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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
Birthday: 23/2/1633: Samuel Pepys, Diarist and civil servant
Birthday: 23/2/1685: Geroge Frederic Handel, German operatic composer
Birthday: 23/2/1883: Victor Flemming, American film director of 'Wizard of OZ'
Birthday: 23/2/1899: Erich Kastner, German children's author
Birthday: 23/2/1940: Peter Fonda, American film actor, 'Easy Rider'
Birthday: 23/2/1955: Howard Jones, Singer
Birthday: 23/2/1959: Linda Nolan, Singer with the 'Nolans'
Birthday: 24/2/1786: Wilhelm Grimm, Author of fairy tales
Birthday: 24/2/1885: Chester Nimitz, United States navy admiral
Birthday: 24/2/1931: Brian Close, British cricketer
Birthday: 24/2/1932: Michel Legrand, French born film music composer
Birthday: 24/2/1942: Paul Jones, Blues singer and broadcaster
Birthday: 24/2/1948: Dennis Waterman, English TV actor ('Minder' & 'The Sweeny')
Birthday: 24/2/1955: Alain Prost, French Formula 1 racing driver
Birthday: 25/2/1841: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French artist
Birthday: 25/2/1873: Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor
Birthday: 25/2/1917: Anthony Burgess, English novelist
Birthday: 25/2/1937: Tom Courtenay, Actor
Birthday: 25/2/1941: David Puttnam, English born film producer of 'Chariots of Fire'
Birthday: 25/2/1943: George Harrison, Musician & former member of the 'Beatles'
Birthday: 25/2/1945: Elkie Brooks, Actress
Birthday: 26/2/1802: Victor Hugo, French novelist & playwright
Birthday: 26/2/1846: William Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', the American showman
Birthday: 26/2/1879: Frank Bridge, English composer
Birthday: 26/2/1928: Fats Domino, American singer
Birthday: 26/2/1932: Johnny Cash, American country singer
Birthday: 26/2/1947: Sandie Shaw, 60's singer
Birthday: 26/2/1948: David Edgar, British playwright
Birthday: 27/2/1807: Henry Longfellow, American poet
Birthday: 27/2/1902: John Steinbeck, US novelist of 'Of Mice & Men' & 'Grapes of Wrath'
Birthday: 27/2/1912: Lawrence Durrell, English novelist and poet
Birthday: 27/2/1930: Joanne Woodward, British actress
Birthday: 27/2/1932: Elizabeth Taylor, English born film actress
Birthday: 27/2/1941: Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrats leader
Birthday: 27/2/1960: Paul Humphreys, Of 'OMD'
Birthday: 28/2/1824: Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker
Birthday: 28/2/1909: Linus Pauling, American chemist & physicist
Birthday: 28/2/1909: Stephen Spender, English poet
Birthday: 28/2/1915: Sir Peter Medawar, English immunologist
Birthday: 28/2/1931: Peter Alliss, Ex-golfer and now commentator
Birthday: 28/2/1932: Brain Moore, Football commentator
Birthday: 28/2/1946: Robin Cook, Labour MP & Shadow Cabinet minister
Birthday: 28/2/1951: Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer
Birthday: 29/2/1736: Gioacchino Rossini, Italian operatic composer
Birthday: 29/2/1736: Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers
Birthday: 29/2/1792: John Holland, American inventor of the submarine
Birthday: 29/2/1904: Jimmy Dorsey, US bandleader
Birthday: 29/2/1940: Mario Andretti, Italian racing driver
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
Event: 23/2/1836: The seige at the Alamo, Texas, began - only six people survived
Event: 23/2/1919: The Italian Fascist Party was founded by Benito Mussolini
Event: 23/2/1920: Britain's first regular broadcasting service began, from Marconi's studios in Chelmsford
Event: 23/2/1950: Britain held a General Election; the Labour Party won
Event: 23/2/1965: Stan Laurel, the film comedian teamed with Oliver Hardy, died
Event: 23/2/1970: Guyana became an independent republic within the Commonwealth
Event: 23/2/1981: Spanish army officers attempted a coup in the Spanish Parliament
Event: 23/2/1991: The military seized power in Thailand, Asia
Event: 23/2/1993: An estimated 27,000 Indians were arrested on the eve of a Hindu rally
Event: 24/2/1920: Nancy Astor became the first woman to address Parliament
