1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1304 - Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer (d. 1368) ?
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1948 - Tim Staffell, English singer
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1950 - George Thorogood, American Singer and Guitarist
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1955 - Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1927 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1965 - Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1968 - Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1936 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1970 - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1971 - Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
1971 - Brian Savage, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 - Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1940 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1973 - Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1942 - Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1976 - Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
303 - Diocletian, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1303 - Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1387 - King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1538 - Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zpolya.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 - L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premire performance.
1711 - The London premire of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1803 - In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1822 - The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1831 - The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1848 - King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 - Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 - Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1895 - Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
1917 - World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 - The Nazi Party is founded.
1944 - Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000 mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hu.
1971 - The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1976 - Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
1980 - The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1989 - United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
2006 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2011 - Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1304 - Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer (d. 1368) ?
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1948 - Tim Staffell, English singer
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1950 - George Thorogood, American Singer and Guitarist
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1955 - Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1927 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1965 - Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1968 - Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1936 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1970 - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1971 - Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
1971 - Brian Savage, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 - Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1940 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1973 - Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1942 - Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1976 - Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
303 - Diocletian, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1303 - Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1387 - King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1538 - Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zpolya.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 - L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premire performance.
1711 - The London premire of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1803 - In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1822 - The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1831 - The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1848 - King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 - Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 - Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1895 - Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
1917 - World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 - The Nazi Party is founded.
1944 - Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000 mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hu.
1971 - The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1976 - Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
1980 - The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1989 - United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
2006 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2011 - Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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1 comment:
I have to say that all of the birthdays on Feb 24th are darkened and overshadowed by the foundation of the Nazi party in 1929, aren´t they?
Anyways, I remember it as a happy day since that is the day that this year I arrived to Argentina. Also that very same day I got one of those Buenos Aires apartments and it turned out to be great and perfect for me, very quiet and clean.
Nice!
Kim
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