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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's Rights Women's Suffrage The Women's Movement MP4 Download DVD
Today, February 15, 2026

February 15: Susan B. Anthony Day: -- February 15, 1820: #BOTD: #HBD! Susan B. Anthony, American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement (d. March 13, 1906) is #born Susan Brownell Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts into a Quaker family committed to social equality. She collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female. In 1863, they founded the Women's Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a women's rights newspaper called The Revolution. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women's movement. In 1890, the split was formally healed when their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with Anthony as its key force. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. The interests of Anthony and Stanton diverged somewhat in later years, but the two remained close friends. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial. Although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. Introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent (R-CA), it later became known colloquially as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Anthony traveled extensively in support of women's suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns. She worked internationally for women's rights, playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women, which is still active. She also helped to bring about the World's Congress of Representative Women at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. When she first began campaigning for women's rights, Anthony was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime, however. Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

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Today, February 15, 2026

February 15: Parinirvana Day (Nirvana Day): -- Celebrated annually to commemorate the death of the Buddha when he attained complete nirvana or parinirvana. Can you imagine that Buddhism has been around for over 2,600 years? Buddhism is a religion based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha, a Hindu who lived between the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Parinirvana Day, marking the physical death of Buddha, is celebrated in some countries in East Asia on February 8, and in Bhutan on the 15th day of the fourth month of the Bhutanese calendar. According to Buddhism, to attain Parinirvana, one must understand the Four Noble Truths. The history of Parinirvana Day begins with the birth of Siddhartha Gautama. The Buddha was born in the 5th century B.C. in Lumbini, present-day Nepal. According to Buddhism writings, he was born to King Suddhodana and Queen Maya. But many scholars argue that he was born in the Shakya community, which was ruled by a republic-like council, and he must be from one of the ruling families. Being moved by the suffering of life and death and its endless repetition due to rebirth, Gautama renounced his title and inheritance. He embarked on a journey to find liberation from suffering - Nirvana. Gautama took up the sramana ascetic life and went to study under two teachers of meditation. The first was Arada Kamala, also known as Alara Kamala, under which he attained nothingness. But that did not bring an end to his suffering. The second teacher was Udraka Ramaputra, under which he attained a state of "neither perception nor non-perception." But that also did not help him solve the problem of suffering. Gautama decided to put himself under the harshest ascetic disciplines, including strict fasting and breath control. That also didn't address the problem of suffering. He forewent asceticism and turned to the meditative practice of dhyana. According to legend, he went to Bodh Gaya, where he sat beneath the Bodhi Tree and vowed to remain in the state of meditation until he understood the meaning of living without suffering. In this deep meditative state, Gautama attained "awakening" and became the Buddha - the enlightened one. Upon becoming the Buddha, Gautama began teaching his doctrine, Dharma, initiated monks into his Sangha order, and trained nuns. He allowed his disciples to spread his teaching across India, using the local language or dialects as the communication medium. Gautama died at the age of 80 in Kushinagar, India, attaining the final nirvana - parinirvana. His death has been celebrated every year since then. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tibet-documentaries-2-dvd-se2.html

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Today, February 15, 2026

February 15: Remember The Maine Day: -- February 15, 1898: The Decolonization Of The Americas: The Cuban War Of Independence (The Necessary War): The Spanish-American War: The Sinking Of The USS Maine: -- In Havana, the U.S. Battleship Maine blows up while at anchor and quickly sank with 260 crew members lost. USS Maine (ACR-1) was an American naval ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain, an event that became a major political issue in the United States. Commissioned in 1895, this was the first United States Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine. Originally classified as an armored cruiser, she was built in response to the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and the increase of naval forces in Latin America. Maine and her near-sister ship Texas reflected the latest European naval developments, with the layout of her main armament resembling that of the British ironclad Inflexible and comparable Italian ships. Maine is best known for her loss in Havana Harbor on the evening of 15 February 1898. Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly, without warning, and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry investigated. Nevertheless, popular opinion in the U.S., fanned by inflammatory articles printed in the "yellow press" by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, blamed Spain. The phrase, "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!", became a rallying cry for action, which came with the Spanish-American War later that year. While the sinking of Maine was not a direct cause for action, it served as a catalyst, accelerating the approach to a diplomatic impasse between the U.S. and Spain. The cause of Maine's sinking remains a subject of speculation. In 1898, an investigation of the explosion was carried out by a naval board appointed under the McKinley Administration. The consensus of the board was that Maine was destroyed by an external explosion from a mine. However, the validity of this investigation has been challenged. George W. Melville, a chief engineer in the Navy, proposed that a more likely cause for the sinking was from a magazine explosion within the vessel. The Navy's leading ordnance expert, Philip R. Alger, took this theory further by suggesting that the magazines were ignited by a spontaneous fire in a coal bunker. The coal used in Maine was bituminous coal, which is known for releasing firedamp, a gas that is prone to spontaneous explosions. There is stronger evidence that the explosion of Maine was caused by an internal coal fire which ignited the magazines. This was a likely cause of the explosion, rather than the initial hypothesis of a mine. The ship lay at the bottom of the harbor until 1911. A cofferdam was then built around the wreck. The hull was patched up until the ship was afloat, then towed to sea and sunk. The Maine now lies on the sea-bed 3,600 feet below the surface. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/spanishamerican-war-films-dvd.html

