Today in History

Births On This Day, February 17th 🎂

1981 Paris Hilton
American model, actress, singer

1963 Michael Jordan
American basketball player, actor

1949 Fred Frith
English guitarist, composer

1904 Hans Morgenthau
German philosopher

624 Wu Zetian
Chinese empress

Deaths On This Day, February 17th 🪦

1998 Ernst Jünger
German author

1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian/American philosopher, author

1982 Thelonious Monk
American pianist, composer

1856 Heinrich Heine
German poet

1673 Molière
French playwright, actor
 

1897
Alice McLlean,Phoebe Apperson Hearst form National Organization of Mothers,name changed to Parent Teacher Association {PTA}
1933
1st issue of 'Newsweek' magazine is published
1968
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass opens
2016
Channey Dungey is announced as new Pres of ABC Entertainment Corp. She is the 1st African-American to lead a major broadcast network
 
Feb 17th Birthdays:
1844
Aaron Montgomery Ward-founder of Montgomery Ward mail order business
1867
William Cadbury- British chocolate manufacteur- Cadbury Chocolate
1925
Hal Holbrooke- stage/movie actor'Mark Twain Tonight', 'All The President's Men'
1934
Barry Humphries- Australian comedic actor better known as ' Dame Edna Everage'
1941
Gene Pitney- singer/songwriter' Town Without Pity'
1963
Michael Jordan- Basketball Hall of Famer, 6 time NBA champion with Chicago Bulls
1991
Ed Sheeran- British singer/songwriter 'Shape of You' Thinking Out Loud'
Deaths:
1909
Geronimo- Apache Indian leader 79
1962
Joseph Kearns- actor best known for role' George Wilson' in TV show'Dennis the Menace' 59-'63 55
1970
Alfred Newman- U. S. film composer 'The Robe, How the West Was Won,Love is a Many-Splendored Thing' won 9 Academy Awards 69
1994
Randy Shilts- journalist/author 'And The Band Played On' '41
2010
Kathryn Grayson- singer/actress 'Anchors Away Kiss Me Kate' 88
 

This day in History February 18th

1978 Hawaii hosts the first Ironman Triathlon
Contestants have to swim 2.4 miles (3.86 km), bike 112 miles (180.25 km), and complete a marathon run measuring 26.2 miles (42.2 km).

1977 The Space Shuttle takes off on its maiden flight
The “Enterprise” was mounted on a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft; the first free flight took place on August 12, 1977

1954 The first Church of Scientology is established
Despite many controversies, Scientology has gained thousands of members since its inception.

1943 The Gestapo arrests German resistance fighter Sophie Scholl and other White Rose activists executed
21-year-old student Scholl and her fellow campaigners were executed for having distributed flyers criticizing the Nazi regime.

1930 Pluto is discovered
Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet when sifting through photographs taken a month earlier.
 
Births On This Day, February 18th 🎂

1974 Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Russian tennis player

1967 Roberto Baggio
Italian footballer

1954 John Travolta
American actor, singer, producer

1933 Yoko Ono
Japanese/American singer-songwriter

1838 Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist

Deaths On This Day, February 18th 🪦

1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist

1906 John Batterson Stetson
American businessman founded the John B. Stetson Company

1564 Michelangelo
Italian painter, sculptor

1546 Martin Luther
German monk, priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation

1294 Kublai Khan
Mongolian Emperor
 
17th February

1678 Pilgrim’s Progress was published. John Bunyan started writing it during his second term in prison, for preaching on behalf of the Baptists.

1901 Winston Churchill made his maiden speech in the House of Commons.

1946 Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it spread throughout British India. The mutiny involved 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors.

1969 Hundreds of people clamoured to see the marriage of pop stars Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a Buckinghamshire church.
 
Tish said:
1977 The Space Shuttle takes off on its maiden flight
The “Enterprise” was mounted on a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft; the first free flight took place on August 12, 1977
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I remember that one very well. My boss at Lockheed was on the design team for the odd-looking 747 tail section. I moved on to the casino business, but a friend of mine stayed and was moved to the team working on the cockpit computer for the shuttles. The shuttle program ultimately turned out to be too costly, but it did pave the way for the cost-effective reusable capsule concept pioneered by SpaceX.

