Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Celebrity Birth On February Eight

By Tracy Gonzales


1798 - Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849)

1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)

1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin, cricketer (elegant Indian batsman 1984-)

1922 - Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster

1922 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)

1964 - Dennis Gibson, NFL inside linebacker (SD Chargers)

1964 - Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru

1965 - Carmen Savy, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)

1925 - Alvin Brehm, composer

1925 - Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)

1965 - Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce)

1741 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer

1927 - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )

1789 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer

1966 - Kirk Muller, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)

1795 - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)

1930 - Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)

1968 - Joy Fawcett, Inglewood Calif, soccer defender (Olympics-96)

1807 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman

1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer

1969 - Herb Hohenberger, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)

1811 - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883

1813 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist

1932 - John Towner Williams, Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)

1933 - Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)

1970 - John Filan, Australian footballer

1934 - Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)

1822 - Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)

1824 - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861

1936 - Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)

1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)

1973 - Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)

1851 - Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist

1852 - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20]

1859 - John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)

1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter

1939 - Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)

1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)

1940 - Averil Cameron, British(?) historian

1940 - Talib Rasul Hakim, composer

1883 - Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance

1884 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)

1942 - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)

1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player

1942 - Terry Melcher, Rip Chords, Doris Day's son

1888 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)

1890 - Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of US colonialism

1943 - Jose de Almeida Prado, composer

1978 - Christa Williams, Houston TX, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)

1944 - Bunky Henry, golfer

1979 - Aaron Cook, American baseball player

1895 - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)

1896 - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)

1900 - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer

1947 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)

1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)

1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer

1949 - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)

1949 - Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)

1903 - Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia

1982 - Danny Tamberelli, American actor

1904 - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer

1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player

1906 - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)

1906 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)

1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress

1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

1952 - Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)

1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

1911 - Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)

1405 - Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)

1955 - Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)

1912 - Simon Jurovsky, composer

1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer

1913 - John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal

1914 - Bert Haas, baseball player

1914 - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)

1959 - Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980)

1685 - Charles-Jean-Franois Hnault, French historian (d. 1770)

1960 - Alex Scott, British horse trainer

1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)

1960 - Linda Fratianne, LA Calif, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)

421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

1238 - The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.

1250 - Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.

1575 - Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.

1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I - the revolt is quickly crushed.

1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.

1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martn and liberate Chile from Spain.

1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.

1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.

1856 - Barbu Dimitrie Stirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.

1865 - In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)

1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

1879 - The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.

1887 - The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.

1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.

1924 - Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

1942 - World War II: Japan invades Singapore.

1945 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.

1946 - The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.

1948 - The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.

1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.

1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.

1955 - The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.

1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

1960 - The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1962 - Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.

1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.

1963 - The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.

1965 - After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.

1968 - American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.

1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.

1971 - South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.

1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.

1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.

1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.

1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.

1981 - Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.

1983 - The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.

1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.

1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.

1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.

2010 - A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers.




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