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Today, February 15, 2026

February 15: Liberation Day Afghanistan: -- The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Afghan Conflict (The Afghan Crisis, The Instability In Afghanistan): The Soviet-Afghan War: The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan: -- The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan that had begun on May 15, 1988 under the command of Colonel-General Boris Gromov is completed as the last Soviet armoured column, which had departed from Kabul on February 2, 1989, the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, exits the country. Planning for the withdrawal of the Soviet Union (USSR) from the Afghanistan War began soon after Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Under the leadership of Gorbachev, the Soviet Union attempted to consolidate the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan's hold over power in the country, first in a genuine effort to stabilize the country, and then as a measure to save face while withdrawing troops. During this period, the military and intelligence organizations of the USSR worked with the government of Mohammad Najibullah to improve relations between the government in Kabul and the leaders of rebel factions. The diplomatic relationship between the USSR and the United States improved at the same time as it became clear to the Soviet Union that this policy of consolidating power around Najibullah's government in Kabul would not produce sufficient results to maintain the power of the PDPA in the long run. The Geneva Accords, signed by representatives of the USSR, the US, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of Afghanistan (thus renamed in 1987) on 14 April 1988, provided a framework for the departure of Soviet forces, and established a multilateral understanding between the signatories regarding the future of international involvement in Afghanistan. The military withdrawal commenced soon after, with all Soviet forces leaving Afghanistan by 15 February 1989. The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups (known collectively as the Mujahideen), as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The Mujahideen were variously backed primarily by the United States, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, and the United Kingdom; the conflict was a Cold War-era proxy war. Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. The war caused grave destruction in Afghanistan and contributed to the Soviet collapse, in hindsight leaving a mixed and tragic legacy to the peoples of both territories. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-sovietafghan-war-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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February 15, 1564: #BOTD: #HBD! Galileo Galilei, Italian polymath, physicist and first astronomer to use a telescope, central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution, champion of heliocentrism and Copernicanism at a time when it was rejected in favor of traditional geocentrism or the Tychonic system (d. January 8, 1642) is ##born in Pisa, Italy. He was opposed by astronomers who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. While under house arrest, he wrote one of his best-known works, Two New Sciences, in which he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials. Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of pendulums and "hydrostatic balances", inventing the thermoscope and various military compasses, and using the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the observation of Saturn's rings (though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature) and the analysis of sunspots. Known for his work as astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and even the "father of science". Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri in Florencfe, Grand Duchy of Tuscany aged 77, following a fever and heart palpitations. The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II, wished to bury him in the main body of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors, and to erect a marble mausoleum in his honour. These plans were dropped, however, after Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protested, because Galileo had been condemned by the Catholic Church for "vehement suspicion of heresy". He was instead buried in a small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor from the southern transept of the basilica to the sacristy. He was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 after a monument had been erected there in his honour; during this move, three fingers and a tooth were removed from his remains. One of these fingers -- his middle finger (!) -- is currently on exhibition at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. #Galileo #GalileoGalilei #Polymaths #Pisa #Italy #Astronomy #Physics #Engineering #Philosophy #NaturalPhilosophy #ModernScience #HistoryOfScienceOnTheRenaissance #ScientificRevolution #Science #Heliocentrism #RomanInquisition #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/triumph-of-the-west-tv-series-5-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-sh513.html

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February 15, 1809: #BOTD: #HBD! Cyrus McCormick, American journalist, inventor and businessman, founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and co-founder of The International Harvester Company (d. May 13, 1884) is #born Cyrus Hall McCormick in Rockbridge County, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Shenandoah Valley, though he and many members of the McCormick family became prominent residents of Chicago. McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single inventor of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper, a machine that freed farmers from hard labor and contributed to the development and cultivation of vast areas of the American Great Plains; he was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced successful models in the 1830s. His efforts built on more than two decades of work by his father Robert McCormick Jr., as well as the aid of Jo Anderson, a person enslaved by his family. He also successfully developed a modern company, with manufacturing, marketing, and a sales force to market his products. Cyrus McCormick died at his Chicago home at the age of 75. During the last four years of his life, McCormick became an invalid, after a stroke paralyzed his legs; he was unable to walk during his final two years. He is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-it39ll-never-fly-dvd-technology-history-dick-cave39.html

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February 15, 1879: Feminism: The Feminist Movement (The Women's Movement): Women's Rights: -- US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court Of The United States. Suffragette, teacher, lawyer and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood championed that cause with Congress after the Supreme Court ruled that women generally, and Lockwood specifically - could not practice law before it. In November 1876, Chief Justice Morrison Waite curtly replied to Lockwood's request to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar that "By the uniform practice of the Court from its organization to the present time, and by the fair construction of its rules, none but men are permitted to practice before it as attorneys and counselors" and that the Court wouldn't change its mind unless "required by statute." In most cases, state courts also didn't allow women as lawyers to argue cases at the state-court level. The Supreme Court in an 1872 opinion in Bradwell vs. Illinois confirmed the ability of Illinois to block women from its state bar. Myra Bradwell, a recent law school graduate, asked the Supreme Court to intervene, citing the 14th Amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause. Justice Samuel Miller, citing the recent Slaughterhouse Cases, said the clause didn't apply to the ability of a state to regulate its own conduct. "The right to control and regulate the granting of license to practice law in the courts of a state is one of those powers which are not transferred for its protection to the federal government," Miller said. Justice Joseph Bradley's concurring opinion went much farther, stating that women weren't fit to argue Supreme Court cases or even become lawyers. "Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," Story said. "The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator." Undaunted, Lockwood spent three years after her 1874 rejection lobbying Congress and former President Ulysses Grant (who had presented Lockwood with her law degree) for a law that would force the Supreme Court to recognize the right of women to appear before it. President Hayes signed "An act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women," which read that "any woman who shall have been a member of the bar of the highest court of any State or Territory or of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the space of three years, and shall have maintained a good standing before such court, and who shall be a person of good moral character, shall, on motion, and the production of such record, be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court Of The United States." Lockwood had been practicing law in the District of Columbia and qualified as the first female attorney to appear before the Court, in the 1880 case Kaiser v. Stickney. Lockwood spoke for about 20 minutes in court. Lockwood didn't prevail in that case but won her second and final case at the Supreme Court in 1906. Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in Rochester, New York. She is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

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February 15, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! Cesar Romero, American actor and activist, star of film, radio, and television for almost 60 years (d. January 1, 1994) is #born Cesar Julio Romero Jr. in New York City, the son of Maria Mantilla (1880-1962), a concert singer and said to be the biological daughter of Cuban national hero Jose Marti, and Cesar Julio Romero Sr. (1872-1951), an import/export merchant emigre from Barcelona, Spain. He was a first cousin of silent film star Emerson Romero, who was a few years older than Cesar and who came to New York in 1907 to attend a school for the deaf. Cesar Romero had a wide range of screen roles, which included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and the Joker on the live action Batman television series of the mid-1960s, which was included in TV Guide's 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time. He was the first actor to play the character. Romero never married and had no children. Many Hollywood historians and biographers have speculated on Romero's being very private about his sexuality. In 1996, Boze Hadleigh wrote a book, Hollywood Gays, containing a series of claimed interviews in which Romero allegedly came out. Romero died two years before the book was released, and while many of the interviews in the book are disputed as possible forgeries, many are not disputed. Charlie Harper, lead singer of English punk band UK Subs, is reportedly a nephew of Romero. Cesar Romero died 45 days short of his 87th birthday from complications of a blood clot while being treated for bronchitis and pneumonia at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. His body was cremated and the ashes were interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California. For his contributions to the motion picture and television industry, Romero has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6615 Hollywood Boulevard for film and another star at 1719 Vine Street for television. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-ernie-kovacs-dual-layer-dvd-old-time-tv-shows.html

