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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1820 – 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue some seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. (read more...)
The only known photograph of Frédéric François Chopin (IPA: [fʁedeʁik fʁɑ̃swa ʃɔpɛ̃]), (March 1, 18101 – October 17, 1849). Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period, widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential and prolific composers for piano, and Poland's most significant composer. (read more...)
Photograph believed to have been taken by Louis-Auguste Bisson in 1849.
1Some sources give February 22, for an explanation see here.
- ...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
- ...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
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Births
- 1582 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
- 1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
- 1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
- 1906 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
- 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
- 1938 - Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
- 1943 - David Soul, American actor
- 1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
- 1969 - Jack Black, American actor
- 1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli military officer
Deaths
- 430 - Augustine of Hippo, (depicted) North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
- 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
- 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
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