On this day …
February 15, 2015
- In 1764, the city of St. Louis was established.
- In 1870, the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. offered the first degrees in engineering and mechanical engineering.
- In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female lawyers to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
- In 1898, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor, leading to a declaration of war by the United States against Spain.
- In 1923, Greece became the last country in Europe to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
- In 1933, Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami; his shots hit and eventually killed Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak.
- In 1946, ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer, was dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania.
- In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
- In 2001, the first draft of the complete human genome was published in Nature.
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