outbreak: Tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1998 – Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance.
2005 – Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
2006 – Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 – a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off, making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). The B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash; not one B-2 ever crashed.

Births
1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1443 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1490)
1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
1633 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703)
1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
1685 – Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
1723 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1729 – Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
1743 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1809 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
1850 – César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1868 – W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader (d. 1963)
1873 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
1878 – Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1883 – Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
1889 – Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
1889 – Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1891 – Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
1899 – Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1901 – Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
1904 – Terence Fisher, English film director (d. 1980)
1904 – William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
1904 – Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
1908 – William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
1914 – Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 – Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 Enola Gay over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
1918 – Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
1920 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1923 – Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1924 – Claude Sautet, French film director (d. 2000)
1927 – Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
1928 – Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
1928 – Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
1929 – Elston Howard, American Baseball Player
1931 – Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
1932 – Majel Barrett, American actress
1937 – Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
1938 – Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor
1941 – Ron Hunt, baseball player
1943 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
1944 – Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
1944 – John Sandford, American novelist
1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician
1945 – Allan Boesak, South African activist
1946 – Rusty Young, American country-rock guitarist (Poco)
1947 – John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
1947 – Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
1948 – Doug Moench, American comic book writer
1949 – Marc Garneau, French Canadian astronaut
1950 – Maxi, Irish singer and radio personality
1951 – Ed Jones, American football player
1951 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
1952 – Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)
1953 – Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1955 – Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer
1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer
1958 – Tony Barrell, English writer and journalist
1958 – David Sylvian, English musician (Japan, Nine Horses)
1959 – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
1960 – Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1960 – Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
1961 – Kelly Hansen, American drummer (Summer Lights)
1962 – Michael Wilton, American musician (Queensrÿche)
1963 – Bobby Bonilla, former baseball player
1963 – Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish politician
1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe)
1965 – Kristin Davis, American actress
1965 – Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1965 – Helena Suková, former Czech tennis player
1965 – Veronica Webb, American supermodel and actress
1967 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
1967 – Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1968 – Justin Bell, British racing driver
1969 – Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1969 – Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
1970 – Marie-Josée Croze, French Canadian actress
1970 – Niecy Nash, American actress
1971 – Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 – Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1971 – Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
1971 – Joe-Max Moore, American soccer player
1972 – Steve Holy, American country singer
1972 – Rondell White, American baseball player
1973 – Jack Case, American artist
1973 – Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 – Leko, American DJ
1974 – Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1974 – Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
1975 – Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer
1975 – Natalia Verbeke, Argentine actress
1976 – Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 – Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 – Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
1978 – René Pérez, Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
1978 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1980 – Karan Singh Grover, an Indian television actor
1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981 – Charles Tillman, American football player
1982 – Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor
1982 – Karan Singh Grover, Indian Television Actor
1983 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1983 – Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress
1983 – Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1986 – Holly Brook, American musician
1986 – Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 – Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1989 – Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress

Deaths
943 – Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
1011 – Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1072 – Peter Damian, theologian and Doctor of the Church (b. 1007)
1100 – Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1270 – Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)
1447 – Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1447 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 – Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1526 – Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
1554 – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (b. c.1515)
1572 – Pierre Certon, French composer
1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1669 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
1704 – Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)
1730 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1766 – Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
1781 – George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. c.1716)
1792 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
1800 – Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
1848 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
1859 – Zygmunt Krasinski, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
1879 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1897 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
1908 – Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
1922 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1930 – Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (b. 1861)
1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
1944 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (b. 1863)
1946 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1948 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1957 – Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
1960 – Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
1965 – Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1969 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1970 – Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1973 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1974 – Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 – LS Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)
1979 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
1983 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
1990 – José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
1992 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (b. 1906)
1995 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
1995 – James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)
1997 – Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)
1999 – Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
2000 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2000 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2001 – Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2003 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 – Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
2004 – Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2004 – Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
2004 – Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 – Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
2004 – Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
2006 – Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2007 – Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 – John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2008 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – Terminalia held in honor of Terminus.
Guyana – Mashramani-Republic Day.
Russia – Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy).
Brunei – National Day.
February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Catholicism – Feast day of Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (died 155)

