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FEB 21

Events

1945 – World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.

1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.

1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Births

1910 – Douglas Bader, British pilot

1933 – Nina Simone, American singer

1943 – David Geffen, American record producer

1946 – Tyne Daly, American actress

1951 – Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead)

1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer

1976 – Michael McIntyre English Comedian

1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress

1986 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer

Deaths

1982 – Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey

2002 – John Thaw, English actor

 

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FEB 22

Events

1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

Births

1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor

1926 – Kenneth Williams, English actor

1928 – Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer

1950 – Julie Walters, English actress

1953 – Nigel Planer, British actor

1968 – Jeri Ryan, American actress

1974 – James Blunt, English musician

1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten)

Deaths

1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes)

2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist

 

[d'kid]

Lee Petty did not 'Win' the first Daytona 500 until 25 Feb 1959... 61 hours after the fact... The Number 73 Thunderbird was the car in the Winner's Circle... yes, it was that close.

Like most of your list, I only know of one other person on the Feb 22 list. Chuck Jones...

And I think you missed George Washington in the Births


d'kid

 

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FEB 23

Events

1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.

1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.

1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize and become the model for the national USMC War Memorial.

1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed in a raid by 379 British bombers.

2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.

Births

1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima

1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor

1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician

1952 – Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith)

1955 – Howard Jones, British pop singer

1962 – Michael Wilton, American musician (Queensrÿche)

1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe)

1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress

1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress

Deaths

1965 – Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian

1995 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations)

2003 – Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

 

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FEB 24

Events

1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.

1909 – The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

1981 – Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.

Births

1922 – Steven Hill, American actor

1942 – Paul Jones, English singer (Manfred Mann)

1944 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician

1948 – Dennis Waterman, British actor

1950 – George Thorogood, American singer and guitarist

1966 – Billy Zane, American actor

Deaths

1990 – Johnnie Ray, American singer

1994 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer

2006 – Don Knotts, American actor

 

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FEB 25

Events

1836 – Samuel Colt is granted an United States patent for the Colt revolver.

Births

1901 – Zeppo Marx, American actor

1934 – Bernard Bresslaw, English actor

1943 – George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles)

1945 – Elkie Brooks, English singer

1961 – Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)

1964 – Lee Evans, English comedian

1973 – Julio Iglesias, Jr., Spanish singer

Deaths

1723 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect

 

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FEB 26

Events

1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

1935 – The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.

1935 – The Luftwaffe is re-formed

2004 – The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.

Births

1829 – Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer

1846 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman

1908 – Tex Avery, American cartoonist

1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian

1921 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer

1928 – Fats Domino, American musician

1932 – Johnny Cash, American singer

1945 – Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat)

1945 – Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)

1950 – Jonathan Cain, American musician (Journey, Bad English, The Babys)

1953 – Michael Bolton, American singer

1979 – Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer

Deaths

1990 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters)

2008 – Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies)

2009 – Wendy Richard, English actress

 

[Bullard Anderson]

Davey Allison born 1961.

 

[vegasnitro]

Davey Allison born 1961.

Wow ... Davey would have been 50. Makes me feel real old ...

 

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FEB 27

Events

1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.

1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.

Births

1910 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works) He designed and built the U-2 and the SR-71 spyplanes. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The SR-71 is still the world's fastest aircraft, it travels at Mach 3+ at an altitude of 80,000 ft. lt's onboard cameras can photograph a licence plate.

1921 – Theodore Van Kirk, American navigator of the Enola Gay

1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer

1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress

1951 – Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)

1954 – Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)

1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor

1957 – Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)

1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Deaths

1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer

2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian

2008 – Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer

 

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FEB 28

Events

1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.

Births

1915 – Zero Mostel, American actor

1923 – Charles Durning, American actor

1925 – Harry H Corbett, English actor

1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver

1942 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones)

Deaths

1985 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep)

2008 – Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five)

 

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MAR 1

Events

1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.

1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.

1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.

1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

1995 – Yahoo! was incorporated.

Births

1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader

1910 – David Niven, English actor

1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann)

1944 – Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)

1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress

1954 – Ron Howard, American actor and director

Deaths

2006 – Jack Wild, British actor

 

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MAR 2

Events

1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Windsor

1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.

1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

1969 – In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted

Births

1917 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and bandleader

1938 – Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops)

1942 – Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist

1943 – Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows)

1948 – Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist

1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters)

1955 – Jay Osmond, American musician (The Osmonds)

1956 – Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC)

1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American musician (Bon Jovi)

1968 – Daniel Craig, English actor

1977 – Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)

Deaths

1987 – Randolph Scott, American actor and director

1999 – Dusty Springfield, English singer

2003 – Hank Ballard, American musician

 

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MAR 3

Events

1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.

1931 – The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

Births

1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor

1942 – Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)

1948 – Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)

1958 – Miranda Richardson, British actress

1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress

Deaths

1959 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian

1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian

 

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20 years ago today was the Rodney King beating by 4 LAPD officers. The event was videotaped, and the acquittal of the 4 officers of any crime a year later set off the LA Riots.

 

[DrRocket]

1969 – In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted

And it went on to make zero, zilch, no profit for Air France and British Airways.

 

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MAR 4

Events

1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

1902 – In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.

1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.

Births

1929 – Peter Swerling, American RADAR theoretician

1932 – Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer

1944 – Michael "Mick" Wilson, drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)

1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer

Deaths

1950 – Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant

 

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MAR 5

1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom

1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

Births

1934 – James B. Sikking, American actor

1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor

1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (The Band)

1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress

1952 – Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)

1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress

Deaths

1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union

1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer

1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band)

 

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MAR 6

Births

1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian

1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian

1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)

Deaths

1836 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman

1961 – George Formby, British comedian and singer

2005 – Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey

 

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MAR 7

1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

Births

1927 – James Broderick, American actor

1943 – Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)

1944 – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer

1946 – Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)

1946 – Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)

1952 – Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)

1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor

1970 – Rachel Weisz, British actress

Deaths

1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director