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1779 Captain Cook was stabbed to death by natives on the Sandwich
Islands (Hawaii).
1797 The Spanish fleet were defeated off Cape St. Vincent by Captain
Horatio Nelson.
1819 * Christopher Latham Scholes, US inventor of the modern
typewriter.
1852 The Great Ormond Street children's hospital treated it's first
patient.
1894 * Jack Benny, US comedian and radio performer.
1920 The 'League of Women' was founded.
1929 Seven Chicago gangsters were slain by rivals in the 'Valentines
Day Massacre'.
1944 * Alan Parker, English film director, who directed the film
Bugsy Malone.
1945 British and US bombers pounded the ancient German city of
Dresden with high explosive and incendiary bombs.
1951 * Kevin Keegan, English soccer player who played for Liverpool
and Newcastle.
1963 Harold Wilson became leader of the British Labour Party.
1963 The first successful kidney transplant was made.
1974 Soviet authorities formally charged Russian writer Alexander
Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR.
1984 British figure skating couple Jayne Torvill and Christopher
Dean won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death
of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
2003 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was put down because
of serious health problems.
2005 Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed by a car
bomb explosion in Beirut.
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