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I believe that when last seen, it was half dead. :D
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January 5th
1781 ~ Richmond, Virginia was burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1914 ~ Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. 1933 ~ Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay. 1938 ~ Birth of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. 1964 ~ Pope Paul VI met the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox leaders since 1439. 1968 ~ Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. 1972 ~ President Nixon funded the development of a space shuttle program. 1997 ~ Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. 2000 ~ The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit. 2003 ~ Death of Roy Jenkins, British Politician. |
January 6th
1412 ~ Birthday of Joan of Arc, Saint & French Patriot.
1822 ~ Birthday of Heinrich Schliemann, Archaeologist. 1838 ~ Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph. 1838 ~ Birthday of Max Bruch, German composer. 1884 ~ Death of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. 1907 ~ Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome. 1918 ~ Death of Georg Cantor, German mathematician. 1946 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason. 1995 ~ A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines lead to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka. 1994 ~ Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed by an assailant under orders from Tonya Harding. |
January 7th
1610 ~ Galileo Galilei discovered the four moons of Jupiter which are now known as the “Galilean moons”.
1785 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries became the first men to cross the English Channel by air. 1899 ~ Birthday of Francis Poulenc, French composer. 1916 ~ Birthday of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player. 1922 ~ Birthday of Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist. 1924 ~ George Gershwin completed Rhapsody in Blue. 1927 ~ First international telephone call - New York City to London. 1943 ~ Death of Nikola Tesla, Inventor & Electrical Engineer. 1980 ~ President Carter authorized legislation guaranteeing $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation. 1999 ~ The impeachment trial of President Clinton began. |
January 8th
1324 ~ Death of Marco Polo Italian explorer.
1642 ~ Death of Galileo Galilei, father of the scientific method. 1735 ~ Birthday of John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. 11889 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine. 1925 ~ Birthday of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist & Writer. 1926 ~ Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud became the King of Saudi Arabia. 1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist. 1958 ~ Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship. 1994 ~ Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov began his record setting 437 days in space. 1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing. |
January 9th
1431 ~ Start of the Heresy trial of Joan of Arc.
1793 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the U.S. 1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated. 1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. 1882 ~ Oscar Wilde gave his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York. 1903 ~ Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia. 1913 ~ Birthday of Richard Nixon, U.S. President. 1941 ~ Birthday of Joan Baez, Singer & Activist. 1951 ~ United Nations headquarters officially opened. 2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat. |
January 10th
49 BC ~ Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
1776 ~ Thomas Paine published Common Sense. 1778 ~ Death of Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish Botanist. 1862 ~ Death of Samuel Colt, Inventor. 1927 ~ The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiered. 1929 ~ Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, made his debut. 1943 ~ Birthday of Jim Croce, American Singer. 1945 ~ Birthday of Rod Stewart, English Rocker. 1951 ~ Death of Sinclair Lewis, Author. 1994 ~ Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for cutting off the penis of her husband John. |
January 11th
1693 ~ Eruption of Mt. Etna.
1787 ~ William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. 1801 ~ Death of Domenico Cimarosa, Italian Composer. 1843 ~ Death of Francis Scott Key, Lawyer. 1935 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1938 ~ Birthday of Arthur Scargill, Union Leader. 1964 ~ U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reported smoking may be hazardous to health. First such statement from US government. 1972 ~ East Pakistan became Bangladesh. 1980 ~ Nigel Short became the youngest chess player, at 14 years old, to be awarded the degree of International Master. 1992 ~ Paul Simon became the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. |
January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1856 ~ Birthday of John Singer Sargent, Artist. 1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official. 1970 ~ Biafra capitulated, ending the Nigerian civil war. 1976 ~ Death of Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer. 1991 ~ U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1992 ~ In the film ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, the computer HAL 9000 was activated on this date. 1998 ~ EU nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina. 2005 ~ Deep Impact launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket. |
January 13th
1599 ~ Death of Edmund Spenser, Poet (The Faerie Queene).
