Updated February 13, 2012, 1:28 pm
On Feb. 14, 1929, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were gunned down.
On Feb. 14, 1847, Anna Howard Shaw, one of the most influential leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, was born. Following her death on July 2, 1919, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1859 Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state. 1895 Oscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opened at the St. James’ Theatre in London. 1903 The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established. 1912 Arizona became the 48th state of the Union. 1920 The League of Women Voters was founded 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. 1989 Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous. 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. 2003 Dolly the sheep – the first mammal cloned from an adult – was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease. 2005 Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated. 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.” Current Birthdays
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Actress Florence Henderson (“The Brady Bunch”) turns 78 years old today.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg turns 70 years old today.
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1921 Hugh Downs, TV personality, turns 91 1944 Carl Bernstein, Journalist, turns 68 1948 Pat O’Brien, TV personality, turns 64 1948 Teller, Comedian, magician (Penn and Teller), turns 64 1960 Jim Kelly, Football Hall of Famer, turns 52 1960 Meg Tilly, Actress (“The Big Chill,” “Agnes of God”), turns 52 1970 Simon Pegg, Actor, turns 42 1972 Rob Thomas, Rock singer (Matchbox 20), turns 40 1972 Drew Bledsoe, Football player, turns 40
Historic Birthdays
Anna Howard Shaw 2/14/1847 – 7/2/1919 American minister, lecturer and feminist.Go to obituary »
73 Francesco Cavalli 2/14/1602 – 1/14/1676
Italian operatic composer68 Thomas Robert Malthus 2/14/1766 – 12/23/1834
English economist and demographer71 Christopher Sholes 2/14/1819 – 2/17/1890
American inventor who developed the typewriter57 Quinitin Hogg 2/14/1845 – 1/17/1903
English philanthropist and social reformer75 Frank Harris 2/14/1856 – 8/26/1931
Irish-bn. American journalist90 C.T.R. Wilson 2/14/1869 – 11/15/1959
Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physicist78 Greenleaf Whittier Pickard 2/14/1877 – 1/8/1956
American electrical engineer and inventor76 George Jean Nathan 2/14/1882 – 4/8/1958
American author, editor, and drama critic80 Jack Benny 2/14/1894 – 12/26/1974
American entertainer74 Woody Hayes 2/14/1913 – 3/12/1987
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