February 15 in History

February 15 is the 46th day of the year. There are 320 days remaining until the end of the year.

• 1113 – The Knights Hospitallers was established by Pope Paschal II.
• 1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri was established.
• 1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist, was born. She died in 1906. 
• 1845 – Elihu Root, American statesman & Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was born. He died in 1937.
• 1879 – President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing women attorneys to argue cases before the US Supreme Court.
• 1898 – The USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260.
• 1906 – The British Labour Party was organized.
• 1949 – Excavations began at Cave 1 of the Qumran caves, where the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
• 1971  – On Decimal Day, the United Kingdom decimalised the pound sterling.
• 1972 – Sound recordings were granted United States’ federal copyright protection for the first time.
• 2001 – First draft of the complete Human Genome was published in the scientific journal Nature.
• 2005 – You Tube was launched in the United States.
• 2010 – Jeanne M. Holm, the first female 1-star general in the USAF and was the first female two-star general in any service branch of the United States, died. She was born in 1921.