Today in History

Births On This Day, February 6th 🎂

1950 Natalie Cole
American singer-songwriter, actress

1945 Bob Marley
Jamaican/American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1911 Ronald Reagan
American actor, politician, 40th President of the United States

1895 Babe Ruth
American baseball player

1665 Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Deaths On This Day, February 6th 🪦

2011 Gary Moore
Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

2007 Frankie Laine
American singer-songwriter, actor

1999 Don Dunstan
Australian politician, 35th Premier of South Australia

1918 Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter, graphic artist

1804 Joseph Priestley
English chemist, minister, philosopher
 

1918
Great Britian grants women 30 & older the right to vote
1935
Monopoly game board goes on sale for the 1st time ,cost $2
1983
The trail of former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie begins in France for war crimes committed during WWII After an 8 week trial, jury took 6 hrs to convict him. He was sentenced to lived in prision. He died there in 1991 age 77
2018
Elon Musk's Space X Company launches 'Falcon Heavy' world's most powerful rocket
 
Feb 6th Birthdays:
1756
Aaron Burr,3rd U. S Vice President,killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
1895
Babe Ruth- Hall of Fame baseball slugger
1911
Ronald Reagan- actor, 40th U. S. President '81-'89
1939
Mike Farrell- actor best known TV role 'BJ Hunnicut' in CBS show 'M*A*S* H '72-'83. He replaced Wayne Rogers' Trapper John' who left the show in '75 in contract dispute
1950
Natalie Cole- pop singer Miss You Like Crazy' daughter of singer, Nat King Cole
1964
Gordon Downie- rock singer/songwriter in Canadian band' Tragically Hip'
Deaths
1918
Gustav Klimit- Austrian painter 55
1952
George VI- King of England '36-'52 56
1976
Vincent Guarldi- U. S. jazz pianist/composer' Cast Your Fate to The Wind' wrote music for 'Peanuts TV specials 47
1993
Arthur Ashe- tennis player won 3 Grand Slam titles 49
1998 Carl Wilson- singer/guitarist with' The Beach Boys' 51
2019
Rosemunde Pilcher- British writer,'The Shell Seekers' 94
 

This day in History February 7th

2009 The Black Saturday bushfires in Australia kill 173 people
The fires were the worst natural disaster in Australian history.

2005 Ellen MacArthur breaks the speed record for sailing solo around the world
The journey took her 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds.

1992 The European Union is established as the Maastricht Treaty is signed
The treaty also defined a single European currency: the Euro.

1986 Haiti's president, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier
Flees the country, ending 28 years of family rule
On the same day 5 years later, the first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was sworn in.

1984 NASA astronauts take the first untethered spacewalk
The photographs of Bruce McCandless and Robert L. Stewart hovering freely in space became some of the most iconic images of the 1980s.
 
Births On This Day, February 7th 🎂

1978 Ashton Kutcher
American model, actor, producer

1962 Eddie Izzard
Yemeni/English actor, comedian

1962 Garth Brooks
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1906 Oleg Antonov
Soviet aircraft designer founded the Antonov Aircraft Company

1812 Charles Dickens
English author


Deaths On This Day, February 7th 🪦

2015 Dean Smith
American basketball player, coach

1994 Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer, conductor

1986 Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist

1959 Nap Lajoie
American baseball player

1938 Harvey Samuel Firestone
American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire, Rubber Company
 
1817
Baltimore,Md becomes 1st U. S. city to be lit by gas street lamps
1944
Bing Crosby records'Swinging on A Star' for Decca Records.It won 'Best Original Song' Oscar from the movie' Going My Way' '44
1964
The Beatles land at JFK international airport in NYC,their 1st tour of the U. S. 3,000 screaming fans nearly cause a riot when they stepped off the plane. Two days later,they appear on the' Ed Sullivan Show' with 73 million tuning in
1974
movie' Blazing Saddles' directed by Mel Brooks is released. His funny parody of Westerns with an all star cast, Clevon Little, Harvey Korman, Gene Wilder,Madelyn Kahn,John Hillerman
2018
DNA analysis of 'Chedder Man' UK's oldest complete skelton shows he had dark skin,blue eyes
 
