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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) ---William Tell overture---Woody Woodpecker - The Barber of Seville
Ene Ergma (b. 29 February 1944 in Rakvere)

28 February 1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA
2007 - Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
Artur Kapp (February 28, 1878 – January 14, 1952)
Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965)

Friday, February 27, 2009

27 February 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) --- A Psalm of Life ***YouTube***
John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)
Irwin Shaw (February 27 1913 – May 16 1984)
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932)
Gidon Kremer (Latvian: Gidons Krēmers) (born February 27, 1947) --- Vivaldi - Summer ***YouTube***

Humorous Dog Photos and other Handsome Dogs


Thursday, February 26, 2009

26 February 1870 - in New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885)
Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879),
Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß (February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902)
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917)
John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943)































Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793)
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe (February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919)
Enrico Caruso (born Errico Caruso; February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921)
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (March 9 [O.S. February 25] 1890 – November 8, 1986)
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)











Tuesday, February 24, 2009

ent kodus on etem
Estonian Independence Day - 24 Februay 1918
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (24 February 1866 - 1 March 1912 )
Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) --- Les parapluies de Cherburg ***YouTube*** --- Summer of 42 ***YouTube***















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