1859-Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1894-Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895-Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
1903-U.S. Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1918-USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1924-IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925-State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929-St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1944-Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1949-1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1967-Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1980-13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1984-Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1989-Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989-World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1991-"Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991-Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1992-Cease fire in Somalia begins
1993-Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994-Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 meter (36.33)
1894-Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895-Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
1903-U.S. Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1918-USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1924-IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925-State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929-St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1944-Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1949-1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1967-Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1980-13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1984-Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1989-Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989-World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1991-"Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991-Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1992-Cease fire in Somalia begins
1993-Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994-Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 meter (36.33)
