Birthdates Which Occur on February 25
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Birthdates Which Occur on February 25:
1958 35 Kurt Rambis NBA forward (LA Lakers, Charlotte)
1955 38 Leann Hunley actress (Dynasty - Dane Carrington)
1947 46 Lee Evans US Olympic 400-m runner (gold 1968)
1945 48 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1943 50 George Harrison Beatle/Travelling Willberries (My Sweet Lord)
1941 52 David Puttnam London, film producer, CEO of Columbia Pictures
1940 53 Ron Santo Chicago Cub (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1939 54 Marisa Mell Wien (Vienna), actress (Masuerade, Casanova)
1938 55 Herb Elliott Australia, 1500-m runner (Olympic gold 1960)
and Diane Baker Hollywood, Calif., actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1937 56 Tom Courtenay English actor (The Dresser)
1936 57 Linda Cristal Buenos Aires, actress (Dead Don't Die)
1932 61 Faron Young Grand Ole Opry star
1929 64 Tommy Newsom musician, bandleader (The Tonight Show)
1927 66 Ralph Stanley the "Doctor of Bluegrass Music"
1919 74 Monty Irvin baseball hall of famer (New York Giants)
1918 75 Bobby Riggs tennis star (1939 US Open)
1917 76 Anthony Burgess essayist, novelist (A Clockwork Orange)
1916 77 Ralph Baldwin harness driver (set 11 major world records)
1913 80 Jim Backus actor (Mr. Magoo, Gilligan's Island - Thurston Howell)
and Gert Frobe German actor (title role in Goldfinger)
1910 83 Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R-New Jersey)
1908 85 Frank G. Slaughter author (Sangaree)
1906 87 Howard Zahniser father of the Wilderness Act
and Domingo Ortega Spanish bullfighter
1904 89 Adelle Davis nutritionist, author (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit)
1901 92 Zeppo Marx comedian, actor (Marx Brothers)
1896 97 Sen. John J. McClellan (D-Arkansas)
1895 98 DeBenneville (Bert) Bell PA, NFL team owner, commissioner, HOF member
1894 99 Ernst Friedrich Breslau, Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
1882 111 Ludvig Nordstrvm Swedish writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
1881 112 William Foster Mass., Communist pres. candidate (1924, 1928, 1932)
1873 120 Enrico Caruso Napoli (Naples), Italy, operatic tenor
1871 122 Oliver Samuel Campbell tennis champ (US singles 1890)
1866 127 Benedetto Croce Italian humanist, historian, editor, philosopher
1841 152 Pierre Auguste Renoir French Impressionist painter
1814 179 Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian national poet, painter (3/9 NS)
1778 215 Josi Francisco de San Martmn liberator of Argentina, Chile, Perz
1707 286 Carlo Goldoni Italian dramatist (The Love of the 3 Oranges)
1682 311 Giovanni Battista Morgagni Italian anatomist, pathologist
Holidays Which Occur February 25:
Kuwait National Day
Religious Observances on February 25:
806 Commemoration of St. Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople
779 Commemoration of St. Walburga, abbess (RC)
Commemoration of Elizabeth Fedde, deaconess, 1921 CE (Luth)
Commemoration of St. Matthias the Apostle (RC leap years, Cong)
Things to Remember for February 25:
Flowers - Violet & Primrose Gem - Amethyst
23 Days Astrological sign: Pisces
For other dates, type "TODAY mmdd" ("mmdd" = digits for month, day)
Highlights in History Which Occur February 25:
1989 4 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed
1981 12 NHL most-penalized game; Bruins v. North Stars, 84 penalites (392 min)
1979 14 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1977 16 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
and New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1972 21 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" single
1969 24 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1964 29 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) kayos Sonny Liston in 7 for boxing title
1963 30 1st Beatles single released in US - "Please Please Me"
1962 31 Mik O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
1961 32 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,102 m
1957 36 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day," Clovis, NM
and Palisades dam enters service, Snake River, Idaho
1956 37 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1951 42 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires)
1950 43 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premiers on NBC TV
1940 53 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs. Canadians)
1933 60 1st aircraft carrier, USS Ranger, is launched
and Major NFL rule changes (hash marks 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
1924 69 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland high school basketball game
1921 72 Georgian SSR proclaimed
1919 74 Oregon becomes 1st state to tax gasoline (1" per gallon)
1913 80 16th amendment, authorizing federal income tax, declared adopted
1908 85 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1907 86 US proclaims "protectorate" over Dominican Republic
1904 89 J.M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Nat'l Theatre Society
1901 92 US Steel Corp. organized under directorship of J.P. Morgan
1870 123 Hiram Revels, Miss., is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress
1863 130 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1860 133 Whites massacre Indian women & children, Humboldt Bay, Calif.
1854 139 Sacramento made capital of California
1838 155 London pedestrian walks 32 km backward, then forward, in 8 hours
1837 156 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1836 157 Samuel Colt obtains US patent on a revolver
1799 194 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
and Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1791 202 1st Bank of the US chartered
1751 242 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1/-)
1570 423 Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
That's all for TODAY!
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In article <2B8E808...@ics.uci.edu>, hp...@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Huy Tan Phan) writes...
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>Ca'c Ba.n Vie^.t Nam tha^n me^'n,
>
>Ma(.c du\ co' mo^.t so^' ngu+o+\i actively participate tre^n SCV, nhu+ng
>co' le~ cu~ng co' nhu+~ng ngu+o+\i chi? "-do.c ke'" ma\ tho^i.
HTC Jr. :-)
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>To^i kho^ng bie^'t anh chi. na\o co' the^? bie^'t -du+o+.c co' bao nhie^u
>ngu+o+\i theo do~i SCV? Ne^'u co' thi\ bao la^u mo^.t la^\n? Ha\ng nga\y,
>ha\ng tua^\n hay never?
HTC Jr. :-)
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>Anh chi. nao\ bie^'t xin vui lo\ng gia?i -da'p. Ca'm o+n nhie^\u#.
>
HTC Jr. :-)
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