1887 – Cubs sell Mark King Kelly to Boston for $10,000.
1899 – Congress begins using voting machines.
1912 – 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut.
1924 – Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM).
1929 – St Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone’s orders.
1932 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS radio, airing there until 1937, moving to NBC until 1949, and returning to CBS in 1949, before moving to television.
1939 – Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of film “Gone With The Wind”
1950 – USSR & China sign peace treaty.
1960 – 2nd Daytona 500: Junior Johnson survives a 37 car crash on Turn 4 to win driving a John Masoni owned Chevrolet.
1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV.
1968 – WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting.
1971 – Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in the White House.
1978 – 1st “micro on a chip” patented by Texas Instruments.
1985 – “Whitney Houston” debut album by Whitney Houston is released (Grammy Award Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1986, Billboard Album of Year 1986)
1991 – NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 million salary arbitration.
1998 – Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois University resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured.
2018 – American snowboarder Shaun White wins an unprecedented 3rd Olympic halfpipe gold medal (previous 2006, 2010) at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
2022 – The megadrought affecting the American Southwest is now considered the worst for 1,200 years according to scientists.
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