Historical Anniversaries this Week

February 23

February 24

February 25

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (died 2003)^[97]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Rashida Jones, American actress and writer^[140]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Samaki Walker, American basketball player^[141]

February 26

 Events (150 years ago today): 1876 – Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.^[14]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Doris Belack, American actress (died 2011)^[44]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Verne Gagne, American football player, wrestler, and trainer (died 2015)^[45]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Henry Molaison, American medical patient (died 2008)^[46]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematician

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Chad Urmston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

 Deaths (300 years ago today): 1726 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (born 1662)

February 27

 Events (400 years ago today): 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after leading the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.^[7]

 Events (250 years ago today): 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1976 – The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Ludovic Capelle, Belgian cyclist

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Cornelia Ecker, Austrian politician^[55]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player^[56]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Sergei Semak, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager

February 28

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American writer, daughter of Joseph Stalin (died 2011)^[52]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Francisco Elson, Dutch basketball player^[138]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Ali Larter, American actress and model^[139]

March 1

 Events (550 years ago today): 1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.^[5]

 Births (150 years ago today): 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (died 1942)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (died 2022)^[28]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (died 1992)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman and 3rd National Football League Commissioner (died 1996)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (born 1910)