CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY-MONDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011

Today is Monday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2011. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day.

Today in History: Monday, February 14, 2011

Highlight in History:
On Feb. 14, 1929, seven rivals of gangster Al Capone were gunned down in a Chicago garage in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

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On this date in:
1859	Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
1895	Oscar Wilde's final play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," opened at the St. James' Theatre in London.
1903	The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor was established.
1912	Arizona became the 48th state of the Union.
1920	The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago.
1962	First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
1979	Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
1989	Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," a novel Khomeini condemned as blasphemous.
1989	Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the government of India in a court-ordered settlement of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster.
2003	Dolly the sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult - was put to death at age 6 due to premature aging and disease.
2005	Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated.
2006	Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.
2008	A former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.