16 Feb 07 - Friday
1838 Henry Adams Boston MA, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
1901 Wayne King Savannah IL, saxophonist/bandleader (the Waltz King)
1909 Hugh Beaumont Lawrence KS, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
1912 Machito "Frank Grillo" Florida, bandleader (created salsa music)
1920 Patty Andrews Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1935 Sonny Bono Detroit MI, singer (Sonny & Cher, Mayor-R-Palm Springs CA)
1956 James Ingram singer (On the Wings of Love)
1958 Ice-T rap singer/actor (New Jack City, Tank Girl, Crazy Six)
1959 John P McEnroe tennis player (US Open 1979-81, 84 Wimbledon 1981, 83, 84)
2335 Geordi La Forge character on Star Trek Next Generation
0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response
to a sneeze
1659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1862 Ft Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender
1918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!"
done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty
1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
1968 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for
transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL
1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown
1972 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
1982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
1988 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
1992 Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
King Hussein I
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