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This Day In History
Feb 15 1989
Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan

Feb 15 1988
Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player, dies at age 69 of cancer

Feb 15 1971
Decimalization Day in England when the money system changed from shillings and pence to a system of 100 pennies to the pound

Feb 15 1970
Chicago Seven convicted

Feb 15 1965
Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag

Feb 15 1950
The Disney animated movie 'Cinderella' premieres

Feb 15 1946
ENIAC demonstrated

Feb 15 1944
Allied forces bomb the ancient abbey of Monte Cassino that stands guard over one of the key routes to Northern Italy. Germans will valiantly hold the mountain until mid May

Feb 15 1933
Giuseppe Zangara fails to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt in Miami

Feb 15 1931
The first Dracula movie is released

Feb 15 1928
The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is complete. It is 10 volumes and 15490 pages.

Feb 15 1922
The first session of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, Netherlands is held

Feb 15 1898
The U.S. Battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor. It was used as an excuse to start the Spanish-American War but it is unknown if it was intentionally blown up or if it was an accident

Feb 15 1878
A British fleet arrives at Istanbul to aid the faltering Ottomans against the Russian armies

Birthdays
Feb 15 1971
Renee O'Conner, actress who plays Gabrielle in Xena Warrior Princess, is born in Houston, Texas

Feb 15 1826
George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist who coined the word 'electron'

Feb 15 1820
Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage advocate

Feb 15 1564
Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, proponent of modern scientific method, discoverer of the moons of Jupiter, first person to use the telescope to study the skies, is born in Pisa, Italy





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