This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 14

George Jean Nathan
editor and drama critic (1882)

Katherine Stinson
pioneering pilot (1891)

Jack Benny
comedian (1894)

Florence Henderson
actress (1934)

Donna Shalala
educator, public official (1941)

Michael Bloomberg
businessman and politician (1942)

Gregory Hines
dancer, actor (1946)

Jim Kelly
Football QB (1960)
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[Dinesh jain]

February 15

1764
St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-
trading post.

1879
President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing
female attorneys to argue cases before the
Supreme Court.

1898
USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching
off the Spanish-American War .

1913
The New York Armory Show opened, introducing
America to Picasso , Duchamp , and Matisse .

1933
Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an
assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin
D. Roosevelt in Miami.

1965
The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new
national flag of Canada .

1989
More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from
Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR
invaded the country .


This Day in History: February 15

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 15

Pedro Menendez de Aviles
colonizer (1519)

John Sutter
pioneer (1803)

Cyrus McCormick
inventor (1809)

Charles Lewis Tiffany
merchant (1812)

Susan B. Anthony
reformer (1820)

Elihu Root
cabinet member and diplomat (1845)

Alfred North Whitehead
mathematician and philosopher (1861)

Ernest Henry Shackleton
antarctic explorer (1874)

John Barrymore
actor (1882)

Jane Seymour
actress (1951)

February 15 Birthdays: Galileo Galilei

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 16

1804
U.S. frigate Philadelphia , captured and held by
Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan
War , was set fire to and destroyed by a small
group of men led by Stephen Decatur .

1918
Lithuania proclaimed its independence from
Russia .

1923
The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in
1922, was opened.

1937
Nylon was patented.

1959
Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after
having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio
Batista.

1968
The country's first 911 phone system went into
service in Haleyville, Ala.

This Day in History: February 16

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 16

Frederick William
the Great Elector (1620)

Heinrich Barth
explorer (1821

Robert Flaherty
explorer and film producer (1884)

Katharine Cornell
actress (1898)

George F. Kennan
diplomat and historian (1904)

Sonny Bono
entertainer, politician (1935)

Richard Ford
novelist (1944)

LeVar Burton
actor (1957)

John McEnroe
tennis player (1959)

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[Dinesh jain]

February 17

1600
Italian philospher, alchemist, and Copernican
theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at
the stake for heresy by the Inquisition .

1801
The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr was broken by the House of
Representatives who elected Jefferson president.

1817
Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.

1864
The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped
with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar,
rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic
off the coast of Charleston , S.C.

1904
Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered in
Milan.

1972
President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.

This Day in History: February 17

 

[Dinesh jain]

o Born on February 17

Arcangelo Corelli
composer and violinist (1653)

Samuel Sidney McClure
editor and publisher (1857)

Thomas John Watson, Sr.
industrialist and philanthropist (1874)

Jim Brown
football player (1936)
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[Dinesh jain]

February 18

1546
Martin Luther , German leader of the Protestant
Reformation , died.

1564
Michelangelo Buonarotti, Italian painter, sculptor,
and architect, died.

1885
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain was published.

1930
Pluto , the ninth planet in the solar system, was
discovered by American astronomer Clyde
Tombaugh ..
1953
The first 3-D movie, Bwana Devil , opened in New
York.

2001
FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested
and charged with spying for Russia.

2001
Dale Earnhardt, Sr., died from injuries sustained
at the Daytona 500.

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 18

Louis Comfort Tiffany
artist, decorative designer (1848)

Sholem Aleichem
author (1859)

Charles Michael Schwab
steel magnate (1862)

Helen Gurley Brown
editor, author (1922)

George Kennedy
actor (1925)

John Travolta
actor (1954)

Matt Dillon
actor (1964)
Molly Ringwald
actress (1968)

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 19

1674
The Netherlands and England signed the Peace
of Westminster, by which New Amsterdam
passed to the English (and was renamed New
York).

1807
Aaron Burr , vice president under Thomas
Jefferson , was arrested for treason. He was later
acquitted.

1878
Thomas Edison patented the gramophone
(phonograph).

1942
President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive
order that resulted in the internment of
thousands of Japanese-Americans living on the
West Coast.

1945
The U.S. Marines went ashore at Iwo Jima .

1959
Britain , Turkey , and Greece signed the agreement
granting Cyprus independence.

1968
The first nationwide broadcast of Mr. Roger's
Neighborhood aired on PBS.
This Day in History: February 19