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Today in History ~ February 4
Events1194 - Richard I ("The Lion Hearted") pays Leopold VI's ransom of 100,000
1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow by Czar Peter the Great
1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1787 - Shays' Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays, ended with defeat at Petersham.
1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP [H]
1794 - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1801 - John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis, president of Confederacy [H]
1861 - The 25-year period of conflict known as the Apache War began at Apache Pass, Ariz., with the arrest of Apache Chief Cochise for raiding a ranch. Cochise escaped his U.S. Army captors and declared war.
1865 - Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1866 - Mary Baker Eddy "cures" her injuries by opening a bible
1895 - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines [H]
1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1 month)
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
1924 - Mahatma Gandhi was released after spending two years in jail in Bombay.
1932 - New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1938 - "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1938 - Adolf Hitler seized control of the German army and put Nazi officers in key posts as part of a plan that led to World War II.
1941 - United Service Organization (USO) founded
1944 - Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris
1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
1946 - Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC
1949 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1969 - John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
1969 - Yassar Arafat officially takes over as chairman of PLO
1971 - Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1971 - British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1973 - "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
1974 - Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1976 - More than 22,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala and Honduras.
1977 - 11 people were killed when two cars of a Chicago Transit Authority train fell off elevated tracks after a collision with another train.
1982 - President Reagan announced a plan to eliminate all medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
1982 - Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premieres in NYC for 573 performances
1987 - Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1991 - Iran offers to mediate an end to the Persian Gulf War.
1992 - Congress passed a jobless benefits extension bill.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush defended his economic recovery plan before a National Grocers Association meeting in Orlando, Fla. (During his visit, Bush appeared intrigued by an electronic checkout machine, leaving reporters wondering if he'd ever seen such a device before.)
1993 - Congress approved legislation giving employees unpaid leave in the event of a birth or a medical emergency in their family. President Clinton signed it into law the next day.
1993 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control expanded its investigation into contaminated hamburger meat that sickened hundreds of people in four Western states.
1994 - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
1997 - A civil jury in Santa Monica, Calif., found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, awarding $8.5 million in compensatory damages to Goldman's parents. (Six days later, the jury added $25 million in punitive damages to go to Nicole Brown Simpson's estate and Goldman's father.)
1997 - Seventy-three Israeli soldiers were killed in the collision of two helicopters.
1998 - Bill Gates gets a pie in his face in Brussels Belgium
1999 - An unarmed African immigrant was shot to death by four New York City officers searching for a rape suspect. The four officers later were charged with second-degree murder.
2002 - President Bush submitted a $2.13 trillion budget for the 2003 fiscal year to Congress, including a 14 percent or $48 billion increase in defense spending.
Birthdays Today
1747 - Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, American Revolution hero (built West Point)
1802 - Mark Hopkins (educator: Williams College president: U.S. President Garfield said, "All that is needed for a superior education is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.")
1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
1881 - Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
1902 - Charles Lindbergh (Lucky Lindy) (aviator: First to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean: flew The Spirit of St. Louis from NY to Paris [May 1927]; a major name in politics and business)
1904 - MacKinlay Kantor (Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Andersonville, [1956]; Long Remember, Gettysburg, Signal Thirty-Two)
1905 - Eddie Foy Jr. (actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Bells Are Ringing, The Pajama Game, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Four Jacks and a Jill)
1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church)
1912 - Byron Nelson (golfer: Masters Champion [1937 & 1942], U.S. Open Champion [1939], PGA Champion [1940 & 1945]; PGA record for most wins in a season [18 tournaments in 1945])
1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
1912 - James Craig (Meador) (actor: The Devil's Brigade, The Human Comedy)
1913 - Dick Seaman (auto racer)
1913 - Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor)
1915 - William Talman (actor: Armored Car Robbery, The Hitch-Hiker, One Minute to Zero)
1918 - Ida Lupino (actress: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, On Dangerous Ground, My Boys Are Good Boys; director: The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, The Trouble with Angels)
1918 - Norman Wisdom (comedian, actor: The Night They Raided Minsky's)
1921 - Betty Friedan (Goldstein) (feminist author: The Feminine Mystique; founder of the National Organization for Women [NOW])
1923 - Conrad Bain (actor: Different Strokes, Postcards from the Edge, Bananas)
1929 - Neil Johnston (Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Warriors center [1951-1959], coach [1960]; 4-time, NBA all-star)
1931 - Isabel Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
1935 - Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
1941 - John Steel (singer, musician: drummer: group: Animals: Baby Let Me Take You Home, House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Cheryl Miller (actress: Mountain Man, Dr. Death Seeker of Souls)
1944 - Florence LaRue (Gordon) (singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away, Stoned Soul Picnic, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Wedding Bell Blues, One Less Bell to Answer)
1944 - Gary Smith (hockey)
1945 - David Brenner (comedian, talk-show host: The David Brenner Show, Nightlife)
1945 - Ron Cerrudo (golfer)
1948 - Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) (singer: I'm Eighteen, School's Out, You and Me, No More Mr. Nice Guy)
1948 - Ron Jessie (football)
1950 - Pamela Franklin (actress: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Flipper's New Adventure, David Copperfield, Eleanor and Franklin)
Famous deaths
0211 - Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64
1505 - Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40
1617 - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
1894 - Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79
1957 - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
1965 - U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1966 - Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
1987 - Flamboyant pianist Liberace (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67 in his block-long palace in Palms Springs, California, of AIDS (officially of a brain disease).
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