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Samuel and Florence Baker encountered John Speke and James Grant at the frontier village of Gondokoro (southern Sudan). Speke and Grant said they had found the Nile’s headwaters at a lake they named Victoria (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda).
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Grant [on his 3rd day there] launched a major assault on Fort Donelson, Tenn.
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Ft. Point was completed & garrisoned. It never fired cannon in anger.
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Alfred North Whitehead (d.1947), English philosopher (Adv of Ideas) and mathematician, was born. “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” “I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.” “It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.” (AP, 4/11/97)(AP, 10/5/97)(AP, 9/8/98)(MC, 2/15/02)
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (53), Russian composer (Russlan & Ludmilla), died.
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Black abolitionists invaded a Boston courtroom to rescue a fugitive slave.
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Sarah Roberts was barred from a white school in Boston.
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MAY, 22
- Current / Future Events
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1990 –
Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1989 –
Bonnie Dennison, American actress
1988 –
Hironori Kusano, Japanese Idol
1987 –
Jarrod Sammut, Australian-Maltese rugby league player, Penrith Panthers.
1986 –
Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1984 –
Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer (Virgin)
1984 –
Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
1983 –
Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1983 –
Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
1981 –
Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
See All
February, 15
- Births
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2009,
Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
2009,
Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935
2008,
Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008,
Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
2007,
Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2007,
Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2005,
Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005,
Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2004,
Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2004,
Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
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February, 15
- Deaths
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