Page 7: Historical Events In February - 28

1939  Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain   

1939  Tommy Tune, Tony Award-winning dancer and actor is born.   

1940  Mario Andretti, auto racer and Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer was born   

1940  Richard Wright's "Native Son" published.   

1940  Mario Andretti, Race-car driver is born.   

1940  The inaugural college basketball games are televised, as W2XBS in NY City broadcasts a pair of games from Madison Square Garden   

1940  US population at 131669275 (12865518 blacks (9.8%))   

1940  1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)   

1940  Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81   

1941  British-Italian dogfight above Albania.   

1941  39 U Boats (197000 ton) sunk this month.   

1942  HMAS PERTH (RAN) sunk in Sunda Strait, western Java by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force   

1942  Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies   

1942  Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit   

1942  1st weapon drop on Netherlands   

1943  "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan   

1944  Bernadette Peters, Actress is born.   

1947  Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan.   

1948  The last British troops leave India   

1949  Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65.   

1950  "Alive and Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs   

1951  French government of Pleven dissolves   

1951  Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates.   

1951  French govt of Pleven dissolves   

1953  Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov.   

1953  Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64.   

1954  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.   

1956  13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA   

1956  A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students   

1956  Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory   

1958  West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket.   

1959  "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances   

1959  Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny and Jones of Great Britain.   

1959  Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul of CAN   

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1155  Henry the young king: Son of henry ii of england   

1261  Margaret of scotland: Queen of norway   

1409  Elisabeth ii of bohemia: Elisabeth ii of bohemia (d. 1442)   

1533  Michel de montaigne: France, essayist/philosopher   

1552  Jobst borgi: [justus byrgius], swiss/german mathematician   

1552  Joost bürgi: Swiss clockmaker   

1573  Elias hill: German architect/city builder (augsburg)   

1612  John pearson: English theologian   

0642  Death of Oswald: English missionary/saint,   

1261  Hendrik: Duke of brabant (1248-61),   

1326  Duke leopold i of austria: Duke leopold i of austria (b. 1290)   

1453  Isabella: Duchess of lorraine (b. 1400)   

1485  Death of Niclas: Graf von abensberg, german soldier (b. 1441)   

1510  Death of Juan de la cosa: Spanish cartographer and explorer   

1525  Death of Cuauhtémoc: Aztec ruler   

1572  Aegidius tschudi: Swiss historian (b. 1505)