February 14 is internationally known as Valentine's Day, named after the Saint Valentinus of Terni, in Italy, executed in 270.
Day of the week in surrounding years:
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—MON—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—TUE—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—WED—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—THU—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—FRI—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SAT—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SUN—2010
PASCAL DATE INFORMATION
Easter Sunday for the Western Christian Church is defined as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Lent is defined as the forty days prior to Easter not including Sundays thus Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 46 days prior to Easter. Calculations for Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday were performed for the 3774 years from 326 to 4099. For the year range 326 to 1582, dates are based on the Julian calendar. For years 1583 to 4099, dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Ash Wednesday falls in a range of 36 days from February 4 to March 10. Easter Sunday falls in a range of 35 days from March 22 to April 25. The extra day in the Ash Wednesday range is February 29, which only occurs in leap years. February 29 only effects when Ash Wednesday occurs since it is well before the Spring Equinox and has no effect on the date for Easter Sunday. March 10 to March 21 is a twelve-day range that must occur in Lent no matter the timing of Easter Sunday. The entire range of 82 dates from February 4 to April 25 represents all dates with Pascal ramifications.
February 14 is the 11th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 111 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 25th of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
367, 378, 389, 400, 462, 473, 484, 557, 568, 647, 652, 731, 742, 815, 826, 837, 899, 910, 921, 932, 994, 1005, 1016, 1089, 1100, 1179, 1184, 1263, 1274, 1347, 1358, 1369, 1431, 1442, 1453, 1464, 1526, 1537, 1548, 1646, 1652, 1657, 1714, 1720, 1725, 1866, 1872, 1877, 1923, 1934, 1945
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2018, 2024, 2029, 2170, 2176, 2181, 2238, 2244, 2249, 2306, 2312, 2317, 2396, 2401, 2480, 2485, 2548, 2553, 2610, 2616, 2621, 2700, 2762, 2768, 2773, 2852, 2857, 2863, 2920, 2925, 3072, 3077, 3140, 3145, 3224, 3235, 3376, 3387, 3444, 3449, 3455, 3512, 3517, 3596, 3601, 3607, 3680, 3691, 3748, 3759, 3816, 3821, 3827, 3900, 3968, 3973, 3979, 4052, 4063, 4074
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Culture "That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all." — Henry Ward Beecher
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . . The opportunities evolving in Iraq today are of such unprecedented nature and scope that no other existing firm has the necessary skills and experience to be effective both in Washington D.C. and on the ground in Iraq. It is for this reason that we have created New Bridge Strategies and brought together the knowledge of American business professionals with over 25 years of experience in Iraq and throughout the Middle East and the political experience of some of the most success government and political professionals in Washington, D.C., and London to a complete package of business services offering:
. . ." — From the website of New Bridge Strategies, a firm headed by Joe M. Allbaugh, who was George W. Bush's campaign manager in 2000. The firm was founded in May 2003. newbridgestrategies.com.—Part 2 of 9 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are." — Charles "Casey" Stengel, New York Yankees Hall of Fame Manager, was another master of obfuscation, Stengel is Hall of Shame member #7.
{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.}
MOON PHASE
Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: First Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 53% Age: 26% Rise: 11:07 AM Set: 1:37 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: First Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 53% Age: 26% Rise: 11:40 AM Set: 1:42 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: First Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 52% Age: 26% Rise: 10:45 AM Set: 1:41 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM Name: First Quarter Moon Percent of Full: 52% Age: 26% Rise: 10:18 AM Set: 1:18 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Long Stem Rosette
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block (Caelum Observatory) and Tim Puckett
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
● 1014 - Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
● 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
● 1130 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
● 1349 - Two thousand Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg, Germany.
● 1540 - Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
● 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
● 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
● 1610 - Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
● 1630 - Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
● 1670 - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
● 1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
● 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
● 1746 - Henry Pelham appointed English premier
● 1760 - Richard Allen, the first black ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1799), and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1816, was born in slavery in Philadelphia. {It is interesting to note despite the common notion there was slavery outside the south.}
● 1766 - Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
● 1778 - The United States Flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
● 1779 - James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii after taking hostages.
● 1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
● 1797 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent & Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
● 1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, PA
● 1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
● 1804 - Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
● 1804 - New Jersey becomes the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
● 1805 - Colonial American theologian Henry Ware, 41, was confirmed as the first Unitarian professor to teach at Harvard University. Soon after, the Trinitarian Congregationalist teachers began withdrawing from the school, and in 1808 established Andover Theological Seminary.