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Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Arthur Levenson, cryptographer, United States Army officer and NSA official who worked on the Japanese J19 and the German Enigma codes (b. August 12, 2007) is #born Arthur J. Levenson was in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the City College of New York. He did graduate work in mathematics at New York University and Columbia University. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Levenson was a graduate of the National War College. Levenson and his wife Marjorie West (1917-2011) are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. At the beginning of World War II, the Army called Mr. Levenson to active duty from the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He was approved for Signal Corps Officer Candidate School at Fort Monmouth Levenson was selected by Major William P. Bundy to be a member of the 6811th Signal Company. The 6811th Signal joined the British wartime code breaking organization at Bletchley Park in Britain. At Bletchley Park, Levenson worked against both the ENIGMA and TUNNY German cipher machines in the famous Hut 6, often decyphering messages before the German commanders the messages were intended for could read them. Levenson developed a friendship with British cryptanalysts Alan Turing and Hugh Alexander. After V-E Day, Levenson was sent with a group of British and American officers to Germany, assigned to track down German cipher equipment and to locate and interrogate German cryptanalysts. His operational contributions included decoding a message from German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel that German tanks were converging at a spot in Normandy where U.S. paratroopers were planning to jump. At the last moment, plans were changed, and the paratroopers averted disaster. After completing his service overseas, he remained in the cryptologic business as a civilian with the organizations that eventually evolved into the National Security Agency. He was a member and subsequently Chief of the Technical Consultants Group, the prestigious cryptanalytic organization where the most difficult problems were attacked. During that period he initiated the program for sending out selected NSA working mathematicians to participate in the recruitment of promising college math students-a program that greatly enhanced the quality of the growing NSA professional work force. When the Office of Production in NSA was re-structured to better focus its attacks he was selected to organize and serve as the first Chief of ADVA, an organization dedicated to the exploitation of Soviet high-grade encryption systems. He led the design and implementation of the technical attack team. He took the lead in procuring high-level government support for the project from experts like William O. Baker, head of the Bell Laboratories and longtime member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Levenson became chief of A Group, the major NSA organization devoted to analyzing Soviet Bloc communications. Under his leadership, A group was refocused to enhance the timeliness of its Signals Intelligence reporting to the intelligence community. Before he retired in December 1973, Levenson served as Chief of the Machine Processing Organization, responsible for the maintenance and operation of the large NSA facility which housed both commercial off- the-shelf computers and highly sophisticated special purpose machines. Levenson introduced computer management structure professionals from private industry opening up the organization to innovation from outside of the elite cryptologic workforce. Levenson retired with 32 years of Agency service. In 1976, after retiring from NSA, Levenson and NSA and NBS representatives met with the Stanford University cryptography team which had publicly criticized NSA's proposed Data Encryption Standard, DES, as being too easy to crack. In this meeting with Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Paul Baran, he tried to convince the critics that "56 [bits] is quite adequate", because (among other reasons) brute force attack would never be the weakest link in the security of systems that used DES. NSA succeeded in getting broad adoption of 56-bit DES, particularly in the financial industry. This allowed NSA and other countries to decipher most of the world's financial transactions, until the EFF DES cracker convinced banks to switch to stronger ciphers in 1998. He was married for 62 years to Marjorie West Levenson of Washington. He had three children, David West Levenson of Warren, N.J., Sarah Stromeyer of Austin and Rebecca Levenson Smith of Silver Spring; and two grandchildren. Levenson was awarded the NSA Exceptional Civilian Service Award in 1969. and was inducted to the NSA Hall of Honor in 2009. Arthur Levenson died at age 93. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 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February 15, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions (d. May 29, 2008) is #born Harvey Herschel Korman in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ellen (nee Blecher) and Cyril Raymond Korman, a salesman, both of Russian Jewish descent. Harvey Korman's big break was being a featured performer on CBS' The Danny Kaye Show. But he is best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show, for which he won a Golden Globe award and four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement by a supporting performer in a music or variety show, as well as his partnership with Tim Conway. Korman also appeared in several comedy films by Mel Brooks, appearing as the villainous Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Dr. Charles Montague in High Anxiety (1977) and Count de Monet in History of the World, Part 1 (1981). He also reunited with fellow Carol Burnett Show alumnus Tim Conway, making a guest appearance on Conway's 1980-1981 comedy-variety series The Tim Conway Show. The two later toured the U.S. reprising skits from the show as well as performing new material. A DVD of new comedy sketches by Korman and Conway, Together Again, was released in 2006. Korman and Conway had been jointly inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002. Harvey Korman died at age 81 at UCLA Medical Center as the result of complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm he had suffered four months earlier. He is interred at Santa Monica's Woodlawn Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-baby-boomer-bloopers-tv-amp-movie-blooper-outtakes-dvd.html

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February 15, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Claire Bloom, English actress known for leading roles in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, is #born Patricia Claire Blume in Finchley, then part of Middlesex (now a suburb of North London). Patricia Claire Bloom CBE (born February 15, 1931) has starred in nearly sixty films. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. After a childhood spent in England (and in the US for two-and-a-half years during the Second World War), Bloom studied drama in London. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included Hamlet, in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton. For her Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, critic Kenneth Tynan stated it was "the best Juliet I've ever seen". After she starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, its playwright, Tennessee Williams, stated, "I declare myself absolutely wild about Claire Bloom". In 1952, Bloom was discovered by Hollywood film star Charlie Chaplin to co-star alongside him in Limelight. During her film career, she starred alongside numerous major actors, including Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Yul Brynner, George C. Scott, James Mason, Paul Newman, Cliff Robertson, Anthony Hopkins and Rod Steiger. In 2010, Bloom played the role of Queen Mary in the British film The King's Speech. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/oedipus-the-king-1986-sophocles-greek-tragedy1986.html