1832 ~ Birthday of Horatio Alger, Jr., Author. 1929 ~ Death of Wyatt Earp. 1941 ~ Death of James Joyce, Writer. 1957 ~ Wham-O Company began to sell the Frisbee. 1977 ~ Birthday of Orlando Bloom, Actor. 1978 ~ Death of Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President & Minnesota Senator. 1990 ~ Douglas Wilder took office as the first elected African American governor. 1992 ~ Japan apologized for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. 1993 ~ American, British and French fighter jets bomb Iraq. |
January 14th
1690 ~ The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence. 1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952. 1898 ~ Death of Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician. 1900 ~ Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premiered in Rome. 1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor. 1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician. 1994 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin accords which ended the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provided for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. 2000 ~ A UN tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan. |
January 15th
1870 ~ U.S. Democratic Party first portrayed as a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 ~ James Naismith published the rules for basketball. 1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist. 1918 ~ Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt. 1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1964. 1951 ~ Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. 1953 ~ East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials . 1970 ~ Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1983 ~ Death of Meyer Lansky, mobster. 1991 ~ The UN deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expired, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
January 16th
1581 ~ English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.
1605 ~ The first edition of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. 1794 ~ Death of Edward Gibbon, Historian. 1909 ~ Ernest Shackleton's expedition found the magnetic South Pole. 1957 ~ Death of Arturo Toscanini, Conductor. 1966 ~ The Metropolitan Opera House opened at Lincoln Center in New York City. 1977 ~ The Marx Brothers were inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame. 1979 ~ The Shah of Iran fled Iran with his family and relocated to Egypt. 1991 ~ Serial killer Aileen Wuornos confessed to the murders of six men. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia took off on its final mission, STS-107. |
January 17th
1751 ~ Death of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.
1773 ~ Captain James Cook became the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. 1899 ~ Birthday of Nevil Shute, Author. 1942 ~ Birthday of Muhammad Ali, the world's greatest heavyweight Boxer. 1964 ~ Death of T.H. White, author. 1975 ~ Bob Dylan released Blood on the Tracks. 1977 ~ Gary Gilmore executed. 1985 ~ BT announced the retirement of Britain's famous red telephone boxes. 1991 ~ Operation Desert Storm began. 1998 ~ Paula Jones accused President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. |
January 18th
1535 ~ Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1779 ~ Birthday of Peter Roget, Lexicographer. 1882 ~ Birthday of A. A. Milne, Author. 1892 ~ Birthday of Oliver Hardy, Comedian & Actor. 1936 ~ Death of Rudyard Kipling, Writer & Poet 1939 ~ Louis Armstrong recorded “Jeepers Creepers”. 1944 ~ Birthday of Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia. 1964 ~ Plans were revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City. 1990 ~ Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. 1998 ~ Matt Drudge published the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report. |
January 19th
1809 ~ Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, Poet & short story Author.
1813 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Bessemer, Inventor. 1829 ~ Goethe's Faust premiered. 1839 ~ Birthday of Paul Cézanne, Painter. 1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premiered. 1943 ~ Birthday of Janis Joplin, Blues/Rock Singer. 1949 ~ Birthday of Robert Palmer, Singer & Guitarist. 1966 ~ Indira Gandhi elected Prime Minister of India. 1983 ~ The Apple Lisa was announced. I was the first commercial personal computer from Apple to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. 2004 ~ Death of David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach. |
January 20th
1892 ~ The first official basketball game was played, at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1907 ~ Death of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Chemist and inventor of the Periodic table. 1930 ~ Birthday of Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut. 1937 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for a second term as U.S. President. This was the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4. 1942 ~ Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decided the "final solution to the Jewish problem". 1961 ~ John F. Kennedy sworn in as U.S. President. 1967 ~ The first pulsar is discovered, followed shortly by the one in the Crab Nebula. 1984 ~ Death of Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist & Actor (Tarzan). 1991 ~ Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. 1993 ~ Death of Audrey Hepburn, actress. |
January 21st
1643 ~ Abel Tasman discovered Tonga.
