February 15
1764 - The city of St. Louis was founded as a French fur-trading post.
1879 - President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
1898 - The USS Maine blew up in the Havana harbor in Cuba, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1913 - The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp and Matisse.
1933 - Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
1944 - During World War II, Allied bombers destroyed the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy.
1950 - Walt Disney‘s animated film “Cinderella” premieres in Boston.
1965 - The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
1965 - Singer Nat King Cole, 45, died in Santa Monica, California.
1989 - More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years to the date after the USSR invaded country.
1992 - A Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer, who had already pleaded guilty to the murders, would receive a mandatory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.)
2003 - Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
2005 - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges.
2012 - A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed at least 360 people.
2013 - With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across Russia’s western Siberian sky and exploded, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows.
2022 - The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
Birthdays
28 - Megan Thee Stallion (rapper)
37 - Amber Riley (actress)
47 - Brandon Boyd (singer)
49 - Miranda July (actress)
50 - Amy Van Dyken (swimmer)
50 - Sarah Wynter (actress)
52 - Renee O'Connor (actress)
56 - Michael Easton (actor)
60 - Steven Michael Quezada (actor/comedian)
63 - Darrell Green (football player)
68 - Christopher McDonald (actor)
68 - Janice Dickinson (model)
69 - Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons")
72 - Melissa Manchester (singer)
72 - Jane Seymour (actress)
76 - Marisa Berenson (actress/model)
92 - Claire Bloom (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 15
1946 - Edith Houghton, at age 33, was signed as a baseball scout by the Philadelphia Phillies becoming the first female scout in the major leagues.
1953 - The first American to win the women’s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.
1961 - 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
1962 - CBS-TV bought the exclusive rights to college football games from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for a figure of $10,200,000.
1965 - NFL teams pledged not to sign college seniors until they had completed all of their games, including bowl games.
1978 - Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds for the heavyweight championship.
1980 - Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) tied an NHL record with seven assists in a game against the Washington Capitals. Gretzky also set a rookie record of 96 points.
1991 - Troy State University sets an NCAA Division II record with 103 points scored in the second half of a 187-117 rout of DeVry Institute in men's college basketball.
1996 - The NCAA football rules committee voted to require a tiebreaker in all NCAA football games.
1998 - Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 for the first time in his career (on his 20th attempt).
1764 - The city of St. Louis was founded as a French fur-trading post.
1879 - President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
1898 - The USS Maine blew up in the Havana harbor in Cuba, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1913 - The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp and Matisse.
1933 - Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
1944 - During World War II, Allied bombers destroyed the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy.
1950 - Walt Disney‘s animated film “Cinderella” premieres in Boston.
1965 - The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
1965 - Singer Nat King Cole, 45, died in Santa Monica, California.
1989 - More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years to the date after the USSR invaded country.
1992 - A Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer, who had already pleaded guilty to the murders, would receive a mandatory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.)
2003 - Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
2005 - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges.
2012 - A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed at least 360 people.
2013 - With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across Russia’s western Siberian sky and exploded, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows.
2022 - The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
Birthdays
28 - Megan Thee Stallion (rapper)
37 - Amber Riley (actress)
47 - Brandon Boyd (singer)
49 - Miranda July (actress)
50 - Amy Van Dyken (swimmer)
50 - Sarah Wynter (actress)
52 - Renee O'Connor (actress)
56 - Michael Easton (actor)
60 - Steven Michael Quezada (actor/comedian)
63 - Darrell Green (football player)
68 - Christopher McDonald (actor)
68 - Janice Dickinson (model)
69 - Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons")
72 - Melissa Manchester (singer)
72 - Jane Seymour (actress)
76 - Marisa Berenson (actress/model)
92 - Claire Bloom (actress)
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Today in Sports History - February 15
1946 - Edith Houghton, at age 33, was signed as a baseball scout by the Philadelphia Phillies becoming the first female scout in the major leagues.
1953 - The first American to win the women’s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.
1961 - 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
1962 - CBS-TV bought the exclusive rights to college football games from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for a figure of $10,200,000.
1965 - NFL teams pledged not to sign college seniors until they had completed all of their games, including bowl games.
1978 - Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds for the heavyweight championship.
1980 - Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) tied an NHL record with seven assists in a game against the Washington Capitals. Gretzky also set a rookie record of 96 points.
1991 - Troy State University sets an NCAA Division II record with 103 points scored in the second half of a 187-117 rout of DeVry Institute in men's college basketball.
1996 - The NCAA football rules committee voted to require a tiebreaker in all NCAA football games.
1998 - Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 for the first time in his career (on his 20th attempt).
