February 25......

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 (310 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.

● 1095 - Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus

● 1358 - Dalmatië flees Venice

● 1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France

● 1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine

● 1540 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México

● 1570 - Queen Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V for her severe persecution of Roman Catholics in England and absolves her subjects from allegiance. (It was the last such judgment made against a reigning monarch by any pope.)

● 1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen

● 1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts

● 1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

● 1642 - Massacre of friendly Indians by Dutch Gov. Kiert of New York and soldiers of Staten Island; 120 Wecquaesgeek men, women and children asleep in their wigwams die. Eyewitness David P. deVries wrote - "...about midnight I heard a great shrieking, and I ran to the ramparts of the fort...Saw nothing but firing, and heard the shrieks of the savages murdered in their sleep. When it was day the soldiers returned to the fort, having massacred or murdered 80 Indians, and considering they had done a deed of Roman valor, in murdering so many in their sleep; where infants were torn from mother's breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of the parents, and the pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings, being bound top small boards, were cut, stuck, pierced, and miserably massacred in a manner to move a heart of stone...Some came to our people in the country with their hands, some with their legs cut off, and some holding their entrails in their arms, and others had such horrible cuts and gashes, that worse than they were could never happen."

● 1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians

● 1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River

● 1738 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'God, I find, has a people everywhere; Christ has a flock, though but a little flock, in all places.'

● 1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen

● 1778 - Birth of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Chile, Peru.

● 1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered

● 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States in his home.

● 1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 French surrender two days after the Last Invasion of Britain

● 1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land

● 1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation

● 1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states

● 1804 - Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus

● 1824 - The Baptist General Tract Society was organized in Washington, D.C. In 1826 the society was moved to Philadelphia, and by 1840, the organization had issued over 3.5 million copies of 162 different tracts.

● 1825 - Robert Owen announces New Harmony utopian plan in Indiana to government dignitaries in the Hall of the U.S. House of Representatives.

● 1828 - John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House

● 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.

● 1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.

● 1837 - First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport.

● 1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West

● 1847 - State University of Iowa is approved

● 1859 - Dan Sickles becomes first man in the U.S. to use now largely discarded plea of insanity to prove innocence.

● 1862 - Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing

● 1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln

● 1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

● 1868 - Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act

● 1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.

● 1874 - Skokomish reservation established (near Shelton, Wash.).

● 1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

● 1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act

● 1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

● 1888 - John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State from 1953-1959, was born.

● 1892 - Birth of Andre Soudy (1892-1913), Beaugency, Loiret. French anarchist illegalist, member of the Bonnot Gang. Soudy first met Bonnot and other gang members at the anarchist Romainville colony. In Mar. 1912, Soudy took part in an attack in which two people were killed. He was captured five days later, sentenced to death the following February, and guillotined with Callemin and Monier in April 1913.

● 1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea

● 1901 - J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.

● 1902 - The mill manager of the George A. Whiting Paper Company in Plover, Wisconsin, discharges a shipping clerk who is trying to organize workers in the plant. His outraged co-workers hold a protest rally at which they form a lodge of the United Brotherhood of Paper Makers and demand that the company reinstate the clerk. When nothing happens, 25 union men shut down the plant and walk out, followed by about 20 women employed in the finishing room. By April, strikes disrupt plants up and down the Wisconsin River Valley. The American Federation of Labor and the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor send support, but the companies stand firm and, by the end of April, defeat the strikers.

● 1902 - Birth of Oscar Cullmann, German New Testament scholar. Best known for pioneering a "salvation history" view of the NT, Cullmann's two best-known publications were "Christ and Time" (1946) and "Christology of the New Testament" (1959).

● 1905 - Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms

● 1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic

● 1908 - 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

● 1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies

● 1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

● 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing a graduated income tax, is ratified.

● 1913 - IWW silk workers strike begins in Paterson, New Jersey.

