Today in History for February 1949

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 30 of 30

1st - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1st - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
2nd - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
4th - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
5th - Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
7th - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
8th - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
10th - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
11th - Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
12th - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs
12th - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
12th - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
12th - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
14th - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
14th - Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
15th - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
17th - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
17th - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN
17th - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE
Playwright Arthur Miller 17th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
17th - Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris
19th - "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
19th - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
19th - Mass arrests of communists in India
20th - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
24th - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
24th - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
25th - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
26th - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
27th - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67

1st - Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
2nd - Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch vocalist (Mai Tai)
2nd - Ross Valory, SF, rock bassist (Journey - Who's Crying Now, Open Arms)
2nd - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
2nd - Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
2nd - Brent Spiner, Houston, Texas, American actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
2nd - Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager
3rd - Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
3rd - Arthur Kane, American musician
3rd - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
4th - Michael Beck, Memphis Tn, actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
5th - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
5th - Maidarjabyn Ganzorig, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup)
5th - Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band)
6th - Frank Rich, US politician (?)
6th - Manuel Orantes, tennis champ (US Open-1975)
6th - Richie Zisk, baseball player
7th - Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
7th - Sunil Wettimuny, cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
7th - Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
8th - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
8th - Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
8th - Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympic-bronze-1964)
9th - Bernard Gallacher, British golfer
9th - Janet Issaca Ashford, writer
9th - Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
10th - Joe Lavender, NFLer
10th - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
10th - Harold Sylvester, American actor
11th - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist (Blackfoot)
12th - Gundappa Viswanath, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s)
12th - Len Randle, baseball player (NY Mets)
12th - Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
14th - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
14th - Jimmy Randell, rocker
14th - Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
15th - Christopher Rouse, composer
15th - Earl of Carlisle
15th - Jess Walton, Mich, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless)
15th - Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
15th - Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
16th - Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet (Otobanda; the Other Bank)
17th - Fred Frith, English guitarist/violinist/bassist (Skeleton Crew)
18th - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
19th - Eddie Hardin, keyboardist/singer
19th - Edward Hardin, NYC, rock guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
19th - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm, actress (Candy)
19th - Dan Bunten, American software developer (d. 1998)
19th - William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer
20th - Eddie Hemmings, cricket off-spinner (immense England)
20th - Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Cz, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
21st - Jerry Harrison, Milwaukee, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads)
21st - Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
22nd - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
22nd - Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
22nd - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
23rd - Anna-Maria Muller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
23rd - Larry Demps, US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
23rd - Marc Garneau, Quebec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77)
23rd - Maureen Hicks, British MP
23rd - Terry "Tex" Comer, bassist/guitarist
23rd - Terry Comer, rocker
24th - John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
25th - Lord Sempill
25th - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
26th - Emma Kirkby, British(?) soprano
26th - Elizabeth George, American novelist

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

1st - Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
5th - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50
8th - Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81
8th - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54
9th - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
12th - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
14th - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
18th - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
19th - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83
21st - Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78
22nd - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
28th - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65