On This Day
February 14
Valentine’s Day
1859 Oregon becomes the 33rd US State
1912 Arizona becomes the 48th US State
1927 Conn Smythe buys Toronto St.Pats then changes the name to Toronto Maple Leafs
1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre Al Capone assassinates 6 of his rival gangsters.
1966 Wilt Chamberlain get his 20,884 breaking the NBA all time scoring record
1979 North York merges with city of Toronto.
1996 The final episode of
Mr.Dressup airs on the CBC
1999 At WWE St. Valentine's Day Massacre Steve Austin beats Vince McMahon in a steel cage match.
2004 ROH Second Anniversary Show AJ Styles beat CM Punk for the ROH Pure Championship.
2005 Youtube hit the internet
Happy Birthday
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., the inventor of the Ferris Wheel
1894 Jack Benny actor
1934 Florence Henderson actress
1939 Blowfly musician, icon
1943 Maceo Parker sax player for the band Parliament-Funkadelic
1960 Jim Kelly former NFL quarterback for the Buffalo Bills 1970 Simon Pegg actor starred in Star Wars series , Star Trek series , Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, The World's End, Grindhouse, & Shaun of the Dead
1971 Nelson Frazier Jr. aka Visera former WWE King of the Ring.
1971 Tommy Dreamer wrestled in ECW, WWWE.
1972 Jeru The Damaja rapper
1986 Tiffany Thornton actress
1987 Justina Valentine Rapper
1988 Asia Nitollano in the PussyCat Dolls
1992 Freddie Highmore actor starred in Bates Motel, 2009Astro Boy, and The Good Doctor.
