At present is Saturday, Feb. 15, the forty sixth day of 2025. There are 319 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On Feb. 15, 2005, defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to fifteen years in jail on little one rape prices.
Additionally on this date:
In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a regulation permitting feminine attorneys to argue circumstances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
In 1898, the battleship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, killing greater than 260 crew members and bringing the USA nearer to battle with Spain.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination try in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed by electrical chair the next month.
In 1950, Walt Disney’s animated movie “Cinderella” premiered in Boston.
In 1961, 73 individuals, together with all 18 members of the U.S. determine skating staff en path to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, have been killed within the crash of a Sabena Airways Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1978, boxer Leon Spinks scored a large upset as he defeated Muhammad Ali by break up resolution to change into the world heavyweight champion.
In 1989, the Soviet Union introduced that the final of its troops had left Afghanistan, after greater than 9 years of navy intervention.
In 2013, with a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed throughout Russia’s western Siberian sky and exploded, injuring practically 1,500 individuals because it blasted out home windows.
In 2022, the households of 9 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary College capturing agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit in opposition to Remington Arms, the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and 6 educators in 2012.
At present’s birthdays:
- Actor Claire Bloom is 94.
- Songwriter Brian Holland is 84.
- Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 81.
- Composer John Adams is 78.
- Cartoonist Artwork Spiegelman is 77.
- Actor Jane Seymour is 74.
- Singer Melissa Manchester is 74.
- Actor Lynn Whitfield is 72.
- “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening is 71.
- Mannequin Janice Dickinson is 70.
- Actor Christopher McDonald is 70.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Darrell Inexperienced is 65.
- Actor Alex Borstein is 54.
- Hockey nice Jaromir Jagr is 53.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 52.
- Actor-singer Amber Riley is 39.
- Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is 30.