Births
1462 - Edzard I Cirksena, the Great, earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)
1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty
1487 - Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht/Worms/Freising
1513 - Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer
1515 - Frederick III, the Pious, elect of the Palts
1533 - Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi)
1546 - Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian
1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer
1602 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1638 - Sybilla Schwarz, writer
1670 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1679 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1707 - Claude-Prosper J de Cr‚billon, French writer (Le sopha)
1760 - Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal churc
1766 - Thomas Malthus, England, population expert (Law of Malthus)
1778 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer
1806 - Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
1813 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1813 - John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1817 - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor
1819 - James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1824 - Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1829 - Alfred Iverson Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1835 - Fran‡ois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
1838 - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
1845 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
1853 - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp)
1856 - Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves)
1858 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer
1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
1859 - George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
1864 - Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
1864 - Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
1868 - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
1869 - Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
1880 - Aida Overton Walker, US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome)
1880 - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
1881 - Otto Selz, German psychologist
1881 - William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
1882 - George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
1882 - Ignaz Friedman, composer
1886 - Theodor Werner, German painter
1892 - Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
1893 - Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
1894 - Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
1894 - Jack Benny
1895 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
1895 - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
1897 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer
1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (super nova)
1899 - John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
1902 - Fred Scott, Fresno Calif, vocalist/actor (Vincent Lopez)
1902 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
1902 - Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley Calif, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
1902 - Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer
1904 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer
1904 - Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant (Dyfed)
1904 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
1905 - Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
1907 - Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
1909 - A Moses Klein, Montr‚al, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
1911 - Florence Rice, Cleveland OH, actress (Double Wedding, Riding on Air)
1911 - Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor (Artificial Kidney)
1912 - Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
1912 - Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agen
1912 - Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
1913 - Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head)
1913 - James Pike, Okla City, bishop (Beyond Anxiety)
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
1913 - Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees)
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa
1913 - Mel Allen
1915 - A W H Stewart-Moore, CEO (Gallaher)
1915 - Irving Gordon, songwriter
1916 - Edward Platt, Staten Island NY, actor (Chief-Get Smart)
1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi)
1916 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer
1917 - Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
1920 - Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon
1921 - Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1921 - Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
1921 - Jeanne Demessieux, composer
1921 - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
1921 - Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
1921 - Hugh Downs
1923 - Derrick Holden-Brown, CEO (Allied-Lyons)
1923 - Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
1924 - Arghyris Kounadis, composer
1924 - Countess Mountbatten, of Burma
1925 - Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orch leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell)
1926 - John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
1927 - Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress (Miss Moneypenny)
1928 - Ben Garrido Blaz, (Rep-R-Guam, 1985- )
1928 - Juan Garc¡a Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano)
1929 - Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982- )
1930 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
1931 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers)
1931 - Lord Rossmore
1931 - Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1931 - Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
1932 - Alexander Kluge, writer
1932 - Jack Hibbert, director (Central Statistical Office)
1932 - Jocelyn Stevens, CEO (English Heritage)
1932 - Michael Ball, Bishop (Truro)
1932 - Peter Ball, Bishop (Gloucester)
1932 - Vic Morrow
1933 - Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, composer
1933 - Bertram Jay Turetzky, composer
1933 - Evelyn Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor (Durham U)
1934 - Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
1934 - Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter (Oly-2 bronze-1956)
1934 - Florence Henderson
1935 - Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown)
1935 - David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
1935 - Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
1935 - Mickey Wright, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
1935 - Peter Phillips, printer
1936 - Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
1936 - Fanne Foxe, [Annabella Battistella], Argentina, (Wilbur Mills affair)
1937 - John MacGregor, British MP
1937 - Magic Sam, rocker (Chicago Bluesman)
1938 - Lee Chamberlin, NYC, actor (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1939 - Chris Pyne, trombonist
1939 - Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years)
1940 - Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
1941 - John Butterfill, MP
1941 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
1942 - Margaret Wright, chief commissioner (Guide Assn)
1943 - Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Avalanche, Be True to You)
1943 - Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor (Boezemvriend)
1943 - Maceo Parker, US tenor saxophonist (King's One, Mo' Roots)
1943 - Robert J Murphy Jr, Brooklyn NY, PGA golfer (1968 Phila Classic)
1944 - Carl Bernstein
1944 - Alan Parker, English actor (Bugsy Malone, Evita)
1944 - Bruce Summerhays, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (Provo Open-1966, 91 93)