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February 15, 1933: United States Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: The Attempted Assassinations Of Franklin D. Roosevelt: -- Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. Zangara confessed in the Dade County Courthouse jail, stating: "I have the gun in my hand. I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists." After spending only 10 days on death row, Zangara was executed on March 20, 1933 in Old Sparky, the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Raiford. Zangara became enraged when he learned no newsreel cameras would be filming his final moments. Zangara's final statement was "Viva l'Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere!... Push the button! Go ahead, push the button!". While most accounts for years repeated that Cermak was the unintended victim of an attempt to assassinate Roosevelt, more recent theories, especially in Chicago, assert that Zangara was a hired killer working for Frank Nitti, who was the head of the Chicago Outfit (Chicago's largest organized crime syndicate). John William Tuohy, author of numerous books on organized crime in Chicago, after reviewing Secret Service records, described in detail how and why Cermak was the real target and the relationship of the shooting to the rampant gang violence in Chicago. Numerous researchers, citing court testimony, assert that Cermak had directed an assassination attempt on Nitti fewer than three months earlier. Another point is that Zangara had been an expert marksman in the Italian Army (though not with a pistol from a great distance) and would presumably hit his target. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/franklin-roosevelt-documentaries-dual-layer-dvd.html

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Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Brian Holland, African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland Jr.), the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound, and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers and more, is #born in Detroit, Michigan. Holland, along with Lamont Dozier, served as the team's musical arranger and producer. He has written or co-written 145 hits in US and 78 in the UK. For a short time, he partnered with Robert Bateman, and together they were known as "Brianbert", collaborating on such hits as "Please Mr. Postman" for The Marvelettes. Holland has also had an on-and-off career as a performer. He released a solo single in 1958 under the name of "Briant Holland". He and longtime friend and future songwriting partner Freddie Gorman were in a short-lived group called the Fidalatones, and he was later (1960-62) a member of the Motown recording act The Satintones, as well as being a member of the Rayber Voices, a quartet that backed up several early Motown recording acts. He partnered with Lamont Dozier under the name "Holland-Dozier", releasing a lone single for Motown in 1963, then was inactive for a number of years, and was then revived in the early and mid-1970s, scoring a number of medium-sized R & B hits. Holland resumed his solo recording career in 1974, hitting the charts as a solo artist in 1974 and 1975. Holland also composed songs for the First Wives Club musical. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Battle Of Monte Cassino DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of Italy): The Battle Of Monte Cassino (The Battle For Rome): -- The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The intention was a breakthrough to Rome. Monte Cassino, a historic hilltop abbey founded in AD 529 by Benedict of Nursia, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys. Lying in a protected historic zone, it had been left unoccupied by the Germans, although they manned some positions set into the steep slopes below the abbey's walls. Repeated pinpoint artillery attacks on Allied assault troops caused their leaders to conclude the abbey was being used by the Germans as an observation post, at the least. Fears escalated along with casualties and in spite of a lack of clear evidence, it was marked for destruction. On 15 February American bombers dropped 1,400 tons of high explosives, creating widespread damage. The raid failed to achieve its objective, as German paratroopers occupied the rubble and established excellent defensive positions amid the ruins. Between 17 January and 18 May, Monte Cassino and the Gustav defences were assaulted four times by Allied troops, the last involving twenty divisions attacking along a twenty-mile front. The German defenders were finally driven from their positions, but at a high cost. The capture of Monte Cassino resulted in 55,000 Allied casualties, with German losses being far fewer, estimated at around 20,000 killed and wounded. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-monte-cassino-dvd-world-war-ii-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: War And Peace In The Nuclear Age TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1954: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Canada-United States Military Relations: Continental Air Defense: The Distant Early Warning Line (The DEW Line, The Early Warning Line): -- Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska (Project Stretchout and Project Bluegrass), in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War, and provide early warning of any sea-and-land invasion. The DEW Line was the northernmost and most capable of three radar lines in Canada and Alaska. The first of these was the joint Canadian-US Pinetree Line, which ran from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island just north of the Canadian border, but even while it was being built there were concerns that it would not provide enough warning time to launch an effective counterattack. The Mid-Canada Line (MCL) was proposed as an inexpensive solution using a new type of radar. This provided a "trip wire" warning located roughly at the 55th parallel, giving commanders ample warning time, but little information on the targets or their exact location. The MCL proved largely useless in practice, as the radar return of flocks of birds overwhelmed signals from aircraft. The DEW Line was proposed as a solution to both of these problems, using conventional radar systems that could both detect and characterize an attack, while being located far to the north where they would offer hours of advanced warning. This would not only provide ample time for the defenses to prepare, but also allow the Strategic Air Command to get its active aircraft airborne long before Soviet bombers could reach their bases. The need was considered critical and the construction was given the highest national priorities. Advanced site preparation began in December 1954, and the construction was carried out in a massive logistical operation that took place mostly during the summer months when the sites could be reached by ships. The 63-base Line reached operational status in 1957. The MCL was shut down in the early 1960s, and much of the Pinetree line was given over to civilian use. In 1985, as part of the "Shamrock Summit", the US and Canada agreed to transition DEW to a new system known as the North Warning System (NWS). Beginning in 1988, most of the original DEW stations were deactivated, while a small number were upgraded with all-new equipment. The official handover from DEW to NWS took place on July 15, 1993. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-and-peace-in-the-nuclear-age-dvd-set-tv-series-7-disc7.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Project: Man In Space 1961 US & Secret USSR Space Films DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1956: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: United States Human Spaceflight Programs: Man-In-Space-Soonest (MISS): -- The United States Air Force's Man-In-Space-Soonest (MISS) program, the world's first manned spaceflight program, begins at a staff meeting of General Thomas S Power, Commander of the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) in Baltimore. Power wanted studies to begin on manned space vehicles that would follow the X-15 rocketplane. These were to include winged and ballistic approaches - the ballistic rocket was seen as being a militarily useful intercontinental troop and cargo vehicle. MISS was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and was replaced by NASA's Project Mercury later that year. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/project-man-in-space-dvd-1961-secret-soviet-f1961.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Satchmo: Louis Armstrong Biography + Bonus Title DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026

