History for the day

On 15 February 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain.
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In 1989, the then-Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan.
In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that claimed the life of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
In 1820, Susan B. Anthony, the co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association (and the face on a coin no one likes), was born.
In 1564, astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy.