February 14
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 founded.
1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.
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 in 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."
2012 - A fire broke out at a farm prison in Honduras, killing 361 inmates.
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. (Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder in October 2021; a jury will decide whether he is to be executed.)
2021 - Japan formally approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said it would start nationwide inoculations within days, but months behind the U.S. and many other countries.
Birthdays
25 - Madison Iseman (actress)
28 - Becky Hill (singer)
28 - Paul Butcher (actor)
29 - Shane Harper (singer)
30 - Freddie Highmore (actor)
32 - Brett Dier (actor)
35 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
36 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
36 - Jake Lacy (actor)
38 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
38 - Matt Barr (actor)
44 - Danai Gurira (actress)
50 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
50 - Rob Thomas (singer)
52 - Simon Pegg (actor)
54 - Phil Lewis (actor)
58 - Zach Galligan (actor)
59 - Enrico Colantoni (actor)
62 - Jim Kelly (football player)
62 - Meg Tilly (actress)
63 - Renee Fleming (singer)
65 - Ken Wahl (actor)
74 - Teller (magician)
74 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
78 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
86 - 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 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, Indiana, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
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 and would go on to win the inaugural Winston Cup title.
1988 - Bobby Allison became the oldest driver to win NASCAR's 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 Trailblazers 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.
2012 - “Linsanity” continued as Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with less than a second to play and New York rallied to beat the Toronto Raptors 90-87, extending a winning streak to six games.
2013 - Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and is serving a 13-year prison term.
2018 - American snowboarder Shaun White wins an unprecedented third Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe (also 2006, 2010) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder records a triple-double in an 11th consecutive game to establish a new NBA record.
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 founded.
1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.
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 in 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."
2012 - A fire broke out at a farm prison in Honduras, killing 361 inmates.
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. (Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder in October 2021; a jury will decide whether he is to be executed.)
2021 - Japan formally approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said it would start nationwide inoculations within days, but months behind the U.S. and many other countries.
Birthdays
25 - Madison Iseman (actress)
28 - Becky Hill (singer)
28 - Paul Butcher (actor)
29 - Shane Harper (singer)
30 - Freddie Highmore (actor)
32 - Brett Dier (actor)
35 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
36 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
36 - Jake Lacy (actor)
38 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
38 - Matt Barr (actor)
44 - Danai Gurira (actress)
50 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
50 - Rob Thomas (singer)
52 - Simon Pegg (actor)
54 - Phil Lewis (actor)
58 - Zach Galligan (actor)
59 - Enrico Colantoni (actor)
62 - Jim Kelly (football player)
62 - Meg Tilly (actress)
63 - Renee Fleming (singer)
65 - Ken Wahl (actor)
74 - Teller (magician)
74 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
78 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
86 - 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 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, Indiana, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
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 and would go on to win the inaugural Winston Cup title.
1988 - Bobby Allison became the oldest driver to win NASCAR's 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 Trailblazers 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.
2012 - “Linsanity” continued as Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with less than a second to play and New York rallied to beat the Toronto Raptors 90-87, extending a winning streak to six games.
2013 - Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and is serving a 13-year prison term.
2018 - American snowboarder Shaun White wins an unprecedented third Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe (also 2006, 2010) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder records a triple-double in an 11th consecutive game to establish a new NBA record.
