February 17, 1966 – Brian Wilson rolled tape on take one of “Good Vibrations”. Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he finally completed his three-minute-and-thirty-nine-second symphony, pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during literally hundreds of sessions. Wilson’s masterpiece was released as part of the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”, that is widely regarded as one of the all-time best albums.
February 16, 1848 – Eighteen months before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 39, Frédéric Chopin gave his final public performance in his adopted city of Paris. After fleeing his native Poland amid the political unrest of the 1830s, he spent the rest of his life amid the high society of France.
February 12, 1912 – Hsian-T’ung, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate following Sun Yat-sen’s republican revolution. Only six years old at the time of his abdication, he was allowed to keep up his residence in Beijing’s Forbidden City, and he took the name of Henry Pu Yi.
February 11, 1858 – In southern France near the town of Lourdes, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a 14-year-old French peasant girl, first claims to have seen the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The sight of her manifestations subsequently became the most famous modern shrine of the Virgin Mary, and in 1933 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was canonized as St. Bernadette by the Roman Catholic Church.
February 9, 1900 – The solid silver trophy known today as the Davis Cup is first put up for competition when American collegian Dwight Filley Davis challenges British tennis players to come across the Atlantic and compete against his Harvard team.
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