1758<\/strong> – Mustard was advertised for the first time in America.<\/p>\n 1764<\/strong> – The city of St. Louis was established.<\/p>\n 1799<\/strong> – Printed ballots were authorized for use in elections in the state of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1842<\/strong> – Adhesive postage stamps were used for the first time by the City Dispatch Post (Office) in New York City.<\/p>\n 1879<\/strong> – U.S. President Hayes signed a bill that allowed female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1898<\/strong> – The USS Maine<\/i> sank when it exploded in Havana Harbor for unknown reasons. More than 260 crew members were killed.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – The British threaten to use natives in their war with the Boers.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants, introduced the first teddy bear in America.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on “The Guy Lombardo Show” on CBS radio.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – U.S. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – “My True Story” was heard for the first time on ABC radio.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Edith Houghton, at age 33, was signed as a baseball scout by the Philadelphia Phillies becoming the first female scout in the major leagues.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The first American to win the women\u2019s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – A Boeing 707 crashed in Belgium killing 73 people.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – CBS-TV bought the exclusive rights to college football games from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for a figure of $10,200,000.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – During a storm, the Ocean Ranger<\/i>, a drilling rig, sank off the coast of Newfoundland. 84 men were killed.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The Center for Disease Control reported that more than half of all nine-year-olds in the U.S. showed no sign of tooth decay.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – After nine years of intervention, the Soviet Union announced that the remainder of its troops had left Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland signed the Visegard agreement, in which they pledged to cooperate in transforming their countries to free-market economies.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The FBI arrested Kevin Mitnick and charged him with cracking security in some of the nation’s most protected computers. He served five years in jail.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – U.S. President George W. Bush approved Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a site for long-term disposal of radioactive nuclear waste.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 15 February 1758 – Mustard was advertised for the first time in America. 1764 – The city of St. Louis was established. 1799 – Printed ballots were authorized for use in elections in the state of Pennsylvania. 1842 – Adhesive postage stamps were used for the first time by the City Dispatch Post (Office) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[638,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-3637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-15-february","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-WF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23424,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/23424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n