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100 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 1924 | Mary Tregear: Oriental art historian | |||
11 Feb 1924 | Mary Tregear Oriental art historian | |||
11 Feb 1924 |
death Jacques Loeb Died 11 Feb 1924 at age 64 (born 7 Apr 1859). German-born American biologist noted chiefly for his experimental work on artificial parthenogenesis (reproduction without fertilization). Loeb was able to bring the unfertilized eggs of urchins and frogs to maturity by manipulating their environment, which influenced cell division. He also studied the tropisms of plants and simple animals, which means their reflexive responses to environmental stimuli. Before the age of thirty he published the "tropism theory" which was destined to make him famous. Loeb also worked on brain physiology and tissue regeneration. |
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Jacques Loeb, German-born physiologist (born 1859) | ||||
75 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 1949 | Charlie Hargrett: Rock guitarist (Blackfoot) | |||
11 Feb 1949 | Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title | |||
11 Feb 1949 | Charlie Hargrett rock guitarist (Blackfoot) | |||
11 Feb 1949 | Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title | |||
11 Feb 1949 |
death Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe Died 11 Feb 1949 at age 91 (born 31 Oct 1857). Swedish physician, psychiatrist, and writer whose book The Story of San Michele (1929), one of the world first best sellers in its original English version and in many translations. The book recounts his experiences as a doctor in Paris and Rome and in semiretirement at the villa of San Michele on Capri. Munthe himself was a fascinating man, youngest doctor in the history of France, society doctor to European royalty, but who understood that medicine and doctoring is more about people than wonder drugs and technology. He left the lucrative medical practice in Paris to practice his profession part time time so that he could build the house of his dreams, creating of one of the world's most beautiful houses. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 1974 | Brian Newman: Guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Ronnie Ward: Linebacker (Miami Dolphins) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Wally Richardson: Quarterback (Baltimore Ravens) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Anna Q Nilsson: Actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85 | |||
11 Feb 1974 | 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Titan-Centaur Test launch fails | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Zain Verjee, Kenyan-Canadian journalist | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Isaiah Mustafa, American football player and actor | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Jaroslav Špaček, Czech ice hockey player and coach | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Alex Jones, American radio host and author | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Nick Barmby, English footballer and manager | |||
11 Feb 1974 | D'Angelo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Soulquarians) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | birth D'Angelo, (Michael Archer), who had the 1996 UK No. 21 single 'Lady'. | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Brian Newman guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Ronnie Ward linebacker (Miami Dolphins) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Wally Richardson quarterback (Baltimore Ravens) | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Anna Q Nilsson actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85 | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Titan-Centaur test launch fails | |||
11 Feb 1974 | 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 | |||
11 Feb 1974 | Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 1999 | Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 2004 | Shirley Strickland, Australian runner and coach (b. 1925) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 2009 | Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch-American physician and academic (b. 1911) | |||
11 Feb 2009 | Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (b. 1941) | |||
11 Feb 2009 | Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett died at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 67. The 60's girl group best known for their work with producer Phil Spector had the 1963 hit 'Be My Baby' which epitomized the famed "wall of sound" technique. | |||
11 Feb 2009 |
death Willem J. Kolff Died 11 Feb 2009 at age 97 (born 14 Feb 1911). Willem Johan Kolff was a Dutch-American physician and biomedical enginer who pioneered artificial organs. He invented the artificial kidney machine in 1943, before he emigrated to the U.S. (1950). In Spring 1955, the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs was formed. Kolff became its first president. He headed a team which invented the first totally artificial heart, a pneumatic pump, which was tested on 12 Dec1957, implanted within the chest of dog. It kept the 20.7-kg dog alive for 90 minutes. This was the first time an animal had lived with an implanted totally artificial heart. By 2 Dec 1982, under his supervision, the first fully artificial heart was implanted in a human patient. It was designed by Robert K. Jarvik, one of Kolff's students, that implanted the artificial heart which kept the patient, Barney Clark, alive for 112 days, thus proving the viability of such a procedure. |
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10 years anniversary | ||||
11 Feb 2014 | A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people. | |||
11 Feb 2014 | Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1924) | |||
11 Feb 2014 | Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (b. 1932) | |||
11 Feb 2014 | Queen made UK chart history by becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album. Their first Greatest Hits collection, which includes the hits 'We Will Rock You' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody', had extended its lead after being Britain's highest-selling album for several years. The Official Charts Company said one in three British families now owned a copy of the 1981 compilation. |