1944 - Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
1945 - Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
1945 - Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein
1945 - K M Jenkins, British director of personnel (Royal Mail)
1945 - Vic Briggs, England, rocker (Animals)
1945 - William Hill Boner, (Rep-D-TN, 1979- )
1946 - David Green, English TV/video producer
1946 - Tim Buckley, Wash DC, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1946 - Tina Aumont, Hollywood Calif, actress (Master of Love, Casanova)
1946 - Gregory Hines
1947 - Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1947 - Judd Gregg, (Rep-R-NH, 1981- )
1947 - Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut (Soyuz 37/36)
1947 - Salah-ud-Din, cricketer (played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69)
1948 - Jackie Martling, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian (Howard Stern Show)
1948 - Pat O'Brien, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1948 - ... Teller, Phila, magician (Penn & Teller)
1948 - Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist
1949 - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
1949 - Jimmy Randell, rocker
1949 - Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1950 - Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor (Brussels by Night
1951 - Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager (Newcastle United)
1951 - Michael Doucet, singer/musician (Beausoleil)
1953 - Wayne Siegel, composer
1955 - R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1956 - Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
1956 - Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Ken Wahl, Chicago IL, actor (Wanderers)
1958 - Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
1960 - Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1960 - Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
1960 - Meg Tilly
1963 - D'Wayne Wiggins, singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
1963 - Jeff Dellenbach, NFL center (NE Patriots, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 - John Marzano, Philadelphia PA, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Zach Galligan, NYC, actor (Gremlins)
1964 - Darrick Brilz, NFL center (Cin Bengals)
1965 - Jessie Tuggle, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Clark Sherwood Dennis, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd
1966 - Petr Svoboda, Most Cze, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Oly-gold-1998)
1967 - Calle Johansson, Goteborg Swe, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1967 - Laura Martin, LaJolla Calif, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1994)
1967 - Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player (1984 US Mix
1968 - Chris Lewis, cricketer (in Guyana England all-rounder)
1969 - Chad Magee, Tyler TX, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open-36th)
1969 - Harry Colon, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions)
1969 - Jeff Graham, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, NY Jets)
1969 - Roy Barker, NFL defensive end (Minn Vikings, SF 49ers)
1969 - Shana Zadrick, Grand Junction Colo, model (Guess Jeans)
1970 - David Podlich, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1970 - Elaine Youngs, Orange Calif, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star
1970 - Kelly Stinnett, US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Richard Smehlik, Ostrava CZE, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Rep, Buffalo
1970 - Sean Hill, Duluth, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Derrick Witherspoon, NFL running back (Phila Eagles)
1971 - Gheorghe Muresan, NBA center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Kenny Shedd, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons, Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Lonnie Johnson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Bruno Heppell, CFL full back (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 - Erika Rachael Schwarz, Folsom La, Miss America (Louisiana-2nd-1997)
1972 - Mayne One, rocker (Young Nation)
1972 - Raymond Beerens, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe
1973 - George Hegamin, NFL/WLAF tail back (Dallas Cowboys, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Michael "Mike" Theodore Lambert IV, Thomaston Ga, rower (Oly-1996)
1973 - Steve McNair, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1973 - Tyus Edney, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings)
1974 - Michael Lowery, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Rob Jahrling, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Jennifer Michelle Roberts, Greensboro NC, Miss America-NC (1997)
1977 - Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1985 - Jacob Parker, actor (Evening Shade)
1998 - Arpad Flynn Busson, NYC, son of model Elle MacPherson
Events
842 - Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
1014 - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1130 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1540 - Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 - Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 - Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasil
1613 - King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1630 - Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 - Händels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1746 - Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1766 - Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 - "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1848 - James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 - Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
1867 - Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
1867 - Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
1872 - 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules B
1879 - Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1883 - 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
1887 - Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 - 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
1890 - 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1894 - Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 - Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1896 - George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v S Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 - South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever
1896 - Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
1896 - Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 - US Congress begins using voting machines
1900 - Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1903 - US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
1907 - 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
1912 - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1914 - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 - H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC
1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
1919 - United Parcel Service forms
1920 - League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1921 - Canadian 5¢ nickel coin is authorized
1921 - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
1924 - IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925 - State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
1931 - Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 - Spanish Govt of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 - S Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 - NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 - National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 - Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 - British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 - 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
