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15 Feb 1386
Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
15 Feb 1539
Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
15 Feb 1637
Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
15 Feb 1686
Jean Baptiste Lullys opera Armide premieres in Paris
15 Feb 1745
Colley Cibbers Papal Tyranny premieres in London
15 Feb 1763
Austria Prussia & Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years War
15 Feb 1764
St. Louis Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclde
15 Feb 1768
1st mustard manufactured in America advertised Philadelphia
15 Feb 1799
1st US printed ballots authorized Pennsylvania
15 Feb 1804
New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
15 Feb 1842
1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company) NYC
15 Feb 1845
William Parsons Earl of Rosse 1st uses 72 inch (183 cm) reflector
15 Feb 1848
Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
15 Feb 1851
Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave
15 Feb 1852
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children London admits 1st patient
15 Feb 1861
Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
15 Feb 1862
Grants major assault on Ft Donelson Tennessee
15 Feb 1864
Fire in Rotterdam damages Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
15 Feb 1870
Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth Minnesota
15 Feb 1879
US Congress authorizes women lawyers to practise before Supreme Court
15 Feb 1882
SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand for Britain with the first cargo of frozen meat.
15 Feb 1891
AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
15 Feb 1898
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor cause unknown 258 sailors die
15 Feb 1903
1st Teddy Bear introduced in America made by Morris & Rose Michtom
15 Feb 1905
1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs Ark)
15 Feb 1912
Schooner Fram reaches latitude 78 41 S farthest south ever by ship
15 Feb 1913
1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
15 Feb 1916
NY Yankees buy Frank Home Run Baker from the Athletics for 37500
15 Feb 1917
San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
15 Feb 1918
US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland
15 Feb 1918
Estonia Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
15 Feb 1921
Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England Australian Test Cricket rec
15 Feb 1924
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior Sir Patrick Duncan and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill
15 Feb 1926
Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
15 Feb 1930
Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
15 Feb 1931
Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the teams late manager
15 Feb 1932
III Winter Olympic Games close at Lake Placid New York
15 Feb 1944
891 British bombers attack Berlin in the largest raid by the RAF against the city
15 Feb 1944
Allies begin attack on Axis held Monte Cassino monastery Italy
15 Feb 1946
Cornelius Johnson American high jumper (Olympic gold 1936) dies from bronchopneumonia at 32
15 Feb 1947
Toplitzky of Notre Dame closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
15 Feb 1932
Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an innings in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
15 Feb 1932
George Burns & Gracie Allen debut as regulars on the Guy Lombardo Show
15 Feb 1932
John Van Drutens Theres Always Juliet premieres in NYC
15 Feb 1932
American brothers Hubert and Curtis Stevens beat the 8-nation field to win the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
15 Feb 1933
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
15 Feb 1933
Social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts banned again in Berlin
15 Feb 1936
-60F (-51C) Parshall North Dakota (state record)
15 Feb 1936
Sonja Henie of Norway becomes the most successful Olympic figure skater ever by winning her 3rd consecutive gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games beats Cecilia College of Great Britain by 6.4 points
15 Feb 1936
Great Britains 0-0 tie with the US is enough to clinch their first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games breaks Canadas 4 straight Games golden streak
15 Feb 1939
Lillian Hellmans play The Little Foxes premieres in New York City
15 Feb 1942
Japanese troops march into Palembang South Sumatra
15 Feb 1942
World War II British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese
15 Feb 1943
Womens camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
15 Feb 1950
KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1950
WM Inges Come Back Little Sheba premieres in NYC
15 Feb 1950
WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1952
Giant slalom event for men debuts at the Winter Olympics at Oslo Games Stein Erikson of Norway wins gold ahead of Austrians Christian Pravda and Toni Spi
15 Feb 1954
1st Bevatron particle accelerator in operation at Berkeley California
15 Feb 1954
WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1955
1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
15 Feb 1956
Pirates & KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
15 Feb 1957
Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
15 Feb 1958
Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June MarkhamCourtney Jones GRB
15 Feb 1958
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara WagnerRob Paul of CAN
15 Feb 1958
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
15 Feb 1958
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
15 Feb 1958
Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
15 Feb 1961
Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
15 Feb 1961
Entire US figure skating team of 18 dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
15 Feb 1963
1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
15 Feb 1963
Ken Lynch records Misery 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
15 Feb 1964
Beatles Meet the Beatles album goes 1 & stays 1 for 11 weeks
15 Feb 1965
Red Maple Leaf Flag becomes the official flag of Canada
15 Feb 1966
Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
15 Feb 1967
Longest dream (REM sleep) on record Bill Carskadon Chicago (223)
15 Feb 1968
Anaheims Les Salvage scores 10 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
15 Feb 1968
WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1968
Biathlon 4 x 7.5k relay debuts at the Grenoble Winter Olympics with the Soviet Union taking the gold medal ahead of Norway and Sweden
15 Feb 1968
Fred Anton Maier of Norway skates a world record 722.4 in winning the 5000m at the Grenoble Winter Olympics Dutch 1500m champion Kees Verkerk is just 0.8s behind for silver
15 Feb 1970
Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
15 Feb 1970
Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo kills 102
15 Feb 1970
KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1971
After 1200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency
15 Feb 1971
A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland
15 Feb 1972
Newly-formed NHL franchise New York Islanders hire Bill Torrey as their first General Manager
15 Feb 1972
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos
15 Feb 1972
President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
15 Feb 1972
Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
15 Feb 1973
Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
15 Feb 1973
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589200300 km)
15 Feb 1976
XII Winter Olympic Games close in Innsbruck Austria
15 Feb 1976
18th Daytona 500 David Pearson wins (152.181 MPH)
15 Feb 1977
Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
15 Feb 1978
England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Geoffrey Boycott captain)
15 Feb 1979
21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are Taste of Honey wins
15 Feb 1979
Paul Shirley (21) of Australia sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
15 Feb 1979
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
15 Feb 1980
American speed skater Eric Heiden wins 500m in Olympic record 38.03s first of record 5 gold medal sweep of events at Lake Placid
15 Feb 1980
Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
15 Feb 1980
East German speed skater Karin Enke wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals with victory in the 500m at Lake Placid Winter wins 1000m & 1500m in Sarajevo (1984)
15 Feb 1980
Soviet cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina claims her 3rd of 4 career Olympic gold medals in the 5k event at Lake Placid also wins 10k and relay gold (Innsbruck 1976) and relay (Albertville 1992)
15 Feb 1981
Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph Lake George New York
15 Feb 1981
23rd Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins (169.651 MPH)
15 Feb 1982
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets) begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
15 Feb 1982
Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland 84 die
15 Feb 1984
An East German sweep of the medals in the womens 3000m speed skating at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics Andrea Schne takes gold ahead of team mates Karin Enke and Gabi Zange
15 Feb 1985
35th Berlin International Film Festival The Woman and the Stranger and Wetherby win the Golden Bear (tie)
15 Feb 1986
44180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
15 Feb 1986
Philipines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
15 Feb 1987
ABC-TV begins broadcasting Amerika mini-series
15 Feb 1987
Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
15 Feb 1987
Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
15 Feb 1987
29th Daytona 500 Bill Elliott wins (176.263 MPH)
15 Feb 1991
Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand 120 die
15 Feb 1991
Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
15 Feb 1991
Daily market volatility as Hussein mentions withdrawal but Bush calls his offer a cruel hoax
15 Feb 1991
41st Berlin International Film Festival The House of Smiles wins the Golden Bear
15 Feb 1993
Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
15 Feb 1993
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
15 Feb 1994
US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
15 Feb 1994
Tom Barrasso becomes winningest US born goalie in NHL history as the Pittsburgh Penguins win 5-3 over visiting Winnipeg passes record of 252 career wins set by Frank Brimsek
15 Feb 1995
Population of Peoples Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
15 Feb 1996
Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens Greece.
15 Feb 1996
46th Berlin International Film Festival Sense and Sensibility wins the Golden Bear
15 Feb 1997
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
15 Feb 1997
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
15 Feb 1998
Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Womens Golf Championship
15 Feb 1998
40th Daytona 500 Dale Earnhardt wins (172.712 MPH)
15 Feb 1999
Wayne Gretzky records 5 assists in NY Rangers 7-4 win over the Predators takes a 1000 point lead over Gordie Howe in all time NHL scoring lead Gretzkys only appearance in Nashville
15 Feb 1999
Abdullah calan leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party widely recognized as terrorist organization) was arrested in Kenya.
