February (Under Construction) 1st 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart over west Texas, moments before scheduled landing Birthdays: Hattie Caraway (1878-1950) - 1st woman elected to US Senate John Ford (1895-1973), Hollywood Director, born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine Clark Gable (1901- Boris Yeltsin (1931- 2nd 1848 War between U.S. and Mexico ends 1990 the 30-year-old ban on the African National Congress is ifted by President F.W. de Klerk Birthdays: James Joyce (1882-1941) born in Dublin, Ireland Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) Ayn Rand (1905- 3rd 1870 15th Amendment ratified, guaranteeing right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 1913 16th Amendment ratified, granting Congress the authority to collect income taxes. Birthdays: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) born in New York City Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) born near Bristol, England - 1st female US physician Fran Tarkenton (1940- Joey Bishop (1918- James Michener (1907- Gertrude Stein (1874- 4th 1861 Apache Chief Chochise arrested in AZ, he then escaped and declared war – beginning the Apache Wars which last 25 yrs. Birthdays: Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) born in Detroit, Michigan Dan Quayle (1947- Ida Lupino (1918- Rosa Parks (1913 - 5th Birthdays: Roger Staubach (1942) born in Cincinnati, Ohio Red Button (1919 – 2006) Henry “Hank” Aaron (1934- Andrew Greeley (1928) author 6th Birthdays: Aaron Burr (1756- Babe Ruth (1895- Ronald Reagan (1911- Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919- Tom Brokaw (1940- 7th Birthdays: Charles Dickens (1812) Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867) Sinclair Lewis (1885) “Buster” Crabbe (1908) Garth Brooks (1962) Chris Rock (1965) 8th Birthdays: William Tecumseh Sherman (1820) Jules Verne (1828) Lana Turner (1921) Jack Lemmon (1925) James Dean (1931) John Williams (1932) Stars Wars composer Ted Koppel (1940) Nick Nolte (1941) 9th Birthdays: William Henry Harrison (1773) 9th US President – only 1 month in office Ronald Colman (1891) Carmen Miranda (1909) Gypsy Rose Lee (1914) Brendan Behan (1923) Irish playwright Carole King (1942) song writer Joe Pesci (1943) Alice Walker (1944) wrote The Color Purple Mia Farrow (1945) Travis Tritt (1963) 10th Birthdays: Boris Pasternak (1890) wrote Dr. Zhivago Jimmy Durante (1893) Bertolt Brecht (1898) Lon Chaney, Jr. (1906) Leontyne Price (1927) opera star Mark Spitz (1950) Greg Norman (1955) George Stephanopoulos (1961) 11th Birthdays: Thomas Alva Edison (1847) Sidney Sheldon (1917) written more than 300 books Eva Gabor (1921) Leslie Nielsen (1926) Burt Reynolds (1936) Sergio Mendes (1941) Sarah Palin (1964) 12th Birthdays: Abraham Lincoln (1809) Charles Darwin (1809) Lorne Greene (1915) Franco Zeffirelli (1923) film director Joe Garagiola (1923) baseball player turned sportscaster 13th Birthdays: Bess Truman (1885) Grant Wood (1892) painter American Gothic Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919) Chuck Yeager (1923) Kim Novak (1933) Jerry Springer (1944) 14th Birthdays: Frederick Douglass (1818) Jack Benny (1894) Jimmy Hoffa (1913) Hugh Downs (1921) Michael Bloomberg (1942) Gregory Hines (1946) 15th Birthdays: Galileo Galilei (1564) Susan B. Anthony (1820) John Barrymore (1882) Cesar Romero (1907) Harvey Korman (1927) 16th Birthdays: Edgar Bergen (1903) Patty Andrews (1920) of The Andrews Sisters Sonny Bono (1935) John McEnroe (1959) 17th Birthdays: Red Barber (1908) Hal Holbrook (1925) Michael Jordan (1963) 18th Birthdays: 19th Birthdays: 20th Birthdays: 21st Birthdays: 22nd Birthdays: 23rd Birthdays: 24th Birthdays: 25th Birthdays: 26th Birthdays: 27th Birthdays: 28th Birthdays: 29th Birthdays: