Picture of the Day and B'Days for Feb. 14

Posted February 13, 2009, 10:41 pm in


Today is Saturday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2009. There are 320 days left in the year.

On Feb. 14, 1929, seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois in what came to be known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Florence Henderson

On Feb. 14, 1962,  First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

Today's Birthdays: TV host Hugh Downs is 88. Singer Phyllis McGuire of the McGuire Sisters is 78. Actress Florence Henderson is 75. University of Miami President Donna Shalala is 68. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is 67. N.H. Sen. Judd Gregg, who was briefly President Barack Obama's pick for Commerce Secretary, is 62. TV host Pat O'Brien is 61. Magician Teller is 61. Actor James Eckhouse ("Beverly Hills 90210") is 54. Soprano Renee Fleming is 50. Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly is 49. Actress Meg Tilly is 49. Scott McClellan, President George W. Bush's press secretary, is 41.

Picture of the Day: Forget the birds and the bees.  The real lovers in the animal kingdom this Valentine's Day are a pair of beautiful necking swans and some sweet fish who are puckering up.




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