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What happened in history on this day: February 5?
On February 5 in ...
- 816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity.
- 1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons.
- 1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium.
- 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna.
- 1556 - Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles.
- 1572 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out.
- 1576 - Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours.
- 1578 - Giovanni B Moroni Italian portrait painter, dies.
- 1589 - Birth of Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright/poet.
- 1591 - Gerard de Jode Flemish publisher, dies.
- 1626 - Birth of Madame Marie de Sévigné Paris, celebrated letter-writer (Portrait in Letters).
- 1631 - Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England.
- 1644 - First US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut.
- 1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II.
- 1658 - Maria Margaretha van Angels Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at age 52.
- 1662 - Birth of Giuseppi Vignola composer.
- 1663 - In the St. Lawrence River valley (Canada), an Intensity X earthquake occurs, causing vast landslides along the St. Maurice, Batiscan, and St. Lawrence Rivers.
- 1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France.
- 1679 - Joost van den Vondel Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at age 91.
- 1705 - Jean Gilles composer, dies at age 37.
- 1711 - Birth of Joseph Umstatt composer.
- 1721 - James Stanhope first earl of Stanhope English General, dies at age 47.
- 1723 - Birth of John Witherspoon clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence.
- 1732 - Birth of Nathanael Gottfried Gruner composer.
- 1736 - Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah Georgia.
- 1738 - Georg Reidel composer, dies at age 61.
- 1744 - Birth of John Jeffries colonial physician/meteorologist.
- 1745 - Coelestin Praelisauer composer, dies at age 49.
- 1748 - Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven.
- 1753 - Birth of Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma Frisian regent/patriot.
- 1754 - Nicolaas S Cruquius hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at age 75.
- 1758 - Bernhard Christian Weber composer, dies at age 45.
- 1770 - Birth of Alexandre Brongniart Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary).
- 1775 - Birth of Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten).
- 1777 - Georgia becomes first US state to abolish both entail and primogeniture.
- 1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by first state, South Carolina.
- 1779 - Birth of Frans van Campenhout Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabançonne).
- 1782 - Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English.
- 1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence.
- 1788 - Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon).
- 1788 - Birth of Sir Robert "Bobbie" Peel British Prime Minister (1834-46), founded Tories.
- 1795 - Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud.
- 1799 - Birth of John Lindley English botanist (Elements of Botany).
- 1804 - Birth of Johan Ludvig Runeberg Finland, poet.
- 1807 - Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter, dies at age 80.
- 1810 - Birth of Ole Bull composer.
- 1812 - Franz Schneider composer, dies at age 74.
- 1816 - Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome.
- 1817 - First US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights).
- 1822 - Ali Pasha of Janina (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about age 77.
- 1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates first detachable shirt collar.
- 1825 - Pierre Gaveaux composer, dies at age 64.
- 1831 - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30.
- 1831 - John CJ van Speijk commits suicide at age 29.
- 1833 - Birth of John Watkinson founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess magazine).
- 1837 - Birth of Dwight Lyman Moody US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement).
- 1838 - Philippe Libon composer, dies at age 62.
- 1840 - Birth of Hiram Stevens Maxim inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle).
- 1840 - Birth of John Boyd Dunlop in Scotland; developer (pneumatic rubber tire).
- 1846 - "Oregon Spectator" is first newspaper to be published on the West Coast.
- 1848 - Birth of Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley] US female outlaw (wild west).
- 1848 - Birth of Joris-Karl Huysmans France, writer (Against the Grain).
- 1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz New York.
- 1855 - British government of Palmerston forms.
- 1856 - Birth of Otto Brahm German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau).
- 1860 - Birth of Jackson Showalter first US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-09).
- 1861 - First moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati.
- 1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
- 1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws fromUS Congress.
- 1862 - Birth of Felipe Villanueva y Gutiérrez Mexico, composer.
- 1863 - Birth of Armand Parent composer.
