February 1948 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem is bombed.
• 02 Feb 1948 US President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program.
• 03 Feb 1948 Dick Button becomes first world figure skating champion from US.
• 04 Feb 1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from the UK
• 05 Feb 1948 Nature of Things science show premieres on NBC prime time
• 06 Feb 1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 07 Feb 1948 Cradle Will Rock closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 performances
• 08 Feb 1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
• 09 Feb 1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 12 Feb 1948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
• 13 Feb 1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
• 16 Feb 1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for first time.
• 21 Feb 1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
• 22 Feb 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die.
• 24 Feb 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
• 25 Feb 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia; C Gottwald becomes premier.
• 29 Feb 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers killed.

Famous Birthday

• Eckhart Tolle

  Author.

• Alice Cooper

  American musician, actor, and rock 'n roll ' icon of the '70s who performed weird stage effects and wore flamboyant makeup during his rock...

• Gérard Darmon

  French jewish actor and occasionally singer, be began in "Diva" directed by Beineix.

• Gilbert Collard

  French attorney.

• Linda de Suza
• Barbara Hershey

  American actress with a hippie image during the '60s, who changed her last name to "Seagull" for awhile.

• Rick James

  American R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist (Born 1948).

• Bernadette Peters

  American actress, singer and dancer, the youngest person ever inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

• Jennifer O'Neill

  American actress, a leggy, fresh faced brunette with warm natural beauty, probably best known for gracing many magazines covers and...

• Tony Iommi

  Guitarist.

• Henning Mankell

  Swedish author and playwright (d. 2015).

• Ray Kurzweil

  American author, inventor, futurist, and director of engineering at Google.

• Ina Garten

  American author and TV personality.

• Philippe Chatel

  French singer, songwriter, guitarist and composer, who writes and performs his own songs.

• Marilyn Wilson

  American singer, one of the singing "Rovell Sisters.

• John McAllion

  Scottish politician, a Member of Parliament, Labour representative returned at General Election on 6/11/1987.

• Régis Franc

  French comic book writer, filmmaker and writer.

• Mercedes Ruehl

  American actress.

• Philippe Khorsand

  French actor.

• Geneviève Levy
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Famous Deaths

• Robert Brasillach

  French right-wing intellectual writer and journalist who was the literary critic of the journal "Action Françoise" and editor-in-chief of...

• Sergei Eisenstein

  Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1948).

• Karl Valentin

  Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer.

• Johann Blaskowitz

  German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at age 64.

• "Red" McKenzie blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper)

  dies.

• Thomas W Lamont

  American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (Born 1870).

• Rebel Oakes

  American baseball player and manager (Born 1883).

• Sergy Eisenstein

  Film director, dies at 50.

• Bevil Rudd

  South African runner and journalist (d. 1948).

• Mordecai Brown

  American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1945).

• Sergei Eisenstein

  Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

• Johannes Blaskowitz

  German general (Born 1883).

• Frederick Archibald Lamond

  Composer, dies at 80.

• John Robert Gregg

  Irish-born publisher and inventor (Born 1866).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Gracie Fields - Now Is The Hour
2. Bing Crosby - Now Is The Hour
3. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra (Vocal Marjorie Hughes) - Beg Your Pardon
4. Margaret Whiting - Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
5. Eddy Howard & His Orchestra - Now Is The Hour