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Events
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city s throne.
1632 – Galileo s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 – Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans.
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses.
1943 – Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 – Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1973 – Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon s visit to the People s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognized Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1983 The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O Neill Theatre.
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2005 – The band Blink-182, due to an indefinite hiatus, split up.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain s biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

Births
1040 – Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403 – Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1440 – Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
1500 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1612 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1705 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
1714 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 – George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796 – Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
1806 – Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849)
1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825 – Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1839 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 – August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1864 – Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910)
1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1878 – Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881 – Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1882 – Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887 – Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1888 – Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1891 – Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
1895 – Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897 – Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1899 – Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
1899 – George O Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
1900 – Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
1903 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 – Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1907 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
1911 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1913 – Buddy Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2001)
1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1917 – Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973)
1918 – Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1918 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
1918 – Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 – David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1922 – Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1926 – Bud Yorkin, American film director
1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor
1928 – Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
1928 – Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
1929 – James Hong, American actor
1929 – Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 – Marni Nixon, American singer
1930 – James McGarrell, American painter
1932 – Ted Kennedy, American politician
1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 – Bobby Smith, English footballer
1934 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
1935 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (d. 2008)
1936 – J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 – Ishmael Reed, American writer
1938 – Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1940 – Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
1940 – Billy Name, American photographer
1941 – Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 – Terry Eagleton, British theorist
1943 – Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1944 – Jonathan Demme, American director
1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
1945 – Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 – Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
1947 – Carol Burns, Australian actress
1948 – John Ashton, American actor
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur
1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1950 – Julius Erving, American basketball player
1950 – Ellen Greene, American actress
1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
1950 – Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer
1950 – Julie Walters, English actress
1952 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
1952 – Bill Frist, American politician
1953 – Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 – Nigel Planer, British actor
1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 – Jirí Cunek, Czech politician
1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1961 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
1962 – Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
1962 – Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
1964 – Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
1965 – Pat Lafontaine, American ice hockey player
1965 – Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player
1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 – Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 – Thorsten Kaye,Daytime actor and poet
1966 – Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1967 – Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1968 – Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1968 – Jayson Williams, American basketball player
1968 – Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
1968 – Jeri Ryan, American actress
1968 – Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
1969 – Thomas Jane, American actor
1969 – Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 – Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 – Byron Stroud, American bassist
1969 – Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1970 – Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer
1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player
1972 – Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 – Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1974 – James Blunt, English musician
1974 – Chris Moyles, English DJ
1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress
1976 – Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1977 – Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1981 – Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 – Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1984 – Venetian Princess Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1985 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 – Sean Garballey, American politician
1986 – Miko Hughes, American actor
1986 – Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1988 – Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 – Przemyslaw Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1989 – Alia Sabur, American college educator

Deaths
965 – Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c. 1055)
1111 – Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1371 – King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
1627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
1690 – Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
1727 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 – Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1797 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 – Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
1875 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1875 – Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
1890 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 – Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1903 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
1921 – Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
1934 – Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 – Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
1943 – Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
1943 – Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1958 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 – Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1965 – Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1968 – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1974 – Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1984 – Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1987 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1994 – Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 – Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
2002 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 – Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 – Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 – Zdzislaw Beksinski, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 – Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 – Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 – Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 – George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances
United States — Washington s Birthday.
Saint Lucia — independence (1979).
The Scouting movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrate this day as World Thinking Day, B.-P. day, or Founder s Day, as it is the shared birthday of the Scouts founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide.
Roman Catholic Church — Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.
Blessed Saint Isabel of France (died 1270)

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Events
362 – Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
1613 – Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1743 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel s oratorio, Samson takes place in London.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1893 – Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps and for a Stop Device
1912 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 – Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country s first constitution.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1937 – Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman s Arrowbile.
1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 – World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to set the people free.
1952 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession of students that was demanding the establishment of Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
1958 – The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
1960 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1970 – Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2004 – The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
2007 – Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.

