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Events on the 15th of February in history

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15 Feb 0399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
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15 Feb 0590 Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
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15 Feb 0706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
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15 Feb 0732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
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15 Feb 1113 Pope Paschal II issues a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.
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15 Feb 1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
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15 Feb 1214 John, King of England, lands an invasion force at La Rochelle in France.
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15 Feb 1313 Peace of Angleur
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15 Feb 1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
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15 Feb 1493 While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
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15 Feb 1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
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15 Feb 1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
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15 Feb 1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
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15 Feb 1637 Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
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15 Feb 1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
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15 Feb 1677 King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
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15 Feb 1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide" premieres in Paris
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15 Feb 1689 German Parliament declares war on France
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15 Feb 1690 Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
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15 Feb 1745 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny, " premieres in London
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15 Feb 1763 Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
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15 Feb 1764 The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
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15 Feb 1764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
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15 Feb 1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
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15 Feb 1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
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15 Feb 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent
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15 Feb 1798 The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
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15 Feb 1799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
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15 Feb 1804 The Serbian Revolution begins.
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15 Feb 1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
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15 Feb 1835 The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
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15 Feb 1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), New York NY
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15 Feb 1845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
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15 Feb 1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
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15 Feb 1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave
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15 Feb 1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
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15 Feb 1861 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
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15 Feb 1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
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15 Feb 1862 Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson TN
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15 Feb 1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans
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15 Feb 1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
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15 Feb 1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minnesota
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15 Feb 1870 Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
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15 Feb 1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
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15 Feb 1879 Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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15 Feb 1879 Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before the Supreme Court
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15 Feb 1882 SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England
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15 Feb 1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin
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15 Feb 1891 Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
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15 Feb 1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
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15 Feb 1898 The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
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15 Feb 1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
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15 Feb 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
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15 Feb 1901 The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
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15 Feb 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn)
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15 Feb 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
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15 Feb 1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs AR)
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15 Feb 1906 British Labour Party organizes
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15 Feb 1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
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15 Feb 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78
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15 Feb 1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in New York NY
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15 Feb 1916 New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
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15 Feb 1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
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15 Feb 1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
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15 Feb 1918 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar
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15 Feb 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris
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15 Feb 1921 Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
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15 Feb 1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs England, Australian Test Cricket record
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15 Feb 1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
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15 Feb 1923 Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
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15 Feb 1925 The 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team.
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15 Feb 1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St, New York City
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15 Feb 1926 Contract air mail service begins in US
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15 Feb 1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
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15 Feb 1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
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15 Feb 1931 1st Dracula movie released
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15 Feb 1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
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15 Feb 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York
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15 Feb 1932 George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
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15 Feb 1932 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
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15 Feb 1932 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time
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15 Feb 1932 John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet" premieres in New York NY
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15 Feb 1933 In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
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15 Feb 1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
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15 Feb 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
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15 Feb 1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorw
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15 Feb 1936 -60
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15 Feb 1936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympics figure skating gold
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15 Feb 1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
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15 Feb 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
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15 Feb 1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes" premieres in New York NY
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15 Feb 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
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15 Feb 1942 World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
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15 Feb 1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
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15 Feb 1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
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15 Feb 1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
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15 Feb 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
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15 Feb 1944 World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
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15 Feb 1944 World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
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15 Feb 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
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15 Feb 1944 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
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15 Feb 1945 World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
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15 Feb 1946 ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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15 Feb 1946 Bank of England nationalized
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15 Feb 1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
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15 Feb 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
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15 Feb 1949 Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
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15 Feb 1949 Dmitri Shostakovich's "Song of the Woods" premieres in Leningrad
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15 Feb 1950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Feb 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
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15 Feb 1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Feb 1950 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba" premieres in New York NY
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15 Feb 1952 King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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15 Feb 1953 Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein.
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15 Feb 1954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
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15 Feb 1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Feb 1954 Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
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15 Feb 1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
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15 Feb 1956 Pirates and Kansas City Athletics cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
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15 Feb 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed President of Finland
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15 Feb 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
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15 Feb 1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of the USA
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15 Feb 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones Great Britain
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15 Feb 1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
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15 Feb 1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
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15 Feb 1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
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15 Feb 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government
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15 Feb 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
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15 Feb 1961 Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
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15 Feb 1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
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15 Feb 1961 Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
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15 Feb 1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery, " 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
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15 Feb 1963 1st US female world figure skating champion (Tenley Albright)
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15 Feb 1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
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15 Feb 1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
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15 Feb 1965 Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
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15 Feb 1965 A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
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15 Feb 1965 Canada replaces the Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf
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15 Feb 1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
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15 Feb 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
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15 Feb 1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
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15 Feb 1967 French Diad
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15 Feb 1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
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15 Feb 1967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
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15 Feb 1968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-point baskets in ABA game vs Denver
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15 Feb 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Feb 1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
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15 Feb 1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
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15 Feb 1970 Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
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15 Feb 1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
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15 Feb 1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Feb 1971 The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
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15 Feb 1971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
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15 Feb 1972 José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
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15 Feb 1972 Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
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15 Feb 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
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15 Feb 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
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15 Feb 1972 President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
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15 Feb 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
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15 Feb 1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
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15 Feb 1976 The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
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15 Feb 1976 12th Winter Olympics games close at Innsbruck, Austria
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15 Feb 1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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15 Feb 1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
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15 Feb 1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
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15 Feb 1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for world heavyweight crown
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15 Feb 1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott Captain)
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15 Feb 1978 Zaire revises constitution
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15 Feb 1979 Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
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15 Feb 1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes
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15 Feb 1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
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15 Feb 1979 21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey win
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15 Feb 1980 Wayne Gretzky assists on NHL-record-tying 7 goals
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15 Feb 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 500 meter in 38.03 seconds
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15 Feb 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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15 Feb 1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 km/h, Lake George, New York
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15 Feb 1982 The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
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15 Feb 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throws
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15 Feb 1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
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15 Feb 1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
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15 Feb 1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
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15 Feb 1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
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15 Feb 1986 Philippines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
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15 Feb 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
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15 Feb 1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
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15 Feb 1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
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15 Feb 1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
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15 Feb 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
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15 Feb 1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
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15 Feb 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 Feb 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
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15 Feb 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
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15 Feb 1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
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15 Feb 1990 Baseball owners lock out players
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15 Feb 1991 The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
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15 Feb 1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
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15 Feb 1991 Troy State sets NCAA Division II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
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15 Feb 1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
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15 Feb 1992 Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
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15 Feb 1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on the Fox Network
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15 Feb 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
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15 Feb 1993 Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot, Colombia; kills 14
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15 Feb 1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester New York on WNVE 95.1 FM
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15 Feb 1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogot
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15 Feb 1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
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15 Feb 1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
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15 Feb 1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
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15 Feb 1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
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15 Feb 1996 At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
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15 Feb 1997 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
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15 Feb 1997 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
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15 Feb 1998 Daytona 500 race
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15 Feb 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
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15 Feb 1998 Daytona 500 race; Dale Earnhardt wins
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15 Feb 1999 Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
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15 Feb 2000 Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
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15 Feb 2001 The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
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15 Feb 2003 Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
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15 Feb 2013 A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
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15 Feb 2014 Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.
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