Page 8: Historical Events In February - 11

1958  Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs   

1958  Ruth Carol Taylor is inaugural African-American woman hired as flight attendant.   

1958  1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY   

1959  Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v West Indies at Delhi).   

1960  Jack Paar walks off his TV show   

1961  Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black   

1961  Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem   

1961  Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82.   

1962  Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon.   

1963  Beatles tape 10 tracks for their inaugural album, including "Please, Please Me"   

1963  CIA Domestic Operations Division created.   

1963  Near Kapuskasing Ontarioa shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded0   

1963  Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), results in the deaths of herself in London at 30   

1964  Beatles inaugural live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum.   

1964  Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.   

1964  Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France   

1965  Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox in London   

1968  Israeli-Jordan border fight.   

1968  Jeffrey Kramer survives 76 meter jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River NY.   

1968  In this year, Peggy Fleming claims Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France.   

1968  Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78.   

1969  Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champion.   

1969  In Montreal Quebec Canadian and West Indian student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University   

1969  James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48.   

1970  26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington NH (state 24-hour record)   

1970  Japan joins the space race, by launching a satellite into earth orbit   

1970  Japan launches its inaugural satellite into orbit   

1970  Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87   

1971  US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons.   

1971  Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria   

1972  Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80.   

1973  Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65.   

1974  Titan-Centaur test launch fails.   

1974  Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85.   

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1377  King ladislas of naples: King ladislas of naples (d. 1414)   

1380  Gianfrancesco poggio bracciolini: Italy, humanist   

1465  Elizabeth of york: London, consort of king henry vii   

1506  Juliana van stolberg: Engraver of nassau   

1535  Gregory xiv: [niccolo sfondrati], roman catholic pope (1590-91)   

1557  John wtenbogaert: Remonstrants theologist   

1568  Honoré d'urfé: French writer   

1649  William carstares: Scottish minister   

0641  Death of Heraclius: Emperor of byzantium (610-641),   

0731  Death of Gregory ii: Greek-syrian pope,   

0821  Benedict of aniane: Saint,   

0824  Death of Paschal i: Italian pope (817-24),   

0867  Death of Theodora: The saint, beauty queen/empress of byzantine,   

1141  Death of Hugo of st-victor: Philosopher/theologist/mystic,   

1160  Death of Minamoto no yoshitomo: Japanese general (b. 1123)   

1503  Death of Elizabeth of york: Consort of king henry vii,