Day of the week in surrounding years:
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—MON—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—TUE—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—WED—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—THU—2010
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—FRI—2011
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—SAT—2012
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—SUN—2013
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 26 is the 23rd 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:
374, 385, 396, 469, 480, 559, 564, 643, 654, 727, 738, 749, 811, 822, 833, 844, 906, 917, 928, 1001, 1012, 1091, 1096, 1175, 1186, 1259, 1270, 1281, 1343, 1354, 1365, 1376, 1438, 1449, 1460, 1533, 1544, 1648, 1653, 1659, 1716, 1721, 1727, 1800, 1868, 1873, 1879, 1936, 1941
It will occur on this date in the future in the years:
2020, 2031, 2172, 2183, 2240, 2245, 2251, 2308, 2313, 2392, 2403, 2476, 2487, 2498, 2544, 2555, 2612, 2623, 2696, 2764, 2775, 2848, 2859, 2870, 2916, 2927, 2938, 3000, 3068, 3079, 3090, 3136, 3147, 3220, 3231, 3242, 3372, 3383, 3394, 3440, 3451, 3462, 3508, 3519, 3530, 3592, 3603, 3614, 3676, 3687, 3698, 3744, 3755, 3766, 3777, 3812, 3823, 3834, 3896, 3964, 3975, 3986, 4048, 4059, 4070, 4081
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Ethics "The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings." — Albert Schweitzer
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bashing the Clintons ". . .
I heard the offending program segment, which I found quite humorous in a sharply satirical vein, but perfectly understandable and acceptable. And nobody in the LBJ hierarchy has pulled the plug on the First Amendment until now, because the financial profits have outweighed the political costs.
. . ." — Cliff Sparks, Travis County Republican Party Executive Committeeman. Letters, Austin American-Statesman, 11-1-96. {Letter was in response to editorial quote February 23 blog entry.}—Part 3 of 4 {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 "And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is that Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter; Kansas City leads in the eighth, 4 to 4." — Jerry Coleman was an infielder for the Yankees (what is it about the Bronx Bombers that turned out such a raft of funny speakers?), and manager of the San Diego Padres. After playing, he made his mark as a radio and TV broadcaster, where his malapropisms, non sequiturs, and other goofs became legendary. Coleman is Hall of Shame member #8.
{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 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 74% Age: 67% Rise: 11:58 PM Set: 9:08 AM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Feb 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 75% Age: 67% Rise: no rise Set: 9:37 AM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Feb 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 75% Age: 67% Rise: no rise Set: 8:52 AM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Feb 26, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Gibbous Percent of Full: 75% Age: 67% Rise: 11:39 PM Set: 8:27 AM
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Mysterious Acid Haze on Venus
Credit: ESA/MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 747 B.C.E. - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
● 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
● 1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
● 1531 - Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
● 1534 - Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
● 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
● 1590 - Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda
● 1616 - Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
● 1732 - In Philadelphia, Mass was celebrated for the first time at St Joseph's Church the only Roman Catholic church built and maintained in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.
● 1773 - Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)
● 1794 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
● 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
● 1802 - Author Victor Hugo was born in Besancon, France.
● 1804 - Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
● 1807 - Birth of Johann K.F. Keil, German Bible scholar. His Old Testament commentary, written in collaboration with Franz Delitzsch, first appeared in 1861. Known today as "Keil & Delitzsch," the multi-volume set is still in print!
● 1815 - Napoleon & 1,200 escape from Elba to start 100-day second conquest of France.
● 1832 - Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
● 1834 - 1st US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified {Compact is the term for agreements between states since only the Federal government can enter into treaties.}
● 1840 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.'
● 1846 - Birth of George C. Stebbins, American Baptist music evangelist. A composer of over 1,500 songs during his lifetime, Stebbins is still remembered today for writing the melodies to such hymns as: "I've Found a Friend," "Take Time to Be Holy," "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" and "Jesus is Tenderly Calling Thee Home."
● 1846 - Frontiersman-turned-showman William F. ''Buffalo Bill'' Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa.
● 1848 - The Communist Manifesto, written by Friedrich Engels and a 29-year-old Karl Marx, is published in Brussels.
