February 15
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1972
Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
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The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
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Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
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The Visegrád Group, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
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Air Transport International Flight 805 crashes in Swanton, Ohio, near Toledo Express Airport, killing all four people on board.
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At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3B rocket carrying Intelsat 708 veers off course and crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing somewhere between six and 100 people.
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Then-Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien applies a chokehold to protester Bill Clennett, an incident later named the Shawinigan Handshake.
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The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.[citation needed]
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Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.[citation needed]
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The last Ariane 4 rocket is launched from the Guiana Space Centre, carrying Intelsat 907.
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A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
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Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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2004Šimon Nemec, Slovak ice hockey player
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2000Jakub Kiwior, Polish footballer
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1998Zachary Gordon, American actor
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1998George Russell, English racing driver
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1997Derrick Jones Jr., American basketball player
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1997Justin Reid, American football player
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1995Megan Thee Stallion, American rapper
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1994Sodapoppin, American Twitch streamer and internet personality
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1993Ravi, South Korean rapper
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1993Geoffrey Kondogbia, Central African footballer
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1993Manuel Lanzini, Argentine footballer
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1992from20, South Korean singer-songwriter
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