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February 28: Tibetan New Year begins (2025); Kalevala Day / Finnish Culture Day The first team of S.L. Benfica 1874 – In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the claimant in the Tichborne case was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy .
Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
1838 - Birth of Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, famous as female Thomas Edison, (d. 1914) 1848 - Birth of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934) 1869 - Birth of Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959) 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray
February 27, 2024 at 2:02 PM. Apollo Astronaut Jack Lousma (left) was born on Feb. 29, 1936. ... Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but ...
The Slovak people are an ethnic group predominantly residing in the modern-day nation of Slovakia and its surrounding areas. Slovaks have played an active role in European history, including politically, militarily, scientifically, culturally, and religiously. Ethnic Slovaks have inhabited Central Europe since the Middle Ages.
The origins of Black History Month date back to 1926 when scholar Carter G. Woodson spearheaded a week-long event in February. Here's how it became a month.
He was born in Salamanca, Spain, and died at the age of 103 in New York City. [3] Stephen Mopope (1898–1974) – Kiowa painter, dancer, and flute player of Spanish descent. Victor Moscoso (born 1936) – Psychedelic underground comix cartoonist, born in Galicia and raised in the US.
The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. [13] 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit. [14]