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Birthday: 12/2/1809: Charles Darwin, English scientist
Birthday: 12/2/1809: Abraham Lincoln, Former (16th) US President
Birthday: 12/2/1828: George Meredith, English novelist
Birthday: 12/2/1870: Marie Lloyd, English music hall performer
Birthday: 12/2/1923: Franco Zeffirelli, Italian born film director
Birthday: 12/2/1952: Simon McCorkindale, British actor
Birthday: 13/2/1728: John Hunter, Scottish surgeon
Birthday: 13/2/1901: Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist
Birthday: 13/2/1933: Kim Novak, American actress
Birthday: 13/2/1934: George Segal, American film actor
Birthday: 13/2/1938: Oliver Reed, British born film actor
Birthday: 13/2/1950: Peter Gabriel, British pop musician
Birthday: 13/2/1956: Liam Brady, Footballer
Birthday: 14/2/1819: Christopher Sholes, American inventor of the typewriter
Birthday: 14/2/1894: Jack Benny, American comedian and film actor
Birthday: 14/2/1932: Vic Morrow, American film actor
Birthday: 14/2/1937: John MacGregor, Former Conservative Cabinet Minister
Birthday: 14/2/1944: Alan Parker, British born film director
Birthday: 14/2/1951: Kevin Keegan, British footballer and Newcastle United manager
Birthday: 15/2/1564: Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist and astronomer
Birthday: 15/2/1874: Ernest Shackelton, Irish born Antarctic explorer
Birthday: 15/2/1929: Graham Hill, British motor racing world champion
Birthday: 15/2/1931: Claire Bloom, English actress
Birthday: 15/2/1946: Clare Short, Labour politician
Birthday: 15/2/1951: Jane Seymour, English born film and TV actress
Birthday: 15/2/1956: Desmond Haynes, Crickter
Birthday: 16/2/1822: Francis Galton, English scientist
Birthday: 16/2/1834: Ernst Haeckel, German naturalist
Birthday: 16/2/1920: Patti Andrews, Of the 'Andrews Sisters'
Birthday: 16/2/1922: Geraint Evans, Welsh baritone
Birthday: 16/2/1926: John Schlesinger, American film director
Birthday: 16/2/1943: Anthony Dowell, Royal Ballet Director
Birthday: 16/2/1957: LeVar Burton, US actor; 'Geordie' in Star Trek Next Generation
Birthday: 16/2/1959: John McEnroe, Controversial American tennis player
Birthday: 17/2/1653: Ancangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist
Birthday: 17/2/1766: Thomas Malthus, English economist
Birthday: 17/2/1929: Yassir Arafat, Palestinian leader & Nobel Prize winner
Birthday: 17/2/1934: Barry Humphries, Australian actor/creator of 'Dame Edna'
Birthday: 17/2/1934: Alan Bates, English actor
Birthday: 17/2/1941: Julia McKenzie, British actress
Birthday: 17/2/1950: Prunella Gee, British actress
Birthday: 18/2/1517: Mary Tudor, Daughter of Henry VIII
Birthday: 18/2/1745: Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist
Birthday: 18/2/1838: Ernst Mach, Physicist, after whom Mach speed numbers are named
Birthday: 18/2/1929: Len Deighton, English novelist
Birthday: 18/2/1931: Ned Sherrin, British broadcaster and writer
Birthday: 18/2/1933: Bobby Robson, Former England football manager
Birthday: 18/2/1954: John Travolta, American film actor; 'Grease'
Birthday: 18/2/1959: Greta Scacchi, American film actress
Birthday: 19/2/1473: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Birthday: 19/2/1743: Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and cellist
Birthday: 19/2/1911: Merle Oberon, Tasmanian born film actress
Birthday: 19/2/1924: Lee Marvin, American film actor
Birthday: 19/2/1960: Prince Andrew, Duke of York
Birthday: 19/2/1962: Hana Mandlikova, Tennis player
Birthday: 19/2/1963: Seal, Singer
Birthday: 20/2/1694: Voltaire, French writer and scientist
Birthday: 20/2/1898: Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer
Birthday: 20/2/1904: Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR
Birthday: 20/2/1925: Robert Altman American film director
Birthday: 20/2/1927: Sidney Poitier, American film actor and director
Birthday: 20/2/1940: Jimmy Greaves, Television commentator
Birthday: 20/2/1951: Phil Neal, Former England footballer
