Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 29, 1996 | Copyright information

Births: Paul III, Pope, 1468; John Byrom, poet and inventor of a shorthand system, 1692; Ann Lee (Mother Ann), founder of the American Society of Shakers, 1736; Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, operatic composer, 1792; Karl Ernst von Baer, embryologist, 1792; Charles Pritchard, astronomer, 1808; Hermann Hirschbach, composer, 1812; John Philip Holland, submarine pioneer, 1840; William Augustus Wellman, film director, 1896; Jimmy Dorsey (James Francis Dorsey), bandleader, 1904. Deaths: St Oswald, bi...

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