Feb 7th Birthdays:
1478
Sir Thomas More- English statesman/author
1804
John Deere- blacksmith/manufacturer founded Deere&Company
1812
Charles Dickens- English writer'A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, "Christmas Carol'
1867
Laura Ingalls Wilder-author' A Little House on the Prariee'
1932
Gay Talese-author' Honor Thy Father'
1962
Garth Brooks- country western singer/songwriter
Deaths:
1871
Henry Steinway- Polish/American piano manufactuer'Steinway&Sons" 73
1985
Matt Monro- English pop singer'Softly As I leave You" 54
2001
Dale Evans-singer/ actress, wife of Roy Rogers 88
2019
Albert Finney- British actor 'Tom Jones, Two For The Road,Erin Brockivch,'Annie" 82
 
This day in History February 8th

1971 The NASDAQ holds its first trading day
The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations was the world's first electronic stock exchange.

1960 The first 8 stars are added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame
More than 2400 five-pointed stars have since been embedded in the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street to honor stars of the entertainment industry.

1950 The Stasi, East Germany's notorious secret police, is established
The “Staatssicherheit”, which was dissolved in 1990, is considered one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world.

1910 The Boy Scouts of America is founded
3 years earlier, British General Robert Baden-Powell had founded the Scout movement in England.

1879 Sandford Fleming proposes the use of time zones
The later introduction of Universal Standard Time, which is based on time zones, revolutionized timekeeping.
 
Births On This Day, February 8th 🎂

1941 Nick Nolte
American actor

1932 John Williams
American pianist, composer, conductor

1931 James Dean
American actor

1925 Jack Lemmon
American actor, singer, director

1828 Jules Verne
French author


Deaths On This Day, February 8th 🪦

2007 Ian Stevenson
American biochemist

2007 Anna Nicole Smith
American model, actress

1998 Enoch Powell
British politician

1957 John von Neumann
Hungarian/American mathematician

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
 
8th February

1587 After 19 years imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire. She had been implicated in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1601 Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex, rebelled against Queen Elizabeth I. The revolt was quickly crushed. Essex was found guilty of treason and was beheaded on Tower Green on 25th February 1601, becoming the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London.

1855 The 'Devil's Footprints' mysteriously appeared in southern Devon when trails of hoof-like marks appeared overnight in the snow. Estimates of the total distance covered by the prints ranged from 40 to 100 miles. Houses, rivers, haystacks and other obstacles were allegedly travelled straight over, and the footprints appeared on the tops of snow-covered roofs and high walls, as well as leading up to and exiting various drain pipes with a diameter as small as 4 inches.

1972 The Albert Hall management cancelled a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention concert because of the ‘obscene lyrics’ of one of their songs. Fans demonstrated outside the hall.
 
1802
Simon Willard patents the banjo clock
1898
John Ames Sherman patents the 1st envelope folding&gumming machine
1918
debut of 'Stars&Stripes' weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper
1983
stallion &Derby winner, Shergar is kidnapped in Ireland,never seen again. It caused Lloyd's of London to payout $10.6 million insurance
 
Feb 8th Birthdays:
1828
Jules Verne- novelist'Around The World in 80 Days"
1894
Billy Bishop- Canadian WWI flying ace
1925
Jack Lemmon- actor, "Days of Wine&Roses, "Save The Tiger', Mister Roberts,"The China Syndrome,Grumpy Old Men.A 2 time Oscar winner,best supp actor'Mister Roberts' '56, Best Actor 'Save The Tiger' '74
1932
John Williams- film composer of well known movie scores "Jaws, ET,Jurrasic Park, Indian Jones, Star Wars, Saving Private Ryan,Harry Potter,has won 5 Academy Awards "Fiddler on The Roof Jaws, Star Wars ET, Schindler's List.'
1955
John Grisham- novelist, 'The Firm,The Client, A Time to Kill, Pelican Brief
Deaths:
1725
Peter The Great -Russian Tsar 1682-1725 52
1956
Connie Mack- baseball hall of famer,catcher/manager/owner 93
1990
Del Shannon singer/songwriter- 'Runaway' 55
2020
Robert Conrad- TV actor' Wild, Wild West, Baa,Baa Black Sheep 84
 
This day in History February 9th

1996 The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London
The explosion in London's Canary Wharf left 2 people dead and 39 injured.

