Page 7: Historical Events In February - 12

1947  Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands.   

1947  Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72   

1948  1st Lt Nancy Leftenant is recorded as becoming 1st black in army nursing corps   

1949  "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances.   

1949  Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.   

1949  Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line   

1949  Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio.   

1949  Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem   

1949  "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs   

1950  Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.   

1950  In this year, Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees.   

1953  USSR breaks relations with Israel   

1954  Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58.   

1955  McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks.   

1955  President Eisenhower sends inaugural US advisors to South Vietnam   

1955  Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan   

1955  Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71.   

1957  Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed   

1957  Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82   

1958  Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88.   

1960  Chinese army results in the deaths of 12 Indian soldiers.   

1960  Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71   

1961  inaugural spacecraft to the planet Venus launched.   

1961  USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus   

1962  In this year, Bus boycott starts in Macon GA.   

1963  Argentina asks extradition of Ex-President Peron   

1964  Beatles inaugural NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)   

1964  US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming   

1964  US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen   

1965  Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean.   

1965  Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53.   

1967  Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs   

1969  Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch and Perlemoer), dies at 80   

1970  Three-month-old baby receives Canada's inaugural successful liver transplant at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital   

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1074  Conrad: King of germany and italy   

1211  Henry vii: Roman catholic german king (1220-35)   

1218  Kujo yoritsune: Japanese shogun   

1438  Adolf van egmond: Duke of gelre/earl of zutphen   

1474  Lorenzo campeggi(o): Archbishop of bologna/diplomat   

1567  Thomas campion: England, composer/poet/physician   

1584  Casparus barleaus: Flemish theologist/poet (muiderkring)   

1585  Caspar bartholin: Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy   

1128  Toghtekin: Slave/atabek of damascus,   

1242  Death of Hendrik vii: Roman catholics german king (1220-35), commits suicide   

1538  Death of Albrecht altdorfer: German painter,   

1554  Death of Jane grey: Queen of england for 9 days, beheaded at 17   

1571  Death of Nicholas throckmorton: English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)   

1590  Francois hotman/hotomanus: French lawyer/diplomat,   

1595  Archduke ernest of austria: Governor of the spanish netherlands (b. 1553)   

1616  Death of John drusius: Of driesschen, flemish hebraist,