Historical Events
1905 – Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1932 – 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1964 – Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, D.C. Coliseum
1968 – Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York
1997 – Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
2016 – Riot between rival drug cartels at a prison in Monterrey, Mexico, leaves 52 dead
Famous Birthdays
1774 – Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
1821 – Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
1893 – Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival)
1908 – Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey)
1915 – Mervyn Levy, artist/critic
1925 – Virginia E Johnson, doctor and sexologist (Masters and Johnson)
Famous Deaths
1755 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)
1762 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
1862 – Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
1894 – Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
1996 – Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
2008 – Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer and helicopter aviation pioneer, dies at 88