- 1864 - Birth of Carl Tieke composer.
- 1864 - Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi.
- 1865 - Birth of Harvey Worthington Loomis composer.
- 1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill).
- 1866 - Birth of Arthur Keith Scottish anthropologist.
- 1866 - Birth of Henri [Hendrik J] Hall Dutch Member of Parliament/comic (Put a Lid on it).
- 1866 - Birth of Rossetter Gleason Cole composer.
- 1867 - Birth of Casper A Lingbeek vicar/Dutch Member of Parliament.
- 1867 - Salomon Munk published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies.
- 1868 - Birth of Lodewijk Mortelmans composer.
- 1870 - First motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia.
- 1871 - Birth of Jovan Ducic Serbian poet (Blue Legends).
- 1878 - Birth of André-Gustave Citroën France, auto maker.
- 1879 - Birth of Edward Rigby England; actor (Star Look Down, Young and Innocent).
- 1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow.
- 1881 - Birth of Frederick Leonard Lonsdale British playwright (Balkan Princess).
- 1881 - Phoenix Arizona incorporates.
- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle historian/essayist, dies in London at age 85.
- 1882 - Birth of Felice Lattuada composer.
- 1885 - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London.
- 1887 - Birth of A P Gütersloh writer.
- 1887 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy.
- 1887 - Snow falls on San Francisco.
- 1888 - Anton Mauve Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at age 49.
- 1889 - Birth of Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren cricketer (prolific England bat of 1920s).
- 1889 - Birth of Ernest Tyldesley cricketer (first Lancastrian to score 100 100's).
- 1889 - Birth of Ioan Dumitru Chirescu composer.
- 1891 - Birth of Elizabeth Ryan Anaheim California, doubles tennis champion (6 time Wimbledon).
- 1891 - Birth of Karl L Schmidt German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum).
- 1892 - Birth of George Saiko writer.
- 1893 - Alfred Naess skates world record 500 metre (49.4 seconds).
- 1893 - Birth of Roman Ingarden Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica).
- 1894 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms.
- 1897 - Birth of Dirk U Stikker director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO.
- 1897 - Hoss Radbourn pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at age 42.
- 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel.
- 1900 - The United States and the United Kingdom signed a treaty for Panama Canal.
- 1900 - Birth of Adlai E Stevenson (Governor-Democrat-Illinois), presidential candidate (Democrat) (1952, 1956).
- 1900 - British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal.
- 1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal railroad (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot.
- 1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp.
- 1902 - Birth of Bronislaw Kaper composer.
- 1903 - Birth of Ivan Galamian Tabriz Persia, violinist.
- 1903 - Birth of Joan Whitney Payson owner of New York Mets and horse stables.
- 1903 - Birth of Nathaniel Owings Indianapolis Indiana, architect (Oak Ridge Tennessee; Sears).
- 1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends.
- 1906 - Birth of John Carradine Greenwich Village New York; actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling).
- 1907 - Arnold Schönberg's first string quartet premieres in Vienna.
- 1907 - Birth of Jan Klaasesz Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56).
- 1907 - Birth of Norton Simon business executive (Simon and Schuster).
- 1907 - Birth of Pierre E J Pflimlin premier France.
- 1907 - Ludwig Thuille composer, dies at age 45.
- 1909 - Birth of Grazyna Bacewicz composer.
- 1910 - Birth of Martha van Och-Scholl German/Dutch resistance fighter (WWII).
- 1911 - Petrus A Cronjé Transvaal Boer General, dies.
- 1911 - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam.
- 1912 - Birth of Willard Parker New York City, New York; actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman).
- 1912 - Birth of Zoltan Pongracz composer.
- 1913 - Birth of Rozelle Claxton pianist/arranger.
- 1914 - Birth of Alan Hodgkin British physicist (Nobel Prize 1963).
- 1914 - Birth of William S Burroughs in Saint Louis; novelist (Naked Lunch) (dies 1997).
