Today in History - History - February 15th

1992Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1933Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

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

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

1922Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex

1869Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1978Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla

1677King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands

19997th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win

1948Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

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

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

1564Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist

1976Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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