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100 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 1924 | Woodrow Wilson: 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 | |||
03 Feb 1924 | Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician; 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) | |||
03 Feb 1924 | Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician; 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013) | |||
03 Feb 1924 | E. P. Thompson, English historian and author (d. 1993) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 1949 | Oscar Benton: Dutch blues vocalist / guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij) | |||
03 Feb 1949 | Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist and manager | |||
03 Feb 1949 | birth Arthur Killer Kane, bass guitarist with The New York Dolls, who had the 1973 album 'New York Dolls'. Kane died in Los Angeles on July 13th 2004, due to complications from leukaemia, aged 55. | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 1974 | "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances | |||
03 Feb 1974 | Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 1999 | Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1950) | |||
03 Feb 1999 | Tony Hadley singer with Spandau Ballet told a High Court in London of his "desperate" financial situation after his solo career failed. Hadley and band members Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble, were suing Spandau Ballet songwriter Gary Kemp for hundreds of thousands of pounds of allegedly unpaid publishing royalties. Hadley earned £120,000 a year during the band's heyday in the early 1980s, but the court heard that when he fell on hard times he was forced him to sell his home to pay off a £50,000 overdraft in 1993. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 2004 | Jason Raize, American actor and singer (b. 1975) | |||
03 Feb 2004 | Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs settled a $3 million (£1.76 million) court case filed by his former driver after an incident in 1999. Wardell Fenderson had driven Mr Combs and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez away from a New York nightclub where three people had been wounded in a shooting. Mr Fenderson said he was traumatized by having guns in the car and being ordered to ignore police orders to stop, for which he was arrested. | |||
03 Feb 2004 | R. Kelly appeared in Court and entered of plea of not guilty to 21 charges of child pornography. Kelly, who was free on bond, did not talk during the brief hearing. Outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse fans voiced their support for the singer, proclaiming his innocence with placards and T-shirts. Kelly had been arrested in Florida after he was indicted by a grand jury in Chicago on 21 counts of child pornography, stemming from a videotape that allegedly shows the star performing sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl. | |||
03 Feb 2004
113 |
113 (physics) Russian and American physicists produce results that indicate the discovery of elements 113 and 115. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 2009 | Sheng-yen, Chinese monk and scholar, founded the Dharma Drum Mountain (b. 1930) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
03 Feb 2014 | Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. | |||
03 Feb 2014 | Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923) |