One of the sad stories of shuttle development was the soviet Buran shuttle. It had one free fall flight, like the Enterprise, and that was it. Years later it wound up in an amusement park. I recall watching a documentary by RosCosmos about some of the advanced materials that came from the research program, some very exotic ceramics.
 
Feb 18th
1879
sculptor, Frederic-Auguste Barthholdi awarded patent for his design of Statue of Liberty
1885
author, Mark Twain publishes his novel'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in U.S.
1908
1st U.S. postage stamps in rolls are issued
1986
anti-smoking ad featuring actor,Yul Brynner airs for the 1st time on TV. He died of smoking induced lung cancer in Oct 1985
2020
Boy Scouts of America files bankruptcy amid hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits
 
Feb 18th Birthdays:
1920
Jack Palance- actor 'City Slickers, Batman' won best supporting actor Oscar for his role in City Slickers' '91
1922
Helen Gurley Brown -editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine
1925
George Kennedy -character actor 'Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight, won best supporting Oscar for his role in Cool Hand Luke' 67
1931
Toni Morrison- writer' Beloved, Song of Solomon'. She became 1st Africian American woman to win Nobel Prize in 2010
1947
Dennis Deyoung-singer/songwriter, lead singer of band Stynx ' Babe,' Sail Away'
1968
Molly Ringwald-actress 'Pretty in Pink' 16 Candles'
deaths:
1546
Martin Luther- German theologian 62
1938
George Dayton-businessman/founder of Target Corp 80
1967
Robert Oppenheimer- U.S. physicst'father of atomic bomb' {Manhattan Project} 62
1998
Harry Carey-Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster with Chicago Cubs 83
 
jakbird said:
I remember that one very well. My boss at Lockheed was on the design team for the odd-looking 747 tail section. I moved on to the casino business, but a friend of mine stayed and was moved to the team working on the cockpit computer for the shuttles. The shuttle program ultimately turned out to be too costly, but it did pave the way for the cost-effective reusable capsule concept pioneered by SpaceX.

One of the sad stories of shuttle development was the soviet Buran shuttle. It had one free fall flight, like the Enterprise, and that was it. Years later it wound up in an amusement park. I recall watching a documentary by RosCosmos about some of the advanced materials that came from the research program, some very exotic ceramics.
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Fascinating, thank you for sharing.
 
This day in History February 19th

2008 Fidel Castro steps down as Cuba's president
Castro was 81 years old at the time and had been in power for 49 years.

1986 The “Mir” Space Station is launched
The Soviet vehicle was the world's first modular space station and remained in orbit for 15 years.

1985 Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashes
All 148 people on board died in the accident that was blamed on pilot error.

1945 U.S. troops land on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima
The photo showing 4 marines erecting a U.S. flag on the island has become one of the best-known images of World War II.

1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
It was the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound.
 
Births On This Day, February 19th 🎂

1963 Seal
English singer-songwriter

1957 Falco
Austrian singer-songwriter

1953 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Argentinian politician, 55th President of Argentina

1865 Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, explorer

1473 Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician, astronomer


Deaths On This Day, February 19th 🪦

2001 Stanley Kramer
American director

2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian/New Zealand painter, the architect, designed the Kuchlbauer Tower, Waldspirale

1997 Deng Xiaoping
Chinese politician, diplomat

1952 Knut Hamsun
Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1916 Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
 
1878
Thomas Edison is granted patent for his gramophone{phonograph}
1913
1st prize inserted in a Cracker Jack box were baseball cards
1949
1st Bollinger Prize for Poetry was awarded to poet, Ezra Pound
1960
Bil Keane's comic strip,'Family Circus' debuts
1968
children's TV show'Mister Rogers Neighborhood' debuts on NET{name later changed to PBS}
 
Feb 19th Birthdays:
1911
Merle Oberson- British actress 'Wuthering Heights, That Certain Feeling'
1916
Eddie Arcaro- Horse Racing Hall of Fame Jockey who was aboard 2 Triple Crown Winners :
1941 'Whirlaway', 1948 'Citation'
1924
Lee Marvin- actor' Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou' 65, won Best Actor Oscar for his role in Ballou
1940
William'Smokey' Robinson-r&b singer/songwriter 'Tears of a Clown,My Girl'
1955
Jeff Daniels-actor' Dumb&Dumber', Pleasantville, The Newsroom was on Broadway played' Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Deaths:
2001
Stanley Kramer- producer/director, 'Inherit The Wind' 87
2016
Umberito Eco- novelist 'Name of The Rose' 84
2016
Harper Lee- author of Pulitzer Prize novel' To Kill A Mockingbird' 89
 
moviequeen1 said:
Harper Lee- author of Pulitzer Prize novel' To Kill A Mockingbird' 89
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I like To Kill a Mockingbird, but anyone who reads it needs to read her other book Go Set a Watchman as well.

