1990 McDonald's The fast food giant opens its first Russian restaurant in Moscow.

1989 Mrs. Maria Olivera gives birth to her 32nd child

1974 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman starring Cicely Tyson airs on TV. It won nine Emmy awards.

1971 Apollo program Apollo 14 lifts off for a manned mission to the moon.

1970 "Pistol" Pete Maravich The LSU basketball legend breaks Oscar Robertson's record 2,973 NCAA career points. He went on to score 3,667 points in his college career.

1961 First U.S. animal in space Ham the chimpanzee is launched in a Mercury test flight.

1958 First U.S. satellite Explorer I is launched. It discovered the Van Allen radiation belt and remained in orbit until 1970.

1950 H-bomb Pres. Truman orders its development.

1930 Scotch Tape 3M markets Scotch Tape.

1929 Leon Trotsky The Marxist pioneer is exiled by the Soviet Union.

1918 Gregorian calendar is adopted by Russia The following day became February 14th.

1917 World War I Germany announces it will begin unrestricted submarine warfare.

1876 American Indians The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

1867 Elective Franchise Act Provided the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

1774 Campus Earliest known use of the word - Latin for "field" - in a letter from Charles C. Beatty on this date discussing Princeton: "Last week to show our patriotism, we gathered all the steward's winter store of tea, and having made a fire in the Campus, we there burnt near a dozen pounds, tolled the bell and made many spirited resolves."

1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital.

1606 Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are executed for attempting to blow up King James I and the English Parliament. They had been caught setting up 20 barrels of gunpowder at the Parliament building.

1951 Phil Collins British drummer, singer, with Genesis. Music: In The Air Tonight (1981) and Sussudio (1985, #1).

1946 Terry Kath d. 1978 American rock guitarist, founding member of the band Chicago.  He accidently killed himself playing with a gun.  His last words were, "Don't worry, it's not loaded."

1938 James G. Watt U.S. Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan (1981-83).  In 1983, he banned The Beach Boys from performing their annual Fourth of July concert on the National Mall on the grounds that rock concerts drew "an undesirable element."   Later that year he resigned as a result of a controversy from an ethnic joke he told.

1937 Suzanne Pleshette American actress. TV: The Bob Newhart Show (Bob's wife Emily).

1929 Jean Simmons Emmy-winning actress. TV: The Thorn Birds (Emmy).

1923 Norman Mailer American author, co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize for American History (1969). Writings: Harlot's Ghost (National Book Award winner).

1921 John Agar d. 2002 American actor, first husband of Shirley Temple. Film: Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.  B Movies: The Mole People and The Brain from Planet Arous.

1919 Jackie Robinson d. 1972 (Jack Roosevelt Robinson), American baseball player, 1949 MVP. He was the first black to play major-league baseball (1947, Brooklyn Dodgers) and was the first black inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (1962).

1915 Garry Moore d. 1993 (Thomas Garrison Morfit), American entertainer. TV: The Garry Moore Show, I've Got A Secret (host), and To Tell the Truth (host).

1903 Tallulah Bankhead d. 1968 American actress. Stage: The Little Foxes (1939, Regina) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943, Sabrina). Film: Lifeboat (1944).

1892 Eddie Cantor d. 1964 (Edward Israel Iskowitz), American comedian. He starred in the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 to 1919.

1875 Zane Grey d. 1939 American western novelist.

1868 Theodore William Richards d. 1928 American Nobel-winning Chemist, known for his research in atomic weights.

1830 James Gillespie Blaine d. 1893 American statesman, author, known as the Plumed Knight.

1797 Franz Peter Schubert d. 1828 Austrian composer.

1995 George Abbott b. 1887 American Pulitzer and Tony-winning directory, screenwriter. Stage: Damn Yankees and The Pajama Game.

1989 Jack Douglas b. 1908 comedy writer.

1989 Bob Dunn b. 1908 American cartoonist, author and artist for They'll Do It Every Time (1963-89).

1974 Samuel Goldwyn b. 1882 (Samuel Goldfish), Polish-born film maker, once said "An oral agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on."

1956 A.A. Milne b. 1882 (Allan Alexander Milne), English author. Writings: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).

1954 Edwin Howard Armstong b. 1890 American electrical engineer, invented the superheterodyne receiver (1918) and FM radio (c1935).

1945 Eddie Donald Slovik b. 1920 American Army private, the only U.S. soldier executed for desertion during World War II, and the first since the Civil War.

1936 Grace Gebbie Wiedersheim Drayton b. 1877 cartoonist, famous for her drawings of The Campbell Kids (1905).

1933 John Galsworthy b. 1867 British Nobel-winning novelist. Writings: The Forsyte Saga (1922).

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