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3 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl) 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Tor£n, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism) 1683 King Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) 1717 David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko) 1743 Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet) 1817 William III, King of Netherlands (1849-90) 1819 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer 1821 Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri) 1827 Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855 1828 Johannes von Miquel, German politician 1833 lie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902) 1843 Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucia) 1859 Svante August Arhenius, founded physical chemistry (Nobel 1903) 1863 Augusto Bernardino Legu¡a y Salcedo, president of Per£ (1908, 1919) 1864 Airius S Talma, Dutch minister of building (Work Law of 1911) 1865 Adrian van Oordt, writer (neo-romantic) 1865 Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet) 1877 Louis [F M] Aubert, French composer (Habanera) 1881 Evert Gorter, children's art 1889 Jos Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex) 1893 Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III) 1894 Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins) 1895 Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle) 19-- Clay Anthony, rocker (Junkyard-Blooze Hot Rod) 19-- Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change) 1901 Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord) 1902 John Bubbles, Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer 1902 Nydia Westman, NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins) 1903 Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales) 1904 Havank, [HF of of the Kallen], detective writer (Heads on Cave) 1906 Hendrik W C Spruit, conductor 1911 Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion) 1912 Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana) 1912 Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55) 1915 John Freeman, British Labour politician/ambassador/TV host 1916 Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns) 1917 Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) 1920 George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust) 1924 Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou) 1925 Leslie Laing, Linstead Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952) 1930 John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz) 1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana) 1932 Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2) 1940 Carlin Glynn, US actor (Continental Divide) 1940 William "Smokey" Robinson, Det, singer (& Miracles-Being With You) 1942 Kenneth R Kramer, (Rep-R-CO, 1979- ) 1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday) 1943 Lou Christie, Penn, rock vocalist (Lightnin' Strikes) 1946 Pierre of of the Linden, drummer (Brainbox) 1948 Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45) 1948 Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man) 1952 Rudolfo Neri-Vela, Chilpancing Mexico, astronaut (STS 23) 1953 Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us) 1953 Stephen Nichols, Cincinatti Ohio, actor (Days of our Lives) 1955 Jeff Daniels, actor (Something Wild) 1955 Margaux Hemingway, Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce) 1956 George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43) 1957 Dave "Smoke" Stewart, Oakland Calif, pitcher (Oakland Athletic) 1957 Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus) 1960 Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain 1962 Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open) 1963 Jessica Tuck, NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live) 1966 Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction) 1966 Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock) 1967 Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill) 1989 L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Back to GREGSITE Passings for February 191260 Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies 1401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1414 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies 1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 1875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76 1878 Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies 1897 Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies 1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies 1916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 1927 Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies 1945 Wim Speelman, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1950 Edyth Walker, US singer, dies 1951 Andr Gide, French writer (Les Faux-Monnzyeurs), dies in Paris at 81 1956 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (La Vie du Pote), dies at 95 1965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 1967 Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies 1968 Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 1970 Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89 1983 Alice White, leading lady, dies at 78 of a stroke 1984 Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 1985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author of "Dick & Jane" books, dies 1985 George Holmes, actor, dies at 66 1986 Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63 1986 James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81 1986 Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77 1989 Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies Back to GREGSITE Holidays for February 19[Ethiopia] Martyr's Day (1930s) [Gabon] Constitution Day (1959) [World] Brotherhood Day (1934) [US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday Back to GREGSITE Interest events for February 19[Christian] Feast of St Conrad 1996 [Christian] Shrove Monday 1997 [Ang, RC] Ember Day Back to GREGSITE Special events for February 19 [Ancient Rome] a d xj Kal Mar Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February) 607 Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1700 Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark 1797 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France 1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 1807 British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle 1807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn 1846 Texas state govt formally installed in Austin 1856 Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio, obtains US patent on tin-type camera 1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio 1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom (3/3 NS) 1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, DC 1869 US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized 1878 Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #507 Laodica 1910 English premier of Richard Strauss' "Electricity" 1913 Mexican General V Huerta gets support of US authorities 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations 1927 General staking against British occupiers in Shanghai 1928 Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal 1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY 1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1933 F L Whipple discovers asteroid #1252 Celestia 1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry 1934 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos 1936 Manuel Aza€a becomes Spanish premier 1938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1733 Silke 1938 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2713 Luxembourg 1938 Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1938 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3212 1941 Police surprise attack on Koco ice cream parlor in Amsterdam 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1942 Japanese fleet under vice-adm Nagumo bomb Darwin, Australia 1942 Japanese troop land on Timor 1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days 1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated 1945 US Marines land on Iwo Jima 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1949 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3282 1949 Mass arrests of communists in India 1952 French offensive at Hanoi 1954 WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 1959 British/Turkish/Greek accord over Cyprus' independence 1959 Gabon adopts its constitution 1959 USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM 1960 protest strike in Poznan Poland 1961 Angolia agrees with Chinese "revisionism" 1961 Henk Van de Grift becomes world champ all-round skater 1963 USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1964 UK flies « ton of Beatle wigs to US 1965 NFL adds 6th official 1969 1st test flight of Boeing 747 Jumbo jet 1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking 1970 USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK 1971 Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game 1974 L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #2055 Dvorak, #2073 Janacek & #3109 1977 H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3111 Misuzu 1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino [Tokyo Rose] 1977 Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner 1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) 1980 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2747, #3313 & #3715 1980 Harvard College discovers asteroid #3243 1980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2315 Czechoslovakia & #2321 Luznice 1982 Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853 1982 Xinglong Station discovers asteroid #3481 1983 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3414 Champollion 1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m freestyle swimming record 1985 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1987 Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson 1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3m) "Legs Diamond" closes 1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie Back to GREGSITE Facts for February 1950th day of the year with 315 days left (Numerology = 3) 1936 1øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1961 63øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on February 1902/19/55 --- How Important Can It Be? --- James, Joni 02/19/66 --- Ballad Of The Green Berets, The --- Sadler, SSgt Barry 02/19/72 --- Jungle Fever --- Chakachas 02/19/72 --- Mother And Child Reunion --- Simon, Paul 02/19/77 --- Maybe I'm Amazed --- McCartney, Paul 02/19/77 --- Don't Give Up On Us --- Soul, David |
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