Historical Events
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1954 - Pierre Mendèsforms French government
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
1986 - Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1992 - Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
Famous Birthdays
1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
1930 - Peter Phillips, CEO (AB Electronics) [or Feb 10]
1937 - John D [Jay] Rockefeller IV, (Sen-D-WV, 1985- )
1971 - Nathan Morris, [Alex Vanderpool], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
Famous Deaths
1464 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
1965 - George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1982 - Djuna Barnes, writer, dies
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/11vjI56
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