1859
\nOregon became the 33rd state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1912
\nArizona became the 48th state in the United States.<\/p>\n
1920
\nThe League of Women Voters was founded.<\/p>\n
1929
\nMembers of Al Capone’s gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.<\/p>\n
1989
\nIran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.<\/p>\n
2001
\nThe Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state’s science curriculum.<\/p>\n
2003
\nDolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.<\/p>\n
Anna Shaw
\n1847\u20131919, American woman-suffrage leader.<\/p>\n
George Jean Nathan<\/p>\n
editor and drama critic (1882)<\/p>\n
Katherine Stinson<\/p>\n
pioneering pilot (1891)<\/p>\n
Jack Benny<\/p>\n
comedian (1894)<\/p>\n
Florence Henderson<\/p>\n
actress (1934)<\/p>\n
Donna Shalala<\/p>\n
educator, public official (1941)<\/p>\n
Michael Bloomberg<\/p>\n
businessman and politician (1942)<\/p>\n
Gregory Hines<\/p>\n
dancer, actor (1946)<\/p>\n
Jim Kelly<\/p>\n
Football QB (1960)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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