February 14
1778 - The American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd state.
1876 - Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)
1903 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1912 - Arizona became the 48th state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was established.
1929 - Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago.
1962 - First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
1979 - Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (she lived until November, 1990).
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses".
1989 - Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India in a court-ordered settlement of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
2001 - The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
2003 - Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
2006 - Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.
2008 - A former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.
2011 - The TV game show “Jeopardy!” began airing the first of three episodes pitting human players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings against an IBM computer named “Watson.” (Watson ended up winning with a cumulative total of $77,147 versus $24,000 for Jennings and $21,600 for Rutter.)
2011 - President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget plan that would freeze or reduce some safety-net programs for the nation’s poor but turn aside Republican demands for more drastic cuts to shrink the government to where it was before he took office.
2013 - American Airlines and US Airways announced an $11 billion merger that turned American into the world’s biggest airline.
2018 - A gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, more than five years earlier.
2019 - William Barr was sworn in for his second stint as the nation’s attorney general; he succeeded Jeff Sessions, who’d been pushed out of office by President Donald Trump after Trump denounced Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
2020 - A Chinese health official said more than 1,700 medical workers had been infected by the coronavirus, and six had died. Egypt confirmed its first case of the new virus, which had infected more than 64,000 people globally.
Birthdays
24 - Madison Iseman (actress)
27 - Paul Butcher (actor)
29 - Freddie Highmore (actor)
31 - Brett Dier (actor)
34 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
35 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
35 - Jake Lacy (actor)
37 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
37 - Matt Barr (actor)
43 - Danai Gurira (actress)
49 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
49 - Rob Thomas (singer)
51 - Simon Pegg (actor)
57 - Zach Galligan (actor)
61 - Jim Kelly (football player)
61 - Meg Tilly (actress)
64 - Ken Wahl (actor)
73 - Teller (magician)
73 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
77 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
85 - Andrew Prine (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 14
1934 - The NHL held its first All-Star Game as a benefit for injured NHL star Ace Bailey. Toronto played against a team of All-Stars from the seven other teams in the league.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National Basketball Association record when he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven NBA seasons.
1971 - Richard Petty wins his third Daytona 500.
1990 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) ended his 46-game scoring streak. The streak was the second-longest in NHL history.
1995 - The Portland Trail Blazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner was stranded 17 hours outside in temperatures that reached 25 below zero. When he was found his body temperature was 88 and his feet were frozen. On March 28, 2002, Gardner had the middle two toes on his right foot amputated due to frostbite.
2004 - Sean Burke (Philadelphia Flyers) got his 300th win. Burke was the 20th goalie to reach the milestone.
2016 - The first NBA All-Star Game outside the U.S. was the highest-scoring ever, with the West defeating the East 196-173 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder records a triple-double in his 11th consecutive game, setting an NBA record, with 44 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.
1778 - The American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Stars and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd state.
1876 - Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)
1903 - The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1912 - Arizona became the 48th state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was established.
1929 - Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago.
1962 - First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
1979 - Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (she lived until November, 1990).
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses".
1989 - Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India in a court-ordered settlement of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
2001 - The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
2003 - Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
2006 - Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.
2008 - A former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.
2011 - The TV game show “Jeopardy!” began airing the first of three episodes pitting human players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings against an IBM computer named “Watson.” (Watson ended up winning with a cumulative total of $77,147 versus $24,000 for Jennings and $21,600 for Rutter.)
2011 - President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.7 trillion budget plan that would freeze or reduce some safety-net programs for the nation’s poor but turn aside Republican demands for more drastic cuts to shrink the government to where it was before he took office.
2013 - American Airlines and US Airways announced an $11 billion merger that turned American into the world’s biggest airline.
2018 - A gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, more than five years earlier.
2019 - William Barr was sworn in for his second stint as the nation’s attorney general; he succeeded Jeff Sessions, who’d been pushed out of office by President Donald Trump after Trump denounced Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
2020 - A Chinese health official said more than 1,700 medical workers had been infected by the coronavirus, and six had died. Egypt confirmed its first case of the new virus, which had infected more than 64,000 people globally.
Birthdays
24 - Madison Iseman (actress)
27 - Paul Butcher (actor)
29 - Freddie Highmore (actor)
31 - Brett Dier (actor)
34 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
35 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
35 - Jake Lacy (actor)
37 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
37 - Matt Barr (actor)
43 - Danai Gurira (actress)
49 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
49 - Rob Thomas (singer)
51 - Simon Pegg (actor)
57 - Zach Galligan (actor)
61 - Jim Kelly (football player)
61 - Meg Tilly (actress)
64 - Ken Wahl (actor)
73 - Teller (magician)
73 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
77 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
85 - Andrew Prine (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 14
1934 - The NHL held its first All-Star Game as a benefit for injured NHL star Ace Bailey. Toronto played against a team of All-Stars from the seven other teams in the league.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National Basketball Association record when he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven NBA seasons.
1971 - Richard Petty wins his third Daytona 500.
1990 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) ended his 46-game scoring streak. The streak was the second-longest in NHL history.
1995 - The Portland Trail Blazers trade Clyde Drexler to the Houston Rockets.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner was stranded 17 hours outside in temperatures that reached 25 below zero. When he was found his body temperature was 88 and his feet were frozen. On March 28, 2002, Gardner had the middle two toes on his right foot amputated due to frostbite.
2004 - Sean Burke (Philadelphia Flyers) got his 300th win. Burke was the 20th goalie to reach the milestone.
2016 - The first NBA All-Star Game outside the U.S. was the highest-scoring ever, with the West defeating the East 196-173 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder records a triple-double in his 11th consecutive game, setting an NBA record, with 44 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.