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Author Topic: On This Date in History Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-02-2006 09:27 AM                        Rated G February 2.. On this day in history .. 1753 - Candlemas 1848 - 1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF Mexico sells US; Texas - California - New Mexico & Az for $15 million 1876 - National Baseball League formed with 8 teams 1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton 1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef 1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court - Portage Wi 1962 - 8 of the 9 planets aligned for 1st time in 400 years 1981 - Late Night with David Letterman premiers Famous birthdays for this day .. 1754 - Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat 1859 - Havelock Ellis, American physician & sex researcher 1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian virtuoso violinist & composer 1882 - James Joyce, Irish novelist & poet (Dubliners & Ulysses) 1895 - George S. Halas (Papa Bear), end & coach for Chicago Bears 1901 - Jascha Heifetz, violin virtuoso 1920 - Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories 1923 - James Dickey, writer 1926 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of France (1974-81) 1928 - Elaine Stritch, actress 1937 - Martina Arroyo, Opera singer 1937 - Tom Smothers, comedian 1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of Richard Milhaus (or 0221) 1947 - Farrah Fawcett-Major, in Texas--Charlie's Angels  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-02-2006 08:45 PM                        Rated G On February 3 in history .. 1809 - Territory of Illinois organized 1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi 1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet) 1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11 -920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service 1945 - Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released 1945 - Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan 1964 - Meet the Beatles goes Gold 1966 - Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon 1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched Famous birthdays on February 3 .. 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer 1811 - Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west) 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school 1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C) & British P.M. (1885-1902) 1842 - Sidney Lanier, poet 1874 - Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway 1894 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers) 1907 - James A. Mitchner, U.S. writer (South Pacific & Hawaii & Space) 1918 - Joey Bishop, comedian 1926 - Shelley Berman, comedian 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, in Canton Ohio 1940 - Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings) 1943 - Blythe Danner, in Philadelphia 1944 - Bridget Handley, in Budapest 1947 - Melanie (Safka), singer & songwriter 1950 - Morgan Fairchild, in Dallas Texas  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-02-2006 08:49 PM                        Rated G On February 4 in history .. 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague 1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads 1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines 1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY 1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E 1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR 1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day) 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY 1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax 1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game 1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled 1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army 1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore 1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture Famous birthdays on February 4 .. 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203) 1918 - Ida Lupino, actress 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique) 1923 - Conrad Bain, actor 1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso 1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks 1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension 1948 - Alice Cooper, singer 1950 - Pamela Franklin, 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker 1960 - Pamela Ferdin,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-05-2006 07:27 AM                        Rated G February 5.. On this day in history .. 1663 - Earthquake in Canada 1887 - Snow falls on SF 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted 1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium 1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing" 1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure 1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million Famous birthdays for this day .. 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence 1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist 1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories 1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire 1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west 1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate 1906 - John Carradine, actor 1907 - Norton Simon, business executive 1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch) 1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times) 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's) 1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England 1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia 1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-06-2006 08:14 AM                        Rated G February 6... On this day in history .. 1693 - College of William & Mary chartered in Williamsburg - Va 1788 - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution 1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between European & Natives of N Zealand 1900 - Spanish-American War ends 1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike 1922 - US - UK - France - Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation 1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain 1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow 1968 - Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one 1974 - 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 1977 - 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0 Famous birthdays for this day .. 1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unifier of Japan 1665 - Queen Anne of England, (1702-14) 1756 - Aaron Burr, (D-R) 3rd US VP (1801-05) & dueler 1885 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, baseball great 1902 - Louis Nizer, lawyer & author 1911 - Ronald Reagan, (R) actor & 40th US pres (1981-89) 1919 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, in Budapest 1931 - Rip Torn, actor 1932 - Francois Truffaut, French director (Jules & Jim & Fahrenheit 451) 1933 - Mamie Van Doren, in Rowena SD 1940 - Tom Brokaw, newscaster (NBC) 1943 - Fabian, singer 1945 - Bob Marley, reggae musician 1948 - Barbara Hancock, in Atlanta 1950 - Natalie Cole, in Los Angeles  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-07-2006 08:30 AM                        Rated G February 7 On this day in history .. 1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss 1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF 1905 - Dominican Rep. signs treaty turning over customs collection to U.S 1914 - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium 1940 - Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released 1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam 1973 - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation in USSR 1977 - Soyuz 24 launched 1984 - Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk 1986 - Haitians overthrow dictator - "Baby Doc" Duvalier Famous birthdays for this day .. 