6th February 1986 (35 Years)
Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, best known for his design of the World Trade Center, dies.
7th February 1964 (57 Years)
The Beatles arrived in America for the first time for their United States Tour.
7th February 1986 (35 Years)
Yamasaki, one of the most prominent American architects of the 20th century, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City, died in Michigan, USA.
8th February 1591 (430 Years)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian Baroque painter, best known as Guercino, was born.
8th February 1820 (201 Years)
William Tecumseh Sherman, General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, was born.
9th February 1814 (207 Years)
Samuel Tilden, an American lawyer and politician, Governor of New York and Democratic Presidential Candidate, is born.
9th February 1943 (78 Years)
WWII: The Guadalcanal Campaign, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, ended.
9th February 1943 (78 Years)
The Battle of Shanghai, the 1st and bloodiest battle fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, ended.
9th February 1986 (35 Years)
Halley's Comet reached perihelion its closest approach to the Sun during its 1986 visit. It will be back in July 2061.
10th February 1567 (454 Years)
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies in alleged assassination.
10th February 1840 (181 Years)
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
10th February 1890 (131 Years)
The Russian poet Boris Pasternak, best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, was born.
10th February 1906 (115 Years)
HMS Dreadnought, a battleship of the Royal Navy that revolutionized naval power, was launched.
10th February 1939 (82 Years)
Pope Pius XI, the sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state, died.
10th February 2005 (16 Years)
Arthur Miller, American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater, dies aged 89.
11th February 1936 (85 Years)
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, one of the most elaborate cinematic critiques of the effects of mass production on 20th century life, premièred in the UK.
11th February 1938 (83 Years)
BBC produces the world's first ever science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a part of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
