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    Tuesday, February 14, 2006

    Happy Valentine day


    In history, here are some events that happened on Valentine’s day:

    1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV

    1921 - New York book publisher faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses"

    1929 - Gangster shootout in Chicago, Illinois known as the St. Valentine's Day "Massacre," (7 die)

    1955 - A Jewish couple loses their fight to adopt Catholic twins; U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review the case

    1957 - Georgia state senate outlaws interracial athletics

    1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

    1976 - U.S. performs nuclear test at a Nevada test site

    2003 - Dolly, the first cloned animal (a sheep), was euthanized due to incurable lung cancer

    And on a lighter note... the background on St. Valentine...

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