Sunday, May 15, 2011

Popular Birth On February Twenty Three

By Tracy Rocelyn


1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)

1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)

1915 - Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)

1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter

1916 - George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)

1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)

1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)

1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist

1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)

1685 - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)

1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)

1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)

1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)

1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)

1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)

1920 - Paul Grin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician

1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess

1923 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)

1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician

1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician

1925 - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)

1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )

1963 - Bobby Bonilla, NYC, outfielder (NY Mets, Balt Orioles, Marlins)

1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886

1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)

1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis

1963 - Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish politician

1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist

1929 - Richard Moryl, composer

1964 - John Norum, rocker

1850 - Csar Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)

1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)

1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)

1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)

1868 - W E B DuBois, famous African black civil rights activist and leader

1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)

1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer

1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)

1874 - Konstantin Pts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)

1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)

1967 - Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker

1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)

1969 - Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker (Minn Vikings)

1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)

1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist

1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress

1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher

1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer

1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)

1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)

1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor

1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer

1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer

1972 - Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)

1972 - Jamie Watson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)

1972 - Ryan Grigson, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)

1972 - Steve Papin, WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)

1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer

1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)

1973 - Jack Case, American artist

1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)

1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)

1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)

1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician

1944 - John Sandford, American novelist

1975 - Bohdan Utihrach, Czech, tennis star

1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)

1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef

1975 - Pat Barnes, quarterback (KC Chiefs)

1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor

1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)

1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer

1976 - Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)

1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)

1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress

1976 - Scott Elarton, American baseball player

1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)

1977 - Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)

1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP

1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.

1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.

1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.

1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.

1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.

1819 - By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.

1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.

1853 - Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)

1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.

1872 - The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.

1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.

1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.

1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

1909 - The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.

1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

1943 - World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

1944 - World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

1948 - Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

1957 - Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.

1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

1972 - The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.

1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.

1974 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.

1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.

1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.

1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.

1983 - The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.

2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2011 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.




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