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.
| 1859 | Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state. |
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| 1895 | Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London. |
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| 1903 | The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established. |
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| 1912 | Arizona became the 48th state of the Union. |
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| 1920 | The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. |
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| 1962 | First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House. |
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| 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. |
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| 1989 | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous. |
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| 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. |
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| 2003 | Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease. |
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| 2005 | Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated. |
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| 2006 | Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work. |
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| 2008 | A former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide. |
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| 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." |
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Actress Florence Henderson ("The Brady Bunch") turns 78 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg turns 70 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1921 | Hugh Downs, TV personality, turns 91 |
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| 1944 | Carl Bernstein, Journalist, turns 68 |
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| 1948 | Pat O'Brien, TV personality, turns 64 |
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| 1948 | Teller, Comedian, magician (Penn and Teller), turns 64 |
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| 1960 | Jim Kelly, Football Hall of Famer, turns 52 |
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| 1960 | Meg Tilly, Actress ("The Big Chill," "Agnes of God"), turns 52 |
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| 1970 | Simon Pegg, Actor, turns 42 |
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| 1972 | Rob Thomas, Rock singer (Matchbox 20), turns 40 |
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| 1972 | Drew Bledsoe, Football player, turns 40 |
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Historic Birthdays
Anna Howard Shaw2/14/1847 - 7/2/1919American minister, lecturer and feminist.Go to obituary »
| 73 | Francesco Cavalli 2/14/1602 - 1/14/1676
Italian operatic composer |
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| 68 | Thomas Robert Malthus 2/14/1766 - 12/23/1834
English economist and demographer |
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| 71 | Christopher Sholes 2/14/1819 - 2/17/1890
American inventor who developed the typewriter |
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| 57 | Quinitin Hogg 2/14/1845 - 1/17/1903
English philanthropist and social reformer |
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| 75 | Frank Harris 2/14/1856 - 8/26/1931
Irish-bn. American journalist |
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| 90 | C.T.R. Wilson 2/14/1869 - 11/15/1959
Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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| 78 | Greenleaf Whittier Pickard 2/14/1877 - 1/8/1956
American electrical engineer and inventor |
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| 76 | George Jean Nathan 2/14/1882 - 4/8/1958
American author, editor, and drama critic |
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| 80 | Jack Benny 2/14/1894 - 12/26/1974
American entertainer |
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| 74 | Woody Hayes 2/14/1913 - 3/12/1987
American collegiate football coach |
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