Today in History for 12th February 2023

Historical Events

1855 – Michigan State University established
1938 – Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1949 – “Annie Get Your Gun” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
1958 – Boston Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse Nationals, 119-101
1962 – Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
2006 – A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.

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Famous Birthdays

1778 – Franz Joseph Volkert, Austrian composer, conductor and organist, born in Vienna (d. 1845)
1857 – Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), born in Churwell, England (d. 1941)
1900 – Fred Emney, British actor (Let the People Sing, Adventures of a Private Eye, Lilac Domino), born in London, England (d. 1980)
1924 – Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
1946 – Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer and actress, born in Istanbul, Turkey
1965 – Brett Kavanaugh, American judge, born in Washington, D.C.

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Famous Deaths

1889 – Andrew Greenwood, English cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 49; Yorkshire CCC), dies from tuberculosis at 41
1896 – Isaac Murphy, American jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35
1960 – Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), dies at 71
1973 – Benjamin Frankel, British composer, dies at 67
2005 – Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
2011 – Gino Cimoli, American baseball player, dies at 81

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Famous Deaths for 11th February 2023

824 – Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
867 – Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies
1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, dies at 7 weeks
1543 – Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle at Wayna Daga
1829 – Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
1968 – Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), dies at 78
1978 – Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist and poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974), dies at 73
1994 – Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
1996 – Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, commits suicide at 65
2011 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 82

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Historical Events for 11th February 2023

1895 – -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1897 – White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1927 – US Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1958 – Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1975 – Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party
2009 – Uri Geller purchases Lamb Island, Scotland, previously known for its witch trials
2014 – 77 people are killed after a military transport plane crashes in Algeria
2018 – Norway sweeps the medals in the Olympic 30k cross country skiathlon at Pyeongchang; Simen Hegstad Krüger wins gold ahead of teammates Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund
2019 – Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in “Nature Medicine”, A.I. won, just

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Today in History for 11th February 2023

Historical Events

1837 – American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1895 – -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1899 – -15°F (-26°C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
1908 – Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1964 – Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, D.C. Coliseum
1977 – 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)

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Famous Birthdays

1377 – King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
1897 – Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, born in Angers, France (d. 1971)
1908 – Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight (d. 1999)
1941 – Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)
1967 – Derek King, Canadian NHL left wing (NY Islanders), born in Hamilton, Canada
1969 – Mark Atkinson, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (Tasmanian batsman), born in Sydney, Australia

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Famous Deaths

1879 – Willem Josephus van Zeggelen, Dutch author, dies at 67
1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1982 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
1993 – Joy Garrett, American actress (Jo Johnson-Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure at 47
1994 – Sorrell Booke, American actor (Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazard), dies of colorectal cancer at 64
2017 – Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87

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Famous Deaths for 10th February 2023

1657 – Sebastian Stosskopf, Elizabethan painter, dies at 59
1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1968 – Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist (Social mobility), dies at 79
1987 – Sadequain, Pakistani artist, painter, calligrapher and artist, dies at 56
1992 – Alex Haley, American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
1995 – Paul Monette, American writer, dies of AIDS at 49
1997 – Lou Bennett, American bebop pianist, and jazz organist, dies at 70
2001 – George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2003 – Clark MacGregor, American Republican politician (involved in Watergate), dies at 80
2006 – J Dilla [James Dewitt Yancey], American rapper and producer (Donuts), dies of a heart attack at 32

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Historical Events for 10th February 2023

1855 – US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1940 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1971 – Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1971 – “Tapestry”, second album by Carole King, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972)
1984 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins a career 4th Olympic gold medal when he takes out the 30k event in Sarajevo; 3 gold in Lake Placid 1980
1985 – Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
1998 – Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
2004 – Kanye West releases his debut album “The College Dropout” (2005 Grammy Best Rap Album)
2013 – 5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
2019 – Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered

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Today in History for 10th February 2023

Historical Events

1535 – 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1882 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Snyegurochka” premieres in St Petersburg
1927 – US President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1962 – Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
2014 – German alpine skier Maria Höfl-Riesch retains her Olympic combined title (Vancouver 2010) when she Nicole Hosp beats of Austria by 0.4s
2019 – 72nd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): “Roma” Best Film, Alfonso Cuarón Best Director, Olivia Coleman, Rami Malek best actors

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Famous Birthdays

1741 – Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, baptized in Regensburg, Bavaria (d. 1822)
1927 – Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1940 – Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd’s)
1961 – Eva Pfaff, German tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1982 runner-up), born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany
1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver, born in Fukushima, Japan
1981 – Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter, born in Brighton, United Kingdom

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Famous Deaths

1774 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
1836 – Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist (worked with husband Antoine Lavoisier), dies at 78
1918 – Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at 75
1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2022 – Nikolai Manoshin, Russian soccer midfielder (8 caps; FC Torpedo Moscow, CSKA Moscow) and manager (Somalia, Yemen, Mali), dies at 83

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Famous Deaths for 9th February 2023

1234 – Ai-Tsung [Aizong], Last Jin Emperor of Northern China (1224-1234), commits suicide at 35, to avoid capture by the Mongols
1892 – Alfred Moore Scales, American politician (45th Governor of North Carolina), dies at 64
1964 – Willie Bryant, American jazz singer, band leader, and disc jockey (Sugar Hill Times), dies of a heart attack at 55
1977 – Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1993 – David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
2009 – Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2018 – Craig McGregor, American rock bassist (Foghat, 1976-2018), dies of lung cancer at 68
2020 – Sorrel [Doris Ernestine] Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass Woman), dies of cancer at 78
2020 – Mirella Freni, Italian lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 84
2022 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league lock (33 Tests, 6 World Cup games; Newtown RLFC, St. George RLFC; Inaugural RL “Immortal”) and coach (St. George, RLFC, Cronulla RLFC), dies from dementia at 82

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Historical Events for 9th February 2023

1744 – Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1918 – US Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe, Virginia
1924 – Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1939 – Belgian Spaak government falls
1956 – KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1971 – Elektra Records releases eponymous debut album of American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; garners two Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist
1972 – British government declares state of emergency after month-long coal miners’ strike
1974 – “The Americans (A Canadian’s Opinion)” by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1986 – 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G
1989 – Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games

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Today in History for 9th February 2023

Historical Events

1933 – -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
1940 – Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 – Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific
1979 – ABC airs “Heroes of Rock N Roll” special, featuring archival performances of 62 artists
1989 – Michael Manley’s Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
2020 – Suspected militants attack and kill at least 30 people, many while sleeping in their cars in Auno, north-eastern Nigeria, kidnapping women and children

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Famous Birthdays

1871 – Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910)
1914 – Ernest Tubb, American country musician (“Walking the Floor Over You”), born in Crisp, Texas (d. 1984)
1937 – (Leonard) “Len” Skeat, British jazz double-bassist, born in East End, London, England (d. 2021)
1950 – Lloyd Weldon Keasor, American wrestler (Olympic silver 1976), born in Pumphrey, Maryland
1969 – Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1983 – Vladimira Krckova, Czech jazz-pop singer, composer (“Your Aura On My Lips”), actress, and poet, born in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic

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Famous Deaths

1583 – Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1751 – Henri François d’Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717-50), dies at 82
1938 – Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1991 – James Cleveland, American gospel singer, dies at 59
2001 – Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2020 – Sorrel [Doris Ernestine] Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass Woman), dies of cancer at 78

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