1790 – Capel Bond, composer, dies at 59
1891 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American Major General in the Union Army, dies at 71
1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the Interior), assassinated at 41
1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricket batsman (10 Tests, 2 x 100s; Wellington CA, Leicestershire CCC, Warwickshire CCC), dies at 70
1979 – Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
1980 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
1984 – Elmer Keith, American firearms enthusiast and author (Guns and Ammo), dies at 84
1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn [Dorothy Lee Perrins], American actress (Clambake; Repo Man), and burlesque queen, dies of from cervical cancer at 48
1999 – John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
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Historical Events for 14th February 2022
1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1883 – 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1900 – Date of events in Australian movie “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
1912 – 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut
1941 – Carson McCuller’s “Reflections in a Golden Eye” published
1961 – Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1987 – Detroit Pistons-Philadelphia 76ers game draws crowd of 53,745 at Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac; third largest crowd in NBA history; Pistons win, 125-107
1994 – 2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win
2019 – JP Morgan is the first bank to create its own crypto-currency JPM Coin
2019 – US Senate confirms William Barr as Attorney General
Today in History for 14th February 2022
Historical Events
1689 – English parliament places Mary Stuart and Prince William III on the throne
1934 – NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1980 – Soviet cross-country skier Nikolay Zimyatov wins first of 3 gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when he takes out 30k event; also wins relay and 50k gold
1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1989 – African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1992 – Cease fire in Somalia begins
Famous Birthdays
1701 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1773)
1932 – Alexander Kluge, German author and film director (Yesterday Girl), born in Halberstadt, Province of Saxony
1942 – Margaret Wright, chief commissioner (Guide Association)
1943 – Bob Murphy Jr, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1970 runner-up; 11 Senior PGA Tour titles), born in Brooklyn, New York
1945 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan soccer goalkeeper (36 caps; Atlético Mineiro), born in Piriápolis, Uruguay (d. 2013)
1987 – David Wheater, English footballer, born in Redcar, United Kingdom
Famous Deaths
1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1989 – Vincent Crane [Cheesman], British rock Hammond organist, and songwriter (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – “Fire”), dies of deliberate painkiller overdose at 45
1991 – Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American scholar, dies at 77
1993 – Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
2015 – Alan Howard, British actor (Royal Shakespeare Company), dies at 77
2015 – Pamela Cundell, British stage and screen character actress (Dad’s Army – “Mrs. Fox”), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 13th February 2022
1798 – Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
1897 – Joseph O. Shelby, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 66
1919 – Matteo Albertone, Italian general who fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War, dies at 78
1921 – Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
1927 – Brooks Adams, American philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
1937 – C A Bernoulli, writer, dies
1959 – William Axt, American film scores composer (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 70
1991 – Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67
2005 – Sixten Ehrling, Swedish pianist, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm, 1953-60; Detroit Symphony, 1963-73), and educator (Juilliard, 1973-87), dies at 86
2010 – John Reed, British singer of Gilbert and Sullivan (b. 1916)
Historical Events for 13th February 2022
1706 – Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces, one of Swedish’s Greatest victories in the Great Northern War
1786 – Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
1899 – -1°F (-18°C) New Orleans, La
1943 – Women’s US Marine Corps created
1955 – Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1970 – Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
1977 – “Robber Bridegroom” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances
1984 – 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes an historic apology to Indigenous Australians, especially to the Stolen Generations who suffered forced child removal and assimilation
2009 – The Dutch Statistics agency confirms the Netherlands are in recession
Today in History for 13th February 2022
Historical Events
1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims
1895 – Moving picture projector patented
1955 – KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1983 – 33rd NBA All-Star Game, The Forum, Inglewood, CA: East beats West, 132-123; MVP: Julius Erving, Philadelphia 76ers, F
1985 – Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
1996 – Howard Stern announces he will be making the film “Private Parts”
Famous Birthdays
1805 – David Dudley Field II, American lawyer, law codifier, born in Haddam, Connecticut (d. 1894)
1820 – (Albert) Béla Kéler, Hungarian composer, and conductor, born in Bártfa, Kingdom of Hungary (now Bardejov, Slovakia) (d. 1882)
1867 – Harold Mahony, Scottish tennis player (Wimbledon 1896), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1905)
1936 – Leamon King, Tulare California, 4X100m relayer (Olympic gold 1956)
1967 – Eddie Pye, American baseball infielder (LA Dodgers), born in Columbia, Tennessee
1976 – Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator), born in Canada
Famous Deaths
1693 – Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65
1724 – Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43
1845 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher, dies at 71
1987 – M L “Curly” Page, cricketer (NZ Test capt 1933), dies
1994 – Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
2017 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese cult film director, dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 12th February 2022
1684 – Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian composer and organist, dies at 67
1700 – Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
1763 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1787 – Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist, astronomer and philosopher, dies at 75
1901 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
1971 – George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
1976 – Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
1995 – Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
2003 – Vali Myers, Australian painter, dies at 72
2011 – Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84
Historical Events for 12th February 2022
1777 – Captain James Cook arrives at Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, aboard Resolution, on his 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1855 – Michigan State University established
1908 – NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1938 – Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg visits Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1943 – General Eisenhower departs Algiers for Tebessa
1945 – SF selected for site of UN Conference
1955 – Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
1989 – Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1999 – Scientists warn about harmful impacts on health of genetically modified (GM) food
2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
Today in History for 12th February 2022
Historical Events
1962 – Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1964 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1964 – End of Richie Benaud’s 63-Test cricket career in drawn 5th Test v South Africa in Sydney
1965 – Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2018 – Portait paintings of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald are unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Famous Birthdays
1913 – Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Braganca, grandson of Emperor Pedro I
1926 – Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
1944 – Marian “Moe” Bandy, American country vocalist (Just Good Ol’ Boys), born in Meridian, Mississippi
1972 – Dulip Samaraweera, Sri Lankan cricketer (Sri Lankan Test opening batsman 1993-), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1983 – Lavinia Meijer, Dutch harpist (Metamorphosis / The Hours), born in South Korea
1991 – Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, prince of Bahrain, born in Riffa, Bahrain (d. 2006)
Famous Deaths
1712 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, dies at 26
1728 – Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, dies at 73
1763 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1979 – Jean Renoir, French film director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) and actor (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1997 – Walter Ritchie, British sculptor (Man’s Struggle), dies at 77
2016 – Johnny Lattner, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1953, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1954, Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from mesothelioma at 83
Famous Deaths for 11th February 2022
1503 – Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England and wife of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1879 – Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
1903 – Henryk Szulc, Polish composer, dies at 67
1917 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
1972 – Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
1985 – Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (Yankee Doodle Dandy; Ruby Gentry), dies of pneumonia at 83
1985 – Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68
1987 – Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
1997 – Don Porter, actor (Gidget), dies at 84