Notable Historical Events on February 15th
February 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
399 |
Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth and of impiety |
590 |
Khosrau II, the last great Sasanian king is crowned King of Persia |
732 |
Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line |
1145 |
Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III |
1313 |
Peace of Angleur |
1386 |
Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders |
1539 |
Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo |
1552 |
Dutch coast hit by heavy storm |
1563 |
Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania |
1637 |
Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor |
1677 |
King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands |
1686 |
Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris |
1689 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1745 |
Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London |
1763 |
Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years War |
1764 |
St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue |
1768 |
1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia |
1775 |
Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI |
1799 |
1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania |
1804 |
New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery |
1805 |
Harmony Society is officially formed. |
1842 |
1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC |
1845 |
William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72 inch (183 cm) reflector |
1848 |
Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston |
1851 |
Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave |
1852 |
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient |
1861 |
Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) |
1862 |
Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee |
1864 |
Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans |
1869 |
Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped |
1870 |
Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn |
1876 |
Historic Elm at Boston blown down |
1879 |
Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct |
1882 |
1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin |
1891 |
AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens. |
1895 |
23 cm (9 inches) of snow falls on New Orleans |
1898 |
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die |
1900 |
General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes |
1900 |
British troops relieve Kimberly, South Africa, a city under siege by the Boers since October 1899, during the Boer War. |
1902 |
Underground railway (U-Bahn) |
1903 |
1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom |
1905 |
1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark) |
1906 |
British Labour Party founded |
1910 |
The Boy Scouts of America founded. |
1912 |
Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship |
1913 |
1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC |
1916 |
NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500 |
1917 |
SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated |
1918 |
US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland |
1918 |
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar |
1919 |
American Legion organizes in Paris |
1921 |
Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec |
1922 |
Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex |
1924 |
A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill |
1926 |
Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC |
1926 |
Contract air mail service begins in US |
1930 |
Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes |
1931 |
Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager |
1932 |
3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY |
1932 |
Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time |
1932 |
George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show" |
1932 |
John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC |
1932 |
US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) |
1933 |
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party |
1933 |
Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt |
1933 |
Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin |
1936 |
-60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) |
1936 |
Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) |
1936 |
Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold |
1939 |
German battleship Bismarck was launched |
1939 |
Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train" |
1942 |
German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery |
1942 |
Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
1942 |
WWII: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese |
1943 |
Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid |
1944 |
891 British bombers attack Berlin |
1944 |
Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy |
1946 |
Bank of England nationalized |
1947 |
"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs |
1948 |
Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan |
1949 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad |
1950 |
KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC |
1950 |
WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released |
1952 |
King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. |
1954 |
1st Bevatron particle accelerator in operation-Berkeley, California |
1954 |
WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced |
1956 |
Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
1956 |
Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white |
1957 |
Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister |
1958 |
Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB |
1958 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN |
1958 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA |
1958 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA |
1958 |
Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra |
1959 |
Antonio Segni forms Italian government |
1959 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament |
1961 |
Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever |
1961 |
Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
1963 |
Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else |
1964 |
Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
1964 |
Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton |
1965 |
Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf |
1965 |
John Lennon passes his driving test |
1965 |
Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada |
1966 |
Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
1967 |
1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted |
1967 |
D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber |
1967 |
Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) |
1968 |
Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver |
1968 |
WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater |
1970 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
1970 |
Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102 |
1970 |
KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo |
1971 |
After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons 12-shilling system for the decimal currency |
1971 |
A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland |
1972 |
Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager |
1972 |
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos |
1972 |
Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time |
1972 |
Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. |
1973 |
Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
1973 |
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
1976 |
12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
1976 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
1977 |
Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
1978 |
England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt) |
1978 |
Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla |
1978 |
Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1978 |
Zaire revises constitution |
1979 |
21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins |
1979 |
Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins |
1979 |
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec |
1980 |
Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals |
1981 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1981 |
Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY |
1982 |
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw |
1982 |
Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die |
1984 |
500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq |
1985 |
STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad |
1985 |
World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23 |
1986 |
44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit |
1986 |
Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election |
1986 |
Philipines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos |
1987 |
ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series |
1987 |
Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) |
1987 |
Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater |
1987 |
Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt |
1989 |
Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends |
1990 |
Baseball owners lock out players |
1991 |
Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die |
1991 |
Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
1991 |
Daily market volatility as Hussein mentions withdrawal, but Bush calls his offer a "cruel hoax" |
1992 |
100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox |
1992 |
Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys |
1993 |
Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota, Colombia |
1993 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM |
1994 |
US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti |
1995 |
Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko resigns |
1995 |
Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17 |
1995 |
Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion |
1996 |
Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece. |
1996 |
Bill Belichick is fired by the Cleveland Browns, finishing his Cleveland coaching career with a record of 36-44 |
1996 |
At a news conference, American boxer Tommy Morrison said he had contracted HIV |
1997 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski |
1997 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge |
1998 |
Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship |
1998 |
Daytona 500 race |
1999 |
Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya. |
1999 |
7th ESPY Awards: Mark McGwire, Chamique Holdsclaw win |
2000 |
Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails. |
2001 |
First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature |
2002 |
At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry. |
2003 |
An estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to protest against the looming war with Iraq |
2005 |
YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States. |
2011 |
Libyan protests begin opposing Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's rule |
2012 |
United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4% |
2012 |
Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358 |
2013 |
Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia |
2013 |
2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km from Earth |
2014 |
Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock |
2016 |
$1 billion drug bust in Australia |
2016 |
Kentucky bill requires spouse consent to husband's Viagra use |
2018 |
Ex-student arrested after 17 shot dead at Florida high school |
2018 |
South African President Zuma succumbs to pressure, resigns |
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