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Anniversaries on: February 28, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1824 | Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker | | 1909 | Linus Pauling, American chemist & physicist | | 1909 | Stephen Spender, English poet | | 1915 | Sir Peter Medawar, English immunologist | | 1931 | Peter Alliss, Ex-golfer and now commentator | | 1932 | Brain Moore, Football commentator | | 1946 | Robin Cook, Labour MP & Shadow Cabinet minister | | 1951 | Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer |
Events:| 1912 | The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA | | 1948 | The last British troops left India | | 1959 | The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched | | 1966 | The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt | | 1971 | Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein | | 1984 | The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia | | 1991 | Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict | | 1994 | Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns |
Anniversaries on: February 29, 2009
Birthdays: | | 1736 | Gioacchino Rossini, Italian operatic composer | | 1736 | Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers | | 1792 | John Holland, American inventor of the submarine | | 1904 | Jimmy Dorsey, US bandleader | | 1940 | Mario Andretti, Italian racing driver |
Events:| 1604 | John Landseer, the famous painter, died | | 1880 | The St Gotthard tunnel through the Alps was completed | | 1956 | Pakistan became an Islamic republic | | 1968 | The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced | | 1995 | 65% of the population in Bosnia Herzegovina voted in favour of independence |
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