Today in History for 14th February 2018:
Historical Events
1890 – 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1939 – Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of film “Gone With the Wind”
1954 – Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1989 – World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting
2008 – 39th NAACP Image Awards: “The Great Debaters” wins Outstanding Motion Picture
Famous Birthdays
1487 – Henry II of Bavaria, Bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), Worms (1523-52) and Freising (1541-52), born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1552)
1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1954)
1884 – Hezekiah M. Washburn, American Presbyterian Congo missionary, born in Brooksville, Bracken, Kentucky (d. 1972)
1963 – D’Wayne Wiggins, singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
1964 – Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
1969 – Roy Barker, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, SF 49ers)
Famous Deaths
1528 – Edzard I the Great, count of Austria-E Frisia (1494-1528), dies at 66
1846 – Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76
1873 – Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer, dies at 52
1943 – Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz
1950 – Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44
1950 – Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80