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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 1924 | Peg Ridge: Peace campaigner | |||
| 25 Feb 1924 | Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3) | |||
| 25 Feb 1924 | Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
| 25 Feb 1924 | Peg Ridge peace campaigner | |||
| 25 Feb 1924 | Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Lord Sempill | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Amin Maalouf, Lebanese-French journalist and author | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Jack Handey, American author and screenwriter | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Ric Flair, American wrestler, manager, and trainer | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Esmeray, Turkish singer (d. 2002) | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | Lord Sempill | |||
| 25 Feb 1949 | WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record) | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Detron Smith: NFL running back (Denver Broncos - Super Bowl 32) | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Tamarick Vanover: NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs) | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Kevin Skinner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Dominic Raab, English lawyer and politician | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Divya Bharti, Indian actress (d. 1993) | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Detron Smith NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Tamarick Vanover NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs) | |||
| 25 Feb 1974 | Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 1999 | Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) | |||
| 25 Feb 1999 | Margaret Meagher, Canadian diplomat (b. 1911) | |||
| 25 Feb 1999 |
death Glenn T. Seaborg Died 25 Feb 1999 at age 86 (born 19 Apr 1912). American nuclear chemist. During 1940-58, Seaborg and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, produced nine of the transuranic elements (plutonium to nobelium) by bombarding uranium and other elements with nuclei in a cyclotron. He coined the term actinide for the elements in this series. The work on elements was directly relevant to the WW II effort to develop an atomic bomb. It is said that he was influential in determining the choice of plutonium rather than uranium in the first atomic-bomb experiments. Seaborg and his early collaborator Edwin McMillan shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Seaborg was chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission 1962-71. Element 106, seaborgium (1974), was named in his honour. |
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Glenn T. Seaborg (b. 1912), American physical chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 2004 | Donald Hings, English-Canadian inventor, invented the Walkie-talkie (b. 1907) | |||
| 25 Feb 2004 | Albert Chartier, Canadian illustrator (b. 1912) | |||
| 25 Feb 2004 | The Rolling Stones topped a US Rich List of music's biggest money makers. The list was based on earnings during 2003 when the band played their 'Forty Licks' tour, which made them $212 million, (£124.7m) in ticket, CD, DVD and merchandise sales. The three million fans who went to the shows spent an average of $11 (£6.47) each on merchandise. Bruce Springsteen was listed in second place and The Eagles in third. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 2009 | Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials. | |||
| 25 Feb 2009 | Philip José Farmer, American author (b. 1918) | |||
| 25 Feb 2009 | President Obama honoured Stevie Wonder, his musical hero, with America's highest award for pop music, the Library of Congress' Gershwin prize at a ceremony at the White House. The president said the Motown legend had been the soundtrack to his youth and he doubted that his wife would have married him if he hadn't been a fan. Wonder's song 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' had been the theme song during Obama's presidential campaign. | |||
| 25 Feb 2009 | Winners at the 2009 NME Awards, held at London's O2 Academy included Oasis who won best British band, Elbow won the outstanding contribution to British music award. The Killers won best international band and Kings of Leon won best album for "Only by the Night" and The Cure won the godlike genius award. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Chokwe Lumumba, American lawyer and politician (b. 1947) | |||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Jim Lange, American game show host (b. 1932) | |||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Quentin Elias, French-American singer and actor (Alliage) (b. 1974) | |||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1947) | |||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Mário Coluna, Portuguese footballer (b. 1935) | |||
| 25 Feb 2014 | Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943) | |||
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