Today in History - History - February 15th

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

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

1948Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

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

1978Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla

19997th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win

1964Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton

1922Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex

1869Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1996At a news conference, American boxer Tommy Morrison said he had contracted HIV

1564Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist

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

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

1976Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)

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

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

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

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

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

1958Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully (30) weds model Joan Crawford in California

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

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