Celebrity Birthdays and On-This-Day

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February 10th:

Umbrella Day
School Day (Even though it's really Sunday)

2005 - North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future.
1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.
1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
1978 - Van Halen's debut album was released. Singles included "Running With The Devil" and "Jamie's Crying."
1870 - In New York City, the YWCA was founded.
1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.

Roberta Flack (sang "Killing Me Softly") 1939
Robert Wagner [#2 on "Austin Powers", also "The Longest Day", "The Pink Panther" "Hart to Hart (TV)"] 1930
Lon Chaney ("The Wolf Man") 1906
Jimmy Durante (Big-nosed commedian said "That's not a banana, that's my nose.") 1893
Boris Pasternak (author of the book "Dr. Zhivago") 1890

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February 11th:

National Inventor's Day (Thomas Edison's birthday)
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day

1994 - Prince premiered his song "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" on the 1994 Miss USA Pageant.
1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1986 - The single "Superbowl Shuffle" by the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew was certified gold by the RIAA.
1982 - ABC-TV’s presentation of "The Winds of War" concluded. The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the most-watched television program in history at the time.
1963 - The Beatles recorded "Twist & Shout" and "I Saw Her Standing There."
1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.

Kelly Rowland (Destiny's Child) 1981
Robert Kelly Slater (Professional surfer) 1972
Jennifer Aniston ("Friends") 1969
Sheryl Crow ("All I Wanna Do", "Every Day Is a Winding Road", "If It Makes You Happy", "Soak Up the Sun") 1963
Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida, George's brother) 1953
Bobby "Boris" Pickett ("Monster Mash") 1940
Burt Reynolds [actor: "Deliverance", "Smokey and the Bandit", "The Longest Yard (1974)", "Heat", "Boogie Nights"] 1936
Tina Louise (Ginger on "Gilligan's Island") 1926
Leslie Neilsen ("Naked Gun", "Airplane", "The Poseidon Adventure", "Wrongfully Accused", "Scary Movie 3&4") 1926
Sidney Sheldon (Best-selling novelist also created "I Dream of Jeanie", "Hart To Hart", and "The Patty Duke Show") 1917
Thomas Edison (Invented the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie camera) 1847

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February 12th:

Abraham Lincoln Day
Plum Pudding Day
National Freedom to Marry Day (In the US, it celebrates marriages of same and different sexes)

2002 - Kenneth Lay, former Enron CEO, exercised his constitutional rights and refused to testify to the U.S. Congress about the collapse of Enron.
2001 - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Napster to stop its users from trading copyrighted material without charge.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.
1973 - American prisoners of war were released for the first time during the Vietnam conflict.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential political speech on radio.
1915 - The cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, DC.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
was founded.
1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.

Christina Ricci ("The Adams Family", "Casper", "Gold Diggers", "Sleepy Hollow, "Monster", "Cursed", "The Man Who Cried", "Prozac Nation") 1980
Jesse Spencer (TV: "House") 1979
Silvia Saint (Czech and U.S. Pornstar 1997-) 1976
Arsenio Hall ("Coming To America" actor hosted his own late-night talk show in the early 1990s) 1955
Steve Hackett (Bassist for Genesis in the 1970s: "The Musical Box", "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight", "Horizons", "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", he also had some semi-successful solo albums) 1950
Judy Blume (The author with the most books on the wanted-banned list: "Forever", "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing", "Then Again, Maybe I Won't", "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret") 1938
Charles Darwin (wrote "The Origin of Species" in 1859 about evolution) 1809
Abraham Lincoln (16th US President 1861-65, freed slaves and was assassinated) 1809

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February 13th:

2002 - In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh plead innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
2000 - On "The Simpsons," Maude Flanders was "killed off."
2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
1988 - Michael Jackson bought a ranch in Santa Ynez, California that he called "Neverland."
1970 - Black Sabbath's self-titled first LP was released.
1967 - The Beatles' "Penny Lane" backed with "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released in the U.S.
1937 - The comic strip "Prince Valiant" appeared for the first time.
1867 - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz" was played for the first time at a public concert in Vienna, Austria.