Births
1484 – Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
1556 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
1721 – John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
1723 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1783 – Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
1791 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
1794 – Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876)
1801 – John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
1817 – Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893)
1821 – Charles Scribner, American publisher (d. 1871)
1836 – Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
1844 – Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
1860 – Karel Matej Capek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
1860 – Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
1865 – John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
1867 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
1875 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (d. 1997)
1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1878 – The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1880 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
1885 – Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
1893 – Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
1893 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
1895 – Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1900 – Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (d. 1994)
1903 – Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
1903 – Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)
1907 – W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
1910 – Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
1910 – Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
1910 – Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
1913 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
1914 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (d. 1999)
1915 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
1917 – Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
1921 – John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1924 – Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984)
1927 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
1927 – Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
1927 – Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966)
1929 – Roberto Chespirito Carlos Bolaños, Mexican actor
1929 – James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
1933 – Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
1934 – Rue McClanahan, American actress
1935 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994)
1935 – Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
1936 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
1937 – King Harald V of Norway
1937 – Gary Lockwood, American actor
1940 – John Lewis, American politician and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1940 – Peter Gethin, British racing driver
1941 – James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director
1943 – David Geffen, American record producer
1945 – Paul Newton, British musician
1945 – D Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano
1946 – Tyne Daly, American actress
1946 – Anthony Daniels, British actor
1946 – Alan Rickman, English actor
1946 – Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
1946 – Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
1947 – Johnny Echols, American musician
1947 – Olympia Snowe, American politician
1947 – Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1949 – Jerry Harrison, American musician
1949 – Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
1951 – Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006)
1952 – Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician
1953 – Christine Ebersole, American actress
1953 – William Petersen, American actor
1954 – Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician
1954 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976)
1955 – Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
1955 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor
1958 – Jake Burns, Irish singer
1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer
1958 – Jack Coleman, American actor
1958 – Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager
1959 – José María Cano, Spanish musician
1959 – Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer
1960 – Steve Wynn, American singer (
1961 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 – Christopher Atkins, American actor
1961 – Martha Hackett, American actress
1961 – Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1962 – Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
1962 – Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer
1963 – William Baldwin, American actor
1964 – Mark E. Kelly and Scott J. Kelly, American astronauts
1964 – Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
1964 – Huw Higginson, British actor
1967 – Leroy Burrell, American runner
1969 – James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician
1969 – Tony Meola, American footballer
1969 – Eric Wilson, American musician
1970 – Michael Slater, Australian cricketer
1971 – Randy Blythe, American musician
1972 – Seo Taiji, Korean musician
1973 – Heri Joensen, Faroese musician
1973 – Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host
1974 – Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
1974 – Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 – Wish Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1976 – Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player
1977 – Steve Francis, American basketball player
1977 – Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
1977 – Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
1978 – Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
1978 – Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress
1978 – Nicole Parker, American actress
1979 – Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
1979 – Carly Carlito Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1979 – Lonnie Ford, American football player
1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
1980 – Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver
1980 – Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
1981 – Jun Kaname, Japanese actor
1982 – Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver
1982 – Chantal Claret, American musician
1983 – Braylon Edwards, American football player
1983 – Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
1984 – David Odonkor, German footballer
1984 – Karina, Japanese model and actress
1985 – Jarrod Atkinson, Australian rules footballer
1985 – Bob Burton, American speedcuber
1985 – Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
1986 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
1986 – Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1987 – Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1987 – Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1989 – Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
1989 – Kristin Herrera, American actress
1989 – Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
1989 – Josh Walker, English footballer

Deaths
1437 – King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 – John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 – Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
1543 – Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
1554 – Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
1595 – Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed)
1668 – John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1730 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1788 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1821 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon s wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1846 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 – Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
1901 – George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1919 – Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (b. 1867)
1920 – Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1926 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1934 – Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (b. 1895)
1938 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
1941 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
1944 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
1946 – José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1949 – Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
1958 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1960 – Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1965 – Malcolm X, American black activist (b. 1925)
1966 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1968 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1972 – Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 – Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic Cardinal (b. 1884)
1974 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1978 – Mieczyslaw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1980 – Alfred Andersch, German writer
1982 – Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 – Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1986 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world s oldest man ever (b. 1865)
1989 – Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1991 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b. 1913)
1996 – Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
1999 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999 – Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (b. 1914)
2000 – Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
2002 – Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002 – John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
2003 – Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2004 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
2004 – Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
2005 – Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
2005 – Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 – Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 – Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances
Language Martyrs Day – A day celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue.
International Mother Language Day (UNESCO).
February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon s forces, was executed.
1816 – Gioachino Rossini s The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
1835 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 – King O Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1931 – California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States.
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O Hare becomes America s first World War II flying ace.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 – The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
1944 – World War II: The Big Week began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1947 – State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.
1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1976 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, Utah, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania s long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2002 – In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.
2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

