In 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Park.
In 1929, the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were gunned down.
In 1945, Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joined the United Nations.
In 1962, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
In 1979, Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.
In 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, a novel condemned as blasphemous.
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