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Anniversaries on: February 8, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1819 | John Ruskin, English writer and artist | | 1820 | William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after | | 1828 | Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' | | 1920 | Lana Turner, American film actress | | 1925 | Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor | | 1931 | James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause') | | 1932 | John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones' |
Events:| 1725 | Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia | | 1886 | A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting | | 1924 | The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison | | 1955 | Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party | | 1969 | The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place | | 1974 | The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere | | 1984 | British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon | | 1994 | Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides |
Anniversaries on: February 9, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1700 | Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician | | 1885 | Alban Berg, Austrian composer | | 1891 | Ronald Colman, English born film actor | | 1939 | Janet Suzman, Actress | | 1940 | Brian Bennett, Drummer with the 'Shadows' group | | 1941 | Carole King, American singer/songwriter | | 1945 | Mia Farrow, American film actress |
Events:| 1830 | Charles Sturt discoverd the source of the Murray river in Australia | | 1970 | The worlds first nerve transplant took place in Germany | | 1971 | The first British soldier was killed in Northern Ireland | | 1972 | A State of Emergency was declared in Britain because of the third month of a miners strike | | 1974 | Miners began striking over a wage dispute | | 1981 | Billy Haley, the American rock and roll musician, died | | 1983 | The Derby Winner Shergar was stolen; a 2 million ransom was demanded | | 1989 | Neo-Nazi groups were outlawed in West Germany | | 1992 | Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda continued |
Anniversaries on: February 10, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1894 | Harold Macmillan, British politician | | 1898 | Bertolt Brecht, German poet & dramatist | | 1910 | Joyce Grenfell, English comedy actress | | 1914 | Larry Adler, Mouth organ/harmonica player | | 1930 | Robert Wagner, American film and television actor | | 1950 | Mark Spitz, American Olympic winning swimmer | | 1955 | Greg Norman, Australian golfer |
Events:| 1763 | The Peace of Paris ceeded Canada to Britain | | 1840 | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married in St James' Palace | | 1913 | In the Antartic, the bodies of Captain Scott and his party were found | | 1931 | New Delhi became the capital city of India | | 1942 | The first ever record 'Gold Disc' was presented to Glenn Miller | | 1944 | The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax was introduced in Britain | | 1974 | Troops from Iran & Iraq were involved in border clashes | | 1986 | Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled the country to France | | 1986 | The largest ever Mafia trial took place in Palermo, Sicily |
Anniversaries on: February 11, 2008
Birthdays: | | 1800 | Henry Fox Talbot, Pioneer of photography | | 1847 | Thomas Edison, American inventor; lightbulb, phonograph etc | | 1908 | Vivian Fuchs, British Antartic explorer | | 1926 | Leslie Nielson, American film & TV actor of 'Naked Gun' films | | 1932 | Dennis Skiner, Controversial Labour MP | | 1934 | Mary Quant, English fashion designer | | 1936 | Burt Reynolds, American film actor |
Events:| 1818 | The South American country of Chilie proclaimed its independance | | 1878 | The Meteorological Office began publishing a weekly weather report | | 1970 | Japan launched its first satellite into orbit | | 1975 | The Conservative party elected Margaret Thatcher as leader, the first ever woman | | 1983 | Israel's defense minister, Ariel Sharon, resigned | | 1990 | After being in prison for 27 years, Nelson Mandella was freed | | 1994 | The UN passed a resolution allowing UN air strikes in Bosnia to protect 'safe havens' |
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 |
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