Today in History - History - February 14th

1895Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London

1931The original "Dracula", starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire, is released

20008th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Mia Hamm win

1803Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void.

1951Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title

1931Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives

198849th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player

1076Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (for the 1st time)

1797The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.

1929St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders

1972Rob Thomas, lead singer of pop band Matchbox Twenty

1935[Mary] Mickey Wright, San Diego California, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)

1944Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)

1818Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown)

1922Soldier Douglas MacArthur (42) marries 1st wife heiress Louise Cromwell Brooks (32)

1988Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (58) weds Lois Driggs Cannon

1989Singer-songwriter Courtney Love (24) weds vocalist James Moreland

1943Walmart founder Sam Walton (24) weds Helen Robson (23)

1995Actress-comedienne Roseanne (42) weds bodyguard Ben Thomas (28) at Caesars Tahoe in Nevada

1991Actress Meg Ryan (29) weds actor Dennis Quaid (37)

1967Model Bettie Page (43) weds lineman Harry Lear

2009Actress Salma Hayek (42) weds French billionaire and PPR CEO Francois-Henri Pinault (46) in Paris

2005Retired baseball player Keith Hernandez (51) weds Kai Thompson in Miami Beach, Florida

2006Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (62) weds Lisa Caserta

1989Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic

1919Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Mileva Maric after 16 years of marriage

1779James Cook, British explorer killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii at 50

1405Timur/Tamerlane "Lenk", [Crippled], Turko-Mongol ruler, dies at about 68

1808John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, dies at 75

1780William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56

2003Dolly the Sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung disease aged 6

1891William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71