February 15, 1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
February 15, 1998 Daytona 500 race
February 15, 1997 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
February 15, 1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
February 15, 1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
February 15, 1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
February 15, 1994 U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
February 15, 1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester New York on WNVE 95.1 FM
February 15, 1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
February 15, 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys
February 15, 1991 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
February 15, 1990 Baseball owners lock out players
February 15, 1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
February 15, 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
February 15, 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 15, 1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
February 15, 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia at Detroit
February 15, 1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
February 15, 1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
February 15, 1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
February 15, 1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
February 15, 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
February 15, 1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
February 15, 1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
February 15, 1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York
February 15, 1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
February 15, 1980 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
February 15, 1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
February 15, 1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 15, 1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida
February 15, 1978 Zaire revises constitution
February 15, 1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
February 15, 1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
February 15, 1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
February 15, 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
February 15, 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
February 15, 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
February 15, 1971 After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
February 15, 1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
February 15, 1970 Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo
February 15, 1968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
February 15, 1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
February 15, 1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
February 15, 1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
February 15, 1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
February 15, 1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks
February 15, 1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
February 15, 1963 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
February 15, 1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
February 15, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 15, 1961 Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
February 15, 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government
February 15, 1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
February 15, 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
February 15, 1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
February 15, 1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
February 15, 1954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
February 15, 1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
February 15, 1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
February 15, 1950 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in New York City
February 15, 1950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
February 15, 1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
February 15, 1949 Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
February 15, 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
February 15, 1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater New York City after 60 performances
February 15, 1946 Bank of England nationalized
February 15, 1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
February 15, 1944 Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
February 15, 1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
February 15, 1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
February 15, 1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
February 15, 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese
February 15, 1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
February 15, 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
February 15, 1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in New York City
February 15, 1936 -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
February 15, 1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
February 15, 1936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
February 15, 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party
February 15, 1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
February 15, 1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
February 15, 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York
February 15, 1932 Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 min playing time
February 15, 1932 George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
February 15, 1932 John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in New York City
February 15, 1932 U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
February 15, 1931 1st Dracula movie released
February 15, 1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
February 15, 1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
February 15, 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)
February 15, 1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St. New York City
February 15, 1926 Contract air mail service begins in U.S.
February 15, 1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
February 15, 1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec
February 15, 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris
February 15, 1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland
February 15, 1918 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
February 15, 1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
February 15, 1916 New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
February 15, 1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in New York City
February 15, 1912 Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
February 15, 1906 British Labour Party organizes
February 15, 1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
February 15, 1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom
February 15, 1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn)
February 15, 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes