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1516 Queen Mary I, [Bloody Mary] (1553-58), 1st reigning Queen of GB 1559 Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1609 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English lord chancellor 1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn) 1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery) 1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist, watercolorist 1795 George Peabody, US, merchant/philanthropist 1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) 1817 Lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 1817 Walter Page Lane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 1833 James Deshler, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 1836 Ramakrishna, Hindu saint; preached unity of all religions 1838 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist 1844 Willem Maris, painter (Hagse School) 1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker; famous for stained glass windows 1853 August Belmont Jr, breeder of Man 'O War/founded NY Jockey Club 1859 Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on Roof) 1860 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa) 1877 Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora E], actress/author 1884 Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show) 1888 Gladys Cooper, England, actress (Margaret-Rogues) 1890 Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born) 1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago) 1890 Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) 1892 Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World) 1895 George "Gipper" Gipp, Notre Dame football star 1895 Semjon Timosjenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II) 1896 Andr Breton, France, surrealist poet/writer (founder of surralism) 1899 Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II) 19-- Anthony Pera, actor (Miguel-Young & Restless) 19-- Breck Jamison, actor (As the World Turns) 1903 Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR 1907 Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World) 1909 Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932) 1909 Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose) 1912 Heinz Khn, Dutch politician (SPD-min-pres North Region-Westfalen) 1913 Dane Clark, Bkln, actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason) 1914 Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country singer (Pee Wee King Song) 1916 Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montral (1954- ) 1917 Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey) 1918 Betty Field, US, actress (Of Mice & Men, Bus Stop) 1920 Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host (over 20 different games) 1920 Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer Pa, actor (City Slickers) 1922 Eric Gairy, premier (Grenada) 1922 Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher (Cosmopolitan) 1923 Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, Barney-All in Family) 1925 George Kennedy, NYC, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight) 1926 Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers) 1927 John W Warner, (Sen-R-VA, 1979- ), married Liz Taylor 1928 Jim McElreath, auto racer (1970 Ontario 500) 1929 Len Deighton, writer (Fighter) 1930 Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut 1931 Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon) 1932 Milos Forman, Czech/US director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus) 1933 Bobby Robson, British soccer coach (PSV) 1933 Kim Novak, Chicago, Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage) 1933 Mary Ure, England, model/actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way) 1933 Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer(?) 1934 Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77) 1938 Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers) 1941 David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow) 1941 Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall) 1945 Judy Rankin, St Louis Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77) 1945 Michael Nader, St Louis Mo, actor (Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty) 1947 Dennis De Young, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again) 1947 Eliot L Engel, (Rep-D-NY) 1947 Princess Maria Christina, [Marke], of Netherlands 1948 Carolyn B Maloney, (Rep-D-NY) 1949 Cybill Shepherd, Memphis Tn, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show) 1949 Jess Walton, actress (Jill Abbott-Young & Restless) 1950 John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller) 1952 Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning) 1953 Derek Pellicci, rocker (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way) 1953 Robin Bachman, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Aint Seen) 1954 John Travolta, Englewood NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Grease) 1957 Vanna White, Conway SC, TV game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune) 1958 Peter Koech, Kiliburani Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-silver-1988) 1960 Andy Moog, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988) 1960 Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief) 1962 Gary Reasons, NFL line backer (NY Giants) 1963 Rob Andrew, English rugby player 1964 Matt Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Little Darlings, Kansas) 1967 Colin Jackson, Cardiff England, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988) 1968 Molly Ringwald, Roseville Calif, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink) 1969 Alexander Mogliny, USSR, 1st soviet hockey star to defect to NHL Back to GREGSITE Passings for February 18999 Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies 1217 Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 1397 Enguerrand VII, French mister of Coucy, dies at 56 1478 Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel 1535 Agrippa von Nettesheim , royal astrologer, dies 1546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 1564 Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet, dies 1817 Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies 1830 Charles GG, Earl of Merode, mayor of Brussels, dies at 67 1905 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75 1917 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies 1925 James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies 1932 Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66 1938 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies 1943 Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 1949 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 1951 Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85 1957 Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies 1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 1967 Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies 1968 Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 