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Today in History ~ February 28
Events1066 - Westminster Abbey opens
1610 - Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 - Roger Scott is tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1704 - Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 - Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1728 - Georg F Handels opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones" published
1759 - Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
1844 - An explosion rocked the war steamer USS Princeton after it test-fired one of its 12-inch guns, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others. [H]
1847 - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento
1849 - 1st shipload of gold seekers arrived in San Francisco after a five-month journey from New York City.
1854 - Some 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wis., to call for creation of a new political group, which became the Republican Party.
1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1862 - Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
1863 - Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1864 - -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
1864 - -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
1871 - 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1879 - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1888 - Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein trilogy, premieres
1893 - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1904 - Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1917 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1920 - Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres
1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1924 - US begins "intervention" in Honduras
1925 - "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1931 - Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 - Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
1939 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 - Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
1942 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1947 - Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1951 - The Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States.
1953 - Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1961 - JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1974 - Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 - Taiwan police shoot into crowd
1974 - US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years
1975 - 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop and smashed into the end of a tunnel.
1979 - Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in NYC
1982 - AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1982 - The J. Paul Getty Museum becomes the most richly endowed museum on earth [H]
1982 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1988 - Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
1989 - The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company withdrew its Premier smokeless cigarette from the market, citing poor sales.
1990 - The Soviet Parliament passed a law permitting the leasing of land to individuals for housing and farming. It was another radical change in the Stalinist scheme of a state-run economy.
1991 - Allied and Iraqi forces suspended their attacks as Iraq pledged to accept all United Nations resolutions concerning Kuwait.
1992 - A bomb blamed on the IRA ripped through a London railway station, injuring at least 30 people and shutting down the British capital's entire rail and subway system.
1992 - A judge in Rochester Hills, Mich., said euthanasia advocate Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian must stand murder trial for helping two chronically ill women commit suicide.
1992 - The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., opens an exhibit honoring the original Star Trek television series
1993 - A gun battle erupted at a compound near Waco, Texas, when agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians. Four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. [H]
1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1994 - NATO was involved in actual combat for the first time in its 45-year history when four U.S. fighter planes operating under NATO auspices shot down four Serb planes that'd violated the U.N. no-fly zone in central Bosnia.
1994 - The PLO broke off peace talks with Israel.
1995 - Denver International Airport opened after 16 months of delays and $3.2 billion in budget overruns.
1996 - President Clinton and the Congress agreed on a sanctions bill aimed at driving foreign investors from Cuba.
1996 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana agreed to divorce after 15 years of marriage.
1997 - Brushing aside congressional calls for a tougher stance against Mexico, President Clinton recertified the country as a fully cooperating ally in the struggle against drug smuggling.
1997 - In North Hollywood, Calif., two heavily armed masked robbers bungled a bank heist and came out firing, unleashing their arsenal on police, bystanders, cars and TV choppers before they were killed.
1997 - The Democratic National Committee said it would return nearly $1.5 million in contributions that may have been illegal or improper.
1997 - Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
2000 - Right-wing Austrian leader Joerg Haider resigned as head of the Freedom Party in an apparent bid to end Austria's international ostracism following his party's rise to power. Haider had come under scrutiny for his reported admiration of Hitler
2001 - A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Pacific Northwest, injuring 250 people, shattering windows, showering bricks onto sidewalks and sending frightened people running into the streets in places like Seattle and Portland, Ore. causing more than $1 billion damages.
2001 - A train collision in northeast England killed 10 people and injured more than 70.
Birthdays Today
1533 - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
1573 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1663 - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine)
1820 - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1823 - Ernst Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1825 - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1882 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1894 - Ben Hecht (novelist: Eric Dorn; scriptwriter: Wuthering Heights; playwright: The Front Page)
1895 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
1901 - Linus Pauling (Nobel peace prize winner [1962]; Nobel prize for chemistry: [1954])
1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1907 - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
1913 - Vincente Minnelli (Academy Award-winning director: Gigi [1958]; An American in Paris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Judy Garland's husband; Liza Minnelli's father)
1915 - Lee Castle (Castaldo) (trumpet, bandleader: led Jimmy Dorsey's band during time of smash hit, So Rare)
1915 - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
1915 - Zero (Samuel) Mostel (actor: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,Fiddler on the Roof, Journey into Fear)
1920 - Alf Kjellin (actor; director: The Girls of Huntington House)
1923 - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
1924 - Chris Kraft (NASA spokesman: voice of Mission Control during the Mercury and Gemini space missions)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life)
1927 - Stanley Baker (actor: The Guns of Navarone, Knights of the Roundtable)
1928 - Smokey The Bear
1930 - Frank Malzone (baseball)
1931 - Dean Smith (Basketball Hall of Famer; coach: North Carolina Tar Heels; coach of U.S. Olympic Basketball Team [1976])
1931 - Gavin MacLeod (actor: The Love Boat, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1939 - Tommy Tune (Tony Award-winning dancer, actor: My One and Only)
1940 - Mario Andretti (auto racer: Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer)
1942 - Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) (singer, musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction)
1942 - Joe South (Souter) (guitarist, singer: Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Games People Play; songwriter: Down in the Boondocks, Rose Garden)
1943 - Poul Popiel (hockey)
1947 - Marty Perez (baseball)
1948 - Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) (actress: The Jerk, Annie, All's Fair; singer: Gee Whiz)
1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, Queens NY, actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People)
1950 - Tom Riker (basketball)
1953 - Roland Harper (football)
Famous deaths
1609 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
1626 - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1638 - Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies
1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56
1844 - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1916 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1953 - Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64
1977 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme(1969-76, 82-86), was assassinated on a street in Stockholm at 59
1992 - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53
1993 - Actress Lillian Gish, whose career spanned more than 80 years, died at age 96.
1993 - Singer-actress Ruby Keeler, the queen of dozens of movies during the 1920s, died at age 82.
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1994 - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
1995 - Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92
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