- 1915 - Birth of Robert Hofstadter US atomic physicist.
- 1916 - Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
- 1917 - Birth of Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space).
- 1917 - US Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration.
- 1917 - Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th Steet New York City (demolished 1982).
- 1917 - Paul Rubens composer, dies at age 41.
- 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted.
- 1918 - First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson.
- 1918 - Birth of Charles John "Tim" Holt Beverly Hills California; actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Stagecoach, Hitler's Children).
- 1918 - Birth of Kara Abulfazogli Karayev composer.
- 1918 - Birth of Robert Brown Hebrides Islands Scotland; actor (Here Come The Brides, Primus).
- 1918 - Separation of church and state begins in USSR.
- 1919 - Birth of Andrea George Papandreou Greek premier (1981-89, 93-).
- 1919 - Birth of Melina Mercouri actress (Never on Sunday).
- 1919 - Birth of Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt] in The Bronx, New York City, New York; comedian/actor (
Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure) (dies 2006).
- 1919 - National League president John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers.
- 1919 - Vasili V Rozanov Russian philosopher/writer, dies at age 62.
- 1921 - Birth of Sir John Pritchard London England, conductor.
- 1921 - New York Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium.
- 1922 - Birth of Bernard Kalb State Dept spokesman/actor (Dave).
- 1922 - Christiaan R de Wet South African Boer General, dies at age 67.
- 1922 - James William Tate composer, dies at age 46.
- 1922 - Reader's Digest magazine first published.
- 1923 - Birth of Stephen J Cannell TV producer/writer.
- 1923 - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar.
- 1923 - Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy.
- 1924 - Alexis Hollander composer, dies at age 83.
- 1924 - Birth of Robert Lynn anarchist.
- 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips."
- 1926 - Andre Gedalge composer, dies at age 69.
- 1926 - Birth of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger New York City, New York, publisher (
New York Times).
- 1927 - Birth of Val Dufour New Orleans Louisiana; actor (Eugenie Grandet,
Another World).
- 1927 - Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed.
- 1928 - Birth of Andrew M Greeley author/reverend.
- 1928 - Birth of Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis middle east scholar.
- 1929 - Birth of Fred Sinowatz (SPÖ) Neufeld an der Leitha, chancellor of Austria (1983-86).
- 1929 - Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco.
- 1929 - Siegfried Ochs composer, dies at age 70.
- 1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins.
- 1931 - Maxine Dunlap becomes first US women to earn a glider pilot license.
- 1933 - Birth of Jörn Donner Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness).
- 1933 - Birth of Nick Georgiade New York City, New York; actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run).
- 1933 - Birth of Ron Wilson US percussionist (Joy of Cooking).
- 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary.
- 1934 - Birth of Hank Aaron; baseball player (record 755 home runs, 1957 National League Most Valuable Player).
- 1935 - Birth of Alex Harvey rocker (Just Visiting This Planet).
- 1935 - Birth of John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys supreme commander South Africa army 1980-).
- 1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms.
- 1937 - First Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times", is released.
- 1937 - Birth of Cocky van Oost [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides).
- 1937 - Birth of Gaston Roelants Belgium, world cross-country champion.
- 1937 - Birth of Stuart Damon Brooklyn New York; actor (Alan Quartermaine-
General Hospital).
- 1937 - Franklin Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed.
- 1937 - Lou [Andreas-]Salomé Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at age 75.
- 1938 - Birth of Dick van Niehoff Dutch vocalist (Fouryo).
- 1938 - Birth of John Guare US writer (6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off).
- 1938 - Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500 metre (41.8 seconds).
- 1939 - Birth of Brian Luckhurst cricketer (England opener of 1960s and early 1970s).
- 1939 - Birth of Jane Bryant Quinn newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book).
- 1940 - Birth of H R Giger artist, special effects designer, (Alien).
- 1940 - General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander.
