28 Feb 07 - Wednesday
1663 Thomas Newcomen English co-inventor (steam engine)
1820 John Tenniel England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1906 Bugsy Siegel gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1928 Smokey The Bear
1942 Brian Jones rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith Texas, NFLer (Baltimore Colts)/actor (Police Academy)
1945 Ronnie Rosman rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1948 Bernadette Peters [Lazzaro] Queens NY, actress (The Jerk, Song & Dance)
1953 Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1955 Gilbert Gottfried comedian (Beverly Hills Cop)
1955 Randy Jackson New Orleans LA, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1967 Marcus Lillington rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need)
1692 Salem witch hunt begins
1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI
1908 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1924 US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1933 German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
1972 President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1977 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles CA)
1979 Mr Ed talking horse, dies
1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
1993 Gun battle erupts at Waco TX between FBI & Branch Davidians
1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
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