21 Feb 07 - Wednesday
1855 Alice Freeman Palmer educator (Hall of Fame)
1927 Erma Bombeck Dayton OH, humorist (The Grass is Always Greener...)
1931 Larry Hagman TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1933 Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, singer/pianist ("I Loves You Porgy")
1943 David Geffen Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffen, Asylum)
1948 Larry Ragland Richmond VA, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter country singer (This Shirt, Shooting Straight in the Dark)
1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt Waco TX, actress
1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1764 John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" 1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1803 Edward Despard last person drawn & quartered in England
1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
1941 US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1965 Malcolm X [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York NY at 39
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album is released
1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 years
1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters;
the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1988 During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52)
admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)
1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War
US calls the plan unacceptable
1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition" premieres
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!
Erma Bombeck
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