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Anniversaries on: February 12, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1809 | Abraham Lincoln, Former (16th) US President | | 1809 | Charles Darwin, English scientist | | 1828 | George Meredith, English novelist | | 1870 | Marie Lloyd, English music hall performer | | 1923 | Franco Zeffirelli, Italian born film director | | 1952 | Simon McCorkindale, British actor |
Events:| 1818 | The South American country of Chilie became independent | | 1851 | Gold was found in New South Wales, which started the Australian Gold Rush | | 1912 | China became a republic, after centuries of rule by an Emperor | | 1961 | The first spacecraft to the planet Venus was launched | | 1973 | American prisoners, captured in Vietnam, were released | | 1991 | Government ministries and bridges in Iraq were destroyed during the Gulf War | | 1994 | The painting, 'The Scream', was stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery |
Anniversaries on: February 13, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1728 | John Hunter, Scottish surgeon | | 1901 | Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist | | 1933 | Kim Novak, American actress | | 1934 | George Segal, American film actor | | 1938 | Oliver Reed, British born film actor | | 1950 | Peter Gabriel, British pop musician | | 1956 | Liam Brady, Footballer |
Events:| 1689 | William of Orange ascended to the British throne | | 1883 | Richard Wagner, the German composer, died | | 1886 | The American James Younger gang robbed its first bank in Missouri | | 1945 | The RAF and USAF mounted a three wave bombing attack on the German city of Dresden | | 1960 | The French test detonated their first atomic bomb in the Sahara | | 1974 | The Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was expelled from the USSR | | 1987 | During the property boom, an area the size of a cupboard opposite Harrods was worth 36,500 pounds |
Anniversaries on: February 14, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1819 | Christopher Sholes, American inventor of the typewriter | | 1894 | Jack Benny, American comedian and film actor | | 1932 | Vic Morrow, American film actor | | 1937 | John MacGregor, Former Conservative Cabinet Minister | | 1944 | Alan Parker, British born film director | | 1951 | Kevin Keegan, British footballer and Newcastle United manager |
Events:| 1779 | Captain Cook was stabbed to death by the natives of Hawaii | | 1852 | The first ever patient entered the Great Ormond Street children's hospital | | 1929 | The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago between rival gansters | | 1963 | The first successful kidney transplant was made | | 1963 | Harold Wilson became the new leader of the Labour Party | | 1975 | P.G Woodhouse, the English novelist, died | | 1984 | Skaters Torvill and Dean won Olympic gold in the Sarajevo winter games | | 1994 | A major breakthrough of a malaria vaccine was announced |
Anniversaries on: February 15, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1564 | Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist and astronomer | | 1874 | Ernest Shackelton, Irish born Antarctic explorer | | 1929 | Graham Hill, British motor racing world champion | | 1931 | Claire Bloom, English actress | | 1946 | Clare Short, Labour politician | | 1951 | Jane Seymour, English born film and TV actress | | 1956 | Desmond Haynes, Crickter |
Events:| 1882 | The first ever shipment of frozen meat was sent from New Zealand to Britain | | 1942 | During World War 2, Singapore surrended to the forces of Japan | | 1965 | Nat King Cole, the American singer and musician, died | | 1971 | Britain changed its currency to the decimal system | | 1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Switzerland after being expelled from the USSR | | 1981 | An English Football League match was played on a Sunday for the first time | | 1994 | Prescription charges rose by 50p to 4.75p |
Anniversaries on: February 16, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1822 | Francis Galton, English scientist | | 1834 | Ernst Haeckel, German naturalist | | 1920 | Patti Andrews, Of the 'Andrews Sisters' | | 1922 | Geraint Evans, Welsh baritone | | 1926 | John Schlesinger, American film director | | 1943 | Anthony Dowell, Royal Ballet Director | | 1957 | LeVar Burton, US actor; 'Geordie' in Star Trek Next Generation | | 1959 | John McEnroe, Controversial American tennis player |
Events:| 1937 | An American scientist was granted a patent for Nylon | | 1957 | Leslie Hore Belisha, the politician who introduced the driving test, died | | 1959 | Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba, overthrowing Fulgenico Batista | | 1960 | The nuclear powered submarine 'Triton' set off on its round the world underwater voyage | | 1965 | A government report recommended closing half of Britain's railway network | | 1972 | There were power cuts in Britain, as power stations ran out of coal during the miners strike | | 1990 | Wives of Royal Navy seamen protested over a decision to allow Wrens to go to sea | | 1994 | Russian troops were to join the UN troops in former Yugoslavia |
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