Robbie Williams (singer for Take That: "Back For Good") 1974
Kelly Hu ("The Scorpion King") 1968
Peter Gabriel (singer for Genesis from 1969-76: "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "The musical Box", solo: "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", "Salsbury Hill", "In Your Eyes") 1950
Stockard Channing (Rizzo in "Grease") 1944
Jerry Springer (Outlandish talk-show host) 1944
Peter Tork (singer and guitar player with "The Monkees") 1942
"Tennessee" Ernie Ford (sang "Sixteen Tons") 1919
Grant Wood (painted the often-parodied "American Gothic") 1892
L.L. Bean (Outdoorsman founded a mail-order clothing company) 1873

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February 14th:

St. Valentine's Day
Read To Your Children Day
Fastelavn (In Denmark, children dress up, much like Halloween in the U.S.)

1980 - Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the "CBS Evening News."
1977 - The B-52's perform their first concert together in Athens, GA.
1972 - "Grease" opened off-Broadway, where it ran for the next decade for a total of 3,388 performances.
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her song "Respect" in New York
1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
1918 - The silent motion picture "Tarzan of the Apes" was released.
1912 - Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1899 - The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture.

Julie Ann White aka Jules Asner (Fashion model and former host of "Wild On E!") 1968
Raymond Joseph Teller (The silent half of the comedy/magic duo "Penn and Teller") 1948
Carl Berstein (Washington Post reporter "Woodward and Berstein" who broke the Watergate scandal) 1944
Flornce Henderson (Played the mother Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch" TV show) 1934
Jimmy Hoffa (Teamsters Union leader vanished mysteriously) 1913

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February 15th:

Gumdrop Day
Do a Grouch a Favor Day

2005 - YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, is established.
2004 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Daytona 500, six years to the day when his father won his only Daytona 500.
2002 - The movie "Cross Roads," starring Britney Spears, opened in theaters.
1998 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after 20 years of disappointment.
1995 - Metallic began recording their sixth album "Load." Singles included "Hero of the Day", "Mama Said", and "Until It Sleeps."
1965 - Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.
1964 - The Beatles released the single "Eight Days a Week" from the album "Meet The Beatles."
1764 - The city of St. Louis was established.

Matt Hoopes (rock band Relient K) 1981
Chris Farley ("Sat. Night Live", "Tommy Boy" comedian died in 1997) 1964
Matt Groening (Creator of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama") 1954
Jane Seymour (British actress known as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") 1951
Susan B. Anthony (women's rights activist) 1820
Gaileo Galilei (scientist invented the thermometer and telescope) 1564

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February 16th:

Almond Day
World Championship Hermit Crab Races Crescent City, CA 2/16-2/17

2005 - The NHL (hockey) announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute.
1991 - The 300th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.
1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1946 - The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut.

Tabitha Stevens (Pornstar 1995-2005) 1970
John McEnroe (Tennis champ) 1959
Tracy Marrow aka Ice-T (rapper and actor on "Law and Order: SVU") 1958
LeVar Burton ("Roots", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Reading Rainbow") 1957
Kim Jong-il (North Korean dictator) 1941
Sonny Bono (married Cher, sang "I Got You Babe", and died in a skiing accident) 1935
Hugh Beaumont (Played the dad Ward Cleaver on "Leave It To Beaver") 1909

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February 17

World Championship Hermit Crab Races Crescent City, CA 2/16-2/17

2000 - Microsoft released Windows 2000.
1996 - The 400th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.
1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. He was later beaten to death in prison.
1990 - Aerosmith appeared on "Saturday Night Live." The performed the Wayne's World theme song while appearing in the skit as themselves.
1976 - The Eagles released their "Greatest Hits." The album has since become one of the biggest-selling albums of all-time.
1966 - The Beach Boys began recording "Good Vibrations."
1965 - Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" on NBC-TV.
1960 - The Everly Brothers signed with Warner Bros. Records in a 10-year contract worth $1 million. Their hits included "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", and "All I Have To Do Is Dream."
1955 - Little Richard sent his first audition tape to Specialty Records.
1933 - Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted.
1933 - "Newsweek" was first published.
1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.

