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February 14
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd state.
1876 - Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)
1912 - Arizona became the 48th state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded.
1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.
1929 - Members of Al Capone's gang killed seven rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" at Atlantic Records in New York.
1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses."
2001 - The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
2003 - Dolly, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized due to health complications.
2012 - A fire broke out at a farm prison in Honduras, killing 361 inmates.
2018 - A gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., killing 17 people in the nation's deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Conn., more than five years earlier. (Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder in October 2021 and was sentenced in November 2022 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
Birthdays
27 - Madison Iseman (actress)
30 - Becky Hill (singer)
32 - Freddie Highmore (ator)
34 - Brett Dier (actor)
36 - Amanda Lehan-Canto (actress)
37 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
38 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
38 - Jake Lacy (actor)
40 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
40 - Matt Barr (actor)
52 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
52 - Rob Thomas (singer)
54 - Simon Pegg (actor)
60 - Zach Galligan (actor)
63 - Dwayne Wiggins (singer)
64 - Jim Kelly (football player)
64 - Meg Tilly (actress)
67 - Ken Wahl (actor)
76 - Teller (magician)
76 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
80 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
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Today in Sports History - February 14
1934 - The NHL held its first All-Star Game as a benefit for injured NHL star Ace Bailey. Toronto played against a team of All-Stars from the seven other teams in the league.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set an NBA record when he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven NBA seasons.
1990 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) ended his 46-game scoring streak. The streak was the second-longest in NHL history.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner was stranded 17 hours outside in temperatures that reached 25 below zero. When he was found his body temperature was 88 and his feet were frozen. On March 28, 2002, Gardner had the middle two toes on his right foot amputated due to frostbite.
2013 - Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and served nearly nine years of a sentence of 13 years and five months before being released from prison in January 2024.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder sets an NBA record by recording a triple-double in 11 consecutive games.
1859 - Oregon became the 33rd state.
1876 - Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)
1912 - Arizona became the 48th state.
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded.
1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.
1929 - Members of Al Capone's gang killed seven rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
1967 - Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" at Atlantic Records in New York.
1984 - Six-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses."
2001 - The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
2003 - Dolly, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized due to health complications.
2012 - A fire broke out at a farm prison in Honduras, killing 361 inmates.
2018 - A gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., killing 17 people in the nation's deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Conn., more than five years earlier. (Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to murder in October 2021 and was sentenced in November 2022 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
Birthdays
27 - Madison Iseman (actress)
30 - Becky Hill (singer)
32 - Freddie Highmore (ator)
34 - Brett Dier (actor)
36 - Amanda Lehan-Canto (actress)
37 - Justina Valentine (rapper)
38 - Tiffany Thornton (actress)
38 - Jake Lacy (actor)
40 - Stephanie Leonidas (actress)
40 - Matt Barr (actor)
52 - Drew Bledsoe (football player)
52 - Rob Thomas (singer)
54 - Simon Pegg (actor)
60 - Zach Galligan (actor)
63 - Dwayne Wiggins (singer)
64 - Jim Kelly (football player)
64 - Meg Tilly (actress)
67 - Ken Wahl (actor)
76 - Teller (magician)
76 - Pat O'Brien (TV host)
80 - Carl Bernstein (journalist)
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Today in Sports History - February 14
1934 - The NHL held its first All-Star Game as a benefit for injured NHL star Ace Bailey. Toronto played against a team of All-Stars from the seven other teams in the league.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set an NBA record when he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven NBA seasons.
1990 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) ended his 46-game scoring streak. The streak was the second-longest in NHL history.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner was stranded 17 hours outside in temperatures that reached 25 below zero. When he was found his body temperature was 88 and his feet were frozen. On March 28, 2002, Gardner had the middle two toes on his right foot amputated due to frostbite.
2013 - Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and served nearly nine years of a sentence of 13 years and five months before being released from prison in January 2024.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder sets an NBA record by recording a triple-double in 11 consecutive games.