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100 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 1924 | Lionel Monckton: English Composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 | |||
15 Feb 1924 | Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861) | |||
15 Feb 1924 | Robert Drew, American director and producer (d. 2014) | |||
15 Feb 1924 | Lionel Monckton English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 1949 | Christopher Rouse: Composer | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Earl of Carlisle | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Jess Walton: Michigan, United States -- Actress (Jill Foster Abbott - Young and the Restless) | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Ken Anderson: NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals) | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Francisco Maturana, Colombian footballer and manager | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Hans Graf, Austrian conductor and academic | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Ken Anderson, American football player and coach | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Ken Anderson NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals) | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Christopher Rouse composer | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Earl of Carlisle | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Jess Walton Michigan, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless) | |||
15 Feb 1949 | Dmitri Shostakovich's "Song of the Woods" premieres in Leningrad | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 1974 | Erik Schulz: Port Huron, Michigan -- Pairs skater (with Ilana Goldfogel) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Jodie McMullen: Miss Universe - Australia / Miss Congeniality (1996) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Tim Hall: Running back (Oakland Raiders) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Ugueth Urbina: Caracas, Venezuela -- Pitcher (Montreal Expos) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Kurt Magnus Atterberg: Composer, dies at 86 | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer and engineer (b. 1887) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan baseball player | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer-songwriter (Lordi) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Gina Lynn, Puerto Rican-American porn actress and director | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Miranda July, American actress, director, and screenwriter | |||
15 Feb 1974 | birth Stuart Richardson, bassist, with Lostprophets, who had the 2004 UK No.8 single 'Last Train Home', and the 2006 UK No.1 album 'Liberation Transmission'. | |||
15 Feb 1974 | birth Tomi Petteri Putaansuu, Mr. Lordi, lead vocalist Lordi. Became Finland's first ever Eurovision Song Contest winners after their song 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' won the contest held in Athens in 2006. | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Erik Schulz Port Huron MI, pairs skater (& Ilana Goldfogel) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Jodie McMullen Miss Australia-Universe/Miss Congeniality (1996) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Tim Hall running back (Oakland Raiders) | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Ugueth Urbina Caracas Venezuela, pitcher (Montr | |||
15 Feb 1974 | Kurt Magnus Atterberg composer, dies at 86 | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 1999 | Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya. | |||
15 Feb 1999 | Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) | |||
15 Feb 1999 |
death Henry Way Kendall Died 15 Feb 1999 at age 72 (born 9 Dec 1926). American nuclear physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor for obtaining experimental evidence for the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks. To study the internal structure of the proton, they worked with the 3-km linear accelerator recently opened at Stanford (SLAC). Electrons were accelerated to an energy of 20,000 million electronvolts and directed against a target of liquid hydrogen. In 1969 Kendall helped found the Union of Concerned Scientists. In 1997, in connection with the Kyoto Climate Summit, he helped produce a statement signed by 2,000 scientists calling for action on global warming. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 2004 | Jens Evensen, Norwegian lawyer, judge, and politician, Norwegian Minister of Trade (b. 1917) | |||
15 Feb 2004 | Sam and Mark went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'With A Little Help From My Friends.' Sam and Mark were the second and third placed entrants from the 2003 "Pop Idol" TV show. The Beatles song had also been a hit for Joe Cocker and Wet Wet Wet. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 2009 | Joe Cuba, American singer and drummer (b. 1931) | |||
15 Feb 2009 | Lily Allen went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'It's Not Me, It's You' the singers second album. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
15 Feb 2014 | Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m. | |||
15 Feb 2014 | Christopher Malcolm, Scottish-Canadian actor and singer (b. 1946) |