15 Feb 07 - Thursday
0037 Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero emperor of Rome (54-68)
1564 Galileo Galilei Pisa, Italy, astronomer/physicist
1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany Killingly CT, jeweler (Tiffany)
1907 Cesar Romero New York NY, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man)
1927 Harvey Korman Chicago IL, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
1944 Mick Avory rock drummer (Kinks)
1954 Matt Groening cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
1957 Jake E Lee rocker (Badlands)
1964 Chris Farley actor (Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World, Coneheads)
0399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
1764 St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth MN
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
1931 1st Dracula movie released
1932 George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery", 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1965 Nat King Cole singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 45
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL
1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for world heavyweight crown
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel
to make a shot
1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
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