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On This Day: February 14

Updated February 13, 2012, 1:28 PM

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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.

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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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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."

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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 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
68	Thomas Robert Malthus 2/14/1766 - 12/23/1834 English economist and demographer
71	Christopher Sholes 2/14/1819 - 2/17/1890 American inventor who developed the typewriter
57	Quinitin Hogg 2/14/1845 - 1/17/1903 English philanthropist and social reformer
75	Frank Harris 2/14/1856 - 8/26/1931 Irish-bn. American journalist
90	C.T.R. Wilson 2/14/1869 - 11/15/1959 Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physicist
78	Greenleaf Whittier Pickard 2/14/1877 - 1/8/1956 American electrical engineer and inventor
76	George Jean Nathan 2/14/1882 - 4/8/1958 American author, editor, and drama critic
80	Jack Benny 2/14/1894 - 12/26/1974 American entertainer
74	Woody Hayes 2/14/1913 - 3/12/1987 American collegiate football coach

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On This Day: January 1

Updated December 31, 2011, 1:29 PM

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On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.

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On Jan. 1, 1895, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924-1972, was born. Following his death on May 2, 1972, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1808	A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect.
1892	The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
1898	New York City was consolidated into five buroughs.
1901	The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.
1919	J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye," was born in New York City.
1953	Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose.
1958	Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.
1959	Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
1979	The United States and China established diplomatic relations.
1984	AT&T was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
1990	David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first African-American mayor.
1993	Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994	The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
1999	The euro became the official currency of 11 European countries.
2011	Oprah Winfrey launched the OWN cable TV network.

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Actor Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon") turns 73 years old today.

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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., turns 57 years old today.

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1922	Ernest Hollings, Former U.S. senator, D-S.C., turns 89
1942	Country Joe McDonald, Rock singer, musician (Country Joe and the Fish), turns 69
1943	Don Novello, Comedian, turns 68
1947	Jon Corzine, Former governor of New Jersey, turns 64
1958	Grandmaster Flash, Rapper, turns 53
1964	Dedee Pfeiffer, Actress, turns 47
1966	Embeth Davidtz, Actress, turns 45
1969	Verne Troyer, Actor ("Austin Powers" movies), turns 42

Historic Birthdays

J. Edgar Hoover1/1/1895 - 5/2/1972American director of the Federal Bureau of InvestigationGo to obituary »

43	Lorenzo de' Medici 1/1/1449 - 3/9/1492 Italian statesman, ruler
51	Mad Anthony Wayne 1/1/1745 - 12/15/1796 American Revolutionary general
84	Betsy Ross 1/1/1752 - 1/30/1836 American, sewed the first American flag
87	Sir James George Frazer 1/1/1854 - 5/7/1941 British anthropologist, wrote Golden Bough
82	Alfred Stieglitz 1/1/1864 - 7/13/1946 American photographer
79	Ernest Jones 1/1/1879 - 2/11/1958 British psychoanalyst
73	William Fox 1/1/1879 - 5/8/1952 American motion picture executive
76	William J Donovan 1/1/1883 - 2/8/1959 American Director of the O.S.S. in WW2
76	Catherine Bowen 1/1/1897 - 1 1/1/1973 American writer
90	Xavier Cugat 1/1/1900 - 10/27/1990 Cuban band leader
83	Dana Andrews 1/1/1909 - 12/17/1992 American actor
89	Barry M. Goldwater 1/1/1909 - 5/29/1998 American senator
76	Kim Philby 1/1/1912 - 5/11/1988 British, Soviet double agent
71	Rocky Graziano 1/1/1919 - 5/22/1990 American boxer

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On This Day: December 30

Updated December 30, 2011, 1:28 PM

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On Dec. 30, 1972, the United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

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On Dec. 30, 1873, Alfred Smith, the four-time governor of New York State and 1928 presidential candidate, was born. Following his death on Oct. 4, 1944, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1813	The British burned Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.
1865	Author Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India.
1903	About 600 people died when fire broke out at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago.
1911	Sun Yat-sen was elected the first president of the Republic of China.
1928	Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss.
1940	California's first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, was officially opened.
1972	The United States halted its heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
1978	Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched a Clemson University player during a game.
1993	Israel and the Vatican agreed to recognize one another.
2003	The federal government announced it would ban the sale of ephedra, an herbal stimulant linked to 155 deaths and dozens of heart attacks and strokes.
2006	Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hanged.
2010	Top-ranked Connecticut's record 90-game winning streak in women's basketball ended with a 71-59 loss to No. 9 Stanford.

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James turns 27 years old today.

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TV host Meredith Vieira turns 58 years old today.

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1934	Joseph Bologna, Actor, turns 77
1934	Russ Tamblyn, Actor, turns 77
1935	Jack Riley, Actor ("The Bob Newhart Show"), turns 76
1935	Sandy Koufax, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 76
1937	Noel Paul Stookey, Folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), turns 74
1940	James Burrows, TV director ("Taxi," "Cheers," "Will and Grace"), turns 71
1942	Michael Nesmith, Rock singer, musician (The Monkees), turns 69
1945	Davy Jones, Rock singer (The Monkees), turns 66
1946	Patti Smith, Rock musician, turns 65
1947	Jeff Lynne, Rock singer, musician (ELO), turns 64
1957	Matt Lauer, TV host ("Today"), turns 54
1959	Tracey Ullman, Actress, comedian, turns 52
1961	Sean Hannity, TV host, turns 50
1975	Tiger Woods, Golfer, turns 36
1977	Laila Ali, Boxer, TV personality, turns 34
1978	Tyrese Gibson, R&B singer, actor, turns 33
1980	Eliza Dushku, Actress, turns 31

Historic Birthdays

Alfred Smith12/30/1873 - 10/4/1944American politician and four-time governor of New York State.Go to obituary »

77	Bert Parks 12/30/1914 - 2/2/1992 American game show host
69	Sir Carol Reed 12/30/1906 - 4/25/1976 English film director
71	Alfred Einstein 12/30/1880 - 2/13/1952 German-born American musicologist and critic
70	Ramana Maharshi 12/30/1879 - 4/14/1950 Hindu philosopher and yogi
70	Rudyard Kipling 12/30/1865 - 1/18/1936 English writer
77	Asa Griggs Candler 12/30/1851 - 3/12/1929 American developer of Coca-Cola
62	John Milne 12/30/1850 - 7/30/1913 English seismologist and geologist; inventor of the seismograph