| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 1925 | Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, New York | |||
| 24 Feb 1925 | Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860) | |||
| 24 Feb 1925 | Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013) | |||
| 24 Feb 1925 | WW2 | Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. | ||
| 24 Feb 1925 | Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY | |||
| 24 Feb 1925 |
Thermite In 1925, an ice jam was removed using thermite for the first time in the U.S. Some 250,000-tons of ice jamming the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, N.Y., broke up just hours after the reaction of three 90-lb thermite charges (a mixture of finely divided magnesium and red iron oxide, which, when ignited, gives a violent reaction that produces hot molten iron.) The method was devised by Howard Turner Barnes, of McGill University, Canada, and patented 17 Nov 1925 (U.S. No. 1,562,137). The following year he similarly helped break up an ice gorge in a stretch of the Allegheny River, at Franklin, Pa. He had studied of the properties of ice and the engineering problem of ice at intakes of hydroelectric stations on the St. Lawrence River. He succeeded (1908) Ernest Rutherford as Macdonald Professor of Physics. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 1950 | Cathy Mant: LPGA golfer | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | G J M Gazdar: Computational linguist | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | Labour wins British parliamentary election | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | George Thorogood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | Steve McCurry, American photographer and journalist | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | Cathy Mant LPGA golfer | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | G J M Gazdar computational linguist | |||
| 24 Feb 1950 | Labour wins British parliamentary election | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 1975 | Nikolai A Bulganin: Marshal / Premier of the USSR (1955-58), dies at 79 | |||
| 24 Feb 1975 | Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895) | |||
| 24 Feb 1975 | Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler | |||
| 24 Feb 1975 | Led Zeppelin released their sixth album Physical Graffiti in the UK. Recording sessions had been disrupted when bassist and keyboard player John Paul Jones had proposed quitting the band, supposedly to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral, England, although in reality he just needed time to rest after Zeppelin's demanding tour schedule. The group decided on a double album so they could feature songs left over from their previous albums Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy. | |||
| 24 Feb 1975 | Nikolai A Bulganin marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79 | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 2000 | Carlos Santana won eight awards at this year Grammy Awards. Before the 'Supernatural' album, the guitarist had not had a Top 10 album since 1981. Sting won two awards, one for best pop album and another for best male pop vocalist. Sir Elton John won the legend award and Phil Collins the best soundtrack award for 'Tarzan'. | |||
| 24 Feb 2000 | Sixties pop star Georgie Fame was banned from driving for a year and fined £350 after being breathalysed the morning after a concert. Police stopped the 56 year old as he returned to his home in Somerset from a concert in Narberth, Wales. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 2005 | Former Orange Juice singer, guitarist and producer Edwyn Collins was rushed to hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 2010 | 50 Cent was being sued over claims he unlawfully distributed a homemade sex video. Lastonia Leviston filed legal action in Manhattan, saying she made the private video with a lover in 2008 and alleged that 50 Cent posted the video on his website last year after blurring out the lover's face - and editing himself into it as narrator. | |||
| 24 Feb 2010 | The personal assistant to former Ramones manager Linda Stein was convicted in a New York court of bludgeoning her boss to death at her Manhattan apartment on 30 October 2007. Prosecutors said Natavia Lowery, 28, stole more than $30,000 (£19,500) from Stein, then clubbed her with a piece of exercise equipment. Jurors spent less than a day reaching a second-degree murder verdict. | |||
| 24 Feb 2010 | Promotions company MCD launched a $2.3 million lawsuit against Prince for pulling out of a concert in Dublin, Ireland in June, 2008, just ten days before it was to take place. The singer blamed the William Morris Agency for booking the event without permission, but the agency said the star cancelled the gig and gave "no reason of substance" for deciding to pull out. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 24 Feb 2015 | Stock Index FTSE 100 reaches an all-time high after almost 15 years; the previous all-time high was reached on the last trading day of 1999 during the dot-com boom. | |||
| 24 Feb 2015 | A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California, following a collision with a truck, leaves more than 30 injured. | |||
| 24 Feb 2015 | Thea Muldoon, New Zealand wife of Robert Muldoon (b. 1927) | |||
| 24 Feb 2015 | Tyzen Hsiao, Taiwanese pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1938) | |||
| 24 Feb 2015 | Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (b. 1962) | |||
| 24 Feb 2015 | Mefodiy, Ukrainian metropolitan (b. 1949) | |||
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