18 Feb 07 - Sunday
1516 Mary I Tudor [Bloody Mary] Greenwich, (1553-58),
1st reigning queen of Great Britain
1795 George Peabody South Danvers MA, merchant/philanthropist
1836 Ramakrishna Hooghly Bengal, Hindu saint (preached unity of all religions)
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany glassmaker (stained glass windows)
1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago)
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp Notre Dame football star
1933 Yoko Ono Lennon [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer(?)
1941 Herb Santiago vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
1947 Dennis De Young Chicago IL, vocalist (Styx-Grand Illusion, Its Raining Again)
1949 Cybill Shepherd Memphis TN, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show)
1950 John Hughes director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller)
1952 Juice Newton [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning)
1953 Derek Pellicci rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
1953 Robin Bachman Winnipeg, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
1954 John Travolta Englewood NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Grease, Pulp Fiction)
1957 Vanna White [Rosich], TV game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune)
1964 Matt Dillon New Rochelle NY, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Little Darlings, Kansas)
1965 Dr Dre [Andre Young], rap singer
1968 Molly Ringwald Roseville CA, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
0999 Gregory V [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1587 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44
1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA
1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora", in Charleston SC
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published
1902 The opera "Le Jongleur (Hunchback) de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo) 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1930 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
1933 James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), heavyweight box champion (1892-97), dies
1943 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1967 Robert J Oppenheimer creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62
1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona HI
1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
1990 Hulk fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
2001 [Ralph] Dale Earnhardt NASCAR driver/"The Intimidator",
dies in crash during Daytona 500 at 49
I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
John Hughes
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