- 1940 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction".
- 1941 - Birth of Barrett Strong Detroit Michigan, singer (Money, That's What I Want).
- 1941 - Birth of David Selby Morgantown West Virginia; actor (
Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road).
- 1941 - Birth of Rick Laird jazz musician (Gerry Niewood and Timepiece).
- 1941 - Birth of Stephen J Cannell producer (Rockford Files).
- 1941 - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands.
- 1942 - "Woman of the Year", starring Hepburn and Tracy, opens at Radio City.
- 1942 - Birth of Cory Wells Buffalo New York, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World).
- 1942 - Birth of Roger Staubach NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys).
- 1942 - Birth of Susan Hill English playwright (Magic Apple Tree).
- 1942 - Braves get Tommy Holmes from New York Yankees for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore.
- 1943 - Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt.
- 1943 - Birth of Charles Winfield Pennsylvania, rocker (Blood Sweat and Tears-Spinning Wheel).
- 1943 - Birth of Craig Morton Flint Michigan, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver).
- 1943 - Birth of Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin composer.
- 1943 - Birth of Larry Tamblyn rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water).
- 1943 - Birth of Michael Mann Chicago Illinois; actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends).
- 1943 - Birth of Nolan Bushnell founder (Atari)/creator (Pong).
- 1943 - Birth of Sven Johnson rocker (Tangerine Dream.
- 1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, first transmission.
- 1943 - Wim Gertenbach Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis.
- 1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin.
- 1944 - Birth of Al Kooper rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat and Tears-When I Die).
- 1944 - Birth of J R Cobb Birmingham Alabama, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV).
- 1944 - Robert E Park sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at age 79.
- 1945 - Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds).
- 1945 - British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim.
- 1945 - US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla.
- 1946 - Birth of Charlotte Rampling England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict).
- 1946 - George Arliss actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at age 77.
- 1946 - The United States recognizes the government of Rumania.
- 1947 - Birth of Claude King singer.
- 1947 - Birth of David Ladd Los Angeles California; actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline).
- 1947 - Birth of Mary Louise Cleave Southampton New York, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30).
- 1947 - Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland.
- 1947 - Ganzefles Dutch Nazi spy/Jew hunter, executed.
- 1947 - Hans Fallada writer, dies at age 53.
- 1948 -
The Nature of Things science show premieres on NBC prime time.
- 1948 - Birth of Barbara Hershey [Herzstein] in Atlanta, Georgia; (Stuntman, Shy People, A World Apart).
- 1948 - Birth of Christopher Guest in New York City, New York; actor (
Saturday Night Live, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride).
- 1948 - Birth of David Denny rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra).
- 1948 - Birth of Elco [LC] Brinkman Dutch minister WVC (CDA).
- 1948 - Birth of Nigel Tufnel rocker (Spinal Tap).
- 1948 - Dick Button becomes first US figure skating Olympics champion.
- 1948 - Gretchen Fraser becomes first US woman Olympics slalom champion.
- 1948 - Johann Blaskowitz German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at age 64.
- 1949 - Birth of David Sullivan English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport).
- 1949 - Birth of Maidarjabyn Ganzorig Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup).
- 1949 - Birth of Nigel Olsson rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band).
- 1949 - Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago.
- 1949 - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa composer, dies at age 50.
- 1950 - Birth of Ann Sexton US vocalist (You're Gone too Long).
- 1951 - Birth of Elizabeth Swados Buffalo New York, composer/playwright (1972 Tony).
- 1952 - Reginald Allen cricketer (uncle of Gubby, Test Australia vs England 1887), dies.
- 1953 - RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated feature film
Peter Pan to theaters. The film is adapted from the play by Sir James M. Barrie.
- 1953 - In Los Angeles, California, the 5th Annual Emmy Awards are presented, hosted by Art Linkletter.
- Best Actor: Thomas Mitchell
- Best Actress: Helen Hayes
- Best Audience Participation, Quiz or Panel Program:
What's My Line?