1793 ~ Louis XVI of France was guillotined. 1908 ~ The New York City Council passed a law making it illegal for women to smoke in public. It was vetoed by the mayor. 1924 ~ Death of Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the U.S.S.R. 1941 ~ Birthday of Plácido Domingo, Opera Singer. 1950 ~ Death of George Orwell, Writer. 1950 ~ Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. 1954 ~ The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut. 1959 ~ Death of Cecil B. DeMille, Movie Director. 1977 ~ President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders. |
January 22nd
1788 ~ Birthday of Lord Byron, Poet.
1840 ~ British colonists reached New Zealand. 1879 ~ Zulu troops defeated British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. 1899 ~ Leaders of six Australian colonies met in Melbourne to discuss confederation. 1901 ~ Death of Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom. 1931 ~ Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1953 ~ The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opened on Broadway. 1973 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Roe vs. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. 1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial 1984 (requires QuickTime and patience [but is generally considered among the best commercials in history]). 1997 ~ Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate. |
January 23rd
1789 ~ Georgetown College, now University, founded by Archbishop John Carroll, became the first Catholic, Jesuit college in the U.S.
1832 ~ Birthday of Edouard Manet, Impressionist artist. 1849 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her MD, and became the first woman doctor in the U.S. 1857 ~ Birthday of Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist. 1862 ~ Birthday of David Hilbert, Mathematician. 1943 ~ Australian and American forces defeated the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marked the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression. 1973 ~ U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam. 1989 ~ Death of Salvador Dalí, Artist. 2002 ~ Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered in Pakistan. 2006 ~ Canadian federal election. |
January 24th
1776 ~ Birthday of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poet & Composer.
1888 ~ Birthday of Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer. 1908 ~ Robert Baden-Powell began the Boy Scout movement. 1927 ~ Alfred Hitchcock released his first film, “The Pleasure Garden”. 1945 ~ Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. 1962 ~ Brian Epstein signed to manage The Beatles. 1965 ~ Death of Winston Churchill, Englishman. 1984 ~ The Apple Macintosh went on sale. 1993 ~ Death of Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice. 2003 ~ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially began operation. |
January 25th
1627 ~ Birthday of Robert Boyle, Chemist.
1759 ~ Birthday of Robert Burns, Poet. 1882 ~ Birthday of Virginia Woolf, Writer. 1890 ~ Nellie Bly completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1919 ~ The League of Nations was founded. 1924 ~ The first Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix, France. 1947 ~ Death of Al Capone, Gangster. 1971 ~ Idi Amin lead a coup deposing Milton Obote and became Uganda's president. 1999 ~ Death of Robert Shaw, American conductor. 2004 ~ Opportunity landed on Mars. |
January 26th
1785 ~ Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
1885 ~ Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquered Khartoum. 1905 ~ Birthday of Maria von Trapp, Singer. 1925 ~ Birthday of Paul Newman, Actor. 1945 ~ Birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, Cellist 1970 ~ Simon and Garfunkel released “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. 1972 ~ Death of Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Music singer. 1996 ~ Whitewater scandal: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: U.S. President Bill Clinton denied on television he had "sexual relations" with former intern Monica Lewinsky. 2005 ~ Condoleezza Rice sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post. Feastdays & Holidays Australia ~ Australia Day. |
January 27th
1606 ~ The trial of Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators began.
1756 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer. 1832 ~ Birthday of Lewis Carroll, Author (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). 1901 ~ Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Composer. 1944 ~ The Siege of Leningrad was lifted. 1945 ~ The Red Army liberated Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. 1967 ~ Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft. 1992 ~ Mike Tyson went on trial charged with raping a Miss Black America contestant. 1997 ~ It is revealed that French museums had retained nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. 1998 ~ U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton called the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" on the “Today Show”. |
January 28th
1521 ~ The Diet of Worms began.
