2 Feb 07 - Friday
1859 Havelock Ellis US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
1890 Charles Correll actor (Andy-Amos & Andy radio program)
1927 Stan Getz jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
1934 [Clyde] Skip Batten Los Angeles CA, rocker (Byrds)
1942 Graham Nash rocker (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1946 Howard Bellamy Darby FL, vocalist (Bellamy Brothers)
1947 Farrah Fawcett
1947 Peter Lucia rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells)
1948 Alan McKay rocker (Earth Wind & Fire)
1949 Ross Valory San Francisco CA, rock bassist (Journey)
1954 Christie Brinkley
1955 Brent Spiner Houston TX, actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
1963 Pebbles Flintstone fictional character on "The Flintstones"
2338 Data android character on Star Trek Next Generation
1829 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War
1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
1882 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven CT
1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1907 Dmitri I Mendelejev Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1922 James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1923 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton OH
1923 US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
1925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
1927 Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St New York NY
1931 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
1932 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta GA)
1940 Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army.
1944 Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
1945 Karl F Goerdeler mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
1950 1st broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS-TV
1955 1st Presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
1959 Buddy Holly's last performance
1964 GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1969 Boris Karloff [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81
1973 "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
1976 "Rich Little Show" debuts on NBC-TV
1979 Sid Vicious [John Simon Ritchie] dies of heroin overdose at 31
1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors
1986 Midnight Express defeats The Rock N Roll Express for the NWA World Tag Team title
1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut
1990 South Africa's President F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes African National Congress & 60 other political organizations
1992 IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9 million tax bill (of $16.7 million)
1996 Gene Kelly actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce
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