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1859 - Oregon admitted as the 33rd state.

1912 - Arizona admitted as the 48th state.

1929 - The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were shot down.

1962 - First lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a televised tour of the White House. 

1635 - The first public school is opened in Boston.

1944 - Talk show host Jerry Springer is born.

1997 - The Dow Jones closes above 7,000 for the first time.

2000 - The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schultz dies.

1809 -Abraham Lincoln, 16th Presiden, is born. (d.1865)

1809 -  Charles Darwin, who originated the theory of evolution is born. ( d.1882)

1915 - The cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C.

1999 - The Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

2001- The NEAR spacecraft touched down on Eros, completing the first landing on an asteroid.

1794 - First session of the US Senate open to the public.

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, is born. (d.1931)

1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo.”

1969 - Actress Jennifer Aniston is born.

1981 - Destiny’s Child singer, Kelly Rowland is born.

2006 - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots hunting partner, he survives the wound.

1895 - Baseball player Babe Ruth is born. (d.1948)

1911 - President Ronald Reagan is born. (d.2004)

1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

2003 - A British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the singer revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed. 

1917 - Mexico’s constitution is adopted. 

1917 - Congress passed over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, a law severely curtailing the immigrations of Asians.

2006 - The Pittsburgh Steelers won a 5th Super Bowl.

1948 - Singer Alice Cooper is born.

1977 - The album “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac is released.

1983 - Singer Karen Carpenter  dies at age 32.

1991- The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.

1997 - A civil jury found O.J Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman.

1690 - The first paper money was issued by the colony of Massachusetts.

1913 - The 16th Amendment providing for a federal income tax is ratified.

1959 - Singers Buddy Holly (b.1 1936) , Ritchie Valens (b. 1941) and J.P “The Big Bopper” Richardson(b. 1930)  die in a plane crash on tour.  Refered to as “the day the music died”

1994 - Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first woman pilot of the space shuttle Discovery. 

2003 - Record producer Phil Spector is arrested for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. 

1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.

1947 - Actress and 70’s sex symbol Farrah Fawcett is born.

1969 - Actor ( and voice of the Grinch ) Boris Karloff dies. ( b.1887)

1996 - Dancer, actor Gene Kelly died at age 83. ( b. 1912)

1893 - Construction is completed on the first motion picture studio, Black Maria,   built by Thomas Edison in New Jersey.

1968 - Daughter of Elvis, Lisa Marie Presley is born.

1982 - “Late Night with David Letterman” premiered on NBC.

2004 - Singer Janet Jackson had a “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl half time show. 

1865 -  The House of Representitives passes an amendment to the Constitution to abolish slavery.

1930 - 3M markets Scotch Tape.

1947 - Pitcher, Nolan Ryan is born.

1950 - President Harry Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb.

1990 - The first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union.

1835 - President Andrew Jackson survived the first ever assassination attempt on a U.S. President.

 1836 - Flagmaker Betsy Ross died at the age of 84.  Legend dictates she created the first stars and stripes flag of the United States.  

 1894 -  The jackhammer was patented by C.B. King of Detroit.

1933  - “The Lone Ranger” was first heard on radio.  The program remained on the air for 21 years.

 1941 - Vice President Dick Cheney is born.

2006 - Coretta Scott King dies. (b.1927)

1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state of the Union.

1954 - Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is born.

1959 - Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” is released.

1999 - The Senate delivered subpoenas Monica Lewinsky.