Page 7: Historical Events In February - 14

1956  Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union.   

1956  Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference   

1957  Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites   

1958  Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms.   

1959  $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY   

1960  Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan   

1961  Element 103, Lawrencium, inaugural produced in Berkeley CA.   

1961  Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78.   

1962  Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

1963  inaugural successful kidney transplant   

1963  US launches communications satellite Syncom 1.   

1965  Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor, dies at 84.   

1966  Australia introduces inaugural decimal currency postage stamps.   

1967  Aretha Franklin records "Respect"   

1967  Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up   

1967  James Schneider, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 85   

1968  Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Pennsylvania Central.   

1969  Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at 71   

1971  Movie "Ben Hur" inaugural shown on television   

1971  Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House   

1972  John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week   

1972  Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon   

1972  Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65   

1974  C S Dempster, cricketer (10 Tests for NZ, 723 runs), dies.   

1975  Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station.   

1975  Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87   

1976  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1977  The Unity Bank of Canada and Provincial Bank of Canada merge.   

1978  inaugural "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments   

1979  Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered   

1980  "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances.   

1980  13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY.   

1980  US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares.   

1980  Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor   

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1462  Edzard i cirksena: The great, earl of east-friesia (1494-1528)   

1468  Johann werner: German mathematician   

1483  Zahir al-din mohammed babur shah: Prince/founder mogols-dynasty   

1487  Henry ii of bavaria: Bishop of utrecht/worms/freising   

1513  Domenico maria ferrabosco: Italian composer   

1515  Frederick iii: The pious, elect of the palts   

1533  Christianus adrichomius: Dutch priest/writer (vita jesu christi)   

1546  Johann pistorius: German theologist/historian   

0270  St. valentine marking valentines day (some sources say 269: Others 273).   

0869  Cyrillus: Greek apostle of slaves,   

1317  Death of Marguerite of france: Queen of edward i of england (b. 1282)   

1400  Richard ii: King of england (1377-99), murdered at age 33 at pontefract castle   

1405  Timur/tamerlan "lenk": [crippled], mongols monarch,   

1528  Edzard i the great: Count of austria-e frisia (1494-1528),   

1571  Benvenuto cellini: Ital sculptor/writer (perseus),   

1676  Death of Abraham bosse: French engraver and artist