A very good thread to know about each and every date.But I have to only read and comment.

9th, February

Events

1811 - Nevill Maskelyne - 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
1877 - US Weather Service is founded
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prision for fraud.
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa
1943 - Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal - ending epic battle
1953 - Superman TV series premiers
1964 - 1st appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan
1969 - Boeing 747 makes its 1st coml flight
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (closest approach to sun)

Birthday Today:

1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4 1841)
1866 - George Ade, American journalist & playwright & humorist
1874 - Amy Lowell, American critic & Imagist poet (Patterns)
1909 - Dean Rusk, former Sec of State
1914 - Bill Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Carmen Miranda, singer
1914 - Ernest Tubb, singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author (The Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson
1928 - Roger Mudd, newscaster
1942 - Carole King, in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry
1945 - Mia Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) LA
1950 - Andrew N. Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Judith Light, in Trenton NJ - Who's the Boss

Source: http://www.nicefacts.com/

Raghavaan very good information.
This will help atleast me to get aware about our historical person

Hi Thanks, the source for the info is from,

http://www.nicefacts.com/

Thanks for the information really great work.

10th Feburary

Events:
1720 - Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
1840 - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporated (1st time)
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (in California Theater)
1942 - Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo goes gold
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

Birthdays:
1775 - Charles Lamb, English critic & poet & essayist
1868 - William Allen White, editor
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist & poet (Dr. Zhivago) (Nobel 1958)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, comedian
1893 - William (Bill) Tilden, tennis player
1894 - Harold Macmillan, (C) British Prime Minister (1957-63)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (Mother Courage)
1898 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgian educator & aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1914 - Larry Adler, actor
1922 - Harold Hughes, ex-Governor of New Jersey
1922 - Neva Patterson
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Italian basso
1927 - Leontyne Price, operatic soprano
1930 - Robert Wagner, actor (Hart to Hart)
1939 - Singer Roberta Flack, in North Carolina
1944 - Peter Allen, singer
1950 - Mark Spitz, U.S. Olympic swimmer

It is better to list some important one only.In net there will be a lot.But those famous are to be listed especially related to Indians.

Thanks for your feedback i will try to post what happened in india in the past

February 11th

Events:
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1868 - Leon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of earth's rotation - dies
1929 - Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) is made an enclave of Rome
1958 - 1st flight with Negro stewardess - RC Taylor - Ithaca NY
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1984 - Tenth Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 returns to Earth

Birthdays:
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court
1839 - J. Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist & chemist
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film writer & director
1909 - Max Baer, boxer
1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest & actress (Green Acres)

Deivigan wrote:
[quote]Thanks for your feedback i will try to post what happened in india in the past[/quote]

None of the above is related to India.

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