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Anniversaries on: February 24, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1786 | Wilhelm Grimm, Author of fairy tales | | 1885 | Chester Nimitz, United States navy admiral | | 1931 | Brian Close, British cricketer | | 1932 | Michel Legrand, French born film music composer | | 1942 | Paul Jones, Blues singer and broadcaster | | 1948 | Dennis Waterman, English TV actor ('Minder' & 'The Sweeny') | | 1955 | Alain Prost, French Formula 1 racing driver |
Events:| 1920 | Nancy Astor became the first woman to address Parliament | | 1932 | Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record in 'Bluebird', in the USA | | 1938 | Nylon was commercially used for the first time in toothbrush bristles | | 1946 | Juan Peron was elected as the President of Argentina | | 1968 | The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced | | 1969 | Mariner 6, the first spacecraft to fly by Mars, was launched | | 1981 | The engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced | | 1991 | In its first free elections since the collapse of communism, Lithuania rejected the Communist Party |
Anniversaries on: February 25, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1841 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French artist | | 1873 | Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor | | 1917 | Anthony Burgess, English novelist | | 1937 | Tom Courtenay, Actor | | 1941 | David Puttnam, English born film producer of 'Chariots of Fire' | | 1943 | George Harrison, Musician & former member of the 'Beatles' | | 1945 | Elkie Brooks, Actress |
Events:| 1723 | Sir Christopher Wren, the English architect of St Pauls, died | | 1939 | The first 'Anderson' air raid shelters were erected, in London | | 1955 | Britain's largest ever aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, was completed | | 1976 | India announced plans to take action against parents who had more than two children | | 1985 | The pound reached a record low value against the dollar | | 1986 | President Marcos of the Philipines escaped to the United States | | 1990 | There were nationwide pro-democracy marches in the Soviet Union | | 1990 | The American 50's pop singer, Johnny Ray, died | | 1991 | During the Gulf War, Iraq continued its Scud missile attacks | | 1993 | South Korea had its first civilian President for 23 years |
Anniversaries on: February 26, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1802 | Victor Hugo, French novelist & playwright | | 1846 | William Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', the American showman | | 1879 | Frank Bridge, English composer | | 1928 | Fats Domino, American singer | | 1932 | Johnny Cash, American country singer | | 1947 | Sandie Shaw, 60's singer | | 1948 | David Edgar, British playwright |
Events:| 1797 | The first ever pound note was issued by the Bank of England | | 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba | | 1839 | The Grand National horse race was run from Aintree for the first time | | 1903 | Richard Gatling, the American inventor of the Gatling gun, died | | 1936 | The Volkswagen Beetle car was first launched by Adolf Hitler | | 1967 | The United States began a new offensive against the Vietcong, in Vietnam | | 1991 | During the Gulf War, Kuwait City was liberated & Iraq began a withdrawl | | 1993 | A terrorist bomb exploded under the World Trade Centre, New York |
Anniversaries on: February 27, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1807 | Henry Longfellow, American poet | | 1902 | John Steinbeck, US novelist of 'Of Mice & Men' & 'Grapes of Wrath' | | 1912 | Lawrence Durrell, English novelist and poet | | 1930 | Joanne Woodward, British actress | | 1932 | Elizabeth Taylor, English born film actress | | 1941 | Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrats leader | | 1960 | Paul Humphreys, Of 'OMD' |
Events:| 1879 | Two American chemists announced the discovery of saccharin | | 1900 | The Labour Party was founded, with Ramsay MacDonald as its secretary | | 1933 | The German parliament building (Reichstag) was destroyed by fire | | 1942 | The second world wars 'Battle of the Java Sea' took place | | 1948 | The Communist Party took control in Czechoslovakia | | 1980 | Columbian guerrillas seized the Dominican Republic's embassy, in Columbia | | 1982 | Legislation in the European Court was passed, banning corporal punishment in schools | | 1991 | An allied ceasefire in the Gulf War began; Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait | | 1994 | The apartments of Prince Charles, in St James's Palace, were burgled | | 1995 | Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank collapsed, with losses over 600 million |
Anniversaries on: February 28, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1824 | Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker | | 1909 | Linus Pauling, American chemist & physicist | | 1909 | Stephen Spender, English poet | | 1915 | Sir Peter Medawar, English immunologist | | 1931 | Peter Alliss, Ex-golfer and now commentator | | 1932 | Brain Moore, Football commentator | | 1946 | Robin Cook, Labour MP & Shadow Cabinet minister | | 1951 | Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer |
Events:| 1912 | The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA | | 1948 | The last British troops left India | | 1959 | The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched | | 1966 | The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt | | 1971 | Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein | | 1984 | The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | | 1991 | Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict | | 1994 | Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns |
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