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Birthday: 1/2/1895: John Ford, American film director; 'Stage Coach'
Birthday: 1/2/1901: Clarke Gable, Hollywood superstar, and wartime US Air Force captain
Birthday: 1/2/1915: Sir Stanley Matthews, Football player
Birthday: 1/2/1931: Boris Yeltsin, Russian President
Birthday: 1/2/1932: Sir John Nott, Former Conervative Defence Secretary
Birthday: 1/2/1937: Don Everly, Canadian singer with the 'Everly Brothers'
Birthday: 1/2/1942: Terry Jones, 'Monty Python' member; writer, comedian & director
Birthday: 1/2/1968: Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis; Married to Michael Jackson
Birthday: 2/2/1650: Nell Gwynne, Comedy actress and mistress of Charles II
Birthday: 2/2/1882: James Joyce, Irish born novelist, author of 'Ulysses'
Birthday: 2/2/1920: Hughie Green, Canadian born quiz show host
Birthday: 2/2/1933: Les Dawson, Comedian and TV quiz presenter
Birthday: 2/2/1938: Norman Fowler, Conservative; former Secretary of State for Employment
Birthday: 2/2/1940: David Jason, Stage & TV actor; 'Only Fools and Horses'
Birthday: 3/2/1809: Felix Mendelssohn, German composer
Birthday: 3/2/1907: James Michener, American author 'The Fires of Spring'
Birthday: 3/2/1920: Iain Hamilton, Journalist and author
Birthday: 3/2/1928: Frankie Vaughan, Popular singer during the 50's and 60's
Birthday: 3/2/1929: Val Doonican, Irish singer and TV entertainer
Birthday: 3/2/1935: Jeremy Kemp, Actor of stage, screen and TV
Birthday: 3/2/1947: Elaine Padmore, Opera singer and director
Birthday: 3/2/1959: Lol Tolhurst, Of the Pop group 'The Cure'
Birthday: 4/2/1902: Charles Lindberg, American pilot, first person to fly the Atlantic solo
Birthday: 4/2/1920: Norman Wisdom, Actor & star of many comedy films
Birthday: 4/2/1920: Derek Worlock R.C Archbishop of Liverpool
Birthday: 4/2/1936: William Ross, Ulster Unionist politician
Birthday: 4/2/1941: John Steel, Of the Pop group 'The Animals'
Birthday: 4/2/1947: Dan Quayle, Former American Vice-President
Birthday: 4/2/1948: Alice Cooper, Rock star
Birthday: 5/2/1788: Sir Robert Peel, Founder of the Metropolitan Police
Birthday: 5/2/1840: John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tyre
Birthday: 5/2/1906: John Carradine, Character actor in American films
Birthday: 5/2/1942: Susan Hill, Playwright and novelist
Birthday: 5/2/1944: Al Cooper, Of the group 'Blood Sweat and Tears'
Birthday: 5/2/1946: Charlotte Rampling, Leading British film actress
Birthday: 5/2/1952: Russell Grant, Television astrologer
Birthday: 5/2/1969: Bobby Brown, Pop star, and husband of Whitney Houston
Birthday: 6/2/1911: Ronald Reagan, Former actor and US (40th) President
Birthday: 6/2/1919: Zsa Zsa Gabor, American actress
Birthday: 6/2/1922: Denis Norden, Scriptwriter, radio and TV presenter
Birthday: 6/2/1929: Keith Waterhouse, Journalist, playwright and novelist
Birthday: 6/2/1931: Fred Trueman, Former Yorkshire and England cricketer
Birthday: 6/2/1932: Francois Truffaut, Oscar winning French film director
Birthday: 6/2/1933: Leslie Crowther, Television game show host
Birthday: 6/2/1940: Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
Birthday: 6/2/1966: Rick Astley, British singer
Birthday: 7/2/1478: Sir Thomas More, Writer, statesman and Lord Chancellor
Birthday: 7/2/1812: Charles Dickens, Celebrated novelist; 'A Christmas Carol'
Birthday: 7/2/1923: Earl of Harewood, Managing director of the English National Opera
Birthday: 7/2/1924: Dora Bryan, Actress appearing in over 50 films
Birthday: 7/2/1937: Peter Jay, Former Ambassador to Washington
Birthday: 7/2/1943: Gareth Hunt, British TV actor; 'New Avengers'
Birthday: 7/2/1949: Alan Lancaster, Former member of the group 'Status Quo'
Birthday: 7/2/1959: Sammy Lee, Former Liverpool football player
Birthday: 8/2/1819: John Ruskin, English writer and artist
Birthday: 8/2/1820: William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
Birthday: 8/2/1828: Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'
Birthday: 8/2/1920: Lana Turner, American film actress
Birthday: 8/2/1925: Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
Birthday: 8/2/1931: James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
Birthday: 8/2/1932: John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones'
Birthday: 9/2/1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
