Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2021. There are 319 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention. On this date: In 1564, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa. In 1764, the site of present-day St. Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. In 1798, a feud between two members of the U.S. House of Representatives (meeting in Philadelphia) boiled over as Roger Griswold of Connecticut used a cane to attack Vermont’s Matthew Lyon, who defended himself with a set of tongs. (Griswold was enraged over the House’s refusal to expel Lyon for spitting tobacco juice in his face two weeks earlier; after the two men were separated, a motion to expel them both was defeated.) In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female...
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