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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 – 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue some seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. (read more...)
The only known photograph of Frédéric François Chopin (IPA: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]), (March 1, 18101 – October 17, 1849). Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period, widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential and prolific composers for piano, and Poland's most significant composer. (read more...)
Photograph believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849.
1Some sources give February 22, for an explanation see here.
- ...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
- ...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
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Births
- 1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
- 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- 1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
- 1904 - William "Count" Basie, (pictured) American bandleader (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
- 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
- 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
- 1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
- 1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
- 1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
- 1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
Deaths
- 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
- 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
- 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
- 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
- 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
- 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
- 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
- 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
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