● 1848 - The second French Republic is proclaimed.
● 1852 - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
● 1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, the American physician who developed dry cereal, was born.
● 1862 - Battle of Woodburn, KY
● 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.
● 1869 - 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
● 1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
● 1870 - Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched.
● 1877 - Vancouver Island's first Coal Miner's union founded.
● 1881 - Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
● 1881 - SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
● 1884 - British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
● 1885 - The Berlin Act, which resulted from the Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, was signed giving the Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England.
● 1891 - 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
● 1893 - 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
● 1894 - With the passing of the "Laws scelerates," Jean Grave is charged for writing "La societe mourante et l'anarchie." He was sent to prison for two years and the court ordered the book be destroyed.
● 1895 - Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine
● 1907 - Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
● 1907 - US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
● 1912 - Coal strike begins, Derbyshire, England. Becomes a general, nationwide strike on March 1.
● 1914 - New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
● 1915 - Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
● 1916 - Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
● 1916 - Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
● 1917 - 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
● 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
● 1918 - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
● 1919 - Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine
● 1919 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.
● 1921 - Russia - The revolutionary Kronstadt sailors sent delegates to Petrograd find out about strikes occurring there. The delegation visited a number of factories and returned two days later, beginning protests against the Bolshevik counter-revolution.
● 1926 - French anarchist Georges Butaud (1868-1926) dies in Ermont. Most of his energies were devoted to creating anarchist colonies; he participated in several of them. In 1898 he founded a radical colony in the Parisian suburbs; he started another in 1899 in Saint Symphorien d' Ozon, in Isire, then in the "Milieu libre de Vaux" near Chateau-Thierry (1902 to 1906); in 1913 in Saint Maur (the Seine) a community farm devoted to agriculture and breeding. Butaud, sensitive to the problems of food consumption, became an advocate of vegetarianism, which he practiced, after the war, in the colony of Bascon (Aisne).
● 1929 - The Grand Teton National Park is created.
● 1930 - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
● 1932 - Country musician Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark.
● 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
● 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
● 1935 - Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration which led directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
● 1935 - The Luftwaffe is reformed.
● 1936 - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
● 1936 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
● 1938 - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
● 1940 - US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY
● 1941 - Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
● 1941 - Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory {and we know how well that turned out}
● 1941 - Workers strike at Bethlehem Steel plants.
● 1942 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
● 1942 - Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
● 1942 - Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
● 1942 - WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
● 1943 - German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
● 1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
● 1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews in Theresienstadt.
● 1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
● 1945 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
● 1946 - 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN
● 1949 - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
● 1951 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
● 1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
● 1952 - Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
● 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has a H-bomb.
● 1953 - Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
● 1954 - 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA
● 1954 - Four crewmen aboard a C-119 die when their plane crashes after observing the time-honored Air Force tradition of buzzing the Huntington, Tennessee courthouse.
● 1954 - Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
● 1955 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith
● 1955 - Singer LaVern Baker appeals to Congress to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 so recording artists can be protected against "note-for-note copying" of all presently recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers. The long-standing problem had been exacerbated by white "rock and roll" artists ripping off previously recorded black music.
● 1960 - Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
● 1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
● 1963 - The Lutheran World Federation's missionary radio station at Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, was dedicated.
● 1965 - Dutch Government of Marijnen falls
● 1965 - Jimmy Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from beating by Alabama police.
● 1965 - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
● 1966 - Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
● 1966 - Four thousand picket outside New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Pres. Lyndon Johnson receives the National Freedom Award. As Johnson begins his speech in defense of his Vietnam policies, James Peck of the War Resisters League jumps to his feet and shouts, "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam!" On the streets, meanwhile, activist A.J. Muste presents the crowd's own "Freedom Award" to Julian Bond, who has been denied his seat in the Georgia legislature for refusing to disavow his war opposition and his support of the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee.
● 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
● 1968 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
● 1968 - Hospital blaze kills 21 patients; Twenty-one female patients die in a fire which sweeps through a wing of the Shelton Mental Hospital near Shrewsbury.
● 1969 - Minority students occupy President's office at Seattle Central Community College.
● 1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.
