On this day …
February 15, 2017
- In 1764, the city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now Missouri).
- In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- In 1898, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor in Cuba, which led to the United States declaring war on Spain.
- In 1923, Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
- In 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, in an attempt to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, instead shot Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who died of his wounds two months later.
- In 1946, ENIAC, the world’s first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
- In 2001, the first draft of the complete human genome was published in Nature.
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