1478 - Sir Thomas More, lawyer & lord chancellor of England & saint 1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements 1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist & Tale of Two Cities) 1817 - Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government 1824 - William Higgins, discoverer of nature of spiral "nebulae," 1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist 1877 - Godfrey H. Hardy, English number theorist 1883 - Eubie Blake, composer (I'm Just Wild About Harry & Memories of You) 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist & social critic (Main Street) (Nobel 1930) 1905 - Ulf Svante von Euler, Swedish physiologist (Nobel 1970) 1908 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer & actor (Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers) 1920 - Eddie Bracken, actor 1932 - Alfred M. Worden, U.S. astronaut (Apollo 15) [ 02-07-2006, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: Bob Maar ]  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-07-2006 09:44 PM                        Rated G On February 8 in history .. 1587 - Mary - Queen of Scots beheaded 1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London 1693 - Charter granted for College of William & Mary - 2nd college in US 1861 - Confederate States of America organized in Montgomery - Ala 1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen 1910 - Boy Scouts of America founded 1911 - US helps to overthrow Miguel D vila - president of Honduras 1922 - Radio arrives in the White House 1926 - Walt Disney Studios formed 1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall 1969 - Meteorite weighing over one ton is recovered in Chihuahua - Mexico 1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land 1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against the Islanders 1977 - Earthquake in SF - at 5.0 - strongest since 1966 1984 - Soyuz T-10 is launched Famous birthdays on February 8 .. 1612 - Samuel Butler, English poet & satirist (Hudibras) 1819 - John Ruskin, writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist 1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell") 1828 - Jules Verne, in France--pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) 1885 - Dame Edith Evans, 1906 - Chester F Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing) 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, in Seattle Washington & the stripper 1920 - Lana Turner, actress in Wallace Idaho 1925 - Jack Lemmon, actor (Days of Wine & Roses & Missing) 1931 - James Dean, stage & film actor (Giant & Rebel Without a Cause) 1940 - Ted Koppel, newscaster (ABC) 1949 - Brook Adams, actress 1968 - Gary Coleman, actor  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-09-2006 07:20 AM                        Rated G February 9.. On this day in history .. 1811 - Nevill Maskelyne - 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies 1877 - US Weather Service is founded 1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii 1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento 1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud. 1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa 1943 - Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal - ending epic battle 1953 - Superman TV series premiers 1964 - 1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan 1969 - Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight 1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth 1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth 1986 - Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun) Famous birthdays for this day .. 1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4 1841) 1866 - George Ade, American journalist & playwright & humorist 1874 - Amy Lowell, American critic & Imagist poet (Patterns) 1909 - Dean Rusk, former Sec of State 1914 - Bill Veeck, baseball club owner 1914 - Carmen Miranda, singer 1914 - Ernest Tubb, singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You) 1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (The Hostage) 1923 - Kathryn Grayson, 1928 - Roger Mudd, newscaster 1942 - Carole King, in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry 1945 - Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) LA 1950 - Andrew N. Meltzoff, developmental psychologist 1950 - Judith Light, in Trenton NJ - Who's the Boss  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-10-2006 07:41 AM                        Rated G February 10... On this day in history .. 1720 - Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England 1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War 1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert 1870 - City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time) 1879 - 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater) 1942 - Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold 1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect 1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 Famous birthdays for this day .. 1775 - Charles Lamb, English critic & poet & essayist 1868 - William Allen White, editor 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist & poet (Dr. Zhivago) (Nobel 1958) 1893 - Jimmy Durante, comedian 1893 - William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player 1894 - Harold Macmillan, (C) British Prime Minister (1957-63) 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (Mother Courage) 1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress 1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian educator & aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958) 1914 - Larry Adler, actor 1922 - Harold Hughes, ex-Governor of New Jersey 1922 - Neva Patterson, 1923 - Cesare Siepi, Italian basso 1927 - Leontyne Price, operatic soprano 1930 - Robert Wagner, actor (Hart to Hart) 1939 - Singer Roberta Flack, in North Carolina 1944 - Peter Allen, singer 1950 - Mark Spitz, U.S. Olympic swimmer  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-12-2006 07:46 AM                        Rated G On February 11 in history .. 0660 - Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno 1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe 1650 - Rene Descartes - "I think therefore I am" - dies 1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time 1868 - Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies 1929 - Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome 1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island 1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint - Mich. ends 1958 - 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY 1960 - Jack Paar walks off his show 1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens 1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit 1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history - Denis Potvin 1984 - Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth Famous birthdays on February 11 .. 1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court 1839 - J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents) 1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungarian physicist & A-bomb worker & peace activist 1904 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand prime minister (1960-72) 1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer & director 1909 - Max Baer, boxer 1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest & actress (Green Acres) 1921 - Lloyd Bentsen ,(D) U.S. senator from Texas 1925 - Dr Virginia E. Johnson, sexologist (of Masters & Johnson) 1925 - Kim Stanley, actress in New Mexico 1934 - Mary Quant, in England 1934 - Tina Louise, NYC & actress (Gilligan's Island) 1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor (Deliverance & The End & Smokey & the Bandit) 1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz musician (Brazil 66 & 77 & 88)  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-12-2006 07:48 AM                        Rated G On February 12 in history .. 