● 1970 - U.S. Army supposedly discontinues surveillance of civilian anti-war demonstrations and maintenance of files on protestors.
● 1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
● 1972 - West Virginia coalslag heap, which had doubled as a dam, suddenly collapses, flooding the 17-mile ling Buffalo Creek Valley. 125 die, 14 mining camps leveled, and 5,000 people are left homeless.
● 1974 - Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford, and their Nazi war efforts revealed in Senate report.
● 1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
● 1976 - Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never solved but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota. The FBI initially claimed Aquash died of exposure, and buried her before family or friends could view the body; when exhumed, she was found to have an FBI-issue bullet in her head.
● 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
● 1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
● 1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
● 1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
● 1980 - Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
● 1981 - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released
● 1984 - Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
● 1984 - US troops withdraw from Beirut. President Ronald Reagan had sent the troops as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
● 1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Phillipines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines with U.S. assistance.
● 1986 - Robert Penn Warren is named poet laureate of the United States.
● 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
● 1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H
● 1987 - Synod says 'yes' to women priests; The Church of England's General Synod votes by a huge majority in favour of the ordination of women priests.
● 1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
● 1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
● 1990 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991
● 1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
● 1991 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
● 1991 - Pres. George Bush I admits supporting Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- an illegal act.
● 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
● 1991 - U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi conscripts on the Basra road from Kuwait.
● 1992 - Irish Supreme Court rules 14-year-old rape victim may get an abortion.
● 1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. By the following day, over 40 groups will claim responsibility. The buildings would be destroyed in a subsequent attack on September 11, 2001.
● 1995 - at The Houston Astrodome Selena Quintanilla-Perez performed in her last concert before she was killed.
● 1995 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
● 1997 - Thirty-six arrested at a state capitol encampment protesting welfare cutbacks, St. Paul, Minnesota.
● 1998 - An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed entry to either confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor (Wash.) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons were pretty damn high.
● 1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
● 1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean
● 2000 - Pope John Paul II visited Mount Sinai in Egypt, revered as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
● 2000 - UK Government moves to gag ex-spy; Former British spy David Shayler is being sued by the government for breach of confidence and contract over information leaked to a newspaper.
● 2001 - A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes for ordering the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.
● 2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
● 2002 - In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.
● 2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
● 2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
● 2005 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.
BIRTHS
● 1361 - Wenceslaus IV, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (d. 1419)
● 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)
● 1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
● 1629 - Archibald Argyll, Scottish Protestant leader (d. 1685)
● 1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
● 1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
● 1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
● 1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
● 1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
● 1746 - Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
● 1749 - Jeremy Bentham, English jurist and philosopher (d. 1832)
● 1786 - François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
● 1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
● 1802 - Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
● 1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
● 1814 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
● 1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
● 1846 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American pioneer, officer, and hunter (d. 1917)
● 1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, advocate of dietary reform (d. 1943 )
● 1857 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (d. 1926)
● 1858 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
● 1861 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
● 1861 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Lenin's wife (d. 1939)
● 1866 - Herbert H. Dow, American founder of Dow Chemical Co. (d. 1930)
● 1877 - Rudolph Dirks, American cartoonist of "Katzenjammer Kids" (d. 1968)
● 1879 - Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
● 1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
● 1884 - Francesco Borgongini-Duca, Italian Vatican cardinal (d. 1954)
● 1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
● 1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
● 1887 - Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, Indian jurist (d. 1953)
● 1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
● 1893 - I. A. Richards, English literary critic (d. 1979)
● 1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
● 1902 - Jean Bruller, alias Vercors, French writer and illustrator (d. 1991)
● 1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
● 1906 - Madeleine Carroll, English actress (d. 1987)
● 1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
● 1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
● 1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
● 1909 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
● 1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
● 1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
● 1912 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
● 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
● 1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
● 1918 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician and physician
● 1918 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
● 1919 - Mason Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
● 1919 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
● 1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
● 1920 - Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
● 1922 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
● 1926 - Miroslava Stern, Mexican actress (d. 1955)
● 1927 - Tom Kennedy, American game show host
● 1928 - Anatoli Filipchenko, Soviet cosmonaut
● 1928 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
● 1928 - Fats Domino, American musician
● 1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
● 1930 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
● 1931 - Ally McLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
● 1931 - Robert Novak, Political columnist