● 1913 - British feminist Emmeline Pankhurst accused in Surrey bombing plot.

● 1913 - Pioneer missionary Eduard L. Arndt first arrived in Shanghai, China, 10 months after having founded the Evangelical Lutheran Missions for China. He afterward established missions and schools in the Hankow territory, and translated hymns and sermons into Chinese. (In 1917 the Missouri Synod took over the ELMS mission.)

● 1915 - Clydeside armament workers strike for more pay.

● 1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun

● 1919 - Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

● 1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

● 1919 - Russia - The Cheka closes down the newspaper "Vsegda Vpered." This marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks. In January the Mensheviks had been "legalized" and allowed to publish this paper in Moscow, but the short-lived era of relative freedom is no more.

● 1919 - Released conscientious objectors return pay for non-combatant service to U.S. government.

● 1920 - Arrest of Andrea Salsedo and Roberto Elia, anarchist editors, for "interrogation" about the anarchist attacks in the U.S. over the previous year. Andrea Salsedo was suicided two months later, defenestrated from the 14th floor of the Department of Justice where he was being questioned.

● 1921 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

● 1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark

● 1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.

● 1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

● 1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

● 1927 - Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor

● 1928 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

● 1930 - Check photographing device patented

● 1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

● 1932 - Pierre Lariviere (1884?-1932) dies. French anarchist, painter, and caricaturist.

● 1932 - British volunteers Herbert Gray, Maude Royden, and Dick Sheppard organize nonviolent "Peace Army" to attempt to intervene in fighting in China.

● 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier.

● 1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister

● 1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden

● 1941 - February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behavior & -laws (Amsterdam)

● 1943 - Holocaust: 158 Norwegian Jews were deported from Norway to death camp Auschwitz by the vessel Gutenland. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. Of these 30 survived.

● 1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front

● 1943 - Beatles guitarist George Harrison was born in Liverpool, England.

● 1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan

● 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo

● 1945 - Turkey declares war on Germany.

● 1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier

● 1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)

● 1951 - The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

● 1954 - Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

● 1956 - In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of Joseph Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference.

● 1957 - U.S. Supreme Court voids Michigan law banning sale of books that might corrupt youth.

● 1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport

● 1962 - India Congress Party wins elections

● 1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands

● 1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns

● 1964 - Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.

● 1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad

● 1968 - Discussing the war capacity of a country that had been fighting for 23 years and had just staged the massive Tet Offensive, U.S. General William C. Westmoreland states - "I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war."

● 1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

● 1968 - Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus

● 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

● 1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.

● 1970 - Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America burning.

● 1971 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

● 1972 - Miners call off crippling coal strike; Miners vote overwhelmingly in favour of a pay settlement after a seven-week strike that has seriously affected power supply.

● 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

● 1975 - Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad dies.

● 1977 - Fire aboard the Wawaiin Patriot, in the northern Pacific, results in a 99,000 ton oil spill.

● 1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

● 1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

● 1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

● 1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue

● 1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain

● 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1981 - Apple Computer's first CEO Michael Scott fired 40 employees from the Apple II group personally, in belief that they were redundant. Following these actions, he was moved to position of Vice Chairman.

● 1982 - Parents can stop school beatings; The European Court of Human Rights rules corporal punishment in Britain's schools is a violation of the Human Rights Convention.

● 1983 - Playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his New York hotel suite at age 71.

● 1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500

● 1986 - EDSA Revolution: Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president. Mass demonstrations overthrow U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines. Marcos and wife Imelda flee for Hawaii, leaving lots of shoes but taking billions in money stolen from the Filipino people over 23 years.

● 1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

● 1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao

● 1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action

● 1988 - South Korea adopts constitution

● 1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

● 1989 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)

● 1990 - Nicaraguan voters elect opponent Violetta Chamorro, dump Sandinistas, replace Daniel Ortega as president. Vote was in part a consequence of Nicaraguans' realization that re-electing Sandanistas would mean ongoing war with the United States.