Birthday: 21/2/1801: John Henry Newman, English cardinal and writer
Birthday: 21/2/1907: W.H Auden, English poet
Birthday: 21/2/1910: Eddie Waring. Rugby league commentator
Birthday: 21/2/1924: Robert Mugabe,, First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Birthday: 21/2/1934: Nina Simone, American singer
Birthday: 21/2/1937: Jilly Cooper, English novelist
Birthday: 22/2/1732: George Washington, First President of United States
Birthday: 22/2/1857: Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of the Boy Scout movement
Birthday: 22/2/1908: John Mills, English film and television actor
Birthday: 22/2/1926: Kenneth Williams, English comedy actor & star of many 'Carry On' films
Birthday: 22/2/1928: Bruce Forsyth, Comdedian & game show host
Birthday: 22/2/1950: Julie Walters, Comedienne and actress
Birthday: 22/2/1953: Nigel Planer, Comedy actor and writer
Event: 12/2/1818: The South American country of Chilie became independent
Event: 12/2/1851: Gold was found in New South Wales, which started the Australian Gold Rush
Event: 12/2/1912: China became a republic, after centuries of rule by an Emperor
Event: 12/2/1961: The first spacecraft to the planet Venus was launched
Event: 12/2/1973: American prisoners, captured in Vietnam, were released
Event: 12/2/1991: Government ministries and bridges in Iraq were destroyed during the Gulf War
Event: 12/2/1994: The painting, 'The Scream', was stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery
Event: 13/2/1689: William of Orange ascended to the British throne
Event: 13/2/1883: Richard Wagner, the German composer, died
Event: 13/2/1886: The American James Younger gang robbed its first bank in Missouri
Event: 13/2/1945: The RAF and USAF mounted a three wave bombing attack on the German city of Dresden
Event: 13/2/1960: The French test detonated their first atomic bomb in the Sahara
Event: 13/2/1974: The Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was expelled from the USSR
Event: 13/2/1987: During the property boom, an area the size of a cupboard opposite Harrods was worth 36,500 pounds
Event: 14/2/1779: Captain Cook was stabbed to death by the natives of Hawaii
Event: 14/2/1852: The first ever patient entered the Great Ormond Street children's hospital
Event: 14/2/1929: The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago between rival gansters
Event: 14/2/1963: The first successful kidney transplant was made
Event: 14/2/1963: Harold Wilson became the new leader of the Labour Party
Event: 14/2/1975: P.G Woodhouse, the English novelist, died
Event: 14/2/1984: Skaters Torvill and Dean won Olympic gold in the Sarajevo winter games
Event: 14/2/1994: A major breakthrough of a malaria vaccine was announced
Event: 15/2/1882: The first ever shipment of frozen meat was sent from New Zealand to Britain
Event: 15/2/1942: During World War 2, Singapore surrended to the forces of Japan
Event: 15/2/1965: Nat King Cole, the American singer and musician, died
Event: 15/2/1971: Britain changed its currency to the decimal system
Event: 15/2/1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Switzerland after being expelled from the USSR
Event: 15/2/1981: An English Football League match was played on a Sunday for the first time
Event: 15/2/1994: Prescription charges rose by 50p to 4.75p
Event: 16/2/1937: An American scientist was granted a patent for Nylon
Event: 16/2/1957: Leslie Hore Belisha, the politician who introduced the driving test, died
Event: 16/2/1959: Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba, overthrowing Fulgenico Batista
Event: 16/2/1960: The nuclear powered submarine 'Triton' set off on its round the world underwater voyage
Event: 16/2/1965: A government report recommended closing half of Britain's railway network
Event: 16/2/1972: There were power cuts in Britain, as power stations ran out of coal during the miners strike
Event: 16/2/1990: Wives of Royal Navy seamen protested over a decision to allow Wrens to go to sea