● 1817 - Birth as a slave of Frederick Douglass, black abolitionist and founder of the influential The North Star newspaper in Rochester, New York. "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."
● 1831 - Parisians plunder a church and Archbishop's palace in a demonstration against the former Bourbon dynasty.
● 1831 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
● 1835 - The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
● 1843 - The event that inspired the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.
● 1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, one of the most influential leaders of the women's suffrage movement, was born.
● 1848 - Prussian Revolution begins.
● 1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
● 1854 - Texas linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
● 1859 - Oregon admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
● 1862 - Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
● 1867 - Morehouse College organizes (Augusta GA)
● 1870 - Esther Morris becomes the first woman justice of the peace in the U.S. Morris had been credited with winning women's suffrage in Wyoming territory the previous year. She arm-twisted two Democratic lawmakers into sponsoring legislation giving women the vote. Most Wyoming lawmakers treated the measure lightheartedly, hoping their bold step would attract more women to the territory. Democrats, for their part, were counting on a veto by Gov. John Campbell. After the bill passed, however, Campbell promptly signed it, making Wyoming the first state or territory to enact women's suffrage. In 1872, the Democrats try to repeal the bill, offering Campbell $2,000 to cooperate. The governor firmly refused.
● 1872 - 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
● 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor.
● 1879 - The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
● 1883 - 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
● 1886 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
● 1889 - 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
● 1894 - Venus is both a morning star & evening star
● 1896 - Birth of George Cheitanov, Yambol, Bulgaria. Writer, speaker, theorist of the Bulgarian anarchist movement. His first radical act was the burning the files of the local court in 1913, which forced him to flee the country, landing in Paris at the age of 18. Returning to Bulgaria in 1914, he was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned two years before escaping to Moscow. Displeased with the Bolsheviks. Foments an insurrection in Bulgaria, again imprisoned with other anarchists, but they manage to escape and go underground. After launching an attack in Sofia in April 1925, martial law was declared. Cheitanov was captured and executed the night of June 2, at age 29.
● 1899 - Congress approved and President William McKinley signed legislation authorizing states to use voting machines for federal elections.
● 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
● 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
● 1903 - The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and Dept. of Labor).
● 1903 - Western Federation of Miners strikes for eight-hour day.
● 1912 - Arizona admitted as the 48th U.S. state. Newest state in the union until Alaska admitted in 1959, for this period of time carried the nickname, "The Baby State."
● 1912 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
● 1913 - Birth of American labor strongman Jimmy Hoffa (1913-????).
● 1914 - Birth of Ira F. Stanphill, Assemblies of God clergyman and song evangelist. He is best known today for the hymn, "Room at the Cross," which he penned in 1946.
● 1914 - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
● 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar).
● 1919 - The Polish-Soviet War begins.
● 1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. The first president of the organization was Maude Wood Park.
● 1921 - Canadian 5¢ nickel coin is authorized
● 1921 - In New York, Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson face obscenity charges for publishing a portion of James Joyce's "Ulysses." They were fined $50.
● 1923 - American-Italian anarchist Nicola Sacco goes on prison hunger strike.
● 1924 - The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.
● 1925 - State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
● 1927 - Uprising of Portugese workers crushed, with 270 killed and over 1,000 injured.
● 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Seven members of Chicago's Moran gang, waiting in a garage for a shipment of hijacked liquor, are executed by a Capone firing squad outfitted in police uniforms.
● 1931 - Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
● 1933 - Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak is fatally wounded in Miami, Florida, by an assassin's bullet intended for Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
● 1936 - National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
● 1940 - British merchant vessel fleet is armed
● 1940 - The first porpoise born in captivity arrived at Marineland in Florida.
● 1941 - Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
● 1941 - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
● 1942 - Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
● 1942 - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
● 1942 - Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
● 1943 - Stanley Murphy and Louis Taylor begin three-month prison hunger strike over discrimination against conscientious objectors, Danbury, Connecticut.
● 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia.
● 1943 - World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
● 1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
● 1945 - Bombing of Prague - probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
● 1945 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
● 1945 - Fascism destroyed in City of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina(then:Yugoslavia) thanks to partisans(Dalmatinaska birgada, Hercegovacka divizija).
● 1945 - On the second day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. {This is significant since there were no targets of military value in the city. It was meant to break the will and kill the civilian population.}
● 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
● 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
● 1946 - The Bank of England is nationalized.
