Saturday, February 14, 2009

Today in History

1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN, became the first high school, male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated".
2003 Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.
2003 - A Florida judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Jose Canseco. Canseco had violated his probation that stemmed from a nightclub brawl in 2001. On March 17, he was sentenced to two years of house arrest and three years of probation.
2006 Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment; Russia and France immediately called on Iran to halt its work.
2008 A former student walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class, killing five students before committing suicide.

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