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Births for February 05

• 1626 Marie de S‚vign‚, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)

• 1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence

• 1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist

• 1770 Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, minerologist/geologist (Tertiary)

• 1778 Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46), founded Tories

• 1804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet

• 1833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)

• 1837 Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)

• 1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)

• 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)

• 1848 Belle Starr, outlaw (wild west)

• 1848 Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)

• 1860 Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)

• 1866 Henri (Hendrik J) Hall, comic

• 1871 Jovan Ducic, Swedish poet (Blauwe Legend)

• 1878 Andr‚-Gustave Citro‰n, France, auto maker

• 1891 Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbeld)

• 1897 Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO

• 1900 Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)

• 1903 Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist

• 1903 Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets & horse stables)

• 1903 Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)

• 1906 John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling

• 1907 Jan Klaasesz, governor Suriname (1949-56)

• 1907 Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)

• 1907 Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France

• 1912 Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)

• 1914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist

• 1914 William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)

• 1915 Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist

• 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)

• 1919 Melina Mercuri, actress (Never on a Sunday)

• 1919 Red Buttons, (Aaron Chwatt), Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara)

• 1921 John M Pritchard, London England, conductor

• 1922 Bernard Kalb, State Dept spokesman

• 1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)

• 1927 Fall Dufour, US, (actor?)

• 1927 Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Comes the Brides, Primus)

• 1929 Fred Sinowatz (SP™), Neufeld an der Leitha, chancellor of Austria

• 1933 J”rn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness)

• 1933 Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)

• 1934 Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)

• 1937 Cocky van Oost, (Kommertje van Vliet), dancer (Sylphides)

• 1937 Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion

• 1937 Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)

• 1938 Dick of Niehoff, singer (Fouryo)

• 1938 John Guare, US writer

• 1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book

• 1941 Barrett Strong, Detroit, singer (Money, That's What I Want)

• 1941 David Selby, Morgantown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)

• 1941 Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)

• 1942 Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)

• 1942 Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)

• 1943 Charles Winfield, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)

• 1943 Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)

• 1943 Larry Tamblyn, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)

• 1944 Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)

• 1946 Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)

• 1947 Mary L Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61B, STS-30)

• 1948 Barbara Hershey, Atlanta Ga, (Stuntman, Shy People, World Apart)

• 1948 Christopher Guest, actor (SNL, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride)

• 1948 David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)

• 1948 Elco (LC) Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)

• 1951 Elizabeth Swados, US, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)

• 1955 Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)

• 1957 Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)

• 1965 Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92)

• 1969 Bobby Brown, singer (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)

• 1971 Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)

Passings for February 05

• 45 -BC- Cato, Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide

• 1578 Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies

• 1591 Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies

• 1679 Joost van den Vondel, poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies

• 1822 Ali pasja van Janina, (Napoleon/Lord Byron), dies

• 1881 Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85

• 1888 Anton Mauve, painter/cousin of Vincent of Gogh, dies at 49

• 1897 Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42

• 1911 Petrus A Cronj‚, Transvaal Boer general, dies

• 1919 Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62

• 1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

• 1937 Lou (Andreas-)Salom‚, Russian/German author (That Eroticism), dies

• 1943 H Seyffardt, Lt-Gen/NSB-"minister", killed by resistance

• 1943 Wim Gertenbach, printer of opposition newspaper (Slogan), dies

• 1944 Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal men), dies at 79

• 1948 Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered to Wageningen), dies

• 1956 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74

• 1958 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies

• 1961 Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73

• 1967 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87

• 1968 Nick Adams, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel), dies at 36

• 1969 Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63

• 1972 Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84

• 1973 L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral

• 1978 Annie (Anna HM) Romein-Verschoor, historical (Omzien), dies at 83

• 1978 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies

• 1981 Barend Barendse, sportscaster, dies

• 1981 Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75

• 1982 Dolores Maran, actress, dies at 56

• 1982 Neil Aggett, South african worker's union leader, commits suicide

• 1982 Wies (Aloisius CA) Moens, Flemish writer/nazi (doodvonnis), dies

• 1983 Derk Roemers, union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67

• 1991 Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak. Rawhide, Oscar), dies

• 1991 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies

• 1993 Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve)

Special events for February 05

• 1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversive sermons

• 1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught

• 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours

• 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

• 1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

• 1663 Earthquake in Canada

• 1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia

• 1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture

• 1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina

• 1782 Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English

• 1783 Sweden recognizes US independence

• 1816 Opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome)

• 1817 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)

• 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable collar

• 1846 1st US newspaper published on Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator

• 1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY

• 1850 Push key adding machine patented

• 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia

• 1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress

• 1861 Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati

• 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi

• 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

• 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

• 1873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone

• 1877 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #172 Baucis

• 1881 Phoenix, Az incorporates

• 1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy

• 1887 Opera "Otello" is produced (Milan)

• 1887 Snow falls on SF

• 1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel

• 1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot

• 1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration

• 1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted

• 1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson

• 1918 Seperation of church & state begins in USSR

• 1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium

• 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

• 1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy

• 1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF

• 1929 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Goth

• 1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license

• 1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2897 Ole Romer, #3263 & #3426 Seki

• 1932 R Schorr discovers asteroid #1240 Centenaria

• 1934 Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2346 Lilio, #2444 Lederle, #2957 & #370

• 1937 FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed

• 1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

• 1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"

• 1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands

• 1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission

• 1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)

• 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland

• 1948 "Nature of Things" science show premiers on NBC prime time

• 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion

• 1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion

• 1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic

• 1953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released

• 1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1955 Pierre Mends France ends term as premier of France

• 1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania

• 1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic

• 1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km

• 1962 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence

• 1962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racical segregated" schools, filed

• 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16ø

• 1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars

• 1963 Soviet lunar probe failure

• 1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island

• 1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiers on CBS (later ABC, NBC)

• 1967 Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua

• 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

• 1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1969 US population reaches 200 million

• 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins

• 1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting

• 1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage

• 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War

• 1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

• 1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win

• 1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure

• 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premiers on CBS radio

• 1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight

• 1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded

• 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time

• 1979 Sears Radio Theater premiers on CBS

• 1981 Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy

• 1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people

• 1982 Laker Airways collapes owing œ270M ($351M)

• 1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

• 1984 E Bowell disc asteroid #3486 Fulchignoni, #3526 Jeffbell & #3590 Hols

• 1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"

• 1987 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time

• 1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan

• 1988 Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grant jury for drugs

• 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

Songs for date February 05

• 02/05/55 --- Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) (Como, Perry)

• 02/05/55 --- Crazy Otto, The (Maddox, Johnny)

• 02/05/66 --- California Dreamin' (Mamas & The Papas)

• 02/05/66 --- These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Sinatra, Nancy)

• 02/05/72 --- Everything I Own (Bread)

• 02/05/72 --- Sweet Seasons (King, Carole)

• 02/05/77 --- Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)

• 02/05/83 --- One On One (Hall & Oates)

• 02/05/83 --- Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Journey)