On this date in . . .

1920: The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago, and Maude Wood Park was chosen as its first president.

1929: The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" occurred in Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.

1972: "Grease" opened off-Broadway, where it ran for a decade and 3,388 performances.

1979: History's oldest caged guinea pig, Snowball, died in Bingham, England, at age 14 years 10½ months.

1980: CBS announced that reporter Dan Rather had been chosen to succeed retiring "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite.

1984: At Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, 6-year-old Stormie Jones of White Settlement, Texas, received the world's first combination heart-liver transplant as her only hope of overcoming a genetic disorder. Stormie died November 11, 1990, at age 13. Students at her school renamed the gymnasium in her honor, and Texas named a newly discovered wildflower "Stormie Jones" because it was "small, beautiful, and tough."

1988: Connecticut teacher Catherine Pollard received official permission from the all-male Boy Scouts to become a troop scoutmaster. She had unofficially led her son's Boy Scout troop from 1970-74.

1990: Friends of Beer was founded in Czechoslovakia as a political party with a platform of improving the quality of Czech beer while forcing down the price.

1991: For Valentine’s Day, President George Bush gave First Lady Barbara a small electronic thesaurus and dictionary.

1998: Singer T.G. Sheppard was best man for 35 different grooms at a Las Vegas hotel. The event was held for the winners of a national radio promotion for Sheppard's song "She's Gettin' the Rock."

1999: Theresa Mueller of Philadelphia announced that her $8.95 chocolate heart, life-size and shaped like a human heart, was her chocolate shop’s best-selling Valentine novelty ever. It even beat out the top-selling body-part novelty from 1998, a dozen chocolate noses.

1999: Singer Elton John guest-starred as his-animated-self on the Valentine’s Day episode of The Simpsons.

2001: Four rustlers removed the back seat from a 4-door Russian sedan and carried a dairy cow named Mashka 40 miles with her head sticking out the window to a village east of Moscow. Police arrested the four shortly after they sold the hot cow. Mashka survived.

2003: Dolly the cloned sheep was euthanized after premature aging and disease marred her short life and raised questions about the practicality of copying life.

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