1852 – First British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street, London)
1903 – Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1921 – Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
1929 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Dynamo” premieres in NYC
1957 – KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 – BBC pioneering series “Your Life in Their Hands” first broadcast presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher, 1st major TV series to deal with medicine
1969 – Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1978 – 25th hat trick in NY Islander history, Denis Potvin’s 2nd
1991 – Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands
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
Author: gil7
Today in History for 11th February 2022
Historical Events
1889 – Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1896 – Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” premieres in Paris
1922 – US intervention army leaves Honduras
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1968 – Madison Square Garden III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens (NYC)
1979 – Iran’s premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
Famous Birthdays
1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera), born in Milan, Ohio (d. 1931)
1873 – Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
1943 – Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1969 – Joe Valerio, American NFL outside corner/tackle (KC Chiefs), born in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1971 – Damian Lewis, British actor, born in St John’s Wood, London
1975 – Andrew “Andy” Lally, American sports car and stock car racing driver, born in Northport, New York
Famous Deaths
824 – Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
1894 – Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
1961 – Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, dies at 91
1989 – George O’Hanlon, american actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71
1991 – Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), dies at 90
2004 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and Cold War spy for NATO, dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 10th February 2022
1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1852 – Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1939 – Pius XI [Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti], Italian 259th Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
1951 – Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71
1993 – John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1995 – S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
2001 – Lewis Arquette, American actor (Horror Show, Book of Love), dies at 65
2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer, dies at 92
2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion), dies at 75
Historical Events for 10th February 2022
1713 – Netherlands and Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1859 – General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian Mutiny
1933 – Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1960 – Charles Ives’ “Lincoln, the Great Commoner” premieres
1961 – Walter Piston’s 7th Symphony, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres under direction of Eugene Ormandy; wins 1961 Pulitzer Prize
1970 – Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel at Val d’Isere, France, killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths
1977 – Jonathan Netanyahu Lane in the Bronx, New York, named in honor of the Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid in Uganda in 1976
1981 – 8 killed and 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
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
1989 – Miami Vice’s 100th episode seen on TV
Today in History for 10th February 2022
Historical Events
1912 – Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1920 – Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1960 – Charles Ives’ “Lincoln, the Great Commoner” premieres
1968 – “Spooky” by Classics IV hits #3
1989 – Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
1990 – Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
Famous Birthdays
1862 – W H “Gobo” Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1906 – Henry Phelps Brown, British historian and economist, born in Calne (d. 1994)
1927 – Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1951 – Bob [Robert] Iger, American entertainment executive (CEO of The Walt Disney Company), born in NYC, New York
1971 – Louie Spicolli [Louis Mucciolo Jr.], American wrestler, born in San Pedro, California (d. 1998)
1976 – Kev Brown, American rapper and hip hop producer, born in Landover, Maryland
Famous Deaths
1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet, dies at 54
1774 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
1822 – Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
1997 – Milton Cato, 1st Prime Minister of San Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-84), dies at 82
2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder, writer and broadcaster (61 Tests, top score 134, 132 wickets; BBC), dies in a fire in his retirement flat at 87
2013 – Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 9th February 2022
1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese founder of bakufu and 1st shogun, dies at 51 (b. 1147)
1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, murdered at 21 in the orchard of Kirk o’ Field in Edinburgh
1824 – Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
1846 – Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1977 – Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1996 – Gerald Savory, British actor playwright and TV producer (Heart of the Matter), dies at 86
2015 – Ed Sabol, American filmmaker (NFL Films), dies at 98
2015 – Marvin David Levy, American composer (Mourning Becomes Electra), dies at 82
2018 – Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), dies form a combination of cocaine and prescription medication at 48
2020 – Mirella Freni, Italian lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 84
Historical Events for 9th February 2022
1287 – Massive storm across south-east England hits Cinque Ports realines the coastline, New Romney port now a mile inland
1807 – The Grand Sanhedrin (Jewish high court) is convened by Napoleon Bonaparte to give legal sanction to the principles in the Assembly of Notables
1886 – US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1923 – Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1975 – Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1986 – Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1990 – “Bradys” return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1992 – “2 Shakespearean Actors” closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 – “Heiress” opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
2011 – Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” album reaches number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart
Today in History for 9th February 2022
Historical Events
1554 – Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed
1934 – Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)
1969 – 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1979 – Nigeria amends constitution
1990 – Spacecraft Galileo flies by Venus at an altitude of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in a gravity assist maneuver to gain speed on its way to Jupiter
2020 – Solar Orbiter probe attached to an Atlas rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral
Famous Birthdays
1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1911 – William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945)
1927 – Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1929 – Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
1951 – Jay Inslee, American politician, Governor of Washington (2013-), Rep-D-Washington (1993-5, 1999-2012), born in Seattle, Washington
1978 – Daniel Mann, British television commentator
Famous Deaths
1817 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1957 – Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
1973 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1984 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982-84) and KGB Chief (1967-82), dies of total renal failure at 69
1996 – Charles Henry “Harry” Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80
2008 – Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
Famous Deaths for 8th February 2022
1250 – William II Longespee, dies as a martyr at the battle of Al Mansurah, Egypt (7th Crusade)
1296 – Przemysł II, King of Poland (1295-96), dies at 38
1640 – Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623-40) who conquered Baghdad, dies from cirrhosis in Istanbul at 27
1924 – Gee John, Chinese-American gangster (1st person in US to be executed by lethal gas in Nevada), executed at 29
1942 – Fritz Todt, German construction engineer, Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions Reichs minister and Head of the Organization Todt, dies in a plane crash at 50
1968 – J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1987 – Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], Polish-Romani writer, dies at 78
1993 – Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
1996 – Del Ennis, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1946, 51, 55; NL RBI leader 1950; Philadelphia Phillies), dies from complications of diabetes at 70
2021 – David Egerton, English rugby union #8 (7 caps; Bath Rugby) and broadcaster (BBC), dies from COVID-19 at 59
Historical Events for 8th February 2022
1693 – William and Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (second in North America)
1807 – Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon’s forces and Russian Empire – 1st battle Napoleon isn’t victorious
1889 – Flood ravages Dutch coast
1912 – British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
1916 – French cruiser “Admiral Charner” torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1936 – 1st ski jumping tournament at Red Wing, Minnesota
1936 – German alpine skier Christi Cranz wins the inaugural Olympic women’s combined gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games ahead of teammate Käthe Grasegger
1962 – In Paris, 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
1963 – 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1971 – Operation Lam Son 719 begins, a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos