Saturday, Feb 15, 2025
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1961 - Entire US figure skating team of 18 dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash.
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1978 - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, in Pensacola, Florida.
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: "Just the Way You Are", Taste of Honey win.
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1990 - IBM unveils its new RISC-based workstation line, the RS/6000. Development work had been done under code name "America" for the RISC chip research, and "RIOS" for systems using the America technology. The architecture of the systems is given the name POWER, standing for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC.
1992 - Jeffrey Dahmer found by court to be sane and guilty of killing 15 boys.
1992 - The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation opens the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, with financing from Malaysian billionaire Lim Goh Tong.
1994 - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti.
1995 - Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computers systems.