1969 The Boeing 747 flies for the first time
The “Jumbo Jet” was the world's largest passenger aircraft at the time.

1964 The Beatles embark on their first tour in the United States
Their appearance in the Ed Sullivan Show marked the beginning of the “British Invasion”

1959 The world's first intercontinental ballistic missile becomes operational in the USSR
The Soviet R-7 Semyorka missile had a range of 8800 km (5500 mi).

1950 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist campaign
On this day, McCarthy accused the U.S. State Department of being infiltrated by communists.
 
Births On This Day, February 9 🎂

1987 Magdalena Neuner
German biathlete

1942 Carole King
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1932 Gerhard Richter
German painter

1846 Wilhelm Maybach
German businessman founded Maybach

1737 Thomas Paine
English/American theorist, author


Deaths On This Day, February 9th 🪦

1981 Bill Haley
American singer-songwriter, musician

1957 Miklós Horthy
Hungarian Admiral, regent

1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian author

1857 Dionysios Solomos
Greek poet

967 Sayf al-Dawla
Emir of Aleppo
 
10th February

1540 The first recorded horse racing meeting in Britain; held at the Roodeye Field, Chester.

1649 The funeral of the executed King Charles I. His personal dignity during his trial and execution had won him much sympathy and he was laid to rest at Windsor rather than Westminster Abbey to avoid the possibility of public disorder at his funeral.

1942 World War Two: Soap rationing began in Britain.

1945 World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sank U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

2015 Seven straw houses went on sale at Shirehampton - Bristol, clad in brick to fit in with the surroundings. Declared to be safe from 'huffing and puffing' the prefabricated timber walls, filled with straw bales were said to be 90% cheaper in terms of heating costs than traditional brick houses.
 
1870
U. S. Army establishes National Weather Service
1955
U. S federations of trade unions merge to form AFL/CIO: American Federation of Labor &Congress of Industrial Organizations. Their purpose is to improve lives of working people
1997
Fox's animated series'The Simpson's' aired its 167th episode,,longest running TV show today. It debuted on Dec 17th, 1989
 
Feb 9th Birthdays:
1891
Ronald Colman-British actor, 'Tale of Two Cities"
1914
Bill Veek- Major League Baseball owner/promoter of Milwaukee Brewers,Chicago White Sox,Cleveland Indians
1928
Roger Mudd -news anchor for both NBC Evening News,CBS Evening News
1942
Carole King- Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, 'Up On The Roof, One Fine Day,You've Got a Friend'
1960
Peggy Whitson-1st U. S female astronaut to command the International Space Station,holds record for most days in space 665
Deaths:
1881
Fydor Dostoyevsky- Russian novelist,"Crime&Punishment' 59
1951
Eddy Duchin- pianist/bandleader 41
1969
George' 'Gabby' Hayes -character actor seen in movie westerns 83
1973
Max Yasgur- dairy farmer/owner of Woodstock Festival site in Bethel,NY 53
1981
Bill Haley- singer with'BillHaley&Comets' Rock Around the Clock', dubbed as 'father of rock n roll' 55
2018
John Gavin- actor "Psycho,Imitation of Life ' was U.S. ambassador to Mexico'81-'86 86
 
This day in History February 10th

2009 Two satellites collide in space
Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident.

1996 Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion
Despite his defeat in the first game, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov proceeded to win the match by 4-2 games.

1964 Bob Dylan's album “The Times They Are A-Changin'” is released
The title track is one of Dylan's best-known songs.

1964 An aircraft carrier collides with a destroyer in Australia, killing 82
Destroyer HMAS Voyager sailed under aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourn's bow, was cut in half, and sank.

1962 Francis Gary Powers, a U.S. spy captured by the Soviet Union, is released
Powers was exchanged for captured Soviet spy, Rudolf Ivanovich Abel.
 
