Thursday, February 14, 2013

On This Day, February 14, in History

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1859 Oregon became the 33rd state in the United States.

1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the United States.

1920 The League of Women Voters was founded.

1929 Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.

2001 The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.

2003 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
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