- Best Children's Program:
Time for Beany
- Best Comedian: Jimmy Durante
- Best Comedienne: Lucille Ball
- Best Dramatic Show:
Robert Montgomery Presents
- Best Mystery, Action or Adventure Program:
Dragnet
- Best Public Affairs Program:
See It Now
- Best Situation Comedy:
I Love Lucy
- Best Variety Program:
Your Show of Shows
- Most Outstanding Personality: Fulton J. Sheen.
1954 - Vittorio Gnecchi composer, dies at age 77.
1956 - 7th Winter Olympics games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
1956 - Louise Suggs win LPGA Havana Golf Open.
1956 - New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30 million Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build.
1956 - Savilly Tartakower Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at age 74.
1957 - Birth of Craig Wilson in Beeville, Texas, USA; water polo goalie (Olympics-silver-1984, 1988).
1958 - Birth of Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow] in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Single White Female).
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated first President of United Arab Republic.
1958 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at age 84.
1958 - Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, West Indies vs Pakistan, Port-of-Spain.
1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km.
1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1959 - Redhead opens at 46th Steet Theater in New York City for 455 performances.
1959 - Australia regains the Ashes with a 10-wicket victory at Adelaide.
1959 - Birth of Glenn Dubis in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1984, 1988, 1996).
1959 - Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies.
1960 - Birth of Jane Geddes in Huntington, New York, USA; LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open).
1960 - Birth of William John Readings; literary theorist.
1960 - Louis Stricker, cricketer (South Africa open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12), dies.
1960 - Rudolf Nelson, composer, dies at age 81.
1961 - Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at age 73.
1962 - Birth of Tommy Skeoch; rock vocalist (Tesla - "Five Man Acoustical Jam").
1962 - French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence.
1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at age 71.
1962 - Law suit to bar Englewood, New Jersey, from "racial segregated" schools is filed.
1962 - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees.
1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars.
1963 - Soviet lunar probe failure.
1964 - Birth of Duff [Michael] "Rose" McKagan; rocker (Guns and Roses - "Sweet Child of Mine").
1964 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones to theaters in the USA.
1964 - Birth of Jim Pugh in Burbank, California, USA; tennis star.
1964 - Laura Linney is born; actor.
1965 - Birth of Ben Lee in Rangoon, Burma; US badminton player (Olympics-1992).
1965 - Birth of James David McGovern in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Shell Houston Open).
1965 - Birth of Tarik Benhabiles in Algeria; tennis star.
1965 - Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at age 71.
1966 - BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island.
1966 - Birth of Jose Maria Olazabal; golfer.
1966 - Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht), dies at age 84.
1967 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC).
1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua.
1967 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren.
1967 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at age 87.
1968 - Birth of Chris Barron; rocker (Spin Doctors).
1968 - Birth of Regina Rajchitova in Czechoslovakia; tennis star.
1968 - Birth of Roberto Alomar in Salinas, Puerto Rico; infielder (Baltimore Orioles).
1968 - Birth of Will Furrer; NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Saint Louis Rams).
1968 - Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at age 80.
1969 - Turn-On TV show, debuts and is cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly.
1969 - Birth of Bobby Brown in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA; singer ("Ghostbusters", "Don't Be Cruel").
1969 - US population reaches 200 million.
1969 - Vince Lombardi becomes part owner, vice president, general manager and head coach of Washington Redskins.
1970 - First Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six.
1970 - Birth of Darren Lehmann; cricketer (South Africa and Victoria LHB Australian ODI 1996).
1970 - Birth of Forey Duckett; NFL/WLAF cornerback/safety (New Orleans Saints, Scottish Claymores).
1970 - Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs Australia, Durban.
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1971 - Apollo 14, third US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell walk on Moon for four hours.
1971 - Birth of Dennis Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 125.5 pounds greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-silver-1992, 1996).
