Today in History - History - February 15th

1978Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla

1950Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1992Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1869Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

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

19997th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win

1922Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex

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

1677King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands

1933Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

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

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

1976Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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