● 1949 - Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
● 1949 - Russian-born English chemist and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, 74, was elected first president of the newly restored modern state of Israel.
● 1949 - Asbestos workers begin six-month strike, Quebec. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
● 1949 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes.
● 1950 - USSR & China sign peace treaty
● 1952 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - VI Olympic Winter Games open in Oslo, Norway.
● 1954 - Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
● 1956 - Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
● 1956 - The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union starts in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Josef Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
● 1957 - Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
● 1957 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC, originally with another name) is founded. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes its president, Atlanta, Georgia.
● 1958 - Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
● 1960 - Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
● 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
● 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
● 1963 - US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
● 1965 - Less than a week before his assassination, Malcolm X's home fire bombed. New York City.
● 1966 - Australian currency is decimalized.
● 1967 - Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico.
● 1971 - Pres. Richard Nixon orders secret taping system in the White House. {His vanity to "be remembered by history," proves to be his downfall when he tapes himself and his staff participating in the Watergate cover-up.}
● 1972 - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
● 1973 - First released group of American prisoners of war (POWs) formally held by North Vietnam arrive in the U.S. at Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
● 1974 - Russian author charged with treason; Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR. {His real crime was telling the truth.}
● 1975 - Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1978 - 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
● 1979 - In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
● 1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
● 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the CBS Evening News.
● 1981 - Stardust Disaster. A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
● 1983 - A 6-year-old boy became the first person to receive a heart and liver transplants in the same operation.
● 1983 - United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.
● 1985 - Cable News Network reporter Jeremy Levin was freed. He had been being held in Lebanon by extremists.
● 1985 - The U.S. Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism announced their decision to begin accepting women as rabbis.
● 1986 - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History agrees to return Native American skeletal remains for reburial when a clear biological or cultural link can be established.
● 1988 - Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay
● 1989 - African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
● 1989 - Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini (aka "Chuckles") passes a sentence of death on Salman Rushdie, orders Muslims to murder "Satanic Verses" author. He also offers a $1 to $3 million bounty for a successful killing.
● 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
● 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. {Another case of too little too late; this was a criminal act and should have carried criminal penalties, i.e. jail time for those responsible.}
● 1989 - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
● 1990 - 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
● 1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
● 1991 - Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
● 1992 - Cease fire in Somalia begins
● 1993 - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
● 1993 - Missing two-year-old found dead; Police confirm a body found on a railway embankment in Merseyside is that of missing toddler James Bulger.
● 1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer was executed by shooting.
● 1996 - China launches a Long March 3 rocket, carrying a Intelsat 708 satellite, that ended in tragedy: The rocket flew off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashed into the nearest rural village. A number of people are killed. It is later discovered that a gust of wind caused the incident.
● 1997 - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery began a series of spacewalks that were required to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.
● 1997 - In "Prince of Peace Plowshares," six activists pour blood and symbolically disarm the U.S.S. Sullivans at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. All are eventually convicted of trespass and destruction of government property.
● 1997 - Last remaining Jahalin Bedoiin families, who had been living in the Abu-Dis area of Palestine for over 40 years, are forcibly removed to make way for new Jewish settlements (illegal under the Oslo accords).
● 1997 - Lawrence 'killed by racists'; Jurors at the inquest into the death of Stephen Lawrence have decided the black teenager was unlawfully killed "in a completely unprovoked racist attack by five white youths".
● 1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
● 2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
● 2002 - Launching his defense against war crimes charges, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic justified his actions as a ''struggle against terrorism'' and said he was a victim of twisted facts and ''terrible fabrication.'' {Sounds strangely familiar to the arguments that Shrub uses to justify the continued war crimes in Iraq.}
● 2002 - The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board.
● 2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Shays-Meehan bill. The bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate, would ban millions of unregulated money that goes to the national political parties.
● 2003 - Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.
● 2003 - In Madrid, Spain, a ceramic plate with a bullfighting motif painted by Pablo Picasso in 1949 was stolen from an art show. The plate was on sale for $12,400.
● 2004 - Guerrillas overwhelmed a police station west of Baghdad, killing 23 people and freeing dozens of prisoners. {I do not understand why the New York Times bothers to single out this report of violence in Iraq, the daily toll there quite often exceeds these numbers.}
● 2004 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
● 2005 - Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the Cedar Revolution (Intifada of Independence).