● 1991 - Agreement to dissolve Warsaw Pact is signed.

● 1991 - Birmingham Six on verge of freedom; After 17 years in prison, the Birmingham Six may soon be released after government law officers say their convictions cannot be considered safe.

● 1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Marines.

● 1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan

● 1994 - Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis.

● 1994 - Jewish settler opens fire, kills dozens of Palestinians praying in a mosque in Hebron, Israel. For some reason, Israeli government does not rush to declare martial law and bulldoze Jewish homes in response.

● 1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31

● 1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)

● 1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead

● 1999 - William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for thier involvement.

● 1999 - In Moscow, China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Russia's President Boris Yeltsin discussed trade and other issues.

● 2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.

● 2000 - The Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt.

● 2002 - Former NBA star Jayson Williams was charged in the shooting death of a limousine driver. (Williams was later acquitted of manslaughter, but the jury deadlocked on another; prosecutors are seeking a retrial.)

● 2005 - Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.)

● 2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.

BIRTHS

● 1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)

● 1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)

● 1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)

● 1649 - Johann Philipp Krieger, German composer (d. 1725)

● 1663 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)

● 1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)

● 1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)

● 1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)

● 1714 - Hyde Parker, British admiral (d. 1782)

● 1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)

● 1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)

● 1778 - José de San Martín, Argentine general and liberator of South America

● 1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1919)

● 1842 - Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)

● 1845 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)

● 1855 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (d. 1912)

● 1860 - Sir William Ashley, economic historian (d. 1927)

● 1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italian historian, humanist, and philosopher (d. 1952)

● 1873 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)

● 1877 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)

● 1888 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-59) (d. 1959)

● 1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)

● 1890 - Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)

● 1890 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)

● 1895 - Marcel Paul Pagnol, French writer and film producer/director (d. 1974)

● 1895 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (d. 1984)

● 1901 - Zeppo Marx, American actor (d. 1979)

● 1908 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist (d. 2001)

● 1910 - Millicent Fenwick, American fashion editor and politician (d. 1992)

● 1913 - Jim Backus, American actor (d. 1989)

● 1913 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (d. 1988)

● 1916 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)

● 1917 - Anthony Burgess, English author (d. 1993)

● 1918 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)

● 1918 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)

● 1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist

● 1919 - Monte Irvin, Baseball hall-of-famer

● 1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)

● 1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)

● 1927 - Ralph Stanley, Country singer

● 1928 - Larry Gelbart, American comedy writer

● 1929 - Tommy Newsom, Musician

● 1929 - Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)

● 1932 - Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)

● 1934 - Tony Lema, American pro golfer (d. 1966)

● 1935 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host

● 1937 - Tom Courtenay, British actor

● 1937 - Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist

● 1937 - Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I

● 1938 - Diane Baker, American actress

● 1938 - Herb Elliott, Australian runner

● 1940 - Billy Packer, American sports broadcaster

● 1940 - Ron Santo, baseball player

● 1940 - Danny Cater, baseball player

● 1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress

● 1942 - Carl Eller, former American football player

● 1943 - Wilson Piazza, Brazilian footballer

● 1943 - George Harrison, British musician (the Beatles) (d. 2001)

● 1944 - Karen Grassle, Actress (''Little House on the Prairie'')

● 1946 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist

● 1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete

● 1947 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist, (The Velvet Underground)

● 1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor

● 1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler

● 1950 - Neil Jordan, Irish director

● 1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina

● 1950 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)

● 1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner

● 1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster

● 1951 - César Cedeño, baseball player

● 1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)

● 1953 - José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain

● 1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor

● 1954 - John Doe, American musician

● 1958 - Kurt Rambis, American basketball player

● 1958 - Jeff Fisher, Football coach

● 1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm)

● 1960 - Tony Grimaud, Maltese-born singer and songwriter

● 1960 - Stefan Blöcher, German field hockey player

● 1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)

