24 Feb 07 - Saturday
1876 Victor Moore Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII)
1921 Abe Vigoda New York NY, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1942 Paul Jones England, rocker (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 Nicky Hopkins rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver)
1946 Barry Bostwick San Mateo CA, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
1946 Michael Radford director (1984, White Mischief)
1947 Lonnie Turner bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band)
1955 Steven Jobs cofounder of Apple Computer
1958 Sammy Kershaw Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1962 Teri Weigel Ft Lauderdale FL, porn star/playmate (April 1986)
0303 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison)
1825 Thomas Bowdler self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 Auguste Chouteau St Louis co-founder, dies
1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach
President Andrew Johnson
1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile AL)
1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 Russian revolution breaks out
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in the Bahamas
1983 Tennessee Williams US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1993 Toy Caldwell guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1998 Henny Youngman comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 Elton John knighted
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman
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