Today in History - History - February 14th

1951Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title

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

1991"The Silence of the Lambs", starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released

2010Alexandre Bilodeau wins the Gold Medal in the freestyle skiing men's moguls event, becoming the first Canadian to win a Gold Medal during a Canadian-hosted Olympics

1988Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic

20008th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Mia Hamm win

198849th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player

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

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

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.

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

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

1944Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)

1972Rob Thomas, lead singer of pop band Matchbox Twenty

1988Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (58) weds Lois Driggs Cannon

1956MLB center fielder Willie Mays (24) weds Margherite Wendell Chapman in NYC, New York

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

1903Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (27) weds Emma Rauschenbach (20)

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

1984Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia

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

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

1978Country singer Roger Miller (42) weds Mary Arnold

1953Actress Agnes Moorehead (52) weds actor/film director Robert Gist (35)

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

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

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

1780William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56

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

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