● 2005 - Seven people were killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
● 2006 - Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment; Russia and France immediately called on Iran to halt its work.
● 2006 - UK cardholders had to use their PIN to be sure they could pay with their chip and PIN card. This change was made to better protect cardholders against fraudsters.
BIRTHS
● 1404 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
● 1468 - Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)
● 1483 - Babur, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
● 1602 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
● 1680 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
● 1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754)
● 1701 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
● 1763 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
● 1766 - Thomas Malthus, English economist (d. 1834)
● 1788 - Fernando Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)
● 1812 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
● 1818 - Frederick Douglas adopted as his birthday (d. 1895)
● 1819 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor who developed the typewriter (d. 1890)
● 1819 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (d. 1880)
● 1824 - Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)
● 1828 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
● 1845 - Qunitin Hogg, English philanthropist and social reformer (d. 1903)
● 1846 - Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)
● 1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
● 1847 - Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)
● 1848 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
● 1856 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)
● 1869 - Charles T. R. Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)
● 1871 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
● 1877 - Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, American electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1956)
● 1882 - George Jean Nathan, American author, editor, and drama critic (d. 1958)
● 1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
● 1884 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
● 1884 - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
● 1890 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
● 1892 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
● 1894 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
● 1895 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
● 1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
● 1902 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
● 1903 - Stu Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
● 1905 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
● 1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
● 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (disappeared 1975)
● 1913 - Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)
● 1913 - Woody Hayes, American college football coach {and undiagnosed bi-polar sufferer who hit opposing players when they did well against his team.} (d. 1987)
● 1914 - Margarete Mewes, Nazi overseer at concentration camp
● 1914 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
● 1916 - Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
● 1916 - Marcel Bigeard, French general
● 1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate
● 1921 - Hugh Downs, American television host
● 1922 - Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
● 1927 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
● 1929 - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
● 1931 - Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (d. 2006)
● 1931 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
● 1932 - Alexander Kluge, German actor and film director
● 1933 - Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
● 1934 - Florence Henderson, American actress (''The Brady Bunch'')
● 1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
● 1936 - Andrew Prine, American actor
● 1936 - Fanne Foxe, Argentine dancer and focus of a 1974 scandal involving Congressman Wilbur Mills.
● 1939 - Razzy Bailey, Country singer
● 1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
● 1941 - Donna Shalala, American educator
● 1941 - Paul Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 1997)
● 1942 - Andrew Robinson, American actor
● 1942 - Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
● 1942 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)
● 1943 - Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)
● 1943 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
● 1944 - Alan Parker, British film director and writer
● 1944 - Carl Bernstein, American journalist
● 1944 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)
● 1945 - Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
● 1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
● 1946 - Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (d. 2003)
● 1947 - Judd Gregg, US senator, R-NH
● 1947 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
● 1948 - Pat O'Brien, American sportscaster and television host (''The Insider'')
● 1948 - Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
● 1950 - Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
● 1951 - JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
● 1951 - Kevin Keegan, English footballer
● 1951 - Michael Doucet, Cajun singer-musician (Beausoleil)
● 1952 - Nancy Keenan, current NARAL president
● 1955 - Rip Rogers, American professional wrestler
● 1957 - Alan Hunter, one of the original MTV VJs
● 1957 - Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
● 1958 - Enrique Mansilla, Argentine racing driver
● 1958 - Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer
● 1959 - Renée Fleming, Canadian born American soprano
● 1960 - Jim Kelly, American football player and Hall of Fame member
● 1960 - Meg Tilly, Canadian actress
● 1961 - Dwayne Wiggins, Singer-producer
● 1961 - Phillip Hamilton, American author
● 1962 - Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
● 1962 - Michael Higgs, English actor
● 1962 - Philippe Sella, French rugby player
● 1962 - Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress
● 1963 - Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
● 1964 - Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
● 1964 - Zach Galligan, American actor
● 1966 - Petr Svoboda, National Hockey League player
● 1966 - Ricky Wolking, Rock musician (The Nixons)
● 1967 - Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
● 1967 - Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British entrepreneur
● 1968 - Jules Asner, American model and television personality
● 1968 - Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler
● 1969 - Adriana Behar, Brazilian beach volleyball player
● 1969 - Harry Colon, American football player
● 1970 - Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
● 1970 - Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor
● 1971 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
● 1971 - Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler
● 1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football player
● 1972 - Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
● 1972 - Kevin Baldes, Rock musician (Lit)
● 1972 - Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress
