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1919Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
1885Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
1503Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1989Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
1901Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1861King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st King of Italy
1856The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1909Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
1879Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
1977George Harrison releases "True Love"
1965Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young], Compton, California, American rapper and record producer
1745Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Como, Italy, physicist and inventor (battery)
1977Actor Peter Sellers (51) weds actress Lynne Frederick (22)
1946MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (35) weds heiress Caral Gimbel in Sea Island, Georgia
1922Football player George Halas (27) weds Minnie Bushing
1940Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd
1967Robert Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies of throat cancer at 62
1564Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88
1587Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]
1546Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62
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