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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 |
Anniversaries on: February 17, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1653 | Ancangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist | | 1766 | Thomas Malthus, English economist | | 1929 | Yassir Arafat, Palestinian leader & Nobel Prize winner | | 1934 | Barry Humphries, Australian actor/creator of 'Dame Edna' | | 1934 | Alan Bates, English actor | | 1941 | Julia McKenzie, British actress | | 1950 | Prunella Gee, British actress |
Events:| 1864 | A submarine was successfully used to attack a warship, for the first time | | 1880 | The Russian tsar survived an attempted bomb assassination | | 1883 | The Vacant/Engaged toilet door sign was patented | | 1909 | Geronimo, the American indian Apache leader, died | | 1958 | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was formed in Britain | | 1972 | The House of Commons voted in favour of Britain joining the Common Market | | 1972 | The Volkswagon 'Beetle' became the most successful production model, selling over 15 million vehicles | | 1994 | Russian troops joined the UN peace keeping forces in Bosnia |
Anniversaries on: February 18, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1517 | Mary Tudor, Daughter of Henry VIII | | 1745 | Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist | | 1838 | Ernst Mach, Physicist, after whom Mach speed numbers are named | | 1929 | Len Deighton, English novelist | | 1931 | Ned Sherrin, British broadcaster and writer | | 1933 | Bobby Robson, Former England football manager | | 1954 | John Travolta, American film actor; 'Grease' | | 1959 | Greta Scacchi, American film actress |
Events:| 1876 | The first direct telegraph link from Britain to New Zealand was set up | | 1911 | The world's first official regular air mail service began | | 1915 | During World War 1, Germany blockaded Britain with submarines | | 1930 | The planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh | | 1965 | The Gambia became an independent country within the Commonwealth | | 1967 | Robert Oppenheimer, the American inventor of the atomic bomb, died | | 1972 | A report suggested that alcohol abuse was the nation's biggest problem | | 1994 | The Queen went on a state visit to the Caribbean |
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