8 Feb 07 - Thursday
1828 Jules Verne France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1925 Jack Lemmon Boston MA, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
1931 James Dean Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
1937 Joe Raposa composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
1940 Nick Nolte actor (Under Fire, Lorenzo's Oil, Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1946 "Fito" Adolpho De La Parra Los Angeles CA, rocker (Canned Heat)
1955 Ethan Phillips actor (Neelix-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)
1958 Sensational Sherri Martel aka Quenn Sherri
1961 Vince Neil [Wharton] California, rock vocalist (Mötley Crüe)
1966 Gary Coleman Zion IL, actor
1972 Paul Wight aka The Giant, The Big Show
1587 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44
1725 Peter the Great Tsar of Russia dies
1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake" premieres in Petersburg
1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)
1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1918 "Stars & Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1924 Gee John US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies
1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed
1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1932 Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang
1935 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of University of Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles);
He never plays in the NFL
1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up
en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola
1963 Abdul Karim Kassem PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg)
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in New York, to become
WWF wrestling champion
1974 Ringo Starr releases "You're 16"
1974 "Good Times" debuts on CBS TV
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced
1986 Macho Man Randy Savage defeated Tito Santana for the
WWF Intercontinental title.
1990 Del Shannon Coopersville MI, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 55
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1994 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
1996 Mercer Kennedy Ellington trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
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