February 15, 1964: Record Releases:-- Louis Armstrong's song "Hello Dolly" enters the Billboard charts at No.76, one place ahead of the Dave Clark Five. Twelve weeks later on May 9, 1964, "Hello Dolly" knocked The Beatles, "Can't Buy Me Love" from the top spot, in doing so it ended fourteen straight weeks of Beatles' No.1s. "Hello Dolly" only spent a week there, and was knocked from the top by Mary Wells's "My Guy," but none of that bothered Satchmo - Louis was back and back big time! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/satchmo-louis-armstrong-biography-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Films 3 Project Apollo Reaching For The Moon DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: National Gumdrop Day: -- Americans love their candy and, luckily, several days have been set aside to celebrate specific candies like . Gumdrops are unique in that they are not only fun to eat but they also make great decorations. People have crafted with gumdrops for years and because they come in so many shapes, sizes, and colors, gumdrops guarantee festive decor. So, grab your gumdrops and let's get this party started! Gumdrops, one of America's most beloved sweets, is a chewy, gelatin candy, most often flavored with fruit or spices. In their most traditional form, gumdrops are sugar-coated and shaped like a small dome or 'drop.' But they have evolved, and you can now find them with smooth coatings and in tons of fun shapes and sizes. Debates abound as to the history of gumdrops. Some credit Percy Trusdale as the inventor of gumdrops in 1801. The term 'gumdrop' was first seen in an Illinois newspaper mentioning a local candy shop owner, George Julier, in the 1850s. The National Confectioners Association lists National Gumdrop Day as one of the many candy-focused holidays we can celebrate and on which we can buy more candy while we're at it, of course! With the popular trend of gourmet candies hitting the market, you can now find gumdrops beyond the traditional orange, cherry, grape, and lemon flavors. Whole Foods offers rather large gumdrops (1 inch tall x 1 inch wide) in exotic flavors such as key lime, tangerine, grapefruit, and pomegranate. The classic gumdrop paved the way for what we know today as gummy candies in general, like gummy bears and -worms, and even gummy vitamins (remember, the vitamins are not candy!). Gumdrops, if kept in an unopened package and stored in a cool place, will last for up to 12 months. If you choose to use them for crafting, they will, of course, become hard but that's ok, as long as you don't try to eat them later! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-3-project-apollo-reaching-for-the-moon-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Classic Old Time Radio Commercials MP3 Set CD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: National I Want Butterscotch Day: -- An annual day of celebration of the creamy sweetness of butterscotch! Can you imagine that butterscotch has been in existence for 0ver 200 years! Butterscotch started its journey from a small town in Yorkshire before blowing all over the world. It evolved from just being candy to becoming an essential topping on all desserts and sweets. Butterscotch is mainly made from brown sugar and butter. Other ingredients that are sometimes used in addition to these primary ingredients are corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The brown sugar is boiled to 1150 C and then mixed with the other ingredients. How butterscotch got its name is yet unknown. There are different theories, but none have been conclusive. One theory says the butterscotch is associated with Scotland, hence the word 'scotch.' Another explanation is that the 'scotch' means "to cut or score," as butterscotch needs to be cut into pieces, or 'scotched, ' before hardening. The first mentions of butterscotch were in the town of Doncaster, in Yorkshire, England. It appeared in an 1848 issue of the "Liverpool Mercury," which listed its recipe as "one pound of butter, one pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of treacle, boiled together." Some food historians credit Samuel Parkinson, who began making butterscotch candy in 1817, as its inventor. In 1851, many confectioners were already selling Doncaster butterscotch, including S. Parkinson & Sons, Henry Hall, and Booths. The confection was sold across Doncaster and other areas in Yorkshire through agents. But it was S. Parkinson & Sons that stood. Given the Royal Seal of Approval, S. Parkinson & Sons marketed its butterscotch brand as "Royal Doncaster Butterscotch" or "The Queen's Sweetmeat." In 1948, Parkinson's Butterscotch was presented to the Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Elizabeth, and 59 years later to Anne, Princess Royal. Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, butterscotch expanded beyond British borders to the United States where it grew in popularity. In the U.S., several variants of butterscotch were created. One of the popular variants is the butterscotch sauce or butterscotch topping. It is served over dessert and on sweets. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-radio-commercials-old-time-radio-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Groucho Marx & The Marx Bros OTR Radio Show MP3 Set DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: World Hippo Day: -- An annual celebration of the extraordinary hippopotamus that encourages people to take action to prevent its extinction. Did you know that before 1909, scientists placed hippos in the same group as pigs? Despite their outward similarities with pigs or wild boars, hippopotamuses are closely related to whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Hippos are semiaquatic mammals that are native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are herbivores and can weigh up to 2,000kg, making them the third-largest land mammal after elephants and rhinos. Hippos are primarily found in rivers, lakes, and mangrove swamps. Hippos are thought to have originated from a group of semiaquatic animals called Whippomorpha. This group later split into two branches around 54 million years ago. The first branch, which includes whales and dolphins, evolved to become complete aquatic cetaceans. The second branch became anthracotheres, a close ancestor of the common hippo. During the Pliocene Epoch (over two million years ago), all branches of the anthracotheres went extinct, except those that evolved into Hipopotamidae. This group of hippo ancestors migrated to Africa around 35 million years ago and dominated the continent as one of the earliest large mammals. Between 16 and eight million years ago, the oldest known hippopotamid, Kenyapotamus, strived in the African continent. But the group that later evolved into the modern hippo was Archaeopotamus, which lived between 7.5 and 1.8 million years ago in Africa and the Middle East. There were ancestors of the hippo in Europe and the British Isles before the last glaciation, including the European hippopotamus - Hippopotamus antiquus - Hippopotamus major, and Hippopotamus gorgops. But these species of hippos went extinct, and the exact reason is still unknown, although scientists hypothesize it might be because of man. Ancestors of European hippos migrated to many Mediterranean islands during the Pleistocene, evolved, and later became extinct. These species of hippos include Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus, Hippopotamus pentlandi, Hippopotamus melitensis, and Hippopotamus creutzburgi. Between 50,000 and 16,000 years ago, all hippos in the supercontinent, Eurasia, went extinct. In North America, there were anthracothere genera in the early Oligocene (over 23 million years ago), but no evidence of hippos has ever been found on the continent. Many attempts have been made to introduce the species into the U.S., but they have never been successful. That was until Pablo Escobar illegally imported four hippos to Columbia in the late 1980s. This population of hippos has since grown to about 100. https://store.earthstation1.com/groucho-marx-and-marx-brothers-mp3-dvd-all-known-radio-show3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Classic Marital Guidance & Marriage Counseling Films DVD Download USB
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: Love Reset Day: -- Marked every year on the day after Valentine's Day. For many, the day of love can be a rude awakening, when they realize that traditional romance is not as fulfilling as it seems, leading to a journey of self-discovery and self-love. The Love Reset Day started as a 30-day challenge that gives people the opportunity to evaluate the quality of their relationships and identify areas that require nurturing for sustainable and long-lasting relationships. It is a day that calls for deep introspection with the aim of making relationships fulfilling. "Be worthy love, and love will come." This is a famous quote from Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women," and it is very much applicable today. It is very easy to project one's expectations and repeat patterns in relationships, which is why it is important to focus inward and be compassionate to yourself. It must be said, though, that self-love doesn't always mean dramatic changes or healing; sometimes it is just to be kind to yourself and not devalue one's worth, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. Ironically, this realization hits often after Valentine's Day. It is common for relationships to go haywire or fall apart on Valentine's Day when expectations are at their peak. Perhaps it is because one is looking for love in all the wrong places? Love Reset Day was created on February 15, 2018, by Carla Lynn Hall, owner of the DatingRelating.com blog. Inspired by romance and its elements, Carla has spent most of the past decade coaching women about relationships. She is also a moderator for the Facebook group Secret Feminine Magnetism. After witnessing an increase in wedding engagements amongst women in the Facebook group in 2015, Carla realized that many women joined the group because they needed a safe space to regulate their romantic feelings. According to Carla, Love Reset Day is right after Valentine's Day because that is when many face upheavals in their love lives. She believes that a Love Reset Day is just what is needed for a person to take back their power and improve themselves to make better romantic choices. