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Deaths in February 2020 
 Ben Cooper, 86, American actor (Johnny Guitar, Gunfight at Comanche Creek, Rebel in Town), problems caused from dementia.
Deaths in February 2020 
 John Franzese, 103, Italian-born American mobster (Colombo crime family) and movie producer (Deep Throat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).
Deaths in February 2020 
 Javier Arias Stella, 95, Peruvian pathologist and politician, Minister of Health (1963–1965, 1967–1968) and Foreign Affairs (1980–1983) and President of the United Nations Security Council (1984–1985), discovered the Arias-Stella reaction.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Lee Phillip Bell, 91, American television producer (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless).
Deaths in February 2020 
 Nexhmije Hoxha, 99, Albanian politician, MP (1948–1985) and Chairwoman of the Democratic Front (1985–1990).
Deaths in February 2020 
 Adam Maher, 47, Australian rugby league player (Cronulla Sharks, Gateshead Thunder, Hull F.C.), motor neurone disease.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Hosni Mubarak, 91, Egyptian military officer and politician, Vice-President (1975–1981), Prime Minister (1981–1982) and President (1981–2011), problems caused from surgery.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Dmitry Yazov, 95, Russian military officer, Minister of Defence (1987–1991) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1990).
Deaths in February 2020 
 Sam Boghosian, 88, American football player (UCLA Bruins) and coach (Oregon State Beavers, Los Angeles Raiders).
Deaths in February 2020 
 Betsy Byars, 91, American children's writer (Summer of the Swans), Newbery Medalist (1971), problems caused from a fall.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Kostas Voutsas, 88, Greek actor (Law 4000, Alice in the Navy, The Downfall) and writer, lung infection.
Deaths in February 2020 
 R. D. Call, 70, American actor (Golden Years, Into the Wild, EZ Streets), problems caused from back surgery.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Valdir Espinosa, 72, Brazilian football manager (Cerro Porteño, Botafogo, Corinthians), problems caused from surgery.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Johnny Antonelli, 89, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves, New York/San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians) and businessman, cancer.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Janusz Cisek, 65, Polish historian and academic, Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America (1992–2000), leukemia.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Freeman Dyson, 96, British-born American physicist and mathematician (Dyson's transform, Rank of a partition, Dyson series), problems caused from a fall.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Sir Lenox Hewitt, 102, Australian politician, Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department (1968–1971), problems caused by Lewy body dementia.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Nicholas Alahverdian, 32, Child welfare activist, political scientist, and whistleblower, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Bill Bunten, 89, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1962–1990) and Senate (2002–2004), Mayor of Topeka (2005–2013), problems caused from pneumonia.
Deaths in February 2020 
 Raymond C. Fisher, 80, American politician and lawyer, U.S. Associate Attorney General (1997–1998) and Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (since 1999), cancer.
National Book Foundation 
 The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".
Petr Pokorný (theologian) 
 He was a professor at Charles University in Prague, and pastor of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.
Piri Sciascia 
 Piri John Ngarangikaunuhia Sciascia  (6 November 1946 – 18 January 2020) was a New Zealand Māori leader and university administrator.
Piri Sciascia 
 From 2016 until his death, he was kaumātua and advisor to the governor-general and government of New Zealand.
James Mollison 
 He was acting director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from 1971 to 1977 and director from 1977 to 1990.
James Mollison 
 Mollison retired as the NGA's director in 1990 and moved to Melbourne to become director of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Sunanda Patnaik 
 Sunanda Patnaik (7 November 1934 – 19 January 2020) was an Indian classical singer of Gwalior gharana.
Los Osos, California 
 Los Osos is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place located along the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California.
Dinwiddie, Virginia 
 Dinwiddie is a small unincorporated community and the county seat of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.
Genesee County, Michigan 
 As of the 2010 census, the population was 425,790, making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan.
Helen Flanagan 
 She is best known for presenting the role as Rosie Webster in Coronation Street with Jack P. Shepherd.
Malcolm Hebden 
 He is known for portraying the role of Norris Cole in the long-running ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, a role which he played from 1994 to 1997, 1999 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2020.
Brooke Vincent 
 She is known for her role as Sophie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she played from 2004 to 2019.
Rob Mallard 
 Robert Stephen Mallard (born 19 May 1992) is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Daniel Osbourne in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2016 onwards.
David Rudman 
 David Larry Rudman (born June 1, 1963) is an American puppeteer, cartoonist, producer, director, and singer,  he is known for performing Ernie, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, and the left Two-Headed-Monster on Sesame Street.
Sky Atlantic 
 Sky Atlantic is a British pay drama comedy television channel also by the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, owned by Sky Limited in the United States.