1941 - Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 - Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 - Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1943 - German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 - Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 - Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1944 - Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 - Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
1946 - Bank of England nationalized
1949 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1949 - Dutch Drees govt presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1950 - Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
1950 - USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 - 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
1952 - Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 - WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 - Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
1956 - Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 - Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball
1958 - Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 - $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1960 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1960 - Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1961 - Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
1962 - 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1963 - US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 - Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 - Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniël found guilty
1967 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 - Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 - Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central
1968 - WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 - Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 - John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1975 - Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1978 - In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1979 - "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1980 - "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1982 - "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1982 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 - Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 - 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1988 - 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1988 - Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 - Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 - General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1989 - African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 - Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
1989 - Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
1989 - Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
1990 - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen,
1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 - "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 - Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300 [or February 13?]
1991 - NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1992 - Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 - Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 - Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1993 - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 - Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1995 - Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 - Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
Deaths
869 - Cyrillus, Greek apostle of Slaves, dies
1400 - Richard II, king of England (1377-99), murdered at 33
1405 - Timur/Tamerlan "Lenk", [Crippled], Mongols monarch, dies at about 68
1528 - Edzard I the Great, count of Austria-E Frisia (1494-1528), dies at 66
1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70
1571 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Chƒtillon/count of Beauvais, dies at 53
1681 - Francesco Nigetti, composer, dies at 77
1760 - Fran‡ois Collin de Blamont, composer, dies at 69
1779 - James Cook, Scottish explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
1780 - William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56
1790 - Capel Bond, composer, dies at 59
1818 - John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61
1820 - Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42
1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies
1841 - Antun Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76
1857 - Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
1857 - John B van Bree, violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
1873 - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer, dies at 52
1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
1901 - Edward John Hopkins, composer, dies at 82
1908 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer, dies at 72
1916 - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
1937 - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer, dies at 62
1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
1943 - Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz
1950 - Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80
1950 - Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44
1955 - Charles Cuvillier, composer, dies at 77
1960 - Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedr„ktens Barn), dies at 77
1961 - Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78
1965 - Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor, dies at 84
1967 - James Schneider, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 85
1967 - Sig Ruman, actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
1969 - Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at 71
1969 - Wolfe Barzell, actor (Blue Angel), dies of heart attack at 72
1972 - Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65
1974 - C S Dempster, cricketer (10 Tests for NZ, 723 runs), dies
1975 - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87
1975 - Julian S Huxley, English scholar/dir-gen (UNESCO), dies at 87
1975 - Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93
1979 - Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
1982 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus J M Schaareman], Dutch actor, dies at 79
1987 - Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
1987 - Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Frederick Loewe, US composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84
1990 - Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
1990 - Jean Wallace, [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 6
1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
1991 - John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48
1992 - Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61
1992 - Roepie Kruize, hockey player (Olympic-bronze-48/silver-52), dies at 6
1993 - Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
1994 - Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
1994 - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
1995 - Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1995 - Ischa Me˜er, journalist/critic/entertainer/interviewer, dies at 52
1995 - Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71
1995 - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, writer, dies at 74
1995 - Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 7
1995 - Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
1995 - U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
1996 - Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77
1996 - Caroline Blackwood, writer, dies at 64
1996 - Eva Hart, Titanic survivor, dies at 90
1996 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist, dies at 64
428 Events for 14th February