Births On This Day, February 10th 🎂

1929 Jerry Goldsmith
American composer, conductor

1898 Bertolt Brecht
German author

1894 Harold Macmillan
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1890 Boris Pasternak
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1744 William Cornwallis
English Admiral

Deaths On This Day, February 10th 🪦

2005 Arthur Miller
American playwright

1932 Edgar Wallace
English journalist, author, playwright

1923 Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1837 Alexander Pushkin
Russian author, poet

1755 Montesquieu
French philosopher
 
10th February

1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence.

1355 The St. Scholastica's Day Riots began in Oxford when University students clashed with townspeople in a three-day street battle, following a dispute about beer in The Swindlestock Tavern. 64 students were killed and 30 locals. The dispute was settled in favour of the university with a special charter.

1567 An explosion destroyed the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, (Lord Darnly) was found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

1840 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, both aged 20, were married in St James' Palace, London.

1906 Britain's first modern & largest battleship, HMS Dreadnought, was launched. It established the pattern of the turbine-powered, “all-big-gun” warship, a type that dominated the world's navies for the next 35 years.
 
1855
U.S citizenship laws were changed,all children of U. S. citizens born abroad were granted U.S. citizenship
1863
1st fire extinguisher patent was granted to Alanson Crane in Virginia
1897
New York Times starts using slogan'All The News Fit To Print'
1942
Glenn Miller Orchestra is awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of their hit' Chattanoga Choo Choo"
1971
Carole King's 2nd album 'Tapestry" was # 1 on the music charts for 15 weeks.It was on Billboards 200 chart from '71-'11,it sold 25 million copies.It was longest for any female solo artist until Adele's '21 album surpassed her in 2017
 
Feb 10th Birthdays:
1890
Boris Pasternak-Russian novelist'Dr Zhivago"
1906
Lon Chaney,Jr-actor 'The Wolf man,Mice&Men"
1929
Jerry Goldsmith-TV film/TV composer'The Twilight Zone, Planet of the Apes'
1930
Robert Wagner-actor' It Takes a Thief, Hart To Hart'
1939
Roberta Flack- pop singer'The 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly with His Song'
1950
Mark Spitz- U.S swimmer won record 7 gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
Deaths:
1957
Laura Ingalls Wilder-novelist' Little House on the Prairie' 90
1992
Alex Haley- novelist' Roots' 70
2005
Arthur Miller- U.S. playwright 'Death of a Salesman" 89
2008
Roy Schneider-actor "Jaws,The French Connection" 75
2014
Shirley Temple -former child actress/diplomat 85
 
This day in History February 11th

1990 Nelson Mandela is freed after 27 years as a political prisoner
The anti-apartheid campaigner's release was a high point in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy.

1979 Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran
A few days after Khomeini's triumphant return from French exile, the Iranian army steps aside, making way for the creation of an Islamic theocracy.

1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female leader of the British Conservative Party
Thatcher won the general elections in 1979 and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1938 The BBC broadcasts Karel Čapek's “R.U.R.”, the world's first science fiction TV program
The Czech play whose abbreviated title stands for “Rossum's Universal Robots” introduced the word “robot” to the English language.

1858 Bernadette Soubirous sees a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes
The small town in southern France became one of the most important Christian places of pilgrimage.
 
Births On This Day, February 11th 🎂

1969 Jennifer Aniston
American actress, director, producer

1964 Sarah Palin
American politician, 9th Governor of Alaska

1934 Manuel Noriega
Panamanian general, politician, Military Leader of Panama

1926 Leslie Nielsen
Canadian/American actor

1847 Thomas Edison
American businessmen, invented the light bulb, phonograph


Deaths On This Day, February 11th 🪦

2012 Whitney Houston
American singer, actress, producer, model

2010 Alexander McQueen
English fashion designer, founded

1978 James Bryant Conant
American chemist, academic, diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany

1963 Sylvia Plath
American poet

1650 René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician
 
11th February

1531 Henry VIII was recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.

1895 The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled, also at Braemar on 10th January 1982. Minus 27°C was also recorded at Altnaharra (Highland) on 30th December 1995.

1956 Two British spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who had vanished in mysterious circumstances five years previously, re-appeared in the Soviet Union.

1971 Eighty-seven countries, including the UK, the United States and the USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty. It outlawed nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
 


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