Page 8: Historical Events In February - 28

1959  Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA   

1959  Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit.   

1959  Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA.   

1959  The inaugural polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, launched.   

1959  Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70   

1960  8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA   

1960  In this year, US claims Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4.   

1960  F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74   

1961  JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor   

1961  Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64.   

1962  Rae Dawn Chong wasborn at Edmonton Alberta, daughter of actor Tommy Chong. Chong, she appeared in the film Quest for Fire.   

1962  Rae Dawn Chong, Actress is born.   

1962  Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70.   

1963  Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58   

1964  The opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building, much later this event confirms the fact that Toronto is the center of the universe.   

1964  Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78.   

1965  Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74.   

1966  Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes   

1966  Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet   

1968  Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air   

1968  Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41.   

1969  Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler and Ford of Great Britain.   

1969  Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina and Ulanov of USSR.   

1969  Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR.   

1969  Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA.   

1970  Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge.   

1971  53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam   

1971  Tristan Louis, Internet entrepreneur (me) is born.   

1971  Women refused the right to vote in Lichtenstein elections.   

1972  George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident   

1972  President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China   

1972  President Richard Nixon wraps up his historic trip to China   

1972  Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies   

1973  Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders.   

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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  Death of Aegidius tschudi: Swiss historian (b. 1505)