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Birthday February 28, 1533 Michel de Montaigne, French essayist & philosopher |
Birthday February 28, 1683 Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, French biologist & engineer. |
Birthday February 28, 1820 John Tenniel, English cartoonist & illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) |
Birthday February 28, 1824 Charles Blondin, French acrobat & aerialist. |
Birthday February 28, 1866 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars) |
Birthday February 28, 1894 Ben Hecht is born |
Birthday February 28, 1894 Ben Hecht, novelist & playwright & screenwriter (The Front Page) |
Birthday February 28, 1901 Linus Pauling, chemist & peace worker (Nobel 1954 & 1962) |
Birthday February 28, 1909 Stephen Spender, English poet |
Birthday February 28, 1913 Vincente Minnelli, film director |
Birthday February 28, 1915 Sir Peter Medawar, British zoologist & immunologist (Nobel 1953) |
Birthday February 28, 1915 Zero Mostel, Actor (if I were a rich man) |
Birthday February 28, 1917 John B. Connally ,(D) former governor of Texas |
Birthday February 28, 1926 Svetlana Stalina, daughter of Josef Stalin (or 1906) |
Birthday February 28, 1928 Betty Ackermann, Ben Casey's friend |
Birthday February 28, 1930 Gavin MacLeod, love boat captain |
Birthday February 28, 1931 Basketball coaching legend Dean Smith born |
Birthday February 28, 1939 Tommy Tune, U.S. dancer & choreographer |
Birthday February 28, 1940 Racing legend Mario Andretti born |
Birthday February 28, 1945 Mimsy Farmer, in Chicago Ill |
Birthday February 28, 1945 Charles (Bubba) Smith, NFL player |
Birthday February 28, 1947 Stephane Beacham |
Birthday February 28, 1948 Bernadette Peters, in Queens NY - TONY winner |
Birthday February 28, 1952 Olympian Melissa Babish, in SC - Olympian |
History February 28, 1784 John Wesley charters first Methodist Church in U.S. |
History February 28, 1844 Tyler narrowly escapes death on the USS Princeton |
History February 28, 1861 Congress creates Colorado Territory |
History February 28, 1864 Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid begins |
History February 28, 1916 German Cameroons surrenders to Allied forces |
History February 28, 1944 Test pilot Reitsch pitches suicide squad to Hitler |
History February 28, 1964 Thelonious Monk makes the cover of Time magazine |
History February 28, 1968 Wheeler says Westmoreland will need more troops |
History February 28, 1975 Subway crash in London kills 43 |
History February 28, 1982 Getty Museum endowed |
History February 28, 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H airs |
History February 28, 1987 Gorbachev calls for nuclear weapons treaty |
History February 28, 1993 Federal agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas |
History February 28, 1993 ATF raids Branch Davidian compound |
History February 28, 1994 First NATO Military Action |
History February 28, 2013 Pope Benedict resigns |