1973 Franc Costello, US gangster, dies at 82 1975 Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88 1976 Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81 1977 Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71 1978 Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84 1982 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer, dies at 82 1982 Tina Carver, actress, dies at 58 1985 Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], singer, dies 1990 Hulk, fictional character dies in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC 1993 Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76 1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 1993 Michael David Morrison, actor (As The World Turns), dies at 33 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for February 18[Gambia] Independence Day (1965) [Iceland] National Bun Day [Iran] Mohammed's Death [Israel] Mother's Day [Nepl] Constitutional Day (1951) [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday Back to GREGSITE Interest events for February 18[Christian] Commemoration of St Bernadette [Christian] Feast of St Angilbert [Christian] Feast of St Constantia (St Constance) 110 [RC] Commemoration of St Simeon, bishop of Jerusalem, martyr 461 [Orth] Feast of St Leo I, the Great 1455 [RC] Commemoration of Bl Fra Angelico, Florentine painter 1546 [Luth] Commemoration of Martin Luther, renewer of Church 1996 [Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday Back to GREGSITE Special events for February 18 [Ancient Rome] a d xij Kal Mar Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February) 1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels 1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1688 1st formal protest of slavery in US-Friends in Germantown, Penn 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaao 1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC 1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, chartered 1815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed 1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar 1834 1st US labor newspaper, The Man, published, NYC 1839 Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today) 1849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28) 1850 Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties 1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo 1861 King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia becomes king of Italy 1861 President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama 1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals 1865 Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC 1874 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #135 Hertha 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published 1899 80 F, San Fransisco 1899 Montral Shamrocks sweep Winnipeg Victorias in 2 for Stanley Cup 1899 SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports 1902 Opera "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo) 1908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England 1921 British troops occupy Dublin 1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball 1922 WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions 1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages 1924 US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations 1930 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted 1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaug discovers Pluto 1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independence 1936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24) 1938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1480 Aunus 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali 1942 L Oterma discovers asteroids #1758 Naantali, #2828 Iku-Turso & #2912 1943 1st edition opposition newspaper Loyal, publishes 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart 1943 Munich opposition group "That Weisse Rose" disbands 1943 Poetry newspaper Trouw begins publishing 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa 1950 S Arend discovers asteroid #2277 Moreau 1951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes 1951 Nepl becomes a constitutional monarchy 1951 Netherland Radio School forms 1953 KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 Premier of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC) 1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance 1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war 1964 Cabinet-Papandreou takes power in Greece 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC 1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting 1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1966 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2753 Duncan 1967 Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" 1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers 1968 British adopt year-round daylight savings time 1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd 1969 PLO-attack El-Al office in Zurich Switzerland 1970 Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot 1972 Calif Supreme Court strikes down it's death penalty 1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash 1973 Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000m in record 7:39.2 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) 1974 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check 1977 George Harrison releases "True Love" 1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroids #2330 Ontake, #2960 Ohtaki, 1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii 1979 -52 F (-47 C), Old Forge, New York (state record) 1979 Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202 1979 Snow falls in Sahara 1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!) 1980 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3085 1982 C Shoemaker & S J Bus discovers asteroid #3270 Dudley 1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak 1984 Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed 1988 Anthony M Kennedy becomes a Supreme Court Justice 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY 3102 -BC- Origin of Kali Era (India) Back to GREGSITE Facts for February 1849th day of the year with 316 days left (Numerology = 2) 1979 0F lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1981 68F highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on February 1802/18/49 --- Cruising Down The River --- Morgan, Russ 02/18/56 --- Poor People Of Paris, The --- Baxter, Les 02/18/56 --- Why Do Fools Fall In Love --- Lymon, Frankie 02/18/67 --- For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's Th --- Buffalo Springfield 02/18/67 --- Sock-It To Me-Baby! --- Ryder, Mitch & The Detroit Wheels 02/18/67 --- Baby I Need Your Lovin' --- Rivers, Johnny 02/18/78 --- Dust In The Wind --- Kansas 02/18/78 --- Can't Smile Without You --- Manilow, Barry 02/18/89 --- You Got It --- Orbison, Roy 02/18/89 --- Walk The Dinosaur --- Was (Not Was) |
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