This Day in History: February 14, 2024
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1859
Oregon became the 33rd state in the United States.
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1912
Arizona became the 48th state in the United States.
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1920
The League of Women Voters was founded.
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1929
Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
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1989
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
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2001
The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.
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2003
Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.
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