This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

February 14

1859
Oregon became the 33rd state in the United
States .

1912
Arizona became the 48th state in the United
States .

1920
The League of Women Voters was founded.
1929
Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang
members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

1989
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling
for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The
Satanic Verses.

2001
The Kansas Board of Education reversed its
1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's
science curriculum.

2003
Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal , was
euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
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[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 5

Sir Robert Peel
statesman (1788)

Dwight L. Moody
evangelist (1837)

Belle Starr
outlaw (1848?)

Norton Simon
food industry executive, art collector (1907)

Hank Aaron
baseball player (1934)

Jennifer Jason Leigh
actress (1962)

Jeremy Sumpter
actor (1989)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 6

Aaron Burr
political leader (1756)

Jeb Stuart
cavalry commander (1833)

Babe Ruth
baseball player (1895)

Mary Douglas Leakey
archaeologist (1913)

Zsa Zsa Gabor
actor (1917)

François Truffaut
film director and critic (1932)

Bob Marley
reggae singer (1945)
http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=feb&day=6

 

[Dinesh jain]

o Born on February 7

Sir Thomas More
statesman (1478)

John Deere
industrialist and manufacturer (1804)

Charles Dickens
novelist (1812)

Laura Ingalls Wilder
author (1867)

Eubie Blake
pianist and composer (1883)

Sinclair Lewis
novelist (1885)

An Wang
computer entrepreneur (1920)

James Spader
actor (1960)

Chris Rock
comedian (1966)

Ashton Kutcher
actor (1978)

http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=feb&day=7

 

[Dinesh jain]

o Born on February 8

Jules Verne
novelist (1828)

Kate Chopin
author (1851)

Martin Buber
philosopher (1878)

Dame Edith Evans
actress (1888)

Elizabeth Bishop
poet (1911)

Lana Turner
actress (1920)

Jack Lemmon
actor (1925)

James Dean
actor (1931)

John Williams
composer, conductor (1932)

Nick Nolte
actor (1940?)

 

[Dinesh jain]

o Born on February 9

Amy Lowell
poet (1874)

Dean Rusk
secretary of state (1909)

Carmen Miranda
actress (1909)

J. M. Coetzee
novelist (1940)

Carole King
pop songwriter, singer (1942)

Joe Pesci
actor (1943)

Alice Walker
author (1944)

Mia Farrow
actor (1945)

Vince Papale
football player (1946)

Zhang Ziyi
actor (1979)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 10

Harrison Gray Otis
soldier and journalist (1837)

Jimmy Durante
comedian, actor (1893)

John F. Enders
bacteriologist (1897)

Bertolt Brecht
dramatist (1898)

Leontyne Price
opera singer (1927)

Robert Wagner
actor (1930)

Roberta Flack
singer, songwriter (1939)

Peter Allen
singer, songwriter (1944)

Mark Spitz
swimmer (1950)

Laura Dern
actress (1967)

http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=feb&day=10

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 11

Lydia Child
author and abolitionist (1802)

Alexander H. Stephens
political leader (1812)

Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs
geologist and explorer (1908)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz
director, screenwriter, producer (1909)

Eva Gabor
actor (1919)

Farouk I
king of Egypt (1920)

Burt Reynolds
actor (1936)

Manuel Noriega
Panamanian General (1938)

Sheryl Crow
singer (1962)

Jennifer Aniston
actress (1969)

http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=feb&day=11

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 12

Cotton Mather
clergyman and writer (1663)

Charles Darwin
naturalist (1809)

John L. Lewis
labor leader (1880)

Anna Pavlova
ballerina (1881)

Omar Bradley
general (1893)

Costa-Gavras
director (1933)

Bill Russell
basketball player (1934)

Judy Blume
writer (1938)

Christina Ricci
actor (1980)

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 13

Sir Joseph Banks
naturalist (1743)

Elizabeth "Bess" Truman
First Lady (1885)

Grant Wood
painter (1891)

Georges Simenon
mystery writer (1903)

William Shockley
physicist (1910)

Kim Novak
actress (1933)

Stockard Channing
actress (1944)
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