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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: Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers
Birthday: 29/2/1736: Gioacchino Rossini, Italian operatic composer
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: 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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