By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2024. There are 319 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. On this date: In 1862, the ...
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2024. There are 320 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1965, singer Nat King Cole, who despite facing extreme racism throughout his short career sold more than 50 million records that ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2024. There are 321 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 14, 1967, Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” at Atlantic Records in New ...
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2023. There are 322 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. ...
Today is Monday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2024. There are 323 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 12, 1983, composer and pianist Eubie Blake, who wrote such songs as “I’m Just Wild About Harry” and “Memories of You,” died in Brooklyn, New York, at 96. On ...
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2024. There are 325 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed “Deep ...