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-marital-guidance-marriage-counseling-films-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Battleline (1963) WWII TV Documentary Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: Total Defense Day (Singapore): -- February 15, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater: The China Burma India Theater (CBI) (The India-Burma Theaters [IBT]) : The South-East Asian Theater Of World War II: The Fall Of Singapore (The Battle Of Singapore): -- Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. Also known as the Battle Of Singapore, it was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire Of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore, nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East". Singapore was the major British military base in South-East Asia and was the keystone of British imperial interwar defence planning for South-East Asia as well as the South-West Pacific. The fighting in Singapore lasted from 8 to 15 February 1942 although this was preceded by two months of British resistance as Japanese forces advanced down the Malaya peninsula. The battle resulted in the Japanese capture of Singapore and the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. About 80,000 British, Indian and Australian troops became prisoners of war, joining 50,000 taken by the Japanese in the earlier Malayan Campaign. The British prime minister, Winston Churchill, called it the "worst disaster" in British military history. To commemorate the event, the Japanese created their feature-length animated film "Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei" ("Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors'' or ''Momotaro's Sacred Sailors"). https://store.earthstation1.com/battleline-wwii-tv-documentary-series-5-dual-layer-dvd5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Unforgettable Nat King Cole + Destination Freedom Docs DVD MP4 USB
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1965: #DOTD: #RIP: Nat King Cole, African American singer and pianist who recorded over one hundred pop chart hit songs, whose King Cole Trio became a model for small jazz ensembles that followed after him, and who as a solo act achieved lasting mainstream success despite intense racial discrimination. whose 1956 -1957 NBC variety series The Nat King Cole Show made him the first black man to host an American television series, and the favorite singer of Elizabeth II, father of the late singer and songwriter Natalie Cole (b. March 17, 1919) #dies in the early morning at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California of lung cancer brought on by heavy smoking, aged 45. Cole's funeral was held on February 18 at St. James' Episcopal Church on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles; 400 people were present, and thousands gathered outside the church. Hundreds of members of the public had filed past the coffin the day before. Honorary pallbearers included Robert F. Kennedy, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, George Burns, Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Alan Livingston, Frankie Laine, Steve Allen, and Pat Brown (the governor of California). The eulogy was delivered by Jack Benny, who said that "Nat Cole was a man who gave so much and still had so much to give. He gave it in song, in friendship to his fellow man, devotion to his family. He was a star, a tremendous success as an entertainer, an institution. But he was an even greater success as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a friend." Cole's remains were interred in Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California. Nat "King" Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama. His King Cole Trio which became the top-selling group, and the only black act, on Capitol Records in the 1940s; the landmark Capitol Records Building, shaped like a stack of phonograph records, is known as "The House That Nat Built". Cole also acted extensively on television and in films produced in the short subject format, and in major motion pictures such as St. Louis Blues. and performed on Broadway. He was a broadway performer as well; Cole met his first wife, Nadine Robinson, while they were on tour for the all-black Broadway musical Shuffle Along. On Easter Sunday March 28, 1948, Cole married Maria Hawkins, niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, African American author, educator, civil rights activist, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute, a school for upper-class African Americans, in Sedalia, North Carolina. The Coles were married in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. They had five children: Natalie (1950-2015), who had a successful career as a singer; an adopted daughter, Carole (1944-2009, the daughter of Maria's sister), who died of lung cancer at the age of 64; an adopted son, Nat Kelly Cole (1959-1995), who died at the age of 36; and twin daughters, Casey and Timolin (born September 26, 1961), whose birth was announced in the "Milestones" column of Time magazine on October 6, 1961. #NatKingCole #JazzRoyalty #NathanielAdamsColes #Jazz #Pianists #PianoPlayers #Singers #Vocalists #TVBroadcastingFirsts #TelevisionBroadcastingFirsts #NatKingColeShow #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #AfricanAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanHeritage #BlackHeritage #BlackPeople #Blacks #JazzMasters #GreatSingers #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unforgettable-nat-king-cole-dvd-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival 1991 DVD, MP4 Download, Flash Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: Pee Wee Russell, American jazz clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (b. March 27, 1906) #dies in hospital aged 62 of chronic pancreatitis and cirrhosis of the liver in Alexandria, Virginia, less than three weeks after his last gig, the inaugural ball for President Richard Nixon with promoter/pianest George Wein on January 21, 1969. He is buried at B'Nai Abraham Memorial Park in Union, Union County, New Jersey. Pee Wee Russell was born Charles Ellsworth Russell in Maplewood, Missouri. As a child, he first studied violin, but "couldn't get along with it", then piano, disliking the scales and chord exercises, and then drums - including all the associated special effects. Then his father sneaked young Ellsworth into a dance at the local Elks Club to a four- or five-piece band led by New Orleans jazz clarinetist Alcide "Yellow" Nunez. Russell was amazed by Nunez's improvisations: "[He] played the melody, then got hot and played jazz. That was something. How did he know where he was or where he was going?" Pee Wee now decided that his primary instrument would be the clarinet, and the type of music he would play would be jazz. Accordingly, he played clarinet and saxophones early in his career, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet. With a highly individualistic and spontaneous clarinet style that "defied classification", Russell began his career playing Dixieland jazz, but throughout his career incorporated elements of newer developments such as swing, bebop and free jazz. In the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "No one familiar with the characteristic excitement of his solos, their lurid, snuffling, asthmatic voicelessness, notes leant on till they split, and sudden passionate intensities, could deny the uniqueness of his contribution to jazz." #PeeWeeRussell #Clarinetists #ClarinetPlayers #Saxophonists #SaxophonePlayers #Composers #Jazz #Dixieland #HotJazz #TraditionalJazz #Swing #SwingMusic #Bebop #FreeJazz #Music #AmericanMusic #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bix-beiderbecke-jazz-festival-concert-amp-documentary-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: And Away We Go! US Cars + Bonus Internal Combusion Engine MP4 DVD
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: J. Frank Duryea, commonly known as Frank Duryea, American engineer, test driver and businessman, co-founder of the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, who along with his brother Charles Duryea (1861-1938) invented the first gasoline-powered automobile in America (b. October 8, 1869) #dies in Saybrook, Connecticut, aged 97. He was the last surviving member of the automotive industry's founding fathers. Born James Frank Duryea in Wyoming, Illinois, the son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner, Charles Duryea claims that on April 19, 1892 he and his brother, Frank, produced and road-tested America's first gasoline-powered car; other sources say that in fact occurred on September 21, 1893, and suggest that the April 19, 1892 date was chosen by Charles Duryea to spite his brother Frank, with whom he entered into a business rivalry. It is generally accepted that on September 21, 1893 they did in fact road-test the first-ever, working American gasoline-powered automobile on the Howard Bemis farm in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The Duryea's "motor wagon" was a used horse drawn buggy that the brothers had purchased for 70 USD and into which they had installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline engine. The car (buggy) had a friction transmission, spray carburetor and low tension ignition. Frank Duryea test drove it again on November 10, this time in a prominent location: past their garage at 47 Taylor Street in Springfield. The next day it was reported by The Republican newspaper with great fanfare. This particular car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until 1920, when it was rescued by a former Duryea engineer Inglis M. Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum. Charles Duryea was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1973. https://store.earthstation1.com/and-away-we-go-american-automobile-history-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Columbus & The Age Of Discovery TV Series + Bonus MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1493: The Age Of Discovery (The Age Of Exploration): The Voyages Of Christopher Columbus: The First Voyage Of Christopher Columbus: Columbus's Letter On The First Voyage: -- While on board the caravel Nina on the return leg of his first voyage of discovery, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter, widely distributed upon his return to Portugal, describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. Columbus's letter on the first voyage is the first known document announcing the results of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus that set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, on February 15, 1493, aboard the caravel Nina, while still at sea, on the return leg of his voyage. A post-script was added upon his arrival in Lisbon on March 4, 1493, and it was probably from there that Columbus dispatched two copies of his letter to the Spanish court. The letter was instrumental in spreading the news throughout Europe about Columbus's voyage. Almost immediately after Columbus's arrival in Spain, printed versions of the letter began to appear. A Spanish version of the letter (presumably addressed to Luis de Santangel), was printed in Barcelona by early April 1493, and a Latin translation (addressed to Gabriel Sanchez) was published in Rome around a month later (ca. May 1493). The Latin version was swiftly disseminated and reprinted in many other locations-Basel, Paris, Antwerp, etc.-still within the first year of his arrival. In his letter, Christopher Columbus claimed to have discovered and taken possession of a series of islands on the edge of the Indian Ocean in Asia-Columbus was not aware that he had stumbled upon a new continent. He described the islands, particularly Hispaniola and Cuba, exaggerating their size and wealth, and suggested that mainland China probably lay nearby. He also gave a brief description of the native Arawaks (whom he called "Indians"), emphasizing their docility and amenability, and the prospects of their conversion to Catholicism. However, the letter also revealed local rumors about a fierce man-eating tribe of "monsters" in the area (probably Caribs), although Columbus himself disbelieved the stories, and dismissed them as a myth. The letter provides very few details of the oceanic voyage itself, and covers up the loss of the flagship of his fleet, the Santa Maria, by suggesting Columbus left it behind with some colonists, in a fort he erected at La Navidad in Hispaniola. In the letter, Columbus urges the Catholic monarchs to sponsor a second, larger expedition to the Indies, promising to bring back immense riches. A slightly different version of Columbus's letter, in manuscript form, addressed to the Catholic monarchs of Spain, was found in 1985, part of the Libro Copiador collection, and has led to some revision of the history of the Columbus letter. https://store.earthstation1.com/columbus-and-the-age-of-discovery-epic-7-hourlong-episode-tv-serie7.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Western Tradition TV Series DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1710: #BOTD: #HBD! Louis XV Of France, known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aime), was King of France from September 1, 1715 until his death (d. May 10, 1774) is #born Louis Bourbon at The Palace Of Versailles, France, the great-grandson of Louis XIV and the third son of the Duke of Burgundy (1682-1712), and his wife Marie Adelaide of Savoy, who was the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) on 15 February 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom. His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Great Britain and Spain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorraine and the Corsican Republic into the Kingdom of France. Historians generally criticize his reign, citing how reports of his corruption embarrassed the monarchy, while his wars drained the treasury and produced little gain. A minority of scholars dispute this view, arguing that it is the result of revolutionary propaganda. His grandson and successor Louis XVI would inherit a kingdom in need of financial and political reform which would ultimately lead to the French Revolution of 1789. Louis XV Of France died of small pox at 3:15 in the morning at The Palace Of Versailles, France, aged 64. He was buried at The Basilica of Saint-Denis in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. He was succeeded by his son Louis XVI. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great War (1964) TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1928: #DOTD: #RIP: H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916, the last Liberal leader to lead that party in government without forming a coalition, who had a central role in the design and passage of major liberal legislation and a reduction of the power of the House of Lords, leader of The United Kingdom's war effort in the first half of World War I (b. September 12, 1852) #dies in the morning, aged 75, at The Wharf, one of the three buildings (The Wharf, Walton House and Mill House) of a complex of buildings bought and expanded by his wife Margot Asquith in Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England. He was buried, at his own wish, with great simplicity, in the churchyard of All Saints' at Sutton Courtenay, his gravestone recording his name, title, and the dates of his birth and death. A blue plaque records his long residence at 20 Cavendish Square and a memorial tablet was subsequently erected in Westminster Abbey. Viscount Grey, with Haldane Asquith's oldest political friend, wrote, "I have felt (his) death very much: it is true that his work was done but we were very close together for so many years. I saw the beginning of his Parliamentary life; and to witness the close is the end of a long chapter of my own." Asquith's will was proved on June 9, 1928, with his estate amounting to 9345 PS (roughly 599,011 PS in 2021). H. H. Asquith was born Herbert Henry Asquith in Morley, a market town in The West Riding Of Yorkshire, one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. He was the younger son of Joseph Dixon Asquith (1825-1860) and his wife Emily, nee Willans (1828-1888). The couple also had three daughters, of whom only one survived infancy. The Asquiths were an old Yorkshire family, with a long nonconformist tradition. Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl Of Oxford And Asquith, KG (Order Of The Garter), PC (Privy Council), KC (King's Counsel), FRS (Fellowship of the Royal Society) took Great Britain and the British Empire into the First World Warin August 1914. During 1915, his government was vigorously attacked for a shortage of munitions and the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign. He formed a coalition government with other parties but failed to satisfy critics, was forced to resign in December 1916 and never regained power. After attending Balliol College, Oxford, he became a successful barrister. In 1886, he was the Liberal candidate for East Fife, a seat he held for over thirty years. In 1892, he was appointed as Home Secretary in Gladstone's fourth ministry, remaining in the post until the Liberals lost the 1895 election. In the decade of opposition that followed, Asquith became a major figure in the party, and when the Liberals regained power under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1905, Asquith was named Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1908, Asquith succeeded him as prime minister. The Liberals were determined to advance their reform agenda. An impediment to this was the House of Lords, which rejected the People's Budget of 1909. Meanwhile, the South Africa Act 1909 passed. Asquith called an election for January 1910, and the Liberals won, though they were reduced to a minority government. After another general election in December 1910, he gained passage of the Parliament Act 1911, allowing a bill three times passed by the Commons in consecutive sessions to be enacted regardless of the Lords. Asquith was less successful in dealing with Irish Home Rule. Repeated crises led to gun running and violence, verging on civil war. When Britain declared war on Germany in response to the German invasion of Belgium, high-profile domestic conflicts were suspended regarding Ireland and women's suffrage. Asquith was more of a committee chair than a dynamic leader. He oversaw national mobilization, the dispatch of the British Expeditionary Force to the Western Front, the creation of a mass army, and the development of an industrial strategy designed to support the country's war aims. The war became bogged down and the demand rose for better leadership. He was forced to form a coalition with the Conservatives and Labour early in 1915. He was weakened by his own indecision over strategy, conscription, and financing. Lloyd George replaced him as prime minister in December 1916. They became bitter enemies and fought for control of the fast-declining Liberal Party. His role in creating the modern British welfare state (1906-1911) has been celebrated, but his weaknesses as a war leader and as a party leader after 1914 have been highlighted by historians. He remained the only Prime Minister between 1827 and 1979 to serve more than eight consecutive years in a single term. His great grandaughter is English actress Helena Bonham Carter. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-war-dvd-set-1964-wwi-tv-series-26-shows-1964266.html

