This Day in History for 9th February (Part 2)

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Historical Events

Events 101 - 180 of 180

1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - GI Joe character created
1964 - Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
1964 - NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1966 - Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1968 - Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
1969 - Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
1969 - KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
1971 - Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1972 - Brit government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1976 - Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
1979 - ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1979 - Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1979 - Nigeria amends constitution
1980 - Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
1982 - 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1984 - "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances
Pop Star Madonna 1985 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 - 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1986 - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1986 - Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1986 - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
1986 - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1987 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 - NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1988 - 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis
1988 - NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 - "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1990 - Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified
1991 - "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
1991 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
1991 - Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him
1991 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 - Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
1992 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
1992 - 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando
1992 - Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
1992 - Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
1992 - NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
1992 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary
1993 - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1995 - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
1995 - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
1996 - WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
1997 - 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
1997 - 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1997 - LG Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
1997 - Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
1997 - Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
1997 - Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze
2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
2013 - 5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 261

1926 - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
1927 - Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
1927 - Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1928 - Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1928 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
1928 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1929 - Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer
1929 - Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test WI v Aust 1955, 16 & 2-151)
1929 - Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
1929 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 - Emil Petrovics, composer
1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 - Robert Morris, sculptor
1931 - Xavier Benguerel, composer
1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
1932 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
1933 - Countess of Airlie
1933 - Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer
1933 - Justice Johnson
1933 - Lord Williams of Elvel
1934 - John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)
1935 - Paul Flynn, MP
1936 - Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1936 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer, (d. 2013)
1937 - Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist
1937 - Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
1937 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 - Barry Mann, R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)
1940 - Brian Bennett, London, rock drummer (Shadows)
1941 - Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress (Zelda-Dobie Gillis)
1942 - Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1942 - Charlie Morrow, composer
1942 - Milos Stedron, composer
1942 - Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
1943 - Barbara Lewis, US vocalist (Hello Stranger)
1943 - James King, New Orleans LA, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
1943 - Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Ryland Davies, tenor
1943 - Squire Fridell, Oakland California, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943) 1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
1945 - Bill Bergey, NFLer
1945 - Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1946 - Annette Penhaligon
1946 - M J H Sterling, Vice-Chancellor (Brunel University)
1946 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
1946 - Vince Papale, American football player
1946 - Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
1947 - Joe Ely, Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
1947 - Major Harris, US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait)
1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
1949 - Bernard Gallacher, British golfer
1949 - Janet Issaca Ashford, writer
Novelist Alice Walker (1944) 1949 - Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
1950 - Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Lloyd Weldon Keasor, Pumphrey Md, wrestler (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator
1950 - Richard F. Colburn, American politician
1951 - Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & Gang-Celebration)
1951 - Jay Inslee, (Rep-D-Washington)
1951 - Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing)
1952 - Danny White, quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player
1953 - Andre Sevard, NHLer
1953 - Antonius GM "Toon" Agterberg, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1953 - Gary Franks, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1953 - Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
1954 - Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut
1954 - Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
1954 - Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
1954 - Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives, Nanny)
1955 - Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
1956 - Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1957 - Gordon Strachan, soccer player
1957 - Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
1958 - Alexander W B Lyle, Shrewsbury England, PGA golfer (1988 Phoenix Open)
1958 - Sandy Lyle, British golfer
1958 - Cyrille Regis, English former footballer
1960 - Peggy A Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut
1960 - Holly Johnson, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
1961 - John Kruk, US baseball 1st baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1961 - Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
1962 - Diego Perez, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1963 - Bonnie Levin, Miami Beach Fla, WPVA volleyballer
1963 - Madusa Miceli, [Debra Ann], Milan Italy, wrestler (WCW)
1963 - Mike Rindel, cricketer (N Transvaal opening bat ODI ton v Pak 1995)
1963 - Travis Tritt, Marietta Ga, country vocalist (Country Club)
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
1964 - Rachel Bolan, rocker (Skid Row)
1965 - David Brandon, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater
1966 - Amanda Roocroft, opera singer

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 114 of 114

2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 - Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author.
2008 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 - Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
2009 - Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2010 - Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (b. 1956)
2010 - Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)
2013 - Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist, dies at 99