● 1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
● 1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist {and self-confessed traitor}
● 1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
● 1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
● 1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
● 1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
● 1943 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
● 1943 - Paul Cotton, Country musician (Poco)
● 1945 - Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
● 1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
● 1945 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
● 1945 - Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
● 1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
● 1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
● 1947 - Sandie Shaw, English singer
● 1949 - Emma Kirkby, British early music singer
● 1950 - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
● 1950 - Jonathan Cain, Rock musician (Journey)
● 1951 - Lee Atwater, American political operative (d. 1991)
● 1953 - Michael Bolton, American singer
● 1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
● 1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
● 1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
● 1957 - Joe Mullen, American ice hockey player
● 1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
● 1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
● 1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
● 1961 - John McDaniel, Bandleader
● 1962(58? NYT) - Greg Germann, American actor (''Ally McBeal'')
● 1966 - Jennifer Grant, Actress
● 1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
● 1968 - Ed Quinn, American Actor
● 1968 - J.T. Snow, American baseball player
● 1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
● 1971 - Erykah Badu, American singer
● 1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
● 1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
● 1972 - Rico Wade, R&B singer (Society of Soul)
● 1973 - Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
● 1973 - Marshall Faulk, American football player
● 1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
● 1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
● 1975 - Kyle Norman, R&B singer (Jagged Edge)
● 1976 - Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
● 1977 - Josh Towers, American baseball player
● 1977 - Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player
● 1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
● 1978 - Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
● 1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and "Muppeteer"
● 1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
● 1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
● 1979 - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
● 1979 - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
● 1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
● 1980 - Gary Majewski, American baseball player
● 1980 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer
● 1980 - Rodney Hayden, Country singer
● 1981 - Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
● 1981 - Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
● 1982 - Jay Mullen, British actor
● 1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
● 1983 - Kara Monaco, American model
● 1983 - Varick Pyr, Hip-Hop artist
● 1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
● 1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
● 1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
● 1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
● 1987 - Julia Bond, American adult actress
● 1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress
DEATHS
● 1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
● 1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
● 1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
● 1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
● 1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
● 1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
● 1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
● 1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
● 1608 - John Still, English bishop
● 1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
● 1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
● 1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
● 1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
● 1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
● 1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
● 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
● 1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
● 1821 - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
● 1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
● 1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
● 1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
● 1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
● 1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
● 1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
● 1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
● 1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
● 1943 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
● 1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
● 1950 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (b. 1870)
● 1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
● 1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
● 1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
● 1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
● 1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
● 1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
● 1981 - Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
● 1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
● 1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
● 1990 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1938)
● 1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
● 1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
● 1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
● 1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
● 1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
● 2000 - George L. Street III, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
● 2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
● 2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricket player (b. 1908)
● 2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
● 2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
● 2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
● 2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
● 2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander of Alexandria
● St. Dionysius of Augsburg
● St. Faustinian
● St. Fortunatus
● St. Isabel of France
● St. Mechtild (d. 1154)
● St. Nestor (died 251)
● St. Papias
● St. Victor
● Bl. Edigna
● Bl. Leo of Furnes (d. 1163)
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 13 (Civil Date: February 26)
● St. Martinian, monk of Caesaria in Palestine.
● Holy woman Zoe and Virgin Photina.
● St Symeon the Myrrhgusher, prince of Serbia.
● St. Eulogius, Archbishop of Alexandria.
● St. Joseph of Volokolamsk.
● Greek Calendar:
● Ap & Martyr Aquila, and Priscilla.
● Repose of Archbishop George Konissky of Belo-Russia (1795)
● Repose of Abbess Seraphima of Sezenovo (1877).
● Christian:
● St. Ethelbert, king of Kent; baptized by St. Augustine
● St. Nestor
● Bahá'í Faith - February 26, Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
● Nation of Islam - Savior's Day - commemoration of the birthdate of Wallace Fard Muhammad, believed to be Allah in human form, the saviour of the black race.
● Kuwait - Liberation Day (1991).
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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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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