Today in History for 12th February 2022:
Historical Events
1962 – Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1964 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1964 – End of Richie Benaud’s 63-Test cricket career in drawn 5th Test v South Africa in Sydney
1965 – Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2018 – Portait paintings of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald are unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Famous Birthdays
1913 – Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Braganca, grandson of Emperor Pedro I
1926 – Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
1944 – Marian “Moe” Bandy, American country vocalist (Just Good Ol’ Boys), born in Meridian, Mississippi
1972 – Dulip Samaraweera, Sri Lankan cricketer (Sri Lankan Test opening batsman 1993-), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1983 – Lavinia Meijer, Dutch harpist (Metamorphosis / The Hours), born in South Korea
1991 – Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, prince of Bahrain, born in Riffa, Bahrain (d. 2006)
Famous Deaths
1712 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, dies at 26
1728 – Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, dies at 73
1763 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1979 – Jean Renoir, French film director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) and actor (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1997 – Walter Ritchie, British sculptor (Man’s Struggle), dies at 77
2016 – Johnny Lattner, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1953, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1954, Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from mesothelioma at 83