Birthday: 9/2/1885: Alban Berg, Austrian composer
Birthday: 9/2/1891: Ronald Colman, English born film actor
Birthday: 9/2/1939: Janet Suzman, Actress
Birthday: 9/2/1940: Brian Bennett, Drummer with the 'Shadows' group
Birthday: 9/2/1941: Carole King, American singer/songwriter
Birthday: 9/2/1945: Mia Farrow, American film actress
Birthday: 10/2/1894: Harold Macmillan, British politician
Birthday: 10/2/1898: Bertolt Brecht, German poet & dramatist
Birthday: 10/2/1910: Joyce Grenfell, English comedy actress
Birthday: 10/2/1914: Larry Adler, Mouth organ/harmonica player
Birthday: 10/2/1930: Robert Wagner, American film and television actor
Birthday: 10/2/1950: Mark Spitz, American Olympic winning swimmer
Birthday: 10/2/1955: Greg Norman, Australian golfer
Birthday: 11/2/1800: Henry Fox Talbot, Pioneer of photography
Birthday: 11/2/1847: Thomas Edison, American inventor; lightbulb, phonograph etc
Birthday: 11/2/1908: Vivian Fuchs, British Antartic explorer
Birthday: 11/2/1926: Leslie Nielson, American film & TV actor of 'Naked Gun' films
Birthday: 11/2/1932: Dennis Skiner, Controversial Labour MP
Birthday: 11/2/1934: Mary Quant, English fashion designer
Birthday: 11/2/1936: Burt Reynolds, American film actor
Event: 1/2/1851: Mary Shelley, English author of the classic novel 'Frankenstein', died
Event: 1/2/1915: Passport photos were made obligatory in Britain
Event: 1/2/1920: The Canadian 'Mounties',(RCMP) came into being, after changing their name from the 'North West Mounted Police'
Event: 1/2/1930: The first ever 'Times' crossword was published
Event: 1/2/1941: The Air Training Corps, affiliated to the RAF, was formed
Event: 1/2/1973: Londons Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time
Event: 1/2/1974: Ronnie Biggs, one of the 'Great Train' robbers, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro
Event: 1/2/1989: Students marched in London against government plans to introduce student loans
Event: 2/2/1836: The first public railway in London opened
Event: 2/2/1852: The first 'flushing' mens public toilet was opened in Fleet street, London
Event: 2/2/1914: The Cub Scouts were founded in Robertsbridge, Sussex
Event: 2/2/1970: Bertrand Russell, the British mathematician and renowned philosopher died, aged 97
Event: 2/2/1976: The Queen opened the 'National Exhibition Centre' near Birmingham
Event: 2/2/1983: In Ireland, a constitutional amendment was introduced, banning abortion
Event: 2/2/1987: Terry Waite, acting as special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, was captured by terrorists in Beirut
Event: 2/2/1987: Alistair Maclean, the best selling novelist, died
Event: 3/2/1877: The paino piece 'chopsticks' was first registered
Event: 3/2/1953: Hurricane force winds,and high tides, caused havoc on the east coast of Britain, leaving many drowned, & thousands homeless
Event: 3/2/1959: Buddy Holly, the US singer and guitarist, died
Event: 3/2/1966: The first soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft, Luna 9, took place
Event: 3/2/1988: The Prince and Princess of Wales ended their bicentennial tour of Australia
Event: 3/2/1988: Hundreds of nurses, striking for more pay and better Health Service funding, marched on Parliament
Event: 3/2/1989: Twenty villages were evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Event: 3/2/1992: India's Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets
Event: 4/2/1927: A new land speed record was set, when Malcolm Campbell reached 174mph in his car 'Bluebird', in Wales
Event: 4/2/1929: The first 'Green Belt' was approved near Hendon, Middlesex
Event: 4/2/1938: Adolf Hitler took command of the German Army
Event: 4/2/1953: Sweets were taken 'Off Ration' in Britain
Event: 4/2/1962: The Sunday Times produced the first British colour supplement
Event: 4/2/1971: Rolls Royce were made bankrupt after a disastrous contract to supply aero engines to Lockheed Aircraft
Event: 4/2/1983: The funeral took place of Billy Fury, the 60's Pop idol
Event: 4/2/1989: John Cassavetes, the American actor and film director, died aged 59
Event: 5/2/1922: The very first 'Readers Digest' appeared on the shelves
Event: 5/2/1936: The film 'Modern Times', by Charlie Chaplin, had its American premiere
Event: 5/2/1961: The Sunday Telegraph was first published
Event: 5/2/1971: The US Apollo 14 (Shepard & Mitchell onboard) landed on the Moon
