Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Wed Feb 24 2021 08:02 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
02/24/1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
02/24/1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
02/24/1500 Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)
02/24/1501 Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
02/24/1536 Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
02/24/1545 Don John, of Austria the elder, Austrian general
02/24/1547 Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
02/24/1557 Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
02/24/1595 Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
02/24/1619 Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (Chancellor S�guier)
02/24/1697 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
02/24/1704 Hubert Renotte, composer
02/24/1717 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
02/24/1766 Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
02/24/1771 Johann Baptist Cramer, composer
02/24/1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
02/24/1797 Samuel Lover, composer
02/24/1809 Albert Sch�ffle, German sociologist (Abriss of Soziologie)
02/24/1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian
02/24/1811 Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
02/24/1811 Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 18
02/24/1824 John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
02/24/1827 Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
02/24/1833 Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
02/24/1836 Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
02/24/1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
02/24/1842 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
02/24/1843 Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/writer/politician
02/24/1846 Luigi Denza, composer
02/24/1848 C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
02/24/1852 George Moore, Ireland, novelist (Esther Waters)
02/24/1854 Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
02/24/1860 Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
02/24/1872 John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
02/24/1874 Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
02/24/1876 Jean Poveigh, composer
02/24/1876 Victor Moore, US actor (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
02/24/1877 Rudolf Ganz, composer
02/24/1879 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
02/24/1885 Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
02/24/1885 Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
02/24/1885 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
02/24/1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
02/24/1890 Antonio Massana, composer
02/24/1890 Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
02/24/1898 Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
02/24/1899 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Under Gang)
02/24/1905 Guillaume Landre, composer
02/24/1909 August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries
02/24/1909 Max Zwart, British/Americans philosopher (analytical philosophy)
02/24/1911 Konrad Lechner, composer
02/24/1912 Julius Kowalski, composer
02/24/1914 Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce
02/24/1917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, superconductivity physicist
02/24/1918 Jan Ret�l, Dutch actor (Niet Tevergeefs, Dorp aam de Rivier)
02/24/1921 Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
02/24/1921 Douglas Watson, actor (Satan Murders)
02/24/1921 Ingvar Lidholm, composer
02/24/1922 Steven Hill, Seattle Wash, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl)
02/24/1924 Douglass Watson, Jackson Ga, actor (Another World)
02/24/1928 Al Lettieri, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
02/24/1928 Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century
02/24/1928 Paul B Elvstr�m, Denmark, yachter (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60)
02/24/1929 Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
02/24/1930 Barbara Lawrence, actress (Joe Dakota)
02/24/1931 Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
02/24/1932 Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
02/24/1932 John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
02/24/1932 Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
02/24/1934 Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st Socialist premier
02/24/1934 Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
02/24/1934 Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
02/24/1934 Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
02/24/1934 Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
02/24/1934 Shuko Mizuno, composer
02/24/1938 James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
02/24/1940 Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
02/24/1940 Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Nieuwmarktbuurt Amsterdam)
02/24/1942 Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
02/24/1942 Paul Jones, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
02/24/1944 Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
02/24/1944 Nicky Hopkins, rocker (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver)
02/24/1944 Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
02/24/1945 Alain Prost, formula-1 racer (1985, 86 champ)
02/24/1947 Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph
02/24/1947 Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
02/24/1947 Rubert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, singer (Pi�a Colda song)
02/24/1948 Dennis 'Minder' Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
02/24/1951 Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
02/24/1952 Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4'
02/24/1955 Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
02/24/1956 Eddie Murray, 1st baseman (Balt Orioles)
02/24/1956 Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
02/24/1957 Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
02/24/1958 Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country singer (Cadillac Style)
02/24/1958 Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
02/24/1961 Persijn 'Dakota' Joling, rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
02/24/1962 Teri Weigel, Ft Lauderdale, playmate (Apr, 1986)/XXX (Wicked Star)
02/24/1970 Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
02/24/1973 James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
02/24/1977 Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
Deaths:
02/24/1563 Fran�ois Guise, French general strategist/duke, dies in battle at 44
02/24/1624 Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer (Escudero Marcos de Obr�gon), dies
02/24/1642 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
02/24/1666 Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
02/24/1692 Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
02/24/1697 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon, dies
02/24/1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
02/24/1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
02/24/1784 Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
02/24/1785 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
02/24/1799 Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
02/24/1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society of Bearing), dies at 81
02/24/1829 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
02/24/1836 D�niel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies
02/24/1871 Th�odore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher, dies at 73
02/24/1874 Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
02/24/1876 John Pieter Heije, physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
02/24/1895 Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
02/24/1907 Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
02/24/1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
02/24/1919 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
02/24/1922 Dmitri B Sjostakovitsj, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
