February 12th

Events:
1541 - Santiago - Chile founded
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequests $1 -000 -000 to Swarthmore to become all girl
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington - DC
1924 - Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall
1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporated
1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference
1947 - A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia
1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1980 - 2nd Islander scoreless tie - Jets at Nassau

February 13th

Events:
1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1741 - 1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
1867 - Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
1937 - Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1937 - Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
1945 - Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
1960 - France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Flyers

February 14th

Events:
1753 - Valentine's Day
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd State
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell files application for patent on the telephone
1912 - Arizona becomes 48th state
1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1921 - Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallet's doorstep
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed
1950 - Karl Jansky - discoverer of cosmic radio sources - dies
1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on Meet the Press
1961 - Element 103 - lawrencium - 1st produced in Berkeley California
1962 - Mrs Kennedy gives TV audience a tour of the White House
1972 - John & Yoko guest host Mike Douglas Show for the entire week
1972 - USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on moon - returns
1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

February 15th

Events:
1583 - Lupercalia
1764 - St. Louis founded
1845 - William Parsons - the Earl of Rosse - 1st uses 72-inch reflector
1861 - Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
1876 - Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1898 - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor - cause unknown
1917 - SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1933 - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1954 - 1st bevatron in operation - Berkeley - California
1955 - Production announced-1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds
1972 - Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager

February 16th

Events:
1600 - Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
1862 - Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant
1883 - Ladies Home Journal begins publication
1914 - 1st airplane flight to LA from SF
1918 - Lithuania declares independence from Germany
1923 - Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun
1937 - Nylon patented - WH Carothers
1938 - US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
1945 - US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3
1946 - 1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct
1951 - SF City Hall dome fire
1961 - 1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va
1964 - Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan

February 17th

Events:
1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine
1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)

February 18th

Events:
Nothing special on this day however we have some great personalities birthday

Birthday:
1516 - Queen Mary I, (Bloody Mary) (1553-58) -- 1st reigning queen of GB
1745 - Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta, Count--invented battery
1795 - George Peabody, American merchant & philanthropist
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
1859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), author (Jewish Mark Twain)
1892 - Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
1894 - Andres Segovia, guitarist
1909 - Wallace Stegner, novelist & critic
1920 - Bill Cullen, TV gameshow host
1920 - Jack Palance, actor (Ripley's Believe It or Not)
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, author & publisher (Cosmopolitan) in Portland Me
1926 - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers)
1933 - Kim Novak, in Chicago Illinois
1933 - Mary Ure
1933 - Yoko Ono, aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan
1950 - Cybill Shepherd, in Memphis Tenn (Moonlighting)
1954 - John Travolta, actor (Saturday Night Fever)
1957 - Vanna White, in SC--Wheel of Fortune's hostess
1968 - Molly Ringwald, in Los Angeles California -- Pretty in Pink

February 19th

Birthdays:
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer in Torun - Poland
1717 - David Garrick, actor & producer & writer
1833 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss writer & pacifist (Nobel 1902)
1843 - Adelina Patti, Spanish operatic coloratura
1859 - Svante August Arhenius, founder of physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
1865 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer of Tibet & scientist
1889 - Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombian poet & novelist (The Vortex)
1911 - Merle Oberon, in Tasmania
1912 - Stan Kenton, band leader
1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey
1924 - Lee Marvin, actor
1932 - Joseph P. Kerwin, U.S. astronaut (Skylab 2)
1940 - Smokey Robinson, singer
1955 - Margaux Hemingway, in Portland Oregon
1960 - Prince Andrew, of Britain
1966 - Justine Bateman, in Rye NY - Family Ties

February 21st

Events:
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.

Birthday:
1970- Michael slater was born

Death:
1971- Nutan Behl International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

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