15 Feb 2000
Martin Brodeur becomes first goaltender in NHL history to get credit for a game winning goal as New Jersey wins 4-2 over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers
15 Feb 2000
Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails
15 Feb 2001
First draft of the complete human genome is published in the journal Nature
15 Feb 2002
At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette Georgia investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on crematoriums property. One of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
15 Feb 2003
An estimated 6-11 million people around the world take to the streets to protest against war with Iraq
15 Feb 2004
46th Daytona 500 Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins (156.341 MPH)
15 Feb 1961
Entire US figure skating team is killed in an air crash outside Brussels airport in Belgium whilst flying to World Championships in Prague from NYC 72 passengers including 34 American skaters coaches officials and other members of extended team are lost
15 Feb 1976
18th Daytona 500 David Pearson makes contact with Richard Petty just yards from finish line into a wall and to infield Petty stalls whilst Pearson re-starts to win
15 Feb 1981
23rd Daytona 500 Richard Petty wins record 7th title at Daytona beating Bobby Allison to the line by 3.5 seconds
15 Feb 1987
1982 Masters champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
15 Feb 1987
29th Daytona 500 Bill Elliott leads for 104 of 200 laps including the last 3 had won pole with record speed of 210.364 mph
15 Feb 1987
Senior PGA Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Chi-Chi Rodrguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass
15 Feb 1998
40th Daytona 500 Dale Earnhardts only Daytona win in his 20th start snaps a 59-race winless streak
15 Feb 1798
Louis Alexandre Berthier proclaim a Roman Republic after conquering Rome
15 Feb 1930
Wenona Mustangs beat Toluca Wildcats in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes 26-22
15 Feb 1984
An East German sweep of the medals in the womens 3000m speed skating at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics Andrea Schne takes gold ahead of teammates Karin Enke and Gabi Zange
15 Feb 1986
Philippines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
15 Feb 1987
PGA Seniors Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Chi-Chi Rodrguez wins his second and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Dale Douglass
15 Feb 1714
Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XIs Unigenitus decree
15 Feb 1861
Fort Point in San Francisco California completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
15 Feb 1926
Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
15 Feb 1993
Howard Stern Radio Show begins transmitting to Rochester New York on WRQI 95.1 FM
15 Feb 1677
King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
15 Feb 1961
Plane crash kills entire US figure skating team outside Brussels airport in Belgium enroute to World Championships in Prague from NYC 73 crew and passengers (including 34 American skaters coaches officials and other team members) and a farmer on the ground are lost
15 Feb 1979
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on he Mike Douglas Show
15 Feb 1980
Soviet cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina claims her 3rd of 4 career Olympic gold medals in 5k event at Lake Placid also wins 10k and relay gold (Innsbruck 1976) and relay (Albertville 1992)
15 Feb 1905
1st thoroughbred horse race meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs Arkansas
15 Feb 1947
Sammy Fain and George Marion Jrs musical Toplitzky of Notre Dame closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
15 Feb 1962
Lawsuit is filed on behalf of nine families whose requests for children to be transferred to newer school facility in Englewood New Jersey parents charge denial was racial segregation
15 Feb 1985
Teen film The Breakfast Club is released written and directed by John Hughes starring Molly Ringwald Judd Nelson Emilio Estevez Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy
15 Feb 1993
Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogot Colombia
15 Feb 1714
Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clement XIs Unigenitus decree
15 Feb 1763
Austria Prussia and Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years War
15 Feb 1768
First mustard manufactured in America is advertised in Philadelphia
15 Feb 1799
First US printed ballots are authorized in Pennsylvania
15 Feb 1845
William Parsons Earl of Rosse 1st uses 72 inch (183 cm) reflector telescope at Birr Castle Parsonstown County Offaly Ireland
15 Feb 1891
Swedish sports club AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens
15 Feb 1903
First teddy bear introduced in America made by Morris and Rose Michtom
15 Feb 1905
First Thoroughbred horse race meet at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs Arkansas
15 Feb 1912
Schooner Fram reaches latitude 78 41 S the farthest south ever by a ship
15 Feb 1913
First avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
15 Feb 1950
KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1950
WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1954
First Bevatron particle accelerator operates in Berkeley California
15 Feb 1955
First pilot plant to produce synthetic man-made diamonds is announced
15 Feb 1956
Pirates and KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama due to a local ordinance barring Black players from playing against White players
15 Feb 1957
Andrei Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
15 Feb 1964
The Beatles Meet the Beatles album goes 1 & stays 1 for 11 weeks
15 Feb 1967
Longest dream (REM sleep) on record is experienced by Bill Carskadon in Chicago lasting 2 hours and 23 minutes
15 Feb 1968
ABA basketball Anaheim Amigos Les Salvage scores 10 3-point baskets in game vs Denver Rockets
15 Feb 1968
WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes Indiana (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Feb 1972
Sound recordings receive US federal copyright protection for the first time
15 Feb 1973
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study the Sun (589200300 km)
15 Feb 1995
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at record 3986.17
15 Feb 1999
PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) leader Abdullah calan is arrested in Kenya
15 Feb 2002
Kile Smiths Symphony Lumen ad revelationem premieres at Muhlenberg College in Allentown Pennsylvania performed by theLehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra led by Donald Spieth
15 Feb 2002
Walt Disney releases Return to Never Land an animated film sequel to 1953s Peter Pan
15 Feb 2004
46th Daytona 500 Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins exactly 6 years to the day after his father Dale Earnhardt Sr. won his first and only Daytona 500 in 1998
15 Feb 2009
51st Daytona 500 Matt Kenseth wins shortened race called off with 48 laps to go after a severe rainstorm hits the track
15 Feb 2011
Stray tabby cat Larry becomes Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street the official resident of the UK Prime Minister from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home [1]
15 Feb 1686
Jean Baptiste Lullys opera Armide with libretto by Philippe Quinault premieres in performance by the Paris Opera at the Thtre du Palais-Royal
15 Feb 1996
Mortar attack by a far left Marxist terrorist group on the US Embassy in Athens Greece hits a parking lot wall and damages three vehicles
15 Feb 2002
Kile Smiths Symphony Lumen ad revelationem premieres at Muhlenberg College in Allentown Pennsylvania performed by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra led by Donald Spieth