Today in History - History - February 15th

1933Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

1950Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1948Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

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

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

1992Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

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

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

19997th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win

1978Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla

1976Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)

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

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

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

1564Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist

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

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

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