Event: 5/2/1988: Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Event: 5/2/1989: Sky satellite television was launched
Event: 5/2/1992: Kevin Keegan was appointed manager of Newcastle Football Club
Event: 5/2/1994: A US paragliding citizen landed on the roof of Buckingham Palace
Event: 6/2/1685: King Charles II died
Event: 6/2/1918: Women aged 30 and over were given the vote for Parliamentary Elections for the first time
Event: 6/2/1952: King George VI died in his sleep, aged 56
Event: 6/2/1958: A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed at Munich airport, killing 7 of the team
Event: 6/2/1959: Indira Ghandi became the leader of India's Congress Party
Event: 6/2/1991: Debis from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fell into the Atlantic as it broke up
Event: 6/2/1992: Barbara Mills QC, became the first female Director of Public Prosecutions
Event: 6/2/1994: Ambulance crews in Manchester were issued with bullet proof vests
Event: 7/2/1845: A priceless glass Roman was broken by a drunken visitor to the British Museum
Event: 7/2/1878: Pope Pius IX died, having reigned for over 31 years
Event: 7/2/1922: During an outbreak of the disease 'Foot and Mouth', thousands of cattle were slaughtered
Event: 7/2/1940: Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' had its world premiere, in the USA
Event: 7/2/1976: A woman refereed an all male football match for the first time
Event: 7/2/1984: US astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to 'Spacewalk' untethered to a spacecraft
Event: 7/2/1988: Torrential rains and flooding killed 120 people and injured thousands in Rio de Janeiro
Event: 7/2/1993: Former Wimbledon champion Arthur Ashe, died in New York of AIDS
Event: 8/2/1725: Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia
Event: 8/2/1886: A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting
Event: 8/2/1924: The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison
Event: 8/2/1955: Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
Event: 8/2/1969: The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place
Event: 8/2/1974: The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere
Event: 8/2/1984: British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon
Event: 8/2/1994: Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides
Event: 9/2/1830: Charles Sturt discoverd the source of the Murray river in Australia
Event: 9/2/1970: The worlds first nerve transplant took place in Germany
Event: 9/2/1971: The first British soldier was killed in Northern Ireland
Event: 9/2/1972: A State of Emergency was declared in Britain because of the third month of a miners strike
Event: 9/2/1974: Miners began striking over a wage dispute
Event: 9/2/1981: Billy Haley, the American rock and roll musician, died
Event: 9/2/1983: The Derby Winner Shergar was stolen; a 2 million ransom was demanded
Event: 9/2/1989: Neo-Nazi groups were outlawed in West Germany
Event: 9/2/1992: Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda continued
Event: 10/2/1763: The Peace of Paris ceeded Canada to Britain
Event: 10/2/1840: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married in St James' Palace
Event: 10/2/1913: In the Antartic, the bodies of Captain Scott and his party were found
Event: 10/2/1931: New Delhi became the capital city of India
Event: 10/2/1942: The first ever record 'Gold Disc' was presented to Glenn Miller
Event: 10/2/1944: The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax was introduced in Britain
Event: 10/2/1974: Troops from Iran & Iraq were involved in border clashes
Event: 10/2/1986: Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled the country to France
Event: 10/2/1986: The largest ever Mafia trial took place in Palermo, Sicily
Event: 11/2/1818: The South American country of Chilie proclaimed its independance
Event: 11/2/1878: The Meteorological Office began publishing a weekly weather report
Event: 11/2/1970: Japan launched its first satellite into orbit
Event: 11/2/1975: The Conservative party elected Margaret Thatcher as leader, the first ever woman
Event: 11/2/1983: Israel's defense minister, Ariel Sharon, resigned
Event: 11/2/1990: After being in prison for 27 years, Nelson Mandella was freed
Event: 11/2/1994: The UN passed a resolution allowing UN air strikes in Bosnia to protect 'safe havens'
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