25 Feb 07 - Sunday
1901 [Herbert] Zeppo Marx New York NY, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
1913 Jim Backus Cleveland OH, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III)
1917 Anthony Burgess essayist/novelist (A Clockwork Orange)
1928 Larry Gelbart writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, MASH)
1937 Basia Johnson maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1943 George Harrison England, (My Sweet Lord, Beatles, Traveling Wilburys)
1943 Sally Jesse Raphael Easton PA, TV talk show host (Sally)
1950 Rick Flair [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champion (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1957 Stuart "Woody" Wood Scotland, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1965 Carrot Top [Scott Thompson], Florida, comedian
1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
1570 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1601 Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth
1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1899 Paul Julius von Reuter founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1914 John Tenniel British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
1922 Henri-Désiré Landru French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
1963 Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship
1969 Jan Zajic Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates
1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
1975 Elijah Muhammad leader of the Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 77
1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that
she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile, kills 28
1993 Troy Caldwell country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1994 Baruch Goldstein physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
"What's the number to 911?" - anonyms
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