Saturday, February 28, 2009
[1797 - Mary Lyon, educator, born in Buckland, Massachusetts]
[1824 - Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet), acrobat, aerialist born in St Omer, France]
[1827 - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is chartered for commercial transportation.]
[1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer, born in Kiev, Ukraine]
[1893 - Launching of USS Indiana (BB-1), first true battleship in U.S. Navy]
[1901 - Linus Pauling, Nobel peace prize 1962, Nobel prize chemistry 1954,
born in Portland, Oregon]
[1903 - Vincente (Lester Anthony) Minnelli, Academy
Award-winning director, born in Chicago]
[1915 - Zero Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel), actor, born in Brooklyn]