As we speak is Sunday, Feb. 15, the forty sixth day of 2026. There are 319 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Feb. 15, 1898, the battleship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana Harbor, killing greater than 260 crew members and bringing the USA nearer to struggle with Spain.
Additionally on this date:
In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a legislation permitting feminine attorneys to argue circumstances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination try in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed by electrical chair the next month.
In 1950, Walt Disney’s animated movie “Cinderella” premiered in Boston.
In 1961, 73 individuals, together with all 18 members of the U.S. determine skating group en path to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, had been killed within the crash of a Sabena Airways Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1978, boxer Leon Spinks scored an enormous upset as he defeated Muhammad Ali by cut up resolution to change into the world heavyweight champion.
In 1989, the Soviet Union introduced that the final of its troops had left Afghanistan, after greater than 9 years of army intervention.
In 2001, the primary draft sequence of the whole human genome was revealed within the scientific journal Nature.
In 2013, with a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed throughout Russia’s western Siberian sky and exploded, injuring practically 1,500 individuals because it blasted out home windows.
In 2022, the households of 9 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty capturing agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit in opposition to Remington Arms, the maker of the rifle utilized by a gunman to kill 20 first graders and 6 educators in 2012.
In 2023, Payton Gendron, the white gunman who massacred 10 Black consumers and employees at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in Might of the earlier yr, was sentenced to life in jail with out parole after pleading responsible to homicide and hate-motivated terrorism expenses.
As we speak’s birthdays:
- Actor Claire Bloom is 95.
- Songwriter Brian Holland is 85.
- Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 82.
- Composer John Adams is 79.
- Cartoonist Artwork Spiegelman is 78.
- Actor Jane Seymour is 75.
- Singer Melissa Manchester is 75.
- Actor Lynn Whitfield is 73.
- “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening is 72.
- Actor Christopher McDonald is 71.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Darrell Inexperienced is 66.
- Actor Alex Borstein is 55.
- Hockey nice Jaromir Jagr is 54.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is 53.
- Actor-singer Amber Riley is 40.
- Rapper Megan Thee Stallion is 31.
- Race automobile driver George Russell is 28.
- Actor Zachary Gordon is 28.