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Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! James R. Schlesinger, American economist, public servant and politician, 12th United States Secretary Of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973 under President Nixon, CIA Director for a few months in 1973 under Nixon, and America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter in 1977, serving until 1979 (d. March 27, 2014) is #born James Rodney Schlesinger in New York City, the son of a Lithuanian emigrant Jewish mother from what was then part of the Russian Empire and an Austrian Jewish imigrant father. He converted to Lutheranism in his early twenties. While Secretary of Defense, he opposed amnesty for draft resisters and pressed for development of more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems. Additionally, his support for the A-10 and the lightweight fighter program (later the F-16) helped ensure that they were carried to completion. James R. Schlesinger died at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland of complications from pneumonia, aged 85. He is buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Springfield, Ohio. https://store.earthstation1.com/secret-intelligence-us-espionage-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! John B. Anderson, American soldier, lawyer, politician, United States Congressman and 1980 US presidential candidate (d. December 3, 2017) is #born John Bayard Anderson in Rockford, Illinois. As a member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 through 1981. In 1980, he ran an independent campaign for president, taking 6.6% of the popular vote. Born in Rockford, Illinois, Anderson practiced law after serving in the Army during World War II. After a stint in the United States Foreign Service, he won election as the State's Attorney for Winnebago County, Illinois. He won election to the House of Representatives in 1960 in a strongly Republican district. Initially one of the most conservative members of the House, Anderson's views moderated during the 1960s, particularly regarding social issues. He became Chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1969 and remained in that position until 1979. He strongly criticized the Vietnam War as well as President Richard Nixon's actions during the Watergate scandal. Anderson entered the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, introducing his signature campaign proposal of raising the gas tax while cutting social security taxes. He established himself as a contender for the nomination in the early primaries, but eventually dropped out of the Republican race