Today in History

Births On This Day, February 12th 🎂

1877 Louis Renault
French businessman co-founded Renault

1876 13th Dalai Lama

1870 Marie Lloyd
English actress, singer

1809 Abraham Lincoln
American lawyer, politician, 16th President of the United States

1809 Charles Darwin
English scientist, theorist

Deaths On This Day, February 12th 🪦

2000 Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist

2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins
American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1979 Jean Renoir
French director

1804 Immanuel Kant
Russian/German philosopher

1789 Ethan Allen
American military leader
 

12th February

1554 At the tender age of 16, the ‘nine days queen’, Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley were beheaded; he on Tower Hill, she on Tower Green, after being implicated in the Wyatt's rebellion. The rebellion arose out of concern over Queen Mary I's determination to marry Philip II of Spain, which was an unpopular policy with the English.

1808 A mortar-fired lifeline was used for the first time to save a person from a shipwreck, at Gorleston. It was invented by George William Manby who lived in the Norfolk village of Hilgay.

1964 Deaths follow Cyprus truce breach. Fighting between ethnic Turks and Greeks in the disputed island of Cyprus left at least 16 people dead.

1989 Belfast lawyer Finucane murdered. Leading solicitor Pat Finucaneshot dead at his home in north Belfast. The killers burst in as he was eating his Sunday dinner with his wife and three children.

1994 More than one hundred people made history by walking from France to England. Each represented charities and voluntary organisations and walked the 31 mile Channel Tunnel which took, on average, 13 hours to complete.
 
13th February 1972
Led Zeppelin is forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials won't let them off the plane because of their long hair. The country considered shoulder length locks to be a symbol of the countercultural anti-authoritarianism that was sweeping Western countries.
 
On This Day In History, February, 13th

2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”
Between 10 and 30 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander children were removed from their families until the 1960s.

2004 The universe's largest known diamond is discovered
BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star about 50 light-years from Earth and was nicknamed “Lucy” after The Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

2000 The last “Peanuts” comic strip is published
The 17,897th-and-last instalment was published in newspapers around the world on the day following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.

1991 Two “smart bombs” kill at least 408 civilians in Baghdad
The Amiriyah shelter bombing was one of the worst cases of civilian killings during “Operation Desert Storm”.

1945 The German city of Dresden is destroyed by a bombing raid
According to estimates, up to 25,000 people were killed in the raids that lasted 3 days.
 
Births On This Day, February 13th 🎂

1974 Robbie Williams
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1950 Peter Gabriel
English singer-songwriter, producer

1946 Richard Blumenthal
American politician

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill
English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Indian religious leaders founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Deaths On This Day, February 13th 🪦

2002 Waylon Jennings
American singer-songwriter, musician

1883 Richard Wagner
German composer, director

1787 Ruđer Bošković
Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician

1728 Cotton Mather
American minister

1662 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
 
1795
The 1st U.S. state univ opens, Univ of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,NC
1914
American Society of Composers, Authors&Publishers{ASCAP} was founded at Hotel Claridge in NYC.
It's a non-profit org that licenses&promotes music of its members
1935
Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of kidnapping 1st degree murder of Charles Lindberg's infant son. He was electrocuted at NJ State Prison
1960
Reprise Record label was created by singer Frank Sinatra to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. He sold it to Warner Brothers in 1963
2021
archaeologists announce discovery of the oldest beer factory in Abydos, Egypt from early Dynastic period 3150 B.C.-2613 B.C.
 
On This Day In History, February 17th

2008 Kosovo declares its independence
The region's secession from Serbia followed an armed conflict referred to as the Kosovo War.

1992 Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is jailed for life
Dahmer was convicted of murdering and dismembering at least 17 young men and boys.

1913 The “Armory Show” opens in New York
The art exhibition featured works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh and marked the advent of artistic modernism in the United States.

1904 “Madama Butterfly” is premiered
Giacomo Puccini's opera, one of the world's most performed works of musical theatre, was poorly received in its first performance.

1863 A precursor of the Red Cross and Red Crescent is founded
The “Committee for Relief to the Wounded” was created by a group of citizens in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
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
 
1876
sardines 1st canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
1897
National Organization of Mothers in America was formed by Alice McLellan Birney&Phoebe Hearst. The name was later changed to Parent Teacher Association{PTA}
1933
1st issue of news magazine,'Newsweek' is published
1968
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, Mass
1972
British Parliament votes to join European Economic Community
2016
Channing Dungey becomes the 1st African American female to be President of ABC Entertainment Group.She left in 2018 to join Netflix. In 2020,she became new chairwoman/CEO of Warner Bros Television where she is today
 
17th February

1883 Mr A. Ashwell of Herne Hill, south London, patented Vacant - Engaged signs for toilet doors. 🚽

1959 Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survived an air crash near London that killed 12 people.

1979 China sent hundreds of troops into Vietnam after weeks of tension and a military build-up along the border.

1987 A group of Tamils from Sri Lanka seeking asylum in Britain protested at Heathrow airport by removing their clothes as they were about to be deported.
 
