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On this day: February 15

POSTED: 5:12 PM Feb 14 2013 UPDATED: 12:00 AM Feb 15 2013

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The USS Maine explodes mysteriously in Havana Harbor, the teddy bear is born, President Franklin D. Roosevelt survives an assassination attempt, and Jeffrey Dahmer is found guilty, all on this day.

OTD February 15 - Galileo Galilei — 1 / 39

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1564: Astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, whose achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for the Earth revolving around the sun, is born in Pisa, Italy.

OTD February 15 - Galileo Galilei

OTD February 15 - Charles Lewis Tiffany

OTD February 15 - Susan B Anthony

OTD February 15 - Blue Danube

OTD February 15 - Ernest Shackleton

OTD February 15 - Supreme Court

OTD February 15 - John Barrymore

OTD February 15 - USS Maine

OTD February 15 - teddy bear

OTD February 15 - Lewis Wallace

OTD February 15 - Cesar Romero

OTD February 15 - Harvey Korman

OTD February 15 - Giuseppe Zangara

OTD February 15 - Sonja Henie

OTD February 15 - Surrender of Singapore

OTD February 15 - Eniac

OTD February 15 - Dead Sea Scrolls

OTD February 15 - Cinderella

OTD February 15 - Jane Seymour

OTD February 15 - Matt Groening

OTD February 15 - Sabena plane crash

OTD February 15 - Chris Farley

OTD February 15 - Meet the Beatles

OTD February 15 - The Greatest Story Ever Told

OTD February 15 - Nat King Cole

OTD February 15 - Canadian flag

OTD February 15 - Eight Days a Week

OTD February 15 - Jaromir Jagr

OTD February 15 - Wally Cox

OTD February 15 - Tim Holt

OTD February 15 - Ted Bundy

OTD February 15 - Ethel Merman

OTD February 15 - The Breakfast Club

OTD February 15 - Amber Riley

OTD February 15 - Soviets leaving Afghanistan

OTD February 15 - Jeffrey Dahmer

OTD February 15 - McLean Stevenson

OTD February 15 - Kevin Smith

OTD February 15 - Iraq War protests

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