Anniversaries This Week

Week beginning 13^th February

• 13th February 1542: Katherine Howard (wife of King Henry VIII) was beheaded for treason
• 13th February 1941: Pencillin was used on a human for the first time
• 14th February 1779: Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii
• 14th February 1400: King Richard II died
• 14th February 1984: Torville and Dean win gold at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
• 15th February 1942: Singapore falls to Japanese forces.
• 15th February 1659: The first cheque was signed by Nicholas Vanacker.
• 16th February 1959: Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba.
• 16th February 1894: John Wesley Hardin was pardoned, after killing a man for snoring.
• 17th February 1909: Geronimo died.
• 17th February 1883: The vacant/engaged toilet door sign was patented.
• 17th February 1864: Banjo Patterson was born.
• 18th February 1517: Mary Tudor was born.
• 18th February 1678: John Bunyan published the first part of A Pilgrim's Progress.
• 18th February 1546: Martin Luther died.
• 19th February 1906: Cornflakes went on sale for the first time.
• 19th February 1855: Bread riots broke out in Liverpool.
• 19th February 1473: Nicolas Copernicus was born.
• 20th February 1694: Voltaire was born.
• 20th February 1437: Scotland's King James I was assassinated.

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