02-14-2004, 09:34 AM
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Location: Maryland
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February 14th
1766 ~ Birthday of Thomas Malthus, population expert.
1779 ~ Captain James Cook is murdered by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.
1929 ~ St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago - 7 gangsters killed.
1974 ~ Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason one day after expelling him from the country.
1989 ~ Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini has issued a death threat against author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book “Satanic Verses”.
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