449 Historic Events for February 28
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| 1905 |
Death |
Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
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| 1906 |
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Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
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| 1906 |
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Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
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| 1907 |
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Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry and Pirates)
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| 1908 |
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Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
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| 1909 |
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Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
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| 1909 |
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Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
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| 1910 |
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Roman Maciejewski, composer
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| 1910 |
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Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
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| 1911 |
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Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
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| 1912 |
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Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
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| 1912 |
Death |
Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
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| 1912 |
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Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
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| 1913 |
Death |
Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
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| 1913 |
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6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
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| 1914 |
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Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
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| 1916 |
Death |
Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
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| 1917 |
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AP reports M‚xico and Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
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| 1917 |
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John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
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| 1917 |
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Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
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| 1917 |
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Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
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| 1918 |
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Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire)
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