1971 - Birth of Dianne Norman in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada; basketball forward (Olympics-1996).
1971 - Birth of Marcus Redman; actor (Raymond - Doogie Howser).
1971 - Birth of Peter "Chip" Cipollone in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
1971 - Mátyás Rákosi; Hungarian premier (1952-56), dies at age 78.
1972 - Birth of Chris Bailey; ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-1998).
1972 - Birth of Erin Phillips in Mexico, Missouri, USA; Miss Missouri-America (1995).
1972 - Birth of Tony Johnson; tight end (New Orleans Saints).
1972 - Bob Douglas is elected to Basketball Hall of Fame.
1972 - Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at age 84.
1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, is born.
1973 - Birth of Diego Serrano in Quito, Ecuador; actor (Tomas Rivera - Another World).
1973 - Birth of Israel Raybon; defensive end (Carolina Panthers).
1973 - Birth of Laura Espinoza-Watson om Torrance, California, USA; female infielder (Silver Bullets).
1973 - Birth of Richard Matvichuk in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada; NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars).
1973 - Comic strip Hagar The Horrible debuts.
1973 - Funeral for Lieutenant Colonel William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War.
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders.
1974 - Birth of Adrienne Johnson; WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers).
1974 - Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win.
1974 - Maximum speed on German Autobahn reduced to 100 kph.
1974 - US Mariner 10 returns first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure.
1975 - Birth of Giovanni van Bronckhorst; Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord).
1975 - Birth of Jan l'Ami; Dutch soccer player (Willem II).
1976 - Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies.
1976 - Birth of Nancy Feber in Antwerp, Belgium; tennis star (1995 Puerto Rico).
1976 - Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath.
1976 - Roger Livesey, actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Colonel Blimp), dies at age 69.
1976 - Tony Jaa is born; actor/martial artist.
1977 - General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio.
1977 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at age 67.
1977 - Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in six rounds in his first pro fight.
1977 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.
1977 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner.
1978 - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at age 83.
1978 - Birth of Kristina Cherina; Miss Croatia-Universe (1997).
1978 - Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at age 68.
1978 - Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free-throws blindfolded.
1979 - Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time.
1979 - Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, average 59.23), dies.
1979 - Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS.
1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel.
1980 - Birth of Jo Swinson; British MP.
1980 - Birth of Robin Vik; Czech tennis player.
1980 - 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit.
1981 - Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at age 75.
1981 - Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane, Australia.
1981 - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy.
1981 - Barend Barendse, Dutch sportscaster, dies at age 73.
1982 - American DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people.
1982 - Dolores Moran, actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at age 56.
1982 - London-based Laker Airways collapses owing £270 million (US$351 million).
1982 - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide.
1982 - Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands.
1982 - Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/Nazi, dies at age 84.
1982 - Birth of Kevin Everett; American football player.
1982 - Death of Neil Aggett, South African labor leader (suicide).
1983 - Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (Social Democrat), dies at age 67.
1983 - Klaus Barbie, former German Gestapo officer, arrives in Lyons, France, after being expelled from Bolivia for having obtained citizenship under false pretenses. Barbie is charged with crimes against humanity, murder, torture, arbitrary arrests and jailings.
1984 - Birth of Nate Salley, American football player.
1984 - New Zealand beats England (82 and 93) by an innings in three days.
1984 - Patty Sheehan win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
1985 - Birth of Cristiano Ronaldo; Portuguese footballer.
1985 - Birth of Laurence Maroney; National Football League runningback.
1985 - Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
1986 - Birth of Claudia Cruz; Dominican model and beauty queen.
1986 - Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on Nightline TV show.
1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Average average closes above 2,200 for first time.
1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches.
1988 - First prime-time wrestling match in 30 years-Andre beats Hulk Hogan.
1988 - Arizona House of Representatives votes to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham.
1988 - Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs.
1989 - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at age 51.
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points.
1989 - Birth of Jeremy Sumpter, American actor.
