Day of the week in surrounding years:
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—MON—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—TUE—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—WED—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—THU—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—FRI—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SAT—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SUN—2011
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 20 is the 17th possible date for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday occurs on this date 115 times during the 3774 years calculated and is ranked 22nd/23rd of the 36 dates.
It occurred on this date previously in the years:
334, 345, 356, 418, 429, 440, 513, 524, 603, 608, 687, 698, 771, 782, 793, 855, 866, 877, 888, 950, 961, 972, 1045, 1056, 1135, 1140, 1219, 1230, 1303, 1314, 1325, 1387, 1398, 1409, 1420, 1482, 1493, 1504, 1577, 1602, 1608, 1613, 1692, 1697, 1760, 1765, 1822, 1828, 1833, 1901, 1980, 1985
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2064, 2075, 2132, 2137, 2205, 2284, 2289, 2295, 2352, 2357, 2436, 2441, 2447, 2504, 2509, 2588, 2599, 2656, 2661, 2667, 2718, 2724, 2729, 2808, 2813, 2819, 2892, 2960, 2971, 2982, 3028, 3033, 3039, 3101, 3180, 3191, 3264, 3275, 3286, 3332, 3343, 3405, 3411, 3484, 3495, 3552, 3563, 3636, 3647, 3658, 3704, 3715, 3788, 3799, 3856, 3867, 3878, 3924, 3935, 4008, 4019, 4030, 4092
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Diversity & Pluralism "Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and nor use or value them creatively." — Bill Mollison
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War Is Hell ". . .
The events unfolding in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East following the fall of the Hussein regime are giving rise to unprecedented opportunities for government and private enterprise to partner in the massive undertaking of rebuilding Iraq. The U.S. Government in Washington, D.C., as well as the postwar government in Iraq will need to rely on the economic strength and willingness of large, international companies in neighboring countries to participate in the new Iraqi economy. . . . " — 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 8 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 "They say he's [Yogi Berra{Hall of Shame member #6}] funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?" — 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)
Full Moon: Feb 20, 2008 7:31 PM Percent of Full: 100% Age: 50% Rise: 5:45 PM Set: 6:40 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Full Moon: Feb 20, 2008 8:31 PM Percent of Full: 100% Age: 50% Rise: 6:08 PM Set: 6:53 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Full Moon: Feb 20, 2008 9:31 PM Percent of Full: 100% Age: 50% Rise: 5:31 PM Set: 6:41 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Full Moon: Feb 20, 2008 10:31 PM Percent of Full: 100% Age: 50% Rise: 5:04 PM Set: 6:19 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Moon Slide Slim
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
● 1525 - Swiss & German mercenaries desert François I's army
● 1547 - Edward VI of England crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey following death of Henry VIII.
● 1613 - Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
● 1653 - Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
● 1673 - The first recorded wine auction took place in London.
● 1710 - Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
● 1725 - Ten sleeping Indians scalped by Capt. Lovewell and troops at Wakefield (in what will be New Hampshire) for £100 per scalp bounty. First recorded instance of white men scalping.
● 1732 - Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
● 1737 - French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
● 1743 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'Selfish religion loves Christ for his benefits, but not for himself.'
● 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
● 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
● 1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
● 1790 –Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
● 1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington. Postage is 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance.
● 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
● 1805 - Birth of American anti-slavery activist Angelina Grimke, Charleston, S.C.
● 1809 - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
● 1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed.
● 1811 - Austria declares bankruptcy
● 1815 - The USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart fought the British ships Cyane and Levant. The Constitution captures both, but lost the Levant after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution and the Cyane returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane was purchased and became the USS Cyane.
● 1816 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
● 1823 - English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole
● 1831 - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
● 1832 - Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
● 1834 - Oneida Community founded in upstate New York, as a communistic community in which work and life are to be shared. Friendly cooperation with the surrounding Indian tribes is actively sought and achieved.
● 1835 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
● 1839 - Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia.
● 1846 - British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
● 1856 - John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
● 1861 - Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
● 1861 - Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
● 1864 - Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
● 1865 - M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
● 1869 - Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
● 1872 - Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
● 1872 - Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
● 1872 - Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
● 1873 - The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
● 1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
● 1878 - Following the death of Pius IX, Italian cardinal Gioacchino Pecci, 67, was elected Pope Leo XIII. His papacy, possibly the century's most productive, was best known for his teaching encyclicals and for establishing in 1902 the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
● 1880 - The American Bell Company was incorporated.