Poppy Morgan (Pornstar 2004-) 1983
Paris Hilton 1981
Vivian West (Pornstar 2005-) 1981
Kelly Carlson ("Nip/Tuck" series) 1976
Jerry O'Connell [starred in 3 TV series: "My Secret Identity (1988-91)", "Sliders (1995-99)", and "Crosong Jordan (2002-)"] 1974
Denise Richards ("Starship Troopers", "Wild Things", "James Bond's The World Is Not Enough") 1972
Billie Joe Armstrong (singer and guitarist for Green Day) 1972
Dominic Purcell (Australian actor starred in 2 American series: "John Doe" and currently plays Lincoln Burrows on "Prison Break") 1970
Michael Jordan (Basketball player for the Chicago Bulls) 1963
Loreena McKennitt (sings modern New Age and Celtic music and has had several mainstream hits: "The Mummer's Dance", "All Soul's Night", "The Old Ways", "Huron Beltane Fire Dance") 1957
Rene Russo (Former model turned actress: "Lethal Weapon", "Ransom", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Big Trouble", "Showtime") 1954

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February 18th:

US President's Day
Crab Stuffed Flounder Day

2001 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the Daytona 500 race.
1987 - The song "Sign O' The Times" was released by Prince.
1959 - Ray Charles recorded "What'd I Say."
1930 - Pluto was discovered.
1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published.

Rhianna (R&B singer of "Pon de Replay") 1988
Molly Ringwald (Actress in the '80s: "16 Candles" and "The Breakfast Club") 1968
Dr. Dre (rapper) 1965
Matt Dillon ("Wild Things", "There's Something About Mary") 1964
Vanna White ("Wheel of Fortune") 1957
John Travolta 1954
Yoko Ono (married John Lennon) 1933

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February 19th:

1987 - A controversial, anti-smoking ad aired for the first time on television. It featured Yul Brynner who died shortly after of lung cancer.
1985 - Cherry Coke was introduced by the Coca-Cola Company.
1968 - The children's series "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" debuted. The show ran for 895 episodes and ended in 2001.
1945 - During World War II, about 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
1942 - Approximately 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin.
1881 - Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player (the phonograph).

Haylie Duff (Hilary's lesser-known sister) 1985
Sunset Thomas (Pornstar 1991-2004 later worked at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Las Vegas) 1972
Justine Bateman (TV's "Family Ties") 1966
Seal Samuel (Pop-rock singer: "Crazy", "Kiss from a Rose", "Don't Cry", married Heidi Klum) 1963
Jeff Daniels ("Dumb and Dumber", "Gettysburg", "Arachnophobia") 1955
Amy Tan (Chinese-American author of "The Joy Luck Club") 1952
Tony Iommi (Guitarist for Black Sabbath: "Iron Man", "Paranoid", "War Pigs") 1948
Smokey Robinson (singer for The Miracles helped define the Motown sound of the 1960s) 1940
Nicolas Copernicus (Scientist who was the first to say that the Earth travels around the Sun) 1473

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February 20th:

Cherry Pie day

1992 - Paula Abdul and actor Emilio Estevez ("The Mighty Ducks", "The Breakfast Club") announced their engagement.
1970 - John Lennon's "Instant Karma" was released in the U.S.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1872 - The toothpick is patented.
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act thereby creating the U.S. Post Office.

