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100 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 1924 | Hans Berghuis: Dutch author / poet (3 Women, Adam) | |||
12 Feb 1924 | President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech | |||
12 Feb 1924 | George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music," in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano. | |||
12 Feb 1924 | Hans Berghuis Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam) | |||
12 Feb 1924 | George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York NY) | |||
12 Feb 1924 | George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in New York NY | |||
12 Feb 1924 | President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 1949 | Len Randle: Baseball player (NY Mets) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Stanley Knight: Country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | birth Stanley Knight, from American group Black Oak Arkansas, who had the 70's US No.1 radio hit single 'Jim Dandy To The Rescue'. | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Stanley Knight country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Gundappa Viswanath cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Len Randle baseball player (New York Mets) | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey | |||
12 Feb 1949 | "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio | |||
12 Feb 1949 | Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 1974 | Ian Mcintyre: Montreal, Quebec -- NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks) | |||
12 Feb 1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. | |||
12 Feb 1974 | Ian Mcintyre Montr | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 1999 | United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 2004 | The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. | |||
12 Feb 2004 | Eminem's ex-wife Kimberly Mathers was jailed for a month after being found using cocaine while on probation. Mathers was also put on a 90-day drug abuse programme. | |||
12 Feb 2004
Arden Bement |
Arden Bement (appointments) Arden Bement, acting director of the U.S.A's National Science Foundation. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 2009 | Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground. | |||
12 Feb 2009 | Claude Nollier, French actress (b. 1919) | |||
12 Feb 2009 | victims of Colgan Air Flight 3407 (Alison Des Forges, American historian and activist (b. 1942), Beverly Eckert, American activist (b. 1951), Coleman Mellett, American guitarist (b. 1974), Gerry Niewood, American saxophonist (b. 1943)) | |||
12 Feb 2009 | A full frontal nude photo of Madonna, taken in 1979 before she became famous, sold at auction for $37,500. The black and white picture was taken at a time when Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was a 20-year-old dancer trying to make ends meet in New York. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
12 Feb 2014 | A massive winter storm across states in the southern United States causes widespread power outages, travel disruptions and dangerous road conditions. | |||
12 Feb 2014 | John Pickstone, English historian and author (b. 1944) | |||
12 Feb 2014 | Santiago Feliú, Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1962) | |||
12 Feb 2014 | Maggie Estep, American poet and author (b. 1963) | |||
12 Feb 2014 | Sid Caesar, American actor and singer (b. 1922) | |||
12 Feb 2014 | It was reported that Rock music overtook pop in UK album sales during 2013, winning a bigger share of the market for the first time in five years. |