This Day in "History"

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 19

David Garrick
actor and dramatist (1717)

Eddie Arcaro
jockey (1916)

Carson McCullers
novelist (1917)

Lee Marvin
actor (1924)

Smokey Robinson
singer (1940)

Amy Tan
novelist (1952)

http://www.infoplease.com/birthday?month=feb&day=19

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 20

1792
President George Washington signed the Post
Office Act, establishing a permanent Post Office
Department .

1809
The Supreme Court ruled the power of the
federal government is greater than that of any
individual state.

1895
Frederick Douglass , abolitionist, author, and
orator, died.

1962
John Glenn became the first American to orbit
Earth.

1998
Tara Lipinski won the Olympic figure skating gold
medal .

2003
A fire in a nightclub in Warwick, R.I., killed 100
and injured over 150

This Day in History: February 20

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 20

Honore Daumier
caricaturist, painter (1808)

Louis Kahn
architect (1901)

Robert Altman
director (1925)

Sidney Poitier
actor (1927)

Bobby Unser
auto racer (1934)

Buffy Sainte-Marie
singer, songwriter (1941)

Phil Esposito
hockey player (1942)

Kurt Cobain
musician (1967)

February 20 Birthdays: Ansel Adams

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 21
1613
Michael Romanov was elected czar of Russia,
beginning the Romanov imperial line.

1878
The first telephone book was issued (New Haven,
Conn.).

1916
Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the
bloodiest engagements of World War I , began.

1965
Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was
assassinated.

1972
President Nixon became the first U.S. president
to visit China.

1995
Steve Fossett became the first person to cross
the Pacific Ocean solo in a balloon.

2002
It was confirmed that Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl was dead, allegedly murdered by
Islamic militants.


This Day in History: February 21

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 21

Otto Hermann Kahn
banker and patron of the arts (1867)

Constantin Brancusi
sculptor (1876)

Andres Segovia
guitarist (1893)

Anais Nin
author, diarist (1903)

Robert Mugabe
president of Zimbabwe (1924)

Hubert de Givenchy
fashion designer (1927)

Erma Bombeck
writer, humorist (1927)

Barbara Jordan
lawyer, politician and educator (1936)

Jennifer Love Hewitt
actress (1979)

February 21 Birthdays: W. H. Auden

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 22

1371
Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland ,
beginning the Stuart dynasty.

1819
Spain ceded Florida to the United States .

1879
Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five
Cent Store" in Utica, New York.

1924
Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential radio
broadcast from the White House.

1935
Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over
the White House.

1980
In a major upset , the U.S. Olympic hockey team
defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, N.Y.

This Day in History: February 22

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 22

Arthur Schopenhauer
philosopher (1788)

James Russell Lowell
poet, critic, and editor (1819)

Edna St. Vincent Millay
poet (1892)

Edward Kennedy
U.S. Senator (1932)

Jonathan Demme
director, producer, screenwriter (1944)

Julius Erving
basketball player (1950)

Drew Barrymore
actress (1975)
February 22 Birthdays: George Washington

 

[Dinesh jain]

February 23

1821
John Keats, English Romantic poet, died.

1836
Mexican general Santa Anna began the siege of
the Alamo .

1896
The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo
Hirshfield.

1898
1898 French novelist Emile Zola was convicted
of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his
"J'accuse" letter accusing the government of
anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred
Dreyfus .

1942
The first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place
near Santa Barbara , Calif.

1945
U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo
Jima .

1997
Scottish scientists announced the successful
cloning of a sheep, Dolly.

2011
The Obama Administration determines that the
Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

This Day in History: February 23

 

[Dinesh jain]

Born on February 23

Samuel Pepys
diarist (1633)

W. E. B. DuBois
author (1868)

Peter Fonda
actor (1939)

Viktor Yushchenko
politician, president (1954)

Crown Prince Naruhito
heir to the Japanese throne (1960)

Michael Dell
entrepreneur (1965)
February 23 Birthdays: George Frideric Handel

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for February 23
23-February-1768
Nizam accepted British
supremacy and Smith Col.
signed peace treaty with the
Nizam.
23-February-1792
The Third Mysore War ended
in Tipu Sultan's signing of
Peace Treaty dictated by Lord
Cornwallis & surrendering
his two sons, Abdul Khaliq &
Maiz - Uddin. This is known
as Treaty of Seringapatam.
23-February-1843
Narendranath Sen, famous
journalist, was born.
23-February-1876
Saint Gadgebaba, great
modern saint of
Maharashtra, was born.
23-February-1908
Maharaj Kumar Raghubir
Sinh, famous Hindi writer
and historian, was born.
23-February-1932
The N. W. Frontier province
is created.
23-February-1946
Some 300,000 Indians joined
in anti-British
demonstrations today in the
wake of yesterday's violent
riots in the city of Bombay.
Indian Navy rebels. A day of
terror and rebellion saw
Indian Navy members turn
against their British officers
firing machine guns.
23-February-1952
Employees Provident Fund
Bill and Miscellaneous
Provision Act passed in the
Lok Sabha.
23-February-1962
Union government sets up
an Indian National
Committee for Space
Research (INCOSPAR) formed
by the Department of Atomic
Energy and work on Thumba
Equatorial Rocket Launching
Station (TERLS) started.
23-February-1962
The Cholera Research Centre
was established at Calcutta
(renamed as the National
Institute of Cholera &
Enteric Diseases in 1979).
23-February-1969
Madhubala, famous Hindi
film actress, passed away.
23-February-1980
Prakash Padukone becomes
the first Indian to win All-
England Badminton
Championship.
23-February-1990
5-member Ministry headed
by R. K. Ranbir Singh in
Manipur elected.
23-February-1993
Jnanpith Award was given to
Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).
23-February-1993
India complete a 3-0 series
drubbing of England.
23-February-1993
Noted Hindi poet Naresh
Mehta wins Gyanpith Award.
23-February-1993
Pre-budget Economic Survey
proposes closure of sick PSE
and rationalisation of tax
and interests rates.
23-February-1994
India rebuts Pak charges on
Kashmir in the 53-nation UN
Commission on Human
Rights.
23-February-1996
North-Eastern Development
Finance Corporation
inaugurated.
23-February-1997
176 people dead and 500
injured in a major fire at a
religious congregation in
Baripada, Orissa.
23-February-1997
Successful test firing of the
250-km version of the Prithvi
missile.
23-February-1997
Justice J. S. Verma
appointed Chief Justice of
India.
23-February-1998
Raman Lamba, former Indian
Test cricketer, passed away
in Dhaka, three days after
being hit on the head while
close-in fielding.
23-February-1998
BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was
shot dead in Sahibganj
district.
23-February-1998
Ramdeo Singh, freedom
fighter, is shot dead at
Salaunchak village in Bihar.
23-February-1998
The Samajwadi Party
candidate for the Motihari
Lok Sabha seat, Mr.
Devendra Nath Dubey, is
shot dead at Baniarpur in
Patna.





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