15th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1809
  • United States
  • "Birth of Cyrus McCormick, American industrialist, inventor of the horsedrawn mechanical reaper which led to the cultivation of the Great Plains"
  • 1859
  • United States
  • "Birth of George Ferris, American engineer who invented the Ferris wheel"
• event
  • 1758
  • United States
  • Benjamin Franklin began selling mustard in the USA after discovering it in France.
  • 1759
  • Germany
  • "Birth of Friedrich August Wolf, German classical scholar and teacher, founder of modern philology"
  • 1859
  • United States
  • Oregon became the 33rd state of the USA
  • 1933
  • United States
  • "Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida. Instead he shot Chicago Mayor, Anton J.." more
  • 1969
  • Great Britain
  • The first successful in vitro fertilisation of human egg cells was announced by British physiologist Robert G. Edwards of Cambridge University
  • 1971
  • Decimalisation of coinage in UK and Republic of Ireland
  • 1989
  • Afghanistan
  • The Soviet Union withdrew the last of its troops from Afghanistan after nine years of military occupation
• Death
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908–16) ."
  • 1959
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, won the Nobel Prize for his work on electron emissions, the principle used in vacuum tubes"
  • 1984
  • United States
  • "Death of Ethel Merman, American singer and actress"
  • 1999
  • United States
  • "Death of Henry Way Kendall, American nuclear physicist, won the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of sub-atomic particles known as quarks"