● 1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician (matchbox twenty)
● 1973 - Steve McNair, American football player
● 1974 - Filippa Giordano, Italian singer
● 1974 - Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
● 1975 - Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)
● 1975 - Yul Kwon, American Survivor contestant
● 1976 - Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves' Eyes, ex-Theatre of Tragedy)
● 1977 - Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
● 1977 - Darren Bennett, a Professional Latin Ballroom Dancer
● 1977 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
● 1978 - Darius Songaila, basketball player
● 1978 - Dean Gaffney, British actor
● 1978 - Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
● 1979 - Antonio Chatman, American football player
● 1979 - Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
● 1980 - Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
● 1980 - Josh Senter, American screenwriter
● 1980 - Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
● 1982 - Marián Gáborík, Slovak hockey player
● 1983 - Bacary Sagna, French footballer
● 1983 - Will South, Thirteen Senses frontman
● 1984 - Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
● 1985 - Heart Evangelista, Pinay celebrity
● 1985 - Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-English actress and model
● 1985 - Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1985 - Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol
● 1985 - Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
● 1985 - Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
● 1986 - Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver
● 1986 - Roxanne Guinoo, Filipino actress
● 1987 - David Wheater, English footballer
● 1987 - Joseph Pichler, American actor
● 1987 - Julia Savicheva, Russian Singer
● 1988 - Ángel Di María, Argentine soccer player
● 1988 - Eliska Sursova, Spanish American actress
● 1992 - Freddie Highmore, British actor (''Finding Neverland,'' ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'')
● 1994 - Allie Grant, American actress
● 1994 - Paul Butcher Jr., American actor
DEATHS
● 270 - St. Valentine marking Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).
● 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)
● 1317 - Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
● 1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
● 1405 - Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
● 1523 - Pope Adrian VI
● 1571 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
● 1676 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
● 1714 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
● 1737 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
● 1744 - John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
● 1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
● 1780 - William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
● 1808 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
● 1831 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
● 1831 - Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
● 1870 - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
● 1881 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
● 1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
● 1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
● 1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
● 1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
● 1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
● 1942 - Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
● 1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
● 1943 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
● 1945 - Mordecai Brown, baseball player (b. 1876)
● 1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
● 1952 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
● 1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
● 1959 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
● 1967 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
● 1969 - Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
● 1970 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
● 1974 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
● 1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
● 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
● 1979 - Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
● 1980 - Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
● 1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
● 1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
● 1987 - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
● 1988 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
● 1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
● 1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
● 1995 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
● 1995 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
● 1999 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
● 1999 - John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
● 2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
● 2003 - Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
● 2003 - Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
● 2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
● 2005 - Najai Turpin, American boxer
● 2005 - Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)
● 2006 - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
● 2006 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
● 2006 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
● 2007 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
● 2007 - Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Cyril, monk/missionary to the Slavs and Methodius, bishop/missionary to the Slavs, patron saints of Europe.
● St. Dionysius
● St. Eleuchadius
● St. Maro
● St. Nostrianus
● St. Theodosius
● St. Valentine, physician/martyr/patron of lovers (d. 422)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 1 (Civil Date: February 14)
● Martyr Tryphon of Campsada (Lampsakon) near Apamea in Syria.
● Martyrs Perpetua, a woman of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas.
● St. Peter the Galatian, hermit near Antioch in Syria.
● St. Vendemianus (Bendemianus), hermit of Bithynia.
● St. Basil, Archbishop of Thessalonica.
● New-Martyr Anastasius at Anaplus.
● St. Tryphon of Pechenga and Kola.
● St. Bridget (Brigit) of Ireland.
● New-Martyr priest Peter Skipetrov (1918).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Timothy the Confessor.
● Martyrs Theonas, two children, and Karion.
● Lutheran and Anglican:
● Sts. Cyril, monk/missionary to the Slavs and Methodius, bishop/missionary to the Slavs
● Admission Day to the United States:
● Oregon (1859) 33rd State
● Arizona (1912) 48th State
● Bulgaria - Viticulturists' Day/Trifon Zarezan, cult of Dionysus (Wine-grower’s Day)
● Denmark - Gaekkebrev/Fjörtende Februar-gift exchanges by school kids
● Iraq - 'Communist Martyrs Day' celebrated by Iraqi Communist Party.
● Mexico - Day of National Mourning (Vincent Guerrero-1831)
● Norway - Ballantine's Day.
● Western World - Valentine's Day. (269)
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This Original Wikipedia List form the core of this post.
Additional facts taken from:
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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