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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 14th February 2023   
   14 Feb 23 05:16:24   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state   
      
   1921 - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," in New   
   York   
      
   1936 - Karl Schäfer of Austria wins his 2nd consecutive men's figure skating   
   Olympic gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in Germany   
      
   2005 - Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by   
   suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial   
   district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.   
      
   2010 - America's Cup: Team USA defeats Alinghi 2-0 to win in Spain   
      
   2014 - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in   
   office   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, German composer, organist and poet (d. 1617)   
      
   1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer   
   (Thomson's Gazelle), born in Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland (d. 1895)   
      
   1903 - Fritz Büchtger, German composer, educator, and modern music proponent   
   (Association for Contemporary Music; Studio for New Music), born in Munich,   
   Germany (d. 1978)   
      
   1926 - Alfred Körner, Austrian soccer striker (47 caps; Rapid Wien), born in   
   Vienna, Austria (d. 2020)   
      
   1945 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (White Nights, Taps), born in   
   NYC, New York (d. 2003)   
      
   1977 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer, born in Ladysmith, South   
   Africa (d. 2007)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1760 - François Colin de Blamont, French composer, dies at 69   
      
   1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the   
   Interior), assassinated at 41   
      
   1929 - Tom Burke, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 400m 1896), dies at 53   
      
   1990 - Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66   
      
   1998 - Claude Prey, French composer, dies at 72   
      
   2003 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, dies   
   young from a progressive lung disease aged 6   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   https://www.onthisday.com/day/february/14   
      
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