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Today in History: Tuesday, February\u00a0 14, 2017<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Feb. 14, 1929, seven rivals of gangster Al Capone were gunned down in a Chicago garage in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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1859<\/td>\nOregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895<\/td>\nOscar Wilde’s final play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” opened at the St. James’ Theatre in London.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1903<\/td>\nThe U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1912<\/td>\nArizona became the 48th state of the Union.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1920<\/td>\nThe League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1962<\/td>\nFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nAdolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nIran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nUnion Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India in a court-ordered settlement of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nDolly the sheep – the first mammal cloned from an adult – was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nFormer Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nIran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nA former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nThe 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.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Hugh Downs<\/td>\nTV personality<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Bloomberg<\/td>\nFormer mayor of New York City<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carl Bernstein<\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pat O’Brien<\/td>\nTV personality<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teller<\/td>\nComedian, magician (Penn and Teller)<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Kelly<\/td>\nFootball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meg Tilly<\/td>\nActress (“The Big Chill,” “Agnes of God”)<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simon Pegg<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rob Thomas<\/td>\nRock singer (Matchbox 20)<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Drew Bledsoe<\/td>\nFootball player<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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