1859 - Oregon becomes the 33rd state of the US
1894 - Jack Benny born
1912 - Arizona becomes the 48th State of the US
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa and Mel Allen born
1921 - Hugh Downs born
1929 - St Valentines Day massacre in Chicago
1932 - Vic Morrow born
1934 - Florence Henderson born
1944 - Carl Bernstein born
1945 - British and US bombers pound the ancient German city of Dresden with high explosives and incendiaries.
1946 - Gregory Hines born
1960 - Meg Tilly born
1972 - Drew Bledsoe born
1974 - Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR.
1984 - British figure skating couple Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate off with a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo after dancing to Ravel's Bolero.1989 - Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death threat against British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses.
1993 - Police confirm a body found on a railway embankment in Merseyside is that of missing toddler James Bulger.
1997 - Jurors at the inquest into the death of Stephen Lawrence have decided the black teenager was unlawfully killed "in a completely unprovoked racist attack by five white youths".
2005 - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is killed by a car bomb explosion in Beirut.
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