1541 - Santiago - Chile founded 1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe 1908 - Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl 1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC 1924 - Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall 1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporated 1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference 1947 - A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia 1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam 1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus 1980 - 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau Famous birthdays on February 12 .. 1746 - Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot 1775 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams 1809 - Abraham Lincoln ,(R) 16th U.S. president (1861-65) 1809 - Charles Darwin, Evolutionist--Shrewsbury England 1880 - John L. Lewis, leader of United Mine Workers of America 1893 - General of Army Omar Bradley, 'GI General' 1915 - Lorne Greene, actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) in Canada 1919 - Forrest Tucker, actor 1923 - Franco Zefferelli, motion picture director 1926 - Joe Garagiola, baseball player & announcer 1934 - Bill Russell, basketball player & coach 1936 - Joe Don Baker, actor 1938 - Judy Blume, author 1945 - Maud Adams, actress in Sweden  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-13-2006 06:47 AM                        Rated G On this day February 13 in history .. 1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system 1741 - 1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine) 1867 - Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna 1937 - Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail 1937 - Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland) 1945 - Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed 1955 - Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls 1960 - France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert 1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Flyers Famous birthdays for this day .. 1542 - Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII 1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venetian painter 1764 - Talleyrand, in France--statesman 1805 - D Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had intl effects 1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer & law codifier 1805 - Peter Dirichlet, German number theorist & analysist 1849 - Randolph Churchill, English politician & father of William 1885 - Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman 1886 - Ricardo G�iraldes, Argentine novelist & poet (Don Segundo Sombra) 1892 - Grant Wood, painted American Gothic 1901 - Henry R. Maar M.D. Father of Bob 1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian mystery writer (The Snow Was Black) 1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer 1920 - Eileen Farrell, in Willimantic Conn 1931 - Dorothy McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters 1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, fashion designer 1936 - George Segal, actor & banjo player 1937 - Sigmund J„hn, 1st German space traveler (on board Soyuz 31) 1939 - Valeri I. Rozhdestvensky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 23) 1942 - Carol Lynley, actress born in NYC 1944 - Stockard Channing, in New York  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-14-2006 08:46 AM                        Rated G February 14.. On this day in history .. 1753 - Valentine's Day 1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd State 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone 1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state 1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1921 - Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep 1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed 1950 - Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies 1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press 1961 - Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California 1962 - Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House 1972 - John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week 1972 - USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns 1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares Famous birthdays for this day .. 1766 - Thomas Malthus, population expert 1856 - Frank Harris, English journalist & writer (My Life & Loves) 1859 - George Washington Ferris, engineer invented Ferris Wheel 1894 - Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny Oh Rochester! 1912 - Edmund George Love, American teacher & historian & author 1913 - James Pike, bishop 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared 1913 - Mel Allen, voice of the Yankees 1931 - Phyllis McGuirre, of McGuirre sisters 1934 - Florence Henderson, in Indiana -- keeps Brady Bunch in line 1944 - Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter (Watergate) 1947 - Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37) 1949 - Ewa Aulin,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-14-2006 02:42 PM                        Rated G On February 17 in history .. 1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic 1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) 1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War 1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine 1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones 1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown) Famous birthdays on February 17 .. 1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination 1774 - Raphael Peale, American painter 1781 - Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope 1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business 1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher 1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM 1888 - Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943) 1902 - Marian Anderson, operatic contralto 1908 - Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer 1924 - Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S 1925 - Hal Holbrook, actor 1929 - Chaim Potok, novelist 1934 - Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek) 1936 - Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns) 1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader 1945 - Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place 1947 - Dodie Stevens,  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-14-2006 02:44 PM                        Rated G On February 18 in history .. Famous birthdays on February 18 .. 1516 - Queen Mary I, (Bloody Mary) (1553-58) -- 1st reigning queen of GB 1745 - Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta, Count--invented battery 1795 - George Peabody, American merchant & philanthropist 1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker 1859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain) 1892 - Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate 1894 - Andres Segovia, guitarist 1909 - Wallace Stegner, novelist & critic 1920 - Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host 1920 - Jack Palance, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not) 1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, author & publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me 1926 - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers) 1933 - Kim Novak, in Chicago Illinois 1933 - Mary Ure, 1933 - Yoko Ono, aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan 1950 - Cybill Shepherd, in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting) 1954 - John Travolta, actor (Saturday Night Fever) 1957 - Vanna White, in SC--Wheel of Fortune's hostess 1968 - Molly Ringwald, in Los Angeles California -- Pretty in Pink  |  IP: Logged

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