This Day in History for 17th February (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 184 of 184

1962 - Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
1962 - Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
1963 - Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
1964 - 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
1964 - US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders)
1964 - WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1965 - US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
1967 - Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1967 - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
1968 - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
1969 - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
1970 - Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
1970 - Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1970 - Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in NYC
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1971 - England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
1972 - British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
1972 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.
1973 - Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1974 - Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
1976 - "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
1976 - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
1976 - NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
1976 - Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
1979 - China invades Vietnam
1979 - Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1979 - The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 - Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
1980 - Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 - Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1982 - Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
1983 - Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
1983 - Netherlands adopts constitution
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
1985 - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
1985 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
1985 - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
1986 - 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
1986 - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
1986 - Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
1986 - Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
1987 - Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
1987 - Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
1988 - Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
1988 - US Lt Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed
1989 - 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
1989 - Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1989 - Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
1989 - Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1993 - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
1993 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
1995 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
1995 - Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1995 - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
1996 - 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
1996 - Garry Kasparov defeats Deep Blue 4-2 in chess
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena Calif
1997 - Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
1998 - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1998 - Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
1998 - USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal
2002 - Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's 10th UK No.1 single.
Rapper Ja Rule 2002 - 'Always On Time' by R&B artist Ja Rule featuring Ashanti starts a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart.
2003 - The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 - A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 - Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
2012 - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
2012 - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
2013 - 37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings
2013 - 5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
2013 - President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory
2013 - Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 265

1916 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(d. 1940)
1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1918 - Charles A Hayes, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
1918 - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner
1919 - Jock Mahoney, Chicago, actor (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
1919 - Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ (US Open-1943)
1919 - Kathleen Freeman, Chicago Ill, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1920 - Colin Franklin, doctor
1920 - Paul Fetler, composer
1920 - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor
1922 - Tommy Edwards, rock vocalist (It's All in the Game)
1922 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
1923 - Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
1924 - Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist
1924 - Gevork Vartanian, Iran, Soviet intelligence agent (Operation Long Jump), (d. 2012)
1925 - Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character (The Slogan)
1925 - Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain)
1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1926 - Friedrich Cerha, composer
1926 - Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
1928 - Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
1929 - Chaim Potok, NYC, novelist (Promise)
1929 - Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
1930 - Usko Merilainen, composer
1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
1932 - Buck Trent, Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
1933 - Bobby Lewis, rocker (Tossin' & Turnin')
1933 - Craig Thomas, (Rep-R-Wyoming)
1934 - Alan Bates, Allestree Engld, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman)
1934 - Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage)
1934 - Buddy Ryan, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals)
1935 - Johnny Bush, country singer
1935 - Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
1936 - Barry Jarman, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper in 60's)
1936 - Jim Brown, Ga, NFL full back (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen)
1936 - Peter Walker, cricket all-rounder (Glamorgan did little for Eng 1960)
1937 - Mickey McGill, US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue)
1938 - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights)
1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actr (Diff'rent Strokes)
1939 - John Leyton, British singer
1940 - Dennis Gamsy, cricketer (South African bat in 2 Tests v Australia 1970)
1941 - Gene Pitney, Hartford Ct, vocalist/songwriter (Town Without Pity)
1941 - Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960)
1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1944 - Bernie Grant, British politician (Labour)
1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
1945 - Brenda Fricker, Dublin Ireland, actress (My Left Foot)
1945 - Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place)
1945 - Willie J L Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - Andre Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle)
1946 - Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1946 - Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Nurses, Who's That Knocking at My Door), (d. 2012)
1947 - Ben Cramer, Dutch vocalist (Clown)
1947 - Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer (Terror From Within)
1947 - Dodie Stevens, actress (Mary Hartman!)
1948 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
1949 - Fred Frith, English guitarist/violinist/bassist (Skeleton Crew)
1950 - Rick Medlocke, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open)
1952 - Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, US US table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1952 - Karin Janz, East German gymnast
1953 - Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
1954 - Rene Russo, actress (Ransom)
1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1958 - Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place)
1958 - Karen Lende O'Connor, Concord Ma, equestrian 3-day (Oly-silver-96)
1959 - Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, US, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball & football star
1959 - Richard Karn, Seattle WA, actor (Al-Home Improvement)
1959 - Rowdy Gaines, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1984)
1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1961 - Deb[ra] Richardson, Minneapolis MN, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1961 - Guy McIntyre, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1962 - David McComb, Australia, vocalist/songwriter (Triffids)
1962 - Hennie Meijer, soccer player (Cambuur L, FC Heerenveen)
1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, Philippines, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
1962 - Tony Blain, cricketer (NZ Test wicket-keeper)
1962 - Samuel Bayer, American music video director
1963 - Dan Reed, rocker/actor (HOTS, Lake Consequence)
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan (1963) 1963 - Michael Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) and sports superstar
1963 - Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
1964 - Mike Campbell, Seattle WA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist
1965 - Clayton Prince, Phila, actor (Hairspray, Reuben-Another World)
1965 - Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics)
1965 - Michael Bay, American film director
1966 - Luc Robitaille, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, Pitts Penguins)
1966 - Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
1966 - Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
1966 - Michael Lepond, American musician
1967 - Gary Shuchuk, Edmonton, NHL center (LA Kings)
1967 - Michelle Forbes, Austin TX, actress (Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen)
1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer
1968 - Bryan Cox, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1968 - Celita Schutz, Riverdale NJ, half-middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)

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Famous Weddings

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 132 of 132

1993 - George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
1993 - Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (Engld in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies
1994 - Randy Shilts, US journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
1995 - Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, painter, dies at 81
1995 - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52
1995 - Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80
1996 - Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84
1996 - Henry Guinness, missionary, dies at 87
1996 - Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin, dies at 84
1996 - Michael Raptis, writer/recolutionary, dies at 84
1996 - [Elsie] Evelyn Laye, actress/singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
1997 - Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
1998 - Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at 102
1998 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
2001 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
2006 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
2007 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
2007 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2007 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
2008 - Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)
2009 - Gazanfer Özcan, Turkish actor (b. 1931)
2009 - Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
2012 - Ulric Neisser, American psychologist, dies at 83
2013 - Richard Briers, English actor,dies from emphysema at 79
2013 - Mindy McCready, American country singer, commits suicide by gunshot at 37