● 1887 - Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
● 1890 - Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
● 1890 - In Genoa, a group of Italian anarchists embarks on a boat to Brazil, to found the experimental Cecilia Colony.
● 1895 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO
● 1895 - Frederick Douglass, black abolitionist, dies at 78.
● 1898 - Birth of Anton Ciliga, philosopher, activist, anarchist. Active in the Russian Revolution.
● 1899 - Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
● 1901 - The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
● 1902 - Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
● 1902 - Ansel Adams, the photographer noted for his landscapes of the American West, was born in San Francisco, California.
● 1909 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro
● 1913 - King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
● 1915 - Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
● 1917 - Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
● 1919 - French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
● 1921 - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
● 1921 - The film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
● 1922 - Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
● 1926 - Jules Gustave Durand (1880-1926) dies. Anarchist, revolutionary trade unionist, secretary of the trade union of the coalmen of Le Havre. Initiator of the general strike of August 1910, Durand fell victim to a politico-legal machination following the death of a "jaune" in a brawl, for which he was wrongly blamed. The corruption of several witnesses and a ignominious press campaign led to a death sentence in November 1910. A protest strike was called in Le Havre, which spread internationally to English and American docks. A further protest, initiated by the League of the Human Rights, finally lead to his release three months later. Unfortunately, Durand, forcibly subdued in a strait jacket for 40 days, had become insane and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. A reopening of his case cleared his name, and Durand was declared innocent in June 1918.
● 1929 - American Samoa organized as a territory of US
● 1929 - Birth of Sidney Poitier, groundbreaking African-American actor/director.
● 1931 - California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
● 1932 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
● 1933 - Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana's speech
● 1933 - The House of Representatives passes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States.
● 1934 - Utopian Society in Los Angeles starts chain-letter campaign informing U.S. citizens that "Profit is the root of all evil."
● 1935 - Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
● 1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
● 1938 - UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
● 1941 - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
● 1941 - Birth of radical Native American folk singer ("Now That the Buffalo Are Gone") Buffy Sainte-Marie, folksinger, Maine.
● 1941 - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
● 1941 - Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
● 1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers and becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
● 1942 - Norweigan teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools.
● 1943 - Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
● 1943 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
● 1943 - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch, Mexico.
● 1944 - World War II: "Big Week" ended with American bomber raids on Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers.
● 1944 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
● 1947 - Fifteen killed and 100 injured as an explosion levels a Los Angeles, California, electroplating plant where a chemical mixing error occurred. Damages several nearby buildings.
● 1947 - Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
● 1947 - State of Prussia ceases to exist
● 1948 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'One may know God's work for his soul without understanding it all... Let the heart be warm, at all costs to the head, in the getting of Christianity.'
● 1950 - Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour
● 1950 - When a U.S. Air Force B-36 bomber carrying an H-bomb develops engine trouble over the Pacific off Vancouver Island, crew members detontate the bomb (with its plutonium core removed), scattering 45 kg of highly enriched uranium into the atmosphere. Five crew members are killed.
● 1952 - Emmett L. Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
● 1954 - Birth of Patty "Tanya" Hearst. Doctors at the time failed in their attempt to surgically remove the enormous silver spoon inserted in mouth; it was up to Cinque to do the job.
● 1954 - General Zahedi wins election in Persia
● 1956 - U.S. rejects Soviet proposal to ban nuclear weapons tests and deployment.
● 1958 - Historic Sheerness docks to close; The government announces one the oldest naval dockyards in the UK will be shut down.
● 1959 - The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
● 1960 - Death of Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, 80, a British archaeologist who spent more than 40 years in the field. Woolley is remembered for having excavated Ur of the Chaldees, and for discovering the ancient Sumerian civilization.
● 1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.
● 1962 - Wethersfield 6 convicted, sentenced to 12 or 18 months in prison. Old Bailey, London, England.
● 1963 - SNCC voter registration headquarters and four Negro businesses burned in Greenwood, Mississippi.
● 1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
● 1965 - Turkish government of Uergüplü forms
● 1966 - Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
● 1968 - State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
● 1969 - The date that Michel Collin had predicted as the coming of a world wide catastrophe.
