On February 15th in History
Part III
Part III
On February 15th in 1933 - President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami. Giuseppa Zangara, an unemployed New Jersey bricklayer from Italy, fired five shots at the back of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt's head from less than 10 yards away. While all five rounds missed their target, each bullet found a separate victim. One of these was Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. Gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later, on March 20.
On February 15th in 1934 - Congress passed the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, allotting new funds for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
On February 15th in 1944 - American bombers attacked the Abbey of Monte Cassino in central Italy in an effort to neutralize it as a German observation post.
On February 15th in 1944 - Nathan Gordon, US Navy pilot from Arkansas, and his crew made 4 separate flying boat landings to rescue a number of aviators from B-52 bombers, which had been shot down while attacking Japanese positions near Kavieng harbor on New Ireland Island, Papua New Guinea. Gordon later became the longest-serving lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
On February 15th in 1953 - The first American to win the women’s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.
On February 15th in 1961 - 73 people, including 18 figure skaters from the United States, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium. The skaters were en route to a world meet in Czechoslovakia.
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