Feb 18th:
1885
Mark Twain's novel' The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was published in U.S.
1927
U.S.&Canada open diplomatic relations
1960
Los Angeles owner, Walter O'Malley purchases Chevez Ravine for $494,000
1986
an anti-smoking ad appears on U.S.television networks featuring actor Yul Brynner. He died the previous yr due to smoking- induced lung cancer
2001
FBI agent, Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for Russia.He's convicted ,sentenced to life in prison
 
On This Day In History, February 19th


What Happened On This Day – February 19
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, and 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 was given patent for his cylinder phonograph
1906
after a falling out with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg becomes co founder with Charles D.Bolin with Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. Its now known as Kellogg's a multinational food manufacturer
1960
Bill Keane's cartoon strip' Family Circus' debuts according to its publisher, King Features,its the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world,appears in 1,5000 papers. Keane died in 2011, his son, Jeff continues to write& ink the strip
1972
singer/ songwriter, Harry Nisson's only hit single' Without You' hits # 1 on music charts stays there for 4weeks. He didn't write the song, Pete Ham&Tom Evans from British rock band, "Badfinger' did
2007
The blogging site Tumbir was founded in NYC by David Karp
 
On This Day In History, February 20th

1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh War is triggered by the 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 attacked German aircraft manufacturing centres, 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
 
20th February

1472 Shetland and Orkney became part of Scotland. Denmark's economic interests were concentrated in the east, and King Christian I was keen to get rid of his islands in the west. James III of Scotland was equally intent on acquiring them.

1547 Edward VI, aged 9 years old, was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Edward, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant.

1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George VI and a hero of World War II, was appointed the last Viceroy of India. On the same day, the Government announced their intention of transferring power in British India to Indian hands by June, 1948.

1979 11 members of a loyalist gang known as the 'Shankill butchers' were sentenced for 19 sectarian murders in Belfast following a sensational trial.
 
1865
MIT{Massachusetts Institute of Technology} forms in Boston, Mass
1947
Earl Mountbatten of Burma is appointed the last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence
1962
NASA astronaut, John Glenn becomes the 1st American to orbit the earth aboard space capsule Friendship 7. He spent 4hrs,55min,30 secs in space
1974
Steely Dan's 3rd studio album' Pretzel Logic' contains the hit single, 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number' hit #4 on the music charts
2012
scientists successfully regenerated the flowering plant,' Silene Stenophylla" from a 31,800 yr old piece of fruit
2021
21yrd old, Englishwoman Jasmine Harrison becomes the youngest woman to row across the ocean. She arrived in Antiqua as part of the Atlantic Challenge after 70 days, 3 hrs, 48 min
 
On This Day In History, February 21st

1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon embarks on his historic visit to China
The first visit of a U.S. President to China was an important step in normalizing relations between the two countries.

1958 The peace symbol is designed by Gerald Holtom
The symbol was commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and combines the semaphore symbols for the letters N and D - an abbreviation of “Nuclear Disarmament”.

1878 The world's first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut
The directory consisted of a single piece of cardboard and comprised 50 numbers.

1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto”
“Das Kommunistische Manifest” outlined the sociopolitical worldview today called “Marxism” and was translated from German into over 100 languages.

1804 The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales
The first full-scale steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, travelled from the Pen-y-Darren ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon.
 
Births On This Day, February 21st 🎂

1946 Alan Rickman
English actor

1933 Nina Simone
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1924 Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe

1907 W. H. Auden
English/American poet

1791 Carl Czerny
Austrian pianist, composer

Deaths On This Day, February 21st 🪦

1965 Malcolm X
American minister, activist

1949 Tan Malaka
Indonesian educator, activist

1941 Frederick Banting
Canadian physician, Nobel Prize laureate

1934 Augusto César Sandino
Nicaraguan rebel leader

1677 Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher
 
On This Day In History, February 22nd

2011 185 people are killed during an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand
The quake, while having a magnitude of only 6.3, had one of the highest intensities ever recorded in an urban area (MM IX).

1986 The People Power Revolution begins in the Philippines
The nonviolent campaign resulted in the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos and the restoration of the country's democracy.

1983 The play “Moose Murders” flops spectacularly on Broadway
According to critic Frank Rich, “A visit to Moose Murders is what will separate the connoisseurs of Broadway disaster from mere dilettantes for many moons to come.”

1948 Czechoslovakia becomes a communist state following a coup d'etat
The country became a parliamentary republic following the non-violent “Velvet Revolution” in 1989 and was split into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in 1993.

1879 The first Woolworth store opens in Utica, New York
Frank Woolworth's five-and-dime retail stores became one of the world's most successful trading companies with branches in many countries.
 
Births On This Day, February 22nd 🎂

1975 Drew Barrymore
American actress, director, producer, screenwriter

1932 Ted Kennedy
American politician

1900 Luis Buñuel
Spanish director, producer

1857 Heinrich Hertz
German physicist

1732 George Washington
American general, politician, 1st President of the United States

Deaths On This Day, February 22nd 🪦

1987 Andy Warhol
American artist

1983 Adrian Boult
English conductor

1958 Abul Kalam Azad
Indian activist, scholar, politician

1943 Sophie Scholl
German student, activist

1875 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French painter
 

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