David Neilson 
 David Neilson (born 13 March 1949) is an English actor, best known for his role as Roy Cropper in the long-running British ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards.
Tristan Gemmill 
 Tristan John Gemmill (born 6 June 1967) is an English actor, most notable for his roles as Dr Adam Trueman on Casualty, and Robert Preston in Coronation Street.
Dick Scott (historian) 
 Richard George Scott  (17 November 1923 – 1 January 2020) was a New Zealand historian and journalist.
Dick Scott (historian) 
 His most well-known work is Ask That Mountain (1975), which tells the events of the non-violent Māori resistance to European occupation in Parihaka.
Dick Scott (historian) 
 Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark called it "one of New Zealand's most influential books."
John N. Brandenburg 
 John Nelson Brandenburg (April 29, 1929 – January 14, 2020) was an American lieutenant general in the U.S. Army.
Jane Danson 
 She is best known for her portrayal of Leanne Battersby in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1997–2000, 2004–present).
Jane Danson 
 Her other television credits include Children's Ward (1995–1997), The Grand (1997), Always and Everyone (2001–2002) and The Bill (2002–2003).
Jane Danson 
 For her role on Coronation Street, Danson won the 2011 British Soap Award for "Best Dramatic Performance".
Georgia Taylor 
 She is best known for her roles as Toyah Battersby in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (1997–2003, 2016–present), Ruth Winters in the BBC One medical drama series Casualty (2007–2011) and Kate Barker in the ITV police drama series Law & Order: UK (2013–2014).
Alan Halsall 
 Alan David Halsall (born 11 August 1982 in Greater Manchester|Walkden, Worsley, Greater Manchester) is an English actor, known for playing Tyrone Dobbs in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role which he has played since 1998.
Jimmi Harkishin 
 James "Jimmi" Harkishin (born Rajan Harkinshindas; 19 March 1965) is a British actor, best known for his role as shopkeeper Dev Alahan in the long running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which he has played continuously since 10 November 1999.
Jimmi Harkishin 
 He began acting in 1987 under the stage name James Harkishin, and played the regular character of Jose Cuervo for 18 episodes between 1990–1993 in the children's TV series Uncle Jack.
Sue Cleaver 
 She is best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she has played continuously since May 2000.
Sue Cleaver 
 She also played Glenda alongside Victoria Wood in the BBC One sitcom Dinnerladies from 1998 to 2000.
Sue Cleaver 
 She was covering for Denise Robertson as the agony aunt on ITV daytime programme This Morning until Robertson's death in 2016.
This Morning 
 This Morning is a British daytime television programme that is broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom and Virgin Media One in the Republic of Ireland.
This Morning 
 The show airs live and features news, topical items, showbiz, style and beauty, home and garden, food, health, real life and other segments.
This Morning 
 The longest serving presenter of the show is Ruth Langsford, who presented the series continously 21 years since 1999.
This Morning 
 The show orginally presented by husband and wife duo Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for more than a decade after its launch.
This Morning 
 It is currently presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to Monday to Thursday, and Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond on Fridays and Bank Holidays.
This Morning 
 During all school holidays including the 6 week Summer Holiday, the show is presented by Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, five days a week, while all other presenters are absent.
Shale gas 
 The majority of natural gas in the world is thought to be shale gas, but getting it out of the Earth is difficult.
Jimmy Heath 
 James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed "Little Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader.
Jimmy Heath 
 He worked with notable musicians such as John Coltrane, Stanley Cowell, Benny Golson, Specs Wright, Cal Massey, Johnny Coles, Ray Bryant, Nelson Boyd, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Gil Evans, Milt Jackson, Nancy Wilson, Gerald Wilson and Art Farmer.
Samia Longchambon 
 She is best known for playing Maria Connor in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role she has played since 2000.
Samia Longchambon 
 Samia Ghadie was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester to Joseph, a French-Lebanese shop owner and Patsy, an English actress whom he met whilst working in Abu Dhabi.
Albert Heath 
 He notably worked with musicians such as John Coltrane, J. J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Art Farmer and Benny Golson's Jazztet, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Friedrich Gulda, Nina Simone and Yusef Lateef.
Minié ball 
 The Minié ball, or Minni ball, is a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized bullet for rifled muskets named after its developer, Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle.
Minié ball 
 Rifling, the addition of spiral grooves inside a gun barrel, givesa spin to a bullet, greatly increasing the range and accuracy of a gun.
Minié ball 
 Before the Minié ball, balls had to be jammed down the rifle barrel, sometimes with a mallet, and after a relatively small number of shots, gunpowder leftovers built up in the spiral grooves, which then had to be cleaned out.
