02-20-2004, 08:15 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 20th
1816 ~ Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" premiers in Rome.
1902 ~ Birthday of photographer Ansel Adams.
1904 ~ Birthday of Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80).
1924 ~ Birthday of Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, Guess who's Coming to Dinner, To Sir With Love).
1941 ~ First transport of Jews to concentration camp in Plotsk, Poland.
1954 ~ Birthday of Patty Hearst Shaw, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya).
1958 ~ The Sheerness docks closed. The first secretary of the Admiralty, Samuel Pepys, established the dockyard in the 17th century as an extension to the Royal Navy headquarters in nearby Chatham, which was itself later closed and became a Naval Museum.
1962 ~ Marine Lieutenant John Glenn, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, as he circled the globe three times. He was fortunate enough to return to orbit aboard the Space Shuttle in 1998.
Now there’s a man I envy!
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