1596 ~ Death of Sir Francis Drake, Explorer & Soldier. 1788 ~ The first penal colony was founded at Botany Bay, Australia. 1833 ~ Birthday of Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier. 1841 ~ Birthday of Henry Morton Stanley, Explorer & Journalist. 1887 ~ Birthday of Artur Rubinstein, Polish Pianist. 1935 ~ Iceland became the first country to legalize abortion. 1939 ~ Death of William Butler Yeats, Writer. 1986 ~ Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. 2004 ~ Lord Hutton published his report into the death of Dr. David Kelly. Feastdays & Holidays Catholicism ~ Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. |
January 29th
1845 ~ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe was published for the first time.
1856 ~ Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross. 1880 ~ Birthday of W.C. Fields, Actor. 1933 ~ President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. 1944 ~ The battleship USS Missouri was launched. 1956 ~ Death of H. L. Mencken, Journalist. 1962 ~ Death of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist. 1963 ~ Death of Robert Frost, Poet. 1996 ~ President Jacques Chirac announced a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. 2002 ~ In his State of the Union Address, President Bush coined the term Axis of Evil. |
January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched. 1937 ~ Birthday of Boris Spassky, World Chess Champion. 1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. 1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive. 1969 ~ Last performance by The Beatles at the Top of the Apple Building. 1979 ~ The Iranian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return. 1991 ~ Iraqi troops seized control of Al Khafji. 2003 ~ Richard Reid, the 'Shoe bomber' jailed. 2005 ~ Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953. |
January 31st
1606 ~ Guy Fawkes was executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot.
1797 ~ Birthday of Franz Schubert, Composer. 1917 ~ Germany announced that its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. 1929 ~ The Soviet Union exiled Leon Trotsky. 1950 ~ President Harry S. Truman announced a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. 1956 ~ Death of A. A. Milne, Author (Winnie the Pooh). 1958 ~ James Van Allen discovered the Van Allen radiation belt. 1968 ~ Viet Cong attacked the United States embassy in Saigon. 1996 ~ An explosives-filled truck rammed into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 91 and injuring 1,400. 2001 ~ A Scottish court convicted a Libyan and acquitted another for their parts in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. |
February 1st
1851 ~ Death of Mary Shelley, English Author (Frankenstein).
1896 ~ Puccini’s opera La Bohème premiered in Turin. 1920 ~ The Royal Canadian Mounted Police began operations. 1929 ~ Frenchman Charles Rigoulet became the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1931 ~ Birthday of Boris Yeltsin, Russian President. 1978 ~ Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. 1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran. 1979 ~ Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst was released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. 2003 ~ Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard. 2004 ~ Super Bowl XXXVIII: One team defeated the other team, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast was bared. |
February 2nd
1709 ~ Alexander Selkirk was rescued from a desert island, inspiring the book “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.
1870 ~ The Cardiff Giant was revealed as just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human. 1875 ~ Birthday of Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist. 1887 ~ In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day was observed. 1897 ~ Birthday of Howard Johnson, American Hotelier. 1905 ~ Birthday of Ayn Rand, Author. 1943 ~ The German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad. 1970 ~ Death of Bertrand Russell, Mathematician. 1989 ~ The last Soviet Union armored column left Kabul, bringing to an end nine years of military occupation. Feastdays & Holidays United States & Canada – Groundhog Day |
February 3rd
1468 ~ Death of Johannes Gutenberg, German Publisher.