Minié ball 
 The development of the Minié ball was significant, because it was the first projectile that was small enough to be easily put down the barrel of a rifled long gun.
Minié ball 
 Both the American Springfield Model 1861 and the British Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled muskets, the most common weapons used during the American Civil War, used the Minié ball.
Minié ball 
 It made it really hard for surgeons to treat wounded soldiers because Minié balls shattered bones often.
Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele 
 Grace Rhona Wurtele Gillis  (January 21, 1922 – January 17, 2020) and Isabella Rhoda Wurtele Eaves  (born January 21, 1922) were Canadian skiers.
Ludovico Einaudi 
 He has made several original albums of piano music and has made the soundtracks for several films, including This is England, The Father and Nomadland.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1981, Central Independent Television took over ATV's broadcast licence and continued the programme until it was cancelled in 1988.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The original idea of Crossroads was based around two feuding sisters, Kitty Jarvis, played by Beryl Johnstone, and Meg Richardson, played by Noele Gordon.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Dick and Kitty bought a newsagents and tobacconists shop in the nearby town of Heathbury a few years after the show started.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Characters in the show's early years included Meg and Kitty's brother, Andy Fraser, played by Ian Patterson.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Instructed to stop using the name, the troops came up with "Stills" for locals - because they were "still Bennies".
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Sylvestre was given the role by producer Reg Watson after press coverage of racial tensions in Birmingham.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1977, an interracial summer romance took place between Cockney garage mechanic Dennis Harper, played by Guy Ward, and motel receptionist Meena Chaudri, played by Karen David.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1983, a storyline about a test tube baby born to Glenda and Kevin Banks, played by Lynette McMorrough and David Moran.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1983, the subject of Down syndrome was also raised when a little girl was befriended by three of the regular characters.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1985, new producer Phillip Bowman was planning to bring the character of Meg Mortimer back into the show as a "permanent occasional."
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Edward Clayton was brought back as Jill's ex-husband Stan Harvey to read the lines originally written for Gordon.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1986, the new character Ray Grice played by Al Hunter Ashton was introduced as part of an attempt to create wider storylines.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 References were also made to the Russell family taking over a "failing motel", despite Crossroads having become a hotel in the late 1980s.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In the final episode of the original series, the name 'King's Oak Country Hotel' was seen over the entrance doors.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Lack of real links to the past, and the killing of Jill a few months into the new run, turned many fans away.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Receptionist Virginia Raven, played by Sherrie Hewson, and womanising deputy manager Jake Booth, played by Colin Wells.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The storyline of the final episode was the revelation that the revived series and glamorous hotel had been a dream of supermarket worker and Crossroads fan Angela, with all the other characters revealed as shoppers.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Angela even approaches a female customer in the supermarket and tells her she recognises her as "Tracey Booth from Crossroads".
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 4 January 1965: Anglia, Associated Rediffusion, Grampian Television, TWW, Southern Television,  Westward Television and Channel Television.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 11 January 1965: Tyne Tees, but the series was dropped and then picked up again several times until January 1972.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 5 November 1968: Yorkshire Television, but also dropped the series for a short period, until January 1972.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The episodes were recorded "as live", a common practice at the time, with few opportunities for retakes.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The Independent Television Authority (ITA) decreed in 1967 that Crossroads should be reduced to four episodes per week to improve its quality.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The series was widely derided by critics who criticised the wobbly sets and fluffed lines, but gained many fans.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Prime Minister Harold Wilson's wife Mary complained when the newly formed Thames Television decided to stop showing it in 1968.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 As a result of the gap in transmission, viewers in the Thames region were six months behind the rest of the country for several years.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 From April 1980, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), commercial television's regulator, decided production should be reduced further to three episodes a week.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 ATV planned to replace the fourth episode with a spin-off series called A Family Affair but this idea was dropped.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Series star Noele Gordon, who played Meg Richardson, regularly won the TV Times Most Popular Female Personality viewers award during the 1970s.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Viewers reacted negatively at the dismissal of Gordon in 1981, an action taken by head of programming Charles Denton.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Why Gordon was sacked remains a mystery to TV historians as she was the most popular character on the soap and no real reason was given other than that producers felt it was time for a change.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 She had been misled that the meeting where she was dismissed was to be the annual negotiation for the next years contract.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Some people have said that Gordon's attitude within the company had upset some executives and they simply wanted rid of her.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Others believe that ITV found Crossroads an embarrassment and wanted to find a way of decreasing the viewing figures by sacking Gordon.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Further changes were introduced in March 1985, when new filming locations, sets and characters were introduced.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The closing titles, which had scrolled in multiple 'crossroad' directions since the start, were replaced with conventional scrolling credits.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In 1986, a new producer, William Smethurst, took over the series following the sacking of his predecessor, Philip Bowman.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Further changes included the series being renamed Crossroads Kings Oak for a time, with the intention in the future of shortening this to King's Oak.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 This final change was overtaken by the decision in June 1987 by Andy Allen, Central's director of programmes, to axe the series.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The familiar theme tune was replaced in September 1987 by a new theme composed by Max Early and Raf Ravenscroft.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 New titles were introduced to accompany the new theme, which featured stills of King's Oak and the new King's Oak Country Hotel.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Michele Buck guided the show through its final few months on air as series producer, with William Smethurst still on hand as executive producer.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In January 1988, the series was reduced to only two episodes a week, with Crossroads King's Oak finally coming to an end on 4 April 1988 (the Easter bank holiday).
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The last, extended episode saw the character of Jill (Jane Rossington) riding off with her lover, John Maddingham (Jeremy Nicholas).
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Asked what name she would give the hotel she would be running in her new life, the character remarked, a little sadly, "I always thought Crossroads was an awfully good name".
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 In April 2000, Carlton announced that they would be reviving Crossroads for the daytime slot on ITV.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The revived series was sponsored by washing detergent Surf and was broadcast each weekday at 1.30pm and 5.05pm on ITV, with a Sunday omnibus on ITV2.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Four characters from the original series returned: Doris Luke (Kathy Staff), Jill Harvey (née Richardson), Jill's ex-husband Adam Chance (Tony Adams), and Jill's daughter Sarah-Jane Harvey (Joanne Farrell/Holly Newman).
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 She told ITV Teletext she felt it was no longer the family-friendly show she had originally been part of.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The story where original character Adam Chance murders ex-wife Jill Harvey three months into the new series' was unpopular with fans.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Jane Rossington said she did not want to commit herself to another long run in the show, but warned Carlton it would be suicidal to kill Jill.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 At the halfway commercial-break point however, the programme was interrupted to hand over to ITV News for then very sketchy details of the 9/11 attacks in New York City, USA.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 As the afternoon went on and the seriousness of the situation became clear, all ITV Network daytime programmes, starting with CITV transmissions at 15:15, were relegated to ITV2 to continue rolling news coverage.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 However, at the time, the channel was only available to a small number of viewers able to view the subscription-based ITV Digital, Telewest or NTL.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 As a result, the episode remains unseen by most of the programme's regular fanbase, including the entire Channel Islands who could not receive ITV Digital.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 A short re-cap of events in Episode 137 was screened before both the 14:10 and 17:05 showings of Episode 138 on 12 September 2001.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 It seemed to be a self-consciously camp parody, with Jane Asher playing a new central character - the glamorous and bitchy Angel Samson.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The series also had appearances from Kate O'Mara, and people associated with light entertainment, such as Lionel Blair, Les Dennis and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The revived series also launched the careers of Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Law & Order: UK), Luke Roberts (Holby City and Mile High), Lucy Pargeter, Shauna Shim and Jessica Fox.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Plans were in place to bring Adam Chance back on a three-month contract in a last attempt to bring in more viewers; actor Tony Adams said that a down-on-his luck Adam would have been taken under Angel's wing as her personal assistant.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The 2003 series was criticised by fans who felt the series had moved away from the 1964-88 series and the 2001-02 series, as well as being "too gay".
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 A selection of cues were recorded, including Meg's Theme which eventually became the standard opening theme, Kitty's Theme which was phased out as action focussed on the motel, the closing theme which combined both Meg's and Kitty's themes,  and a variety of background pieces.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 A special arrangement of the theme by Paul McCartney and Wings, was also used from the late seventies, usually when an episode ended with a dramatic event.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Central Independent Television's head of music Johnny Patrick rearranged the tune in 1985 for piano and synthesiser, upon the show's relaunch as Crossroads Motel by producer Philip Bowman.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Following William Smethurst's arrival as producer in 1987, this recording was overdubbed with added synthesisers.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 An entirely new theme aired in late 1987 when the series was relaunched as Crossroads, Kings Oak, composed by Johnny Patrick, with Raf Ravenscroft and Max Early, with the CBSO.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 This later formed the basis of the single released by actress Shona Linsdey, "Goodbye", to commemorate the end of the show in 1988.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The 2001 revival brought back the original Tony Hatch theme, this time arranged and performed by TV theme composer Tony Flynn.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 Another version, in 2003, was arranged by Patrick Dineen and performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic.
Crossroads (British TV series) 
 The 1982 Crossroads Special said that the Longshoot Motel in Nuneaton) was used in designing the motel.