● 1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player

● 1962 - Birgit Fischer, German kayaker

● 1963 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality

● 1964 - Lee Evans, British comedian

● 1964 - Don Majkowski, American football player

● 1965(67? NYT) - Carrot Top, American Comedian

● 1965 - Veronica Webb, Actress

● 1966 - Alexis Denisof, American actor (''Angel'')

● 1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)

● 1966 - Téa Leoni, American actress

● 1968 - Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress

● 1968 - Lesley Boone, Actress (''Ed'')

● 1968 - Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer

● 1969 - Paul Trimboli, Australian footballer

● 1971 - Sean Astin, American actor (''Lord of the Rings'' movies)

● 1971 - Dave Harris, American disc jockey

● 1971 - Daniel Powter, Canadian musician

● 1973 - Julio Iglesias Jr., Singer

● 1973 - Richard Liles, Rock musician (3 Doors Down)

● 1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)

● 1973 - Anson Mount, American actor

● 1974 - Shannon Stewart, Baseball player

● 1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, musician (''The Office'')

● 1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer

● 1977 - Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress

● 1977 - Josh Wolff, American footballer

● 1981 - Jamie Lynn, American model

● 1981 - Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer

● 1981 - Misty Giles, American beauty queen and Survivor contestant

● 1982 - Chris Baird, Irish footballer

● 1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)

● 1985 - Joakim Noah, American basketball player

● 1985 - Moorea Wolfe, Canadian fitness model

● 1986 - Justin Berfield, American actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')

● 1986 - James and Oliver Phelps, British actors (both ''Harry Potter'' movies)

● 1998 - Brendon Baerg, American actor

DEATHS

● 1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd

● 1522 - William Lilye, English classical scholar

● 1536 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)

● 1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)

● 1558 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)

● 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)

● 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)

● 1634 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)

● 1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)

● 1655 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)

● 1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)

● 1713 - King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)

● 1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)

● 1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)

● 1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)

● 1798 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)

● 1805 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)

● 1831 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)

● 1850 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)

● 1852 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)

● 1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)

● 1899 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)

● 1912 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)

● 1934 - John McGraw, baseball player and manager (b. 1873)

● 1945 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)

● 1950 - George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1885)

● 1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

● 1957 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)

● 1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)

● 1970 - Mark Rothko, American painter

● 1971 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

● 1975 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)

● 1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (b. 1920)

● 1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)

● 1987 - James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)

● - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)

● 1994 - Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass killer (b. 1956)

● 1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)

● 1996 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)

● 1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

● 2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)

● 2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)

● 2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Ember Day
● St. Adeltrude
● St. Ananias II
● St. Ananias III
● St. Aventanus
● St. Caesarius of Nazianzus
● St. Donatus
● St. Klaudian
● St. Matthias the Apostle (leap years)
● St. Tarasius
● St. Victorinus
● St. Walburgis, abbess
● Bl. Constantius
● Bl. Didacus Carvalho
● Bl. Dominic Lentini
● Bl. Romeo

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 12 (Civil Date: February 25)
● St. Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople
● St. Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch.
● St. Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow and wonderworker of All Russia.
● St. Anthony, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Mary, nun (who was called Marinus), and her father, St. Eugene, monk, at Alexandria.
● New-Martyr Chrestos at Constantinople.
● St. Bassian, abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery, Uglich.
● New-Martyr Alexius, Bishop of Voronezh (1930).
● New-Martyr Archpriest Mitrophan (1931).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Saturninus and Plotinus.
● Iveron Icon (Moscow) of the Most Holy Theotokos.
● Repose of cave-dweller Anastasia Logacheva (1875).

● Anglican:
● Ember Day

● Lutheran:
● Elizabeth Fedde, deaconess,

● Christian:
● St. Avertanus
● Bl. Romeo

● Kuwait's national day.

● People Power Day, special holiday in the Philippines.

● México : Coronado Day (1540)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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