Page 8: Historical Events In February - 12

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   

1970  Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79.   

1971  George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86.   

1973  American prisoners captured in Vietnam are released.   

1973  The inaugural US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines   

1973  Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67   

1976  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1976  James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52.   

1978  "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances   

1978  US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne   

1978  US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner   

1979  Jean Renoir, French writer/director (Human Beast), dies at 84.   

1980  Richard Hadlee is recorded as becoming New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117.   

1980  Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies   

1981  Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, is recorded as becoming deputy director of CIA.   

1981  Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies.   

1982  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

1982  Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87   

1983  Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.   

1984  Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality and the gold medal.   

1984  Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69.   

1985  Defence Minister Robert Coates steps down news reports reveal he visited a nightclub featuring nude dancers and prostitutes while on ministry business in West Germany.   

1985  Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61.   

1986  Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86   

1987  Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages   

1987  Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55   

1989  5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel.   

1989  Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours.   

1989  US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman.   

1989  Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83.   

1990  In Hagersville, Ontarioa tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, leads to massive air pollution.   

1991  Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence.   

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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  Death of Toghtekin: Slave/atabek of damascus,   

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

1538  Albrecht altdorfer: German painter,   

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

1571  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  John drusius: Of driesschen, flemish hebraist,