Event: 24/2/1932: Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record in 'Bluebird', in the USA
Event: 24/2/1938: Nylon was commercially used for the first time in toothbrush bristles
Event: 24/2/1946: Juan Peron was elected as the President of Argentina
Event: 24/2/1968: The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced
Event: 24/2/1969: Mariner 6, the first spacecraft to fly by Mars, was launched
Event: 24/2/1981: The engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced
Event: 24/2/1991: In its first free elections since the collapse of communism, Lithuania rejected the Communist Party
Event: 25/2/1723: Sir Christopher Wren, the English architect of St Pauls, died
Event: 25/2/1939: The first 'Anderson' air raid shelters were erected, in London
Event: 25/2/1955: Britain's largest ever aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, was completed
Event: 25/2/1976: India announced plans to take action against parents who had more than two children
Event: 25/2/1985: The pound reached a record low value against the dollar
Event: 25/2/1986: President Marcos of the Philipines escaped to the United States
Event: 25/2/1990: The American 50's pop singer, Johnny Ray, died
Event: 25/2/1990: There were nationwide pro-democracy marches in the Soviet Union
Event: 25/2/1991: During the Gulf War, Iraq continued its Scud missile attacks
Event: 25/2/1993: South Korea had its first civilian President for 23 years
Event: 26/2/1797: The first ever pound note was issued by the Bank of England
Event: 26/2/1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba
Event: 26/2/1839: The Grand National horse race was run from Aintree for the first time
Event: 26/2/1903: Richard Gatling, the American inventor of the Gatling gun, died
Event: 26/2/1936: The Volkswagen Beetle car was first launched by Adolf Hitler
Event: 26/2/1967: The United States began a new offensive against the Vietcong, in Vietnam
Event: 26/2/1991: During the Gulf War, Kuwait City was liberated & Iraq began a withdrawl
Event: 26/2/1993: A terrorist bomb exploded under the World Trade Centre, New York
Event: 27/2/1879: Two American chemists announced the discovery of saccharin
Event: 27/2/1900: The Labour Party was founded, with Ramsay MacDonald as its secretary
Event: 27/2/1933: The German parliament building (Reichstag) was destroyed by fire
Event: 27/2/1942: The second world wars 'Battle of the Java Sea' took place
Event: 27/2/1948: The Communist Party took control in Czechoslovakia
Event: 27/2/1980: Columbian guerrillas seized the Dominican Republic's embassy, in Columbia
Event: 27/2/1982: Legislation in the European Court was passed, banning corporal punishment in schools
Event: 27/2/1991: An allied ceasefire in the Gulf War began; Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait
Event: 27/2/1994: The apartments of Prince Charles, in St James's Palace, were burgled
Event: 27/2/1995: Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank collapsed, with losses over 600 million
Event: 28/2/1912: The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA
Event: 28/2/1948: The last British troops left India
Event: 28/2/1959: The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched
Event: 28/2/1966: The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt
Event: 28/2/1971: Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein
Event: 28/2/1984: The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Event: 28/2/1991: Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict
Event: 28/2/1994: Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns
Event: 29/2/1604: John Landseer, the famous painter, died
Event: 29/2/1880: The St Gotthard tunnel through the Alps was completed
Event: 29/2/1956: Pakistan became an Islamic republic
Event: 29/2/1968: The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced
Event: 29/2/1995: 65% of the population in Bosnia Herzegovina voted in favour of independence
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