|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
Today in History ~ February 13
Events1349 - Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf, Switzerland
1545 - William of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1566 - St Augustine, Florida established
1601 - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for stating that earth revolves around the Sun
1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School, founded
1689 - British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights, and offered the crown jointly to William and Mary, provided they accept the Bill of Rights. [H]
1692 - MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III
1693 - College of William & Mary opens
1777 - The Marquis de Sade is arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1816 - -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
1826 - American Temperance Society forms in Boston
1832 - 1st appearance of cholera in London
1837 - Riot in NY over high price of flour
1858 - Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president
1861 - First Medal of Honor action is performed by Colonel Bernard J.D. Irwin, an assistant Army surgeon serving in the first major U.S.-Apache conflict. [H]
1862 - -Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson, TN by General U.S. Grant
1864 - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
1866 - Jesse James holds up his 1st bank in Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
1867 - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1886 - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1895 - Moving picture projector patented
1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
1920 - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1924 - King Tut's tomb opened
1925 - US Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult
1935 - 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
1935 - Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Ann and Charles Lindbergh's infant
1937 - "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1942 - Hitler's invasion of England cancelled
1943 - German assault on Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front
1945 - Allied planes fire-bomb Dresden; 135,000 die [H]
1945 - USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1970 - Man-eating tiger reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1971 - 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
1971 - Golfing VP Spiro Agnew slices 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2
1972 - "1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances
1972 - "Grease" opens on Broadway
1973 - Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC
1974 - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
1985 - Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
1989 - Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1990 - US, England, France & Russia give Germany OK to reunify
1990 - James "Buster" Douglas became the undisputed world heavyweight titleist when his controversial knockout victory over Mike Tyson two days earlier was recognized by two holdout sanctioning bodies.
1991 - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991 - US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 Iraq claimed hundreds of civilians were killed when U.S. bombs hit a building in Baghdad; the United States said the building was a heavily fortified military command center.
1992 - The U.N. secretary-general said he would recommend sending a large U.N. peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia, despite a thinly veiled threat by Serbian rebel leaders that they may be attacked.
1995 - A war crimes tribunal in Geneva indicted 21 Serbs for crimes against humanity in the war in Bosnia. Only one was in custody.
1996 - Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
1998 - Cuba began releasing 299 political prisoners following an appeal by Pope John Paul II.
1998 - Nigerian troops overthrew the military junta that had ruled Sierra Leon since ousting the democratically elected government in May 1997.
2002 - Pakistani police said the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel
Pearl had been arrested.
Birthdays Today
1480 - Hieronymus Aleander, [Gir¢lamo Aleandro], Italian diplomat/cardinal
1754 - Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Perigord, Fr bishop/Napoleoon's Foreign Minister/statesman
1757 - John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer
1831 - John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
1833 - William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1885 - Bess Truman
1885 - Elizabeth Virginia (Wallace) "Bess" Truman, (wife of 33rd U.S. President Harry S Truman)
1887 - Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
1888 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
1892 - Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic).
1900 - Wingy (Joseph) Manone (musician: trumpet: Tar Paper Stomp; singer, bandleader: Nickel in the Slot, Flat Foot Floogie, Annie Laurie)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1910 - William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956)
1911 - Jean Muir (Fullarton) (actress)
1912 - Jose deCapriles (fencer)
1913 - Woody (Wayne) Hayes (College Football Hall of Famer: Ohio State head coach for 33 years)
1918 - Patty Berg (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1946])
1919 - Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
1919 - Oliver Smith (producer, designer)
1920 - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic, Conn opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
1922 - Peter Paul Castiglione (baseball)
1923 - Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1925 - Gene Ames (singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You You You Are the One, Rag Mop, Sentimental Me, Undecided, You You You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melodie d'Amour)
1927 - Jim McReynolds (guitar, folk singer: group: Jim & Jesse: Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail, Ballad of Thunder Road, Golden Rocket)
1930 - Dotty McGuire (singer: group: McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something's Gotta Give, He, Sugartime)
1933 - Kim (Marilyn) Novak (actress: Picnic, The Man with the Golden Arm, Bell Book and Candle, Vertigo)
1934 - George Segal (actor: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Touch of Class, King Rat, Look Who's Talking Now, Taking the Heat, The Bridge at Remagen, Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick and Jane)
1935 - Tommy Jacobs (golfer)
1938 - Oliver Reed (actor: The Prince and the Pauper,Big Sleep, Women in Love, Oliver!)
1941 - Bo Svenson (actor: Delta Force, Heartbreak Ridge, Private Obsession)
1942 - Carol Lynley (Jones) (actress: The Poseidon Adventure, Return to Peyton Place, The Stripper, Fantasy Island, Spirits)
1944 - Peter Tork (Torkelson) (bassist, singer: group: The Monkees: Last Train to Clarksville, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer)
1944 - Sal Bando (baseball)
Famous deaths
1237 - Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd father-general of Dominicans, drowns
1332 - Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies
1542 - Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1883 - Richard Wagner, revolutionary German composer (Die Walkure), dies at 69 in Venice
1891 - David Dixon Porter, US rear admiral (Union), dies at 77
1898 - Henry Lindfield of Brighton, England, died on this day after being involved in an automobile accident, becoming the first driving fatality in Great Britain.
1952 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1953 - William C. Mack of Mack Trucks Inc. died at age ninety-four. Mack trucks, with their hood-mounted bulldogs, are a symbol of durability and toughness in the commercial vehicle industry.
1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86
1976 - Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1979 - Jean Renoir, actor/director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1980 - David Janssen [Meyer], son of Clark Gable/actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
1996 - Martin Balsam, actor, dies at 76
2002 - Veteran singer/songwriter Waylon "Waymore" Jennings dies at age 64 of complications due to diabetes.
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
Yesterday Tomorrow
