Celebrity Birthdays and On-This-Day

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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