On This Day: February 14

Holidays Happy St. Valentine's Day! Bulgaria: Viticulturists' Day / Trifon Zarezan. International Book Giving Day Events 1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, James Polk, was taken by Matthew Brady, in New York City. 1859 - Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state. 1870 - Esther Morris became the world's first female justice of the peace. 1876 - Rival inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both applied for patents for the telephone. 1899 - President William McKinley signed legislation authorizing states to use voting machines for federal elections. 1912 - Arizona became the 48th state of the Union. 1912 - The first diesel engine submarine was commissioned, in Groton, Connecticut. 1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Park. 1924 - Thomas Watson founded International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). 1929 - The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage when Al Capone's employees gunned down seven members of the George "Bugs" Moran North Siders gang. 1945 - Peru, Paraguay, Chile, and Ecuador joined the United Nations. 1946 - The world's first all-electronic computer was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC. 1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, Indiana became the first high school male athlete to be pictured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated." 2003 - Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized by veterinarians after being found to be suffering from progressive lung disease. Births 1819 - Christopher Sholes, American, typewriter inventor. 1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, American, influential leader of the women's suffrage movement. 1859 - George Ferris, American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel. 1894 - Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky), American comedian of vaudeville, radio, and television. 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader. 1921 - Hugh Downs, American TV host. 1948 - Teller, (born Raymond Joseph Teller), American magician, best known as the smaller, silent half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller.