Page 9: Historical Events In February - 21

1979  2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period.   

1979  Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km)   

1979  Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies.   

1980  Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44   

1980  Hanni Wenzel is inaugural Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom)   

1980  Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78   

1981  "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured.   

1981  Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k).   

1981  NASA launches Comstar D-4.   

1982  "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances.   

1982  "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances.   

1982  In this year, Beth Daniel claims LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic.   

1983  Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds   

1983  NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak   

1984  Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies   

1985  In this year, Evert van Benthem claims 13th Friese 11 city skating race.   

1985  Largest NBA crowd to date 44970 (Atlanta at Detroit).   

1985  Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator   

1985  Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47.   

1986  AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School   

1986  Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20000 and suspended for 10 weeks   

1987  In this year, Cindy Rarick claims LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open.   

1987  Syrian army marches into Beirut.   

1988  Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane   

1988  Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13 48.20)   

1988  Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses his sins to his congregation   

1988  Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20).   

1989  Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling   

1989  US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)   

1990  32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win.   

1991  Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances.   

1991  USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable   

1991  Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71   

1992  In this year, Kristi Yamaguchi of US claims Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating   

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1417  On February - 21 birth of louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)   

1484  Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution) was born on this day in history.   

1556  Sethus Calvisius, composer was born on February - 21.   

1674  On February - 21 birth of johann Augustin Kobelius, composer   

1675  On February - 21 birth of franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)   

1684  Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator) was born on February - 21.   

1690  On February - 21 birth of christoph Stoltzenberg, composer   

1705  On this day in history birth of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)   

0556  On February - 21 maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies   

1437  On February - 21 death of king James I of Scotland (b. 1394)   

1471  Death of John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop on this day in history.   

1513  Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 on February - 21.   

1554  Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies on this day in history.   

1595  Death of Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged on this day in history.   

1624  On February - 21 dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28   

1648  Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on February - 21.