Births
1631 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1751 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1753 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
1757 – John Mad Jack Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1794 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1802 – Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
1819 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
1839 – Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
1844 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
1848 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1850 – Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
1866 – Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
1867 – Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
1918 – Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire
1880 – Jacques d Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
1887 – Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
1888 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
1893 – Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (d. 1988)
1898 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
1901 – Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987)
1901 – Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
1904 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
1906 – Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
1907 – Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 1992)
1912 – Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
1914 – John Daly, South African-born broadcaster (d. 2001)
1920 – Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
1923 – Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
1925 – Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
1925 – Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader
1926 – Richard Matheson, American author
1927 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986)
1927 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1927 – Sidney Poitier, American actor
1929 – Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
1930 – Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
1932 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
1934 – Bobby Unser, American racing driver
1936 – Marj Dusay, American actress
1936 – Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
1936 – Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
1937 – Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1937 – Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur
1937 – Nancy Wilson, American singer
1938 – Richard Beymer, American actor
1939 – Frank Arundel, English footballer
1940 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
1941 – Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia
1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
1942 – Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 – Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ
1942 – Mitch McConnell, American politician
1942 – Claude Miller, French film director and screenwriter
1943 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
1943 – Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
1943 – Mike Leigh, British film director
1944 – Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1944 – Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
1945 – Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director
1945 – Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
1945 – Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
1946 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
1946 – Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
1946 – Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
1946 – J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
1947 – André van Duin, Dutch comedian
1947 – Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
1947 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1947 – Peter Strauss, American actor
1948 – Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 – Jennifer O Neill, Brazilian-born actress
1949 – Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite
1950 – Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
1950 – Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
1950 – Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
1951 – Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
1951 – Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1951 – Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer
1953 – Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor
1953 – Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 – Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1954 – Anthony Stewart Head, English actor
1954 – Patty Hearst, American socialite
1956 – Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Charlie Adler, American voice actor
1957 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
1959 – Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
1960 – Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 – Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
1962 – Kenn Nesbitt, American children s author
1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player
1963 – Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
1963 – Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
1963 – Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
1964 – French Stewart, American actor
1964 – Rodney Rowland, American actor
1966 – Cindy Crawford, American model
1967 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
1967 – Katherine Soucie, American voice actress
1967 – Andrew Shue, American television actor
1967 – Lili Taylor, American actress
1968 – Ted Hankey, English darts player
1969 – Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
1969 – Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 – Danis Tanovic, Bosnian film director and screenwriter
1969 – Tommy Vardell, National Football League fullback
1971 – Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
1971 – Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
1972 – Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
1974 – Ophelie Winter, French actress
1975 – Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1975 – Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1976 – Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
1976 – Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
1976 – Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 – Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
1977 – Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
1977 – T.J. Slaughter, American football player
1977 – Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
1978 – Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1978 – Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
1978 – Jay Hernandez, American actor
1978 – Julia Jentsch, German actress
1980 – Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
1980 – Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
1981 – Tony Hibbert, English footballer
1981 – Chris Thile, American musician
1982 – Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
1983 – Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1985 – Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
1985 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer
1988 – Jiah Khan, Indian actress
1989 – Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress

Deaths
702 – K inich Kan B alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
1154 – Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 – Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 – King Tancred of Sicily
1258 – Al-Musta sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
1408 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
1524 – Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
1579 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1618 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 – John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 – Jean Jacques d Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
1778 – Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1790 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1803 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1893 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
1905 – Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1916 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
1920 – Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
1936 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1941 – La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1961 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
1963 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 – Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1965 – Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 – Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
1968 – Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
1969 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1970 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1972 – Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
1974 – David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (b. 1888)
1976 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
1976 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1981 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
1983 – Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1984 – Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
1985 – Clarence Ducky Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
1992 – Roberto D Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
1992 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
1993 – Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (b. 1908)
1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1996 – Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1996 – Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
1997 – Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
1999 – Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
2000 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 – Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 – Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 – Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003 – Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2003 – Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2005 – Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2005 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 – John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 – Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2006 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (b. 1913)
2007 – Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 – Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 – Larry Davis (criminal)

Holidays and observances
Eleutherius of Tournai
February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
World Day of Social Justice[1]

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