On This Day for February 15 - USS Maine destroyed, leading to Spanish-American War, Galileo is featured, and more ~ Historian Fact

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On This Day for February 15 - USS Maine destroyed, leading to Spanish-American War, Galileo is featured, and more

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February 15

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Galileo

FEATURED EVENT

1898

USS Maine destroyed, leading to Spanish-American War

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2008: More than five months after his single-engine airplane went missing in Nevada, American adventurer Steve Fossett was legally declared dead; his body was recovered later in the year. [ Read about nine mysterious disappearances of people other than Amelia Earhart.]

1965: Canada officially adopted the Maple Leaf Flag following a royal proclamation. [Test your knowledge of Canada.]

1954: American cartoonist and animator Matt Groening , who created the comic strip Life in Hell and the television series The Simpsons and Futurama, was born. [Take our Simpsons quiz.]

1927: The silent film It was released in American theatres, and Clara Bow, the star, became Hollywood's first "It girl." [ How much do you know about women in classic cinema?]

1861: English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who was perhaps best known for his work on Principia Mathematica, was born in Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about mathematics.]

1820: Susan B. Anthony, a pioneer crusader for the women's suffrage movement in the United States, was born in Adams, Massachusetts. [ Test your knowledge of the Nineteenth Amendment and women's suffrage.]

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