Heres’s a chronological timetable of events that occurred on this day in history. Let’s find out what happened today in history.
February 15
1798 The first serious fist fight occurs in Congress.
1804 New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery.
1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, TN.
1900 The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War.
1934 The U.S. Congress passes the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act.
1940 Hitler orders that all British merchant ships will be considered warships.
1942 British forces in Singapore surrender to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1943 The Germans break the American Army’s lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa.
1946 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest 22 as Soviet spies.
1950 Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sign a mutual defense treaty in Moscow.
1957 Andrei Gromyko replaces Dmitri T. Shepilov as the Soviet Foreign Minister.
1961 Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team are lost in an airplane crash in Belgium.
1965 Canada’s maple leaf flag is raised for the first time.
Born on February 15
1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician.
1710 Louis XV, King of France.
1726 Abraham Clark, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1797 Henry Steinway, a piano maker.
1954 Matt Groening, cartoonist (The Simpsons).
Source: History Net
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