1617 – Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet, dies at 44
1740 – Vincenz Lubeck, German composer, dies at 85
1812 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1979 – Allen Tate, American poet (Mr Pope and Other Poems), dies at 79
1984 – Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
1998 – Ken Weekes, West Indian cricket batsman (2 Tests, top score 137; first Test cricketer born in US), dies at 86
2001 – Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2006 – Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2008 – Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 – Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
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Historical Events for 9th February 2021
1621 – Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1926 – Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1934 – -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
1934 – Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)
1971 – 5 men are killed near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone, in a landmine attack carried out by the Irish Republican Army
1986 – West German team swims world record 4×200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1991 – “This Is Ponderous” by 2nu peaks at #46
2014 – Olympic teams figure skating event debuts in Sochi with Russia taking the gold medal; pairs champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win first of 2 gold at the Games
2016 – US primary elections: New Hampshire Primary, In Republican race Donald Trump wins (35%), John Kasich 2nd (16%), and Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%) in Democratic race
2020 – Storm Ciara makes landfall in northern Scotland bringing widespread wind and flooding to northern Europe resulting in 18 deaths
Today in History for 9th February 2021
Historical Events
1674 – English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1900 – Dwight Davis establishes a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1918 – US Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe, Virginia
1960 – AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1986 – Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown
1990 – Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13)
Famous Birthdays
1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold [Karl Kasimir Theodor], Russian theatrical director and actor (Houligan), born in Penza Oblast, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
1885 – Alban Maria Johannes Berg, a Lulu of a composer!, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1935)
1924 – George Guest, British organist
1955 – Jim J. Bullock, American actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort), born in Casper, Wyoming
1984 – Han Kyung, Chinese singer (Super Junior), born in Mudanjiang, China
1989 – Gia Farrell, American singer
Famous Deaths
1765 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, English composer, dies at 33
1973 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1977 – Gaus, an orangutan who lived to be 59
2008 – Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
2018 – Liam Miller, Irish soccer midfielder (21 caps; Sunderland, Hibernian), dies of pancreatic cancer at 36
2018 – Reginald “Reg” E Cathey, American actor (The Wire, Oz, House of Cards), dies of lung cancer at 59
Famous Deaths for 8th February 2021
1611 – Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1725 – Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) dies of uremia at 52
1947 – Ernest Williams, American composer, dies at 65
1960 – John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1963 – George Dolenz [Jure Dolenc], Italian actor (Scared Stiff, Count of Monte Cristo), dies from a heart attack at 55
1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
1994 – Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
1998 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (Nobel 1955), dies at 95
2005 – Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician and organist (Walk on the Wild Side), dies at 79
2013 – James DePreist, American conductor (Mitropoulos Prize, 1964, Oregon Symphony, 1980-2003), dies of a heart attack at 76
Historical Events for 8th February 2021
1600 – Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1909 – France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1923 – Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1927 – Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1955 – The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1967 – Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1968 – Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
1976 – Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
1979 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2014 – Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium
Today in History for 8th February 2021
Historical Events
1933 – 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1974 – Soap opera “Secret Storm” ends a 20 year run
1982 – Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A’s breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
1992 – “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1995 – 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
2002 – XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Famous Birthdays
1876 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German “entartet” painter
1900 – John Cameron, Scottish judge, born in London (d. 1996)
1906 – Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
1930 – Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977-1991), (d. 2013)
1971 – William “Will” Turpin, American musician (Collective Soul) and producer (Gooey Music), born in Fairbanks, Alaska
1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
Famous Deaths
1296 – Przemysł II, King of Poland (1295-96), dies at 38
1611 – Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
1994 – Ken Hall, Australian director and producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
1995 – William Fulbright, US politician, dies
Famous Deaths for 7th February 2021
1827 – Franz Anton Dimmler, German composer, dies at 73
1975 – Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1985 – Matt Monro [Terence Parsons], English pop singer (“Softly As I Leave You”), dies from liver cancer at 54
1985 – Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
2000 – “Lonesome Dave” Peverett, British rock singer and musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown), dies of complications from cancer at 56
2006 – Jack Montrose, American “cool jazz” tenor saxophonist and arranger, dies at 78
2008 – Tamara Desni [Brodsky], German-born British actress (The Green Finger, Hell’s Cargo), dies from natural causes at 97
2008 – Leona Wood, American painter and dancer dies aged 86
2009 – Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer and pianist, dies of natural causes at 84
2015 – Dean Smith, American actor and relay runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 83
Historical Events for 7th February 2021
1792 – Domenico Cimarosa’s opera “Il Matrimonio Segreto” premieres in Vienna
1795 – Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1914 – Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in “Kid Auto Races at Venice”
1945 – Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1960 – Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1968 – Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
1970 – “Hollywood Palace” last airs on ABC TV
1992 – Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
1994 – Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1995 – Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting
Today in History for 7th February 2021
Historical Events
1948 – “Cradle Will Rock” closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
1969 – Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1976 – FCC raids and shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn New York)
1987 – Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” single goes #1
1990 – Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
2019 – First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, will go on to kill about 100
Famous Birthdays
1612 – Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King’s Men)
1934 – King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], American musician, bandleader and saxophonist (Memphis Soul Stew), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1971)
1954 – Miguel Ferrer, actor (Robocop, NCIS LA), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2017)
1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
1973 – Juwan Howard, NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1988 – Nick Costa, American jazz drummer, born in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
Famous Deaths
1862 – František Jan Škroup, Czech composer (Kde domov můj? – Czech national anthem), dies at 61
1948 – Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
1954 – Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1959 – Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1995 – William Harry “Billy” Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), dies of self-inflicted gunshot at 45
1999 – Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), dies at 63
Famous Deaths for 6th February 2021
1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (first detailed classification of crustaceans and insects), dies at 70
1896 – Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82
1919 – Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch sculptor and architect of church interiors, dies at 81
1938 – Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, dies at 77
1950 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1989 – King Tubby [Osbourne Ruddock], Jamaican sound engineer and record producer, shot to death outside his home at 48
1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88
2007 – Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Ralph Kiner, American Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder (NL home run leader 1946–52; 6×MLB All-Star; Pittsburgh Pirates) and sportscaster (NY Mets), dies at 91