today in history
February 15 may be the day after Valentine's day (Pay attention. Today you will see all the office girls wearing their "I-got-laid-last-night-for-a-change-boots" from wherever they buy those. The black leather ones that come up to the knee. Speaking of which, here's a naked office lady. NSFW) but it deserves to be recognized, too.* 399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
* 732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
* 1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
* 1313 Peace of Angleur
* 1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
* 1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
* 1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
* 1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
* 1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
* 1677 King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
* 1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
* 1689 German Parliament declares war on France
* 1745 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
* 1763 Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
* 1764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
* 1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
* 1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
* 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent
* 1799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
* 1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
* 1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
* 1845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
* 1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
* 1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
* 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
* 1861 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
* 1862 Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
* 1864 Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
* 1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
* 1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
* 1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
* 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
* 1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
* 1882 SS Dunedin leaves NZ with 1st frozen meat to England
* 1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
* 1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
* 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
* 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn)
* 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
* 1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
* 1906 British Labour Party organizes
* 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
* 1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
* 1916 NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
* 1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
* 1918 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
* 1918 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
* 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris
* 1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
* 1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
* 1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
* 1926 Contract air mail service begins in US
* 1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
* 1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
* 1931 1st Dracula movie released
* 1931 Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
* 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
* 1932 Aust beat S Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
* 1932 George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
* 1932 John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
* 1932 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
* 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
* 1933 Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
* 1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorw„rts" banned again in Berlin
* 1936 -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
* 1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
* 1936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
* 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
* 1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC
* 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
* 1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
* 1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
* 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese
* 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
* 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
* 1944 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
* 1946 Bank of England nationalized
* 1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
* 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
* 1949 Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
* 1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
* 1950 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC
* 1950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
* 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
* 1954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
* 1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
* 1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
* 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
* 1956 Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
* 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
* 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
* 1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
* 1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
* 1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
* 1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-govt of Middle Sumatra
* 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian govt
* 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
* 1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
* 1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
* 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1963 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
* 1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
* 1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
* 1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
* 1965 Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
* 1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
* 1965 Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
* 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
* 1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
* 1967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
* 1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
* 1968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
* 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
* 1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
* 1970 Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
* 1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
* 1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
* 1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
* 1971 After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
* 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
* 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
* 1972 Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
* 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
* 1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
* 1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
* 1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
* 1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
* 1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
* 1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
* 1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1978 Zaire revises constitution
* 1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
* 1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
* 1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
* 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
* 1980 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
* 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
* 1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
* 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
* 1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
* 1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
* 1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
* 1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
* 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
* 1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
* 1986 Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
* 1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
* 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
* 1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
* 1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
* 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
* 1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
* 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
* 1990 Baseball owners lock out players
* 1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
* 1991 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
* 1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
* 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
* 1993 Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
* 1993 Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogot Colombia
* 1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
* 1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
* 1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
* 1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
* 1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
* 1997 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
* 1997 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
* 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
* 1998 Daytona 500 race
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