Chris Thile (Mandolin/guitar player for Nickel Creek: "When You Come Back Down", "This Side", "When in Rome") 1981
Ed Graham (drummer for The Darkness: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love") 1976
Brian Littrell (Backstreet Boys member has released a popular Christian album: "Welcome Home", "Wish") 1975
Brendon Small (Creator of the cartoon/comedy series "Home Movies" and "Dr. Katz") 1975
Kurt Cobain (Lead singer of Nirvana, married Courtney Love, committed suicide) 1967
Cindy Crawford (model) 1966
French Stewart ("3rd Rock From the Sun") 1964
Charles Barkley (Basketball player) 1963
Joel Hodgson (creator and human star of the movie spoof series "Mystery Science Theater 3000") 1960
Sidney Poitier (The first African-American to win an Oscar for "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?", also "In The Heat Of The Night") 1924
Harry Goz (played Captain Murphy on the cartoon/comedy series "Sealab 2021") 1932

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February 21st:

Sticky Bun Day

2000 - David Letterman returned to his Late Night show about five weeks after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass operation.
1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
1858 - The first electric burglar alarm was installed in Boston, MA.

Charlotte Church (Classical soprano began at age 11) 1986
Jennifer Love Hewitt (TV: "Party of 5", "Time of Your Life", "Ghost Whisperer") 1979
Chuck Palahniuk (author of the book "Fight Club") 1962
Kelsey Grammer (played Frasier Crane on "Cheers" and "Frasier") 1955
Alan Rickman (played Severus Snape in "Harry Potter") 1946
Rue McClanahan (Blanche on "The Golden Girls") 1935
Nina Simone (Jazz and soul singer from the '60s) 1933

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February 22nd:

2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
1997 - Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut and colleagues announced that an adult sheep had been successfully cloned. Dolly, the first cloned sheep to be born was born in July 1996.
1989 - Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for Best New Artist. It was admitted later that they were not the vocalists on the album.
1968 - Genesis released its first single, "The Silent Sun" from their debut album "From Genesis to Revolation." Peter Gabriel was the singer and Phil Collins joined 2 albums later.
1956 - Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time with "Heartbreak Hotel."
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1879 - In Utica, NY, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store.
1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

Penny Flame (Pornstar 2002-) 1983
Jenna Haze (born Jennifer Corrales, pornstar 2001-) 1982
Drew Barrymore 1975
Jeri Ryan ("Star Trek Voyager", "Boston Public") 1968
Steve "Crocodille Hunter" Irwin 1962
Lady Baden Powell (married Lord B-P and founded Girl Scouts) 1889
Lord Baden-Powell (married Lady B-P and founded Boy Scouts) 1857
Frederic Chopin (Classical pianist and composer) 1810
George Washington (American General during the American Revolutionary War and 1st US President 1789-97) 1732

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February 23rd:

Banana Bread Day
Dog Biscuit Day

2005 - The New York, NY, city medical examiner's office annouced that it had exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of the people killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, due to the limits of DNA technology. About 1,600 people had been identified leaving more than 1,100 unidentified.
1997 - NBC-TV aired "Schindler's List." It was completely uncensored.
1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.
1974 - Columbia Records released Billy Joel's "Piano Man."
1963 - The 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh, PA.
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" was released.
1919 - The Fascist Party was formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.

Dakota Fanning (Child actress: "Trapped", "Taken", "War of the Worlds", "Uptown Girls", "Dreamer", "The Cat in the Hat", "I Am Sam") 1994
Kristin Davis ("Sex and the City") 1965
Michael Dell (Founded his company at 19 from his dorm room) 1965
Patricia Richardson (Tim Allen's TV wife on "Home Improvement") 1951
Johnny Winter (White-haired blues/rock guitarist) 1944
George Handel (Wrote the "Hallelujah chorus" in his famous classical piece "Massiah") 1865
Johannes Gutenberg (Invented the printing press and printed the Bible) 1400