Today in History - History - February 15th

1922Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex

1978Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla

1941Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"

1992Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1677King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands

1996Bill Belichick is fired by the Cleveland Browns, finishing his Cleveland coaching career with a record of 36-44

1978Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1948Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

1936Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)

1964Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton

1564Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist

1820Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette

1907Cesar Romero, New York City, New York, American actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11)

1809Cyrus Hall McCormick, Shenandoah Valley Virginia, American inventor (Mechanical reaper)

1976Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)

1954Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)

1943Model Bettie Page (19) weds high school sweetheart Billy Neal in Gallatin, Tennessee

1919Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon in Nice, France

1991Baseball superstar George Brett (37) weds Leslie Davenport in Manhattan Beach, California

1867Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (45) weds Anna Snitkina at Trinity Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia

2002Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)

1965Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49