1990 - Notre Dame becomes first team to sell its game to a major network (NBC).
1990 - Manuel Fraga becomes the president of Galicia (Spain).
1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
1991 - All American Bowl ends after 14 years.
1991 - Big East Football conference forms.
1991 - Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about age 87 (born 1903).
1991 - Howard Stern kisses New York Giants Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl.
1991 - Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame.
1991 - Los Angeles Kings' Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHL player to score 1000 points.
1991 - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at age 83.
1992 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nomination of Beauty and the Beast for a Best Picture award. This is the first time in the history of the Motion Picture Academy that an animated feature has been nominated in this category.
1992 - Donald Zimmerman, editor, dies.
1992 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
1992 - Laura Liddell. actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at age 83.
1992 - Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs India.
1993 - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160.
1993 - Jack Young, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49, 17 wickets), dies.
1993 - Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director/producer (All about Eve), dies at age 83 (born 1909).
1993 - R James Woolsey becomes 16th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
1993 - Tip Tipping [Tim], American actor and stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at age 34 (born 1958).
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Family and Medical Leave Act.
1994 - Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego debuts on Fox TV.
1994 - Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at age 63.
1994 - Hermann J. Abs, German banker to Hitler and Adenauer, dies at age 92 in Bad Soden, Germany.
1994 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at age 59.
1994 - Birth of Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer.
1994 - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life in prison, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime.
1995 - Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster, dies at age 79.
1995 - Doug Mcclure, US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at age 59.
1995 - Frans Köhler, Dutch painter, dies at age 59.
1995 - Frederick Craig Riddle, violinist, dies at age 82.
1995 - Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections.
1995 - Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies.
1995 - Kimberley Leston, journalist, dies at age 35.
1995 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13.
1995 - Sandra Völker swims female European record 50 metre backstroke (27.77).
1996 - Antonio Ruiz Soler, Spanish dancer, dies at age 74.
1996 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor, dies at age 86.
1996 - Peter Pooley, broadcaster, dies at age 84.
1996 - W R Lee, language teacher, dies at age 84.
1996 - Netscape Communications ships Netscape Navigator 2.0 web browser for Windows 3.1, 95, NT, and the Macintosh. Price is US$49. It features support for JavaScript, Java applets, streaming audio, and 3D.
1997 - The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a US$71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
1997 - Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA.
1997 - John Richard Patterson, businessman, dies at age 51.
1997 - Death of Pamela Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to France, at age 76 of a stroke (born 1920).
1997 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a US$10 billion merger.
1998 - Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini.
1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record.
1998 - Figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped December 22nd).
1998 - Tim Kelly guitarist, dies at age 34.
1999 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve two years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident.
1999 - Death of Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906).
2000 - Death of Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster and educator (born 1924).
2000 - Disney releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Gun Shy to theaters in the USA.
2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the United Nations Security Council on Iraq, giving evidence of Iraq's efforts to conceal weapons of mass destruction from inspectors.
2003 - North Korea announces it had re-activated the Yongbyon reactor, producing fuel-rods for reprocessing into bomb-grade plutonium.
2003 - Gold hits US$385 per ounce, highest since September 1996.
2004 - John Hench dies, at age 95. Hench worked at The Walt Disney Company for 64 years, the longest of any Disney employee. He worked on animation, and took part in the creation of all Disney parks.
2005 - Death of Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (born 1937).
2006 - The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL, defeating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10.
2008 - In Kenya, the death toll reaches 1000 in the crisis over a disputed election in December.
2008 - In the USA, 24 states hold Republican and/or Democratic caucus elections for presidential nominee. This day is referred to as "Super Tuesday". For the Democrats, Barack Obama wins in 12, Hillary Clinton wins in 7 For the Republicans, John McCain wins in 8 states, Mitt Romney wins in 6, and Mike Huckabee wins in 5.
2008 - Death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru and tycoon, at about age 91.
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