Event: 16/2/1994: Russian troops were to join the UN troops in former Yugoslavia
Event: 17/2/1864: A submarine was successfully used to attack a warship, for the first time
Event: 17/2/1880: The Russian tsar survived an attempted bomb assassination
Event: 17/2/1883: The Vacant/Engaged toilet door sign was patented
Event: 17/2/1909: Geronimo, the American indian Apache leader, died
Event: 17/2/1958: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was formed in Britain
Event: 17/2/1972: The Volkswagon 'Beetle' became the most successful production model, selling over 15 million vehicles
Event: 17/2/1972: The House of Commons voted in favour of Britain joining the Common Market
Event: 17/2/1994: Russian troops joined the UN peace keeping forces in Bosnia
Event: 18/2/1876: The first direct telegraph link from Britain to New Zealand was set up
Event: 18/2/1911: The world's first official regular air mail service began
Event: 18/2/1915: During World War 1, Germany blockaded Britain with submarines
Event: 18/2/1930: The planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
Event: 18/2/1965: The Gambia became an independent country within the Commonwealth
Event: 18/2/1967: Robert Oppenheimer, the American inventor of the atomic bomb, died
Event: 18/2/1972: A report suggested that alcohol abuse was the nation's biggest problem
Event: 18/2/1994: The Queen went on a state visit to the Caribbean
Event: 19/2/1855: There were bread riots in Liverpool
Event: 19/2/1878: Thomas Edison, the US inventor, patented the phongraph
Event: 19/2/1897: Charles Blondin, the French tightrope walker, died
Event: 19/2/1906: William Kellogg founded his breakfast cereal company
Event: 19/2/1942: During World War 2 Darwin, Australia, was bombed by the Japanese
Event: 19/2/1976: Iceland broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over the 'cod war'
Event: 19/2/1982: In Ireland, the Fianna party won the General Election
Event: 19/2/1982: John De Lorean's car making company became bankrupt
Event: 19/2/1985: The first ever episode of 'Eastenders' was broadcast
Event: 19/2/1992: North and South Korea officially ended their 40 year confrontation
Event: 20/2/1811: The European country of Austria declared itself bankrupt
Event: 20/2/1910: Britain was struck by a hurricane force winds, killing several people
Event: 20/2/1947: Lord Mountbatten was appointed viceroy of India
Event: 20/2/1962: John Glenn, the American astronaut, orbited the Earth three times
Event: 20/2/1986: The Channel Tunnel project was given the official go ahead
Event: 20/2/1991: Slovenia dissolved all its links with the former Yugoslavia
Event: 20/2/1994: Switzerland announced plans to ban foreign truks from crossing the country by 2004
Event: 21/2/1804: The first ever steam train to run on rails was demonstrated by Richard Trevithick
Event: 21/2/1931: The 'New Statesman' was published for the first time
Event: 21/2/1938: Malcolm X, black US muslim leader, was shot dead during a meeting
Event: 21/2/1960: Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalised all businesses in Cuba
Event: 21/2/1972: US President Richard Nixon went on visit to China, to help improve relations
Event: 21/2/1984: United States Marines began leaving Beirut airport, Lebanon
Event: 21/2/1985: Isabel Peron resigned as head of Peronist party in Argentina
Event: 22/2/1879: Frank Woolworth opened his first 'Woolworths' store in Utica, New York state
Event: 22/2/1886: The Times newspaper became the first to publish a classified personal column
Event: 22/2/1980: Martial Law was declared in Kabul by Soviet occupation forces
Event: 22/2/1982: Britain and US sent ships to Persian Gulf following Iranian offensive
Event: 22/2/1987: Further Syrian troops were deployed in West Beirut to keep the peace
Event: 22/2/1991: Iraq began setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations
Event: 22/2/1994: Iraq began flooding its southern marshes to destroy the Shia Muslims living there
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