Feb. 15, 1952 A Windsor Castle funeral was held for Britain's King George VI, who died nine days earlier.
1764 The city of St. Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.
1898 The U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak. (Gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.)
1942 The British colony Singapore surrendered to Japanese forces during World War II.
1953 Tenley Albright became the first American woman to win the world figure skating championship, held in Switzerland.
1961 Seventy-three people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, died in a plane crash in Belgium.
1965 Canada's new maple-leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.
1989 After more than nine years of military intervention, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan.
1992 A Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys.
Ten years ago President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the site for long-term disposal of thousands of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste. (In 2009, the Obama administration halted work on the site.) Skating and Olympics officials awarded Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal, while letting Russian pair Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze keep their gold, as a way to resolve a judging controversy at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Five years ago The U.S. Mint unveiled the new presidential $1 coin.
One year ago Protesters swarmed Wisconsin's Capitol after Gov. Scott Walker proposed cutbacks in benefits and bargaining rights for public workers.
Thought for today "Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." — Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980)
The Associated Press
Email
Facebook
Google
Twitter
Favorites
More
Advertisement