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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
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: Alan Bates, English actor
Birthday: 17/2/1934: Barry Humphries, Australian actor/creator of 'Dame Edna'
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
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'
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
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