February 05, 2012
Today is 36th day of the year
331 days remain until the new year
331 days remain until the new year
Births Today
- 1788 - Sir Robert Peel, Founder of the Metropolitan Police
- 1840 - John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tyre
- 1906 - John Carradine, Character actor in American films
- 1942 - Susan Hill, Playwright and novelist
- 1944 - Al Cooper, Of the group 'Blood Sweat and Tears'
- 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, Leading British film actress
- 1952 - Russell Grant, Television astrologer
- 1969 - Bobby Brown, Pop star, and husband of Whitney Houston
events today
- 1922 - The very first 'Readers Digest' appeared on the shelves
- 1936 - The film 'Modern Times', by Charlie Chaplin, had its American premiere
- 1961 - The Sunday Telegraph was first published
- 1971 - The US Apollo 14 (Shepard & Mitchell onboard) landed on the Moon
- 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1989 - Sky satellite television was launched
- 1992 - Kevin Keegan was appointed manager of Newcastle Football Club
- 1994 - A US paragliding citizen landed on the roof of Buckingham Palace