1809 ~ Birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, Composer. 1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gertrude Stein, Writer. 1894 ~ Birthday of Norman Rockwell, Illustrator. 1916 ~ Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burned down. 1947 ~ Birthday of Melanie Safka, Singer. 1959 ~ Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash. 1966 ~ The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the Moon. 1972 ~ The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia opened in Sapporo, Japan. |
February 4th
1789 ~ George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College to be the first President of the United States.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States. 1894 ~ Death of Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone. 1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator. 1913 ~ Birthday of Rosa Parks, U.S. civil rights activist. 1927 ~ The first motion picture with synchronized sound was released – ‘The Jazz Singer’ starring Al Jolson. 1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. 1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. 1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship". 1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1885 ~ The king of Belgium established the Congo as a personal possession. 1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists. 1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete. 1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence. 1968 ~ The Battle of Khe Sanh began. 1982 ~ Pioneering budget airliner Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors. 1988 ~ Comic Relief held the first "Red Nose Day", which raised a £15 million in the U.K. for charity. |
February 6th
1564 ~ Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, Playwright.
1819 ~ Sir Thomas Raffles founded Singapore. 1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand. 1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete. 1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist. 1952 ~ Princess Elizabeth became Queen upon the death of her father George VI. 1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. 1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete. 2004 ~ Chechen suicide-attack in a Moscow subway killed 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. 2006 ~ The Conservative Party of Canada took control of the Canadian government. |
February 7th
1812 ~ Birthday of Charles Dickens, Novelist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist and inventor of the Periodic table of the chemical elements. 1883 ~ Birthday of Eubie Blake, Musician, Composer. 1885 ~ Birthday of Sinclair Lewis, Author. 1905 ~ The Great Baltimore Fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1964 ~ The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the U.S. 1971 ~ Women became entitled to vote in Switzerland. 1979 ~ Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, and became for the next 20 years, the eighth planet from the sun. 1990 ~ Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly of power. 1992 ~ The European Union was formed. |
February 8th
1587 ~ Mary, Queen of Scots was executed.
1820 ~ Birthday of William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier. 1828 ~ Birthday of Jules Verne, Author. 1855 ~ The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appeared in southern Devon. 1910 ~ The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1925 ~ Birthday of Jack Lemmon, Actor. 1932 ~ Birthday of John Williams, Composer & Conductor. 1957 ~ Death of John von Neumann, Mathematician. 1993 ~ General Motors sued NBC after Dateline NBC rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups could easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settled the lawsuit the next day. 1996 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Communications Decency Act. |
February 9th
1825 ~ After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams President.
1878 ~ Proposed U.S. Federal Income Tax lampooned. 1881 ~ Death of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author. 1900 ~ Davis Cup competition established. 1906 ~ Death of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet. 1910 ~ Birthday of Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine. 1943 ~ American authorities declared Guadalcanal secure. 1950 ~ Senator Joseph McCarthy accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being Communists. 1971 ~ Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1997 ~ The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series. |
February 10th
1837 ~ Death of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Poet & Novelist.
1840 ~ Queen Victoria of the UK married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1870 ~ The YWCA was founded in New York City. 1890 ~ Birthday of Boris Pasternak, Poet, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature. 1898 ~ Birthday of Bertolt Brecht, Author. 1927 ~ Birthday of Leontyne Price, Soprano. 1933 ~ The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Co. in New York. Sic transit gloria mundi. 1949 ~ ”Death of a Salesman” opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City. 1962 ~ Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1996 ~ Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. :( |
February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1847 ~ Birthday of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor. 1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist. 1938 ~ BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.') 1961 ~ Trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. 1978 ~ China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens. 1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran. 1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author. 1990 ~ Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, was freed from prison outside Cape Town, South Africa. 1999 ~ Pluto changed from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been inside Neptune’s orbit since 1979. |
February 12th
1733 ~ James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the 13th and last American colony.
1804 ~ Death of Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher. 1809 ~ Birthday of Charles Darwin, Naturalist. 1893 ~ Birthday of Omar Bradley, General. 1909 ~ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. 1938 ~ Anschluss: German troops entered Austria. 1999 ~ President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. 2000 ~ Death of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. 2002 ~ The trial of former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic began at the UN War Crimes tribunal in The Hague. 2004 ~ Mattel Inc. announces the break up of Barbie and Ken - after dating for 43 years. |
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