Shenhuifu - Today in History

Feb 16, 1923, Egyptian King Tutankhamun's coffin was discovered.

Feb 15, 1898, The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor.

Feb 14, 270, St. Valentine beheaded.

Feb 13, 1945, Planes dropped bombs across Dresden, Germany, during WWII.

Feb 12, 2002, The trial of Slobodan Milošević begins at The Hague.

Feb 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after being incarcerated for 27 years in South Africa.

Feb 10, 1996, An IBM computer, Deep Blue, defeated world champion chess player Garry Kasparov for the first time.

Feb 9, 1971, Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame.

Feb 8, 1943, Americans secure Guadalcanal.

Feb 7, 1964, Beatlemania arrived in the United States when the Beatles landed in New York.

Feb 6, 1952, Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne after the death of King George VI.

Feb 5, 1994, White supremacist convicted of killing Medgar Evers.

Feb 4, 1974, Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Feb 3, 1959, Rock and roll musician Buddy Holly died during a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Feb 2, 1887, The first official Groundhog Day took place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Feb 1, 1960, Four black students start the Greensboro sit-ins.

Jan 31, 1950, Truman announces development of H-bomb.