● 1971 - Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda
● 1971 - National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
● 1972 - Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
● 1975 - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
● 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1976 - Death of Kathryn Kuhlman, 69, popular American radio and TV evangelist. A member of the American Baptist Convention, Kuhlman's preaching emphasized the healing power of the Holy Spirit.
● 1976 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. {It was rendered useless with the fall of South Vietnam.}
● 1978 - Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
● 1981 - Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
● 1983 - Hundreds die in Assam poll violence; Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to Indian elections.
● 1983 - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
● 1984 - Faroes Islands' Parliament declares country a nuclear-free zone.
● 1984 - Supreme Court upholds ruling that 12 acres taken by Port of Tacoma, worth $112 million, belong to the Puyallup Indians.
● 1985 - Salvadoran prisoners go on a hunger strike to protest prison conditions.
● 1986 - Soviets launch space station Mir; The Soviets open a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir.
● 1987 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, in the USA, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
● 1988 - 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
● 1989 - IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks; Police are hunting two IRA bombers who attacked an army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire.
● 1989 - Total eclipse of the Moon.
● 1991 - A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
● 1992 - Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
● 1992 - Ross Perot announces his intention to run in the 1992 U.S. presidential election on CNN's Larry King Live.
● 1992 - The FA Premier League is formed and takes over as the professional league in England from season 1992–93.
● 1993 - Two ten-year-old boys were charged by police in Liverpool, England, in the abduction and death of a toddler. The two boys were later convicted.
● 1994 - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
● 1994 - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
● 1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
● 1998 - The Nashville Banner daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee, USA publishes its last edition.
● 1998 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
● 1999 –Film critic Gene Siskel died at age 53.
● 2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
● 2002 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
● 2003 - In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.
● 2005 – Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson shot himself to death at age 67.
● 2005 - Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
BIRTHS
● 1563 - John Dowland, English composer, singer, and lutenist (d. 1626)
● 1631 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (d. 1712)
● 1745 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
● 1751 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
● 1753 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
● 1757 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
● 1794 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
● 1802 - Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
● 1808 – Honore Daumier, French caricaturist, painter and sculptor (d. 1879)
● 1819 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
● 1839 - Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
● 1844 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
● 1844 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
● 1848 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
● 1850 - Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
● 1866 - Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
● 1867 - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
● 1874 – Mary Garden, Scottish-bn. American opera singer (d. 1967)
● 1880 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
● 1887 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
● 1888 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
● 1893 - Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
● 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (d. 1988)
● 1898 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
● 1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
● 1901 - Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (d. 1987)
● 1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect (d. 1974)
● 1901 - Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
● 1901 – Rene Dubos, French-born American microbiologist, environmentalist and author (d. 1982)
● 1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
● 1904 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-80) (d. 1980)
● 1906 - Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
● 1910 – Konstantin Sergeyev, Russian ballet dancer, director, and choreographer (d. 1992)
● 1912 - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
● 1914 - John Daly, South African-born broadcaster (d. 2001)
● 1920 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
● 1923 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (d. 1985)
● 1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
● 1925 - Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader
● 1925 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
● 1926 - Richard Matheson, American author
● 1927 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
● 1927 - Roy Cohn, American lawyer, and anti-Communist {and self-hating closeted gay} (d. 1986)
● 1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
● 1929 - Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
● 1930 - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
● 1934 - Bobby Unser, American racing driver
● 1936 - Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
● 1936 - Marj Dusay, American actress
● 1936 - Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
● 1937 - Nancy Wilson, American singer
● 1937 - Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1937 - Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur
● 1938 - Richard Beymer, American actor
● 1939 - Frank Arundel, English footballer
● 1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
● 1942 - Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ
● 1942 - Mitch McConnell, American politician
● 1942 - Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1943 - Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1943 - Mike Leigh, British film director
● 1944 - Martina Newberry, American poet, writer
● 1944 - Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
● 1944 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
● 1945 - Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
● 1945 - Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
● 1946 - Brenda Blethyn, English actress
● 1946 - J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
● 1946 - Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
● 1946 - Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
● 1947 - André van Duin, Dutch comedian
● 1947 - Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
● 1947 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
● 1947 - Peter Strauss, American actor
● 1948 - Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress
● 1948 - Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1949 - Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite
● 1950 - Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
● 1950 - Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
● 1950 - Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
● 1951 - Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
● 1951 - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
● 1951 – Kathie Baillie, Country singer
● 1951 - Phil Neal, English footballer
● 1951 - Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
● 1953 - Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
● 1953 - Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor
● 1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, English actor (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'')
● 1954 - Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick)
● 1954 - Patty Hearst, American socialite
● 1956 - Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1957 - Charlie Adler, American voice actor
● 1957 - Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
● 1957 – Leland Martin, Country singer
● 1958 – James Wilby, Actor
● 1959 - Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
● 1959 – Sebastian Steinberg, Rock musician
● 1960 - Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
● 1960 - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
● 1963 - Charles Barkley, American basketball player
● 1963 - Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
● 1963 - Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
● 1963 - Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
● 1964 – French Stewart, Actor (''3rd Rock from the Sun'')
● 1965 – Ron Eldard, Actor
● 1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model
● 1967 – Andrew Shue, Actor (''Melrose Place'')
● 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
● 1967 - Lili Taylor, American actress
● 1968 - Ted Hankey, English darts player
● 1969 - Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
● 1969 - Tommy Vardell, National Football League fullback
● 1969 - Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
● 1971 - Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
● 1971 - Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
● 1972 - Brent Gretzky, Canadian hockey player; brother of Wayne Gretzky
● 1972 - K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
● 1974 - Ophelie Winter, French actress
● 1975 - Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
● 1975 - Gail Kim, wrestler
● 1975 - Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
● 1976 - Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
● 1976 - Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
● 1977 - Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
● 1977 - Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
● 1977 - T.J. Slaughter, American football player
● 1978 - Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
● 1978 - Jay Hernandez, American actor
● 1978 - Julia Jentsch, German actress
● 1978 - Lauren Ambrose, American actress (''Six Feet Under'')
● 1980 - Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
● 1980 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
● 1980 - Massimo Donati, Italian footballer
● 1981 - Chris Thile, American mandolinist (Nickel Creek)
● 1981 – Majandra Delfino, Actress
● 1981 - Tony Hibbert, English footballer
● 1982 - Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
● 1983 - Justin Verlander, American baseball player
● 1985 – Jake Richardson, Actor
● 1985 - Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
● 1985 - Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
● 1986 - Dilaver Güçlü, Turkish footballer
● 1988(87? NYT) - Rihanna, Barbadian musician
● 1989 - Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress
DEATHS
● 0702 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
● 1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
● 1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
● 1194 - King Tancred of Sicily
● 1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
● 1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
● 1431 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
● 1513 - King Christian II of Denmark (b. 1455)
● 1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
● 1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
● 1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
● 1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
● 1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
● 1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
● 1773 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
● 1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
● 1790 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
● 1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
● 1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
● 1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
● 1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
● 1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
● 1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
● 1905 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
● 1907 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
● 1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
● 1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
● 1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
● 1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
● 1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish Composer(b. 1879)
● 1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
● 1968 - Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
● 1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
● 1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
● 1972 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
● 1972 - Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
● 1975 - Robert Strauss, American politician and diplomat (b. 1918)
● 1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
● 1976 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
● 1980 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)
● 1981 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
● 1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
● 1985 - Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
● 1992 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
● 1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
● 1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
● 1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
● 1996 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
● 1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
● 1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
● 1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
● 2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
● 2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
● 2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
● 2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
● 2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
● 2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
● 2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
● 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (suicide) (b. 1937)
● 2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
● 2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
● 2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
● 2005 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
● 2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Amata
● St. Bolcan
● St. Colgan
● St. Eleutherius of Tournai
● St. Eucherius
● St. Leo of Catania
● St. Sadoth
● Sts. Tyrannio & Silvanus
● Martyrs of Tyre
● St. Valerius
● St. Wulfric
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 7 (Civil Date: February 20)
● St. Parthenius, Bishop of Lampasacus on the Hellespont.
● St. Luke of Hellas.
● The 1,003 Martyrs of Nicomedia.
● Greek Calendar:
● Six Martyrs of Phrygia.
● St. Peter of Monovatia, monk.
● Martyr Theopemptus and Synodia.
● St. Aprionus, Bishop of Cyprus.
● New-Martyr George of Crete.
● Repose of Archimandrite Gennadius, ascetic of Roslavl forests (1826).
● Christian:
● Feast of the Chair of St Peter at Antioch
● Lutheran:
● Rasmus Jensen, pastor
● US : John Glenn Day (1962)
● Note: These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● World : Brotherhood Day (1934) - ( Sunday )
● US : Presidents' Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday - ( Monday )
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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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