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Weekend of February 15-17, 2019

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On this day in . . .

• 1764, the city of St. Louis was founded along the Mississippi River

• 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States

• 1898, the USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain

• 1933, in Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933

• 1942, during World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins

• 1950, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty

• 1972, sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time

• 1989, the Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan

• 1990, Washington Mayor Marion Barry was indicted on eight counts of perjury and drug possession

• 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boy

• 2000, Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails

• 2001, first draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature

• 2002, discovery of a human skull in a wooded area near a crematory in Georgia led investigators to remains of more than 300 bodies that were to have been cremated but instead were stacked in sheds and in the wood

• 2005, YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States. ALSO: Christopher Pittman, a teen who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft had driven him to kill his grandparents at age 12, was found guilty in Charleston, S.C. of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. AND: A U.S. appeals court in Washington ruled that journalists have no First Amendment privilege to protect confidential sources

• 2007, the U.S. Mint unveiled the new presidential $1 coin

• 2008, Steve Fossett, the 63-year-old millionaire commodities trader turned record-breaking aviator, was declared legally dead, five months after he vanished while flying in Nevada

• 2011, pro-reform protests broke out in Iran where demonstrators faced stiff resistance from security forces in reported sporadic violence. The Iranian news agency said lawmakers were calling for trial and execution for two protest leaders. Meanwhile, anti-government clashes grew hotter in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Algeria

• 2014, more than 140,000 practioners of that "religion of peace", including 7,600 children, had been killed by other practioners of that "religion of peace" in Syria's 3-year-old civil war, according to the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

• 2018, the last of the bodies of the 17 victims of a school shooting in Florida were removed from the building after authorities analyzed the crime scene; 13 wounded survivors were still hospitalized

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