02/24/1924 Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
02/24/1929 Andre Messager, composer, dies at 75
02/24/1930 Jacobus van Looy, writer/painter, dies
02/24/1933 Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
02/24/1941 Lothar von Arnauld de la P�ri�re, German vice-admiral, dies
02/24/1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
02/24/1953 Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Ardennen), dies
02/24/1960 Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
02/24/1964 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/water colors painter, dies
02/24/1964 Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
02/24/1967 Franz Waxman, composer, dies at 60
02/24/1969 Kenneth Green, actor, dies
02/24/1970 Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
02/24/1973 Art Smith, actor (Quicksand, Painted Hills), dies
02/24/1976 Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
02/24/1976 H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68
02/24/1976 Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
02/24/1982 Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 72
02/24/1983 Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
02/24/1983 Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 7
02/24/1988 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
02/24/1990 Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
02/24/1990 Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies at 70 of a heart attac
02/24/1990 Sandro Pertini, president Italy, dies
02/24/1990 Tony Conigliaro, Red Sox, dies in Salem, Mass, at 45 of kidney failu
02/24/1991 George Gobel, comedian (I Married a Woman, Ellie), dies at 71
02/24/1991 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies
02/24/1991 Marcella Markham, dies
02/24/1991 Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye bye love), dies
02/24/1992 Kay Loring, dies
02/24/1993 Bobby Moore, captain English soccer team (World champs 1966), dies
02/24/1994 Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies at 77
Significant Events:
02/24/1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
02/24/1389 Battle at Falk�ping: Denen beats King Albert of Sweden
02/24/1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
02/24/1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia
02/24/1528 John Z�polya, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerai
02/24/1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope Charles V crowned by Clement V
02/24/1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
02/24/1552 Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
02/24/1582 Pope Gregory XIII approves results of his calendar reform commission
02/24/1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
02/24/1711 Handel's opera 'Rinaldo' premieres, London
02/24/1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
02/24/1793 French troops conquer Breda
02/24/1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
02/24/1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain
02/24/1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
02/24/1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
02/24/1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
02/24/1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against govt
02/24/1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt
02/24/1857 LA Vineyard Society organized
02/24/1863 Arizona Territory created
02/24/1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
02/24/1864 -Feb 25th) Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
02/24/1868 1st US parade with floats, Mobile, Alabama
02/24/1868 House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
02/24/1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
02/24/1888 Louisville, Ky becomes 1st govt in US to adopt Australian ballot
02/24/1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
02/24/1895 Cuban war of independence begins
02/24/1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
02/24/1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland opens
02/24/1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
02/24/1917 Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
02/24/1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia
02/24/1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbr�uhaus M�nich
02/24/1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
02/24/1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
02/24/1923 Mass arrests in US of mafia
02/24/1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
02/24/1924 Mahatma Gandhi let out of jail
02/24/1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
02/24/1928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3227 Hasegawa
02/24/1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
02/24/1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
02/24/1938 A Bohrmann discovers asteroids #1998 Titius & #2665
02/24/1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
02/24/1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
02/24/1941 Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
02/24/1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
02/24/1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
02/24/1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
02/24/1945 Manila freed from Japanese
02/24/1946 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
02/24/1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
02/24/1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
02/24/1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election
02/24/1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
02/24/1960 Italian govt of Segni falls
02/24/1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
02/24/1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
02/24/1964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for heavyweight championship
02/24/1965 Beatles begin filming 'Help' in Bahamas
02/24/1965 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
02/24/1966 Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
02/24/1968 Discovery of first pulsar announced
02/24/1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
02/24/1968 Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
02/24/1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
02/24/1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
02/24/1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
02/24/1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
02/24/1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
02/24/1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil fields
02/24/1974 Atje Cologne-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
02/24/1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
02/24/1976 Cuba adopts its constitution
02/24/1976 Leonid Brezjnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
02/24/1977 Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
02/24/1978 Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
02/24/1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
02/24/1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
02/24/1980 Rangers scored 5 power-play goals against Islanders
02/24/1980 USA Olympic hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal
02/24/1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
02/24/1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
02/24/1982 John Lennon & Yoko Ono's 'Double Fantasy' wins Grammy
02/24/1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
02/24/1984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3679
02/24/1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
02/24/1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
02/24/1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
02/24/1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
02/24/1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
02/24/1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
02/24/1988 Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
02/24/1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
02/24/1989 US Boeing 747 lost over Ocean, 9 die
02/24/1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
02/24/1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
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