Mockingbird is a feel good book and did a lot to highlight problems with how people were treated. A significant contribution to both literature and the Civil Rights movement. However Watchman is a more realistic portrayal of things...
 
moviequeen1 said:
1949
1st Bollinger Prize for Poetry was awarded to poet, Ezra Pound
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Lest we forget, Ezra Pound was an ardent fascist who was charged with treason when captured in 1945, after making hundreds of propaganda broadcasts for Mussolini against the US. When he won the prize, he was in a mental institution, declared insane so he never stood trial.
 
19th February

1674 England and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transferred the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England and it was renamed New York.

1819 British explorer William Smith discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago lying about 75 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula and claimed them in the name of King George III.

1959 The United Kingdom granted Cyprus independence, which was then formally proclaimed on 16th August 1960.

1910 Manchester United played its first game at Old Trafford. The Sporting Chronicle said "The most handsomest, the most spacious and the most remarkable arena I have ever seen. As a football ground it is unrivalled in the world, it is an honour to Manchester and the home of a team who can do wonders when they are so disposed."
 
This day in History February 20th

1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh War is triggered by der Autonomous Oblast's secession from Azerbaijan
Today, Nagorno-Karabakh is a de facto independent state, but the territory is still internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.

1962 The first U.S. citizen to orbit the Earth lands safely in the Atlantic Ocean
John Glenn's 5-hour spaceflight came almost a year after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961.

1944 U.S. bombers attack German aircraft manufacturing centers, in a bombing campaign that became known as the “Big Week”
The goal was to achieve air superiority to secure the invasion of Europe.

1913 Works to build Australia's capital city commence
Canberra is an entirely planned city and was chosen as the Australian capital as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.

1877 Tchaikovsky's ballet “Swan Lake” is premiered
It is one of the world's best-known ballets. ♥
 
Births On This Day, February 20th 🎂

1988 Rihanna
Barbadian/American singer-songwriter, actress

1967 Kurt Cobain
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1951 Gordon Brown
Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1927 Sidney Poitier
American actor, director

1819 Alfred Escher
Swiss businessman, politician

Deaths On This Day, February 20th 🪦

2005 Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist, author

1996 Toru Takemitsu
Japanese composer

1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini
Italian businessman created Lamborghini

1961 Percy Grainger
Australian composer

1895 Frederick Douglass
American author, activist
 
Feb 20th
1792
U.S. Postal Service was created
1816
Gioachino Rossini's comedic opera'Barber of Seville' premieres in Rome, Italy
1865
Massachusetts Institute of Technology{MIT} forms,1st U.S. architechtural school
1952
movie'Africian Queen' directed by John Huston is released starring Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn. Bogart won Best Actor Academy Award for his role
1962
John Glenn becomes 1st U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth aboard 'Friendship 7'
 
Feb 20th Birthdays:
1902
Ansel Adams- photographer
1906
Gale Gordon-comedic actor'TV shows, 'Our Miss brooks',The Lucy Show'
1924
Gloria Vanderbilt-heiress/fashion designer- her son is Anderson Cooper on CNN 60 MInutes journalist
1927
Sidney Poitier- 1st black actor to win Academy Award for Best Actor;'Lillies of the Field' '63, other movies 'To Sir With Love,Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'
1947
Peter Strauss- actor TV mini-series' Rich Man,Poor Man' The Jericho Mile'
1991
Sally Rooney- novelist' Normal People'
Deaths:
1961
Percy Grainger- concert pianist/composer 'Country Gardens' 77
1966
Chester Nimitz- U.S. admiral who commanded U.S. Pacfic fleet in WWII 80
1992
Dick York- actor best known TV role Darrin Stephens in TV show 'Bewitched' 63
2005
Sandra Dee- actress 'Gidget, Imitation of Life' 62
2005
John Raitt-stage screen actor/singer 'Carousel,Pajama Game' 88 his daughter is singer,Bonnie Raitt
 
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