A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 14th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 14, 269, Saint Valentine reportedly experienced martyrdom. On February 14, 1349, the city of Strasbourg, France was the scene of a St. Valentine’s Day massacre 150 times worse than the more famous Chicago incident! On February 14, 1400, England’s King Richard II (aka Richard of Bordeaux) died in captivity, most likely starved to death. On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook,…

A Brief History On February 14, 2000, the American spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker orbited asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft from Earth to orbit an asteroid. Digging Deeper NEAR Shoemaker had been designed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and was launched in 1996.  Not only did the spacecraft make history with its orbit, a year later it made space history again by being the first spacecraft to touch down on an asteroid, the same 433 Eros. The spacecraft was named after Eugene Shoemaker, an American geologist that studied impact craters on the Earth, but also studied…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 13th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 13, 1542, the Queen of England and wife of King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. On February 13, 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to stand trial before the Catholic Inquisition for heresy. On February 13, 1919, American football legend Eddie Robinson was born in Jackson, Louisiana. On February 13, 1920, the Negro National League of professional baseball was founded,…

A Brief History On February 13, 1919, American football legend Eddie Robinson was born in Jackson, Louisiana. Digging Deeper Eddie was born into a working family and earned his BA in English from Leland College at Baker, Louisiana while playing quarterback on their football team.  He later earned his MA at the University of Iowa in 1954. In the meantime, Eddie compiled an incredible record as the football coach at Grambling State University in Louisiana, from 1941 to 1997, amassing a record of 408 wins, 165 losses, and 15 ties.  Robinson retired in 1997 and died at the age of…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 12th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe founded the English Province of Georgia, later to become the Colony of Georgia in 1752, the Southernmost and last of the 13 Colonies that would later become the United States of America. On February 12, 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a coalition of White Americans and African…