Anniversaries

7th February 1986 (34 Years)

Yamasaki, one of the most prominent American architects of the 20th century, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City, died in Michigan, USA.

8th February 1587 (433 Years)

Death of Mary, Queen of Scots.

8th February 1587 (433 Years)

Mary, Queen of Scots, dies.

8th February 1591 (429 Years)

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian Baroque painter, best known as Guercino, was born.

8th February 1820 (200 Years)

William Tecumseh Sherman, General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, was born.

8th February 1968 (52 Years)

Gary Coleman, American actor, was born.

9th February 1814 (206 Years)

Samuel Tilden, an American lawyer and politician, Governor of New York and Democratic Presidential Candidate, is born.

9th February 1943 (77 Years)

WWII: The Guadalcanal Campaign, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, ended.

9th February 1943 (77 Years)

The Battle of Shanghai, the 1st and bloodiest battle fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, ended.

9th February 1943 (77 Years)

Joe Pesci, American actor, singer, and producer, was born.

9th February 1986 (34 Years)

Halley's Comet reached perihelion its closest approach to the Sun during its 1986 visit. It will be back in July 2061.

10th February 1567 (453 Years)

Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies in alleged assassination.

10th February 1840 (180 Years)

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

10th February 1890 (130 Years)

The Russian poet Boris Pasternak, best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, was born.

10th February 1906 (114 Years)

HMS Dreadnought, a battleship of the Royal Navy that revolutionized naval power, was launched.

10th February 1939 (81 Years)

Pope Pius XI, the sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state, died.

10th February 2005 (15 Years)

Arthur Miller, American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater, dies aged 89.

11th February 1847 (173 Years)

Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, is born.

11th February 1847 (173 Years)

Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, is born.

11th February 1868 (152 Years)

Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic, died.

11th February 1936 (84 Years)

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, one of the most elaborate cinematic critiques of the effects of mass production on 20th century life, premièred in the UK.

11th February 1938 (82 Years)

BBC produces the world's first ever science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a part of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".

11th February 1963 (57 Years)

Suicide of Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist.

11th February 1975 (45 Years)

Margaret Thatcher elected leader of the Conservative Party.

11th February 1978 (42 Years)

Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

11th February 1990 (30 Years)

Revolutionary and politician, Nelson Mandela freed.

12th February 1816 (204 Years)

The Teatro di San Carlo, an opera house in Naples, was destroyed by fire.

12th February 1942 (78 Years)

Grant Wood, American artist, dies.

13th February 1891 (129 Years)

Grant Wood, American painter best known for 'American Gothic', was born.

13th February 1941 (79 Years)

Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer, was born.

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