Today is Friday, Feb. 14. On this date:
1859
Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
1876
Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)
1912
Arizona became the 48th state of the Union as President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation.
1913
Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was born in Brazil, Ind.; college football coach Woody Hayes was born in Clifton, Ohio; sports broadcaster Mel Allen was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1929
The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
1945
During World War II, British and Canadian forces reached the Rhine River in Germany.
1949
Israel's Knesset convened for the first time.
1967
Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" at Atlantic Records in New York.
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.
1984
6-year-old Stormie Jones became the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (she lived until November 1990).
1985
Cable News Network reporter Jeremy Levin, held hostage by extremists in Lebanon, escaped from his captors.
2013
Double-amputee and Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and is serving a 13-year prison term. American Airlines and US Airways announced an $11 billion merger that turned American into the world's biggest airline.
2018
A gunman identified as a former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation's deadliest school shooting since the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, more than five years earlier.
Today's Birthdays
TV personality Hugh Downs is 99.
Actor Andrew Prine is 84.
Country singer Razzy Bailey is 81.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is 78.
Journalist Carl Bernstein is 76.
Actress Meg Tilly is 60.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly is 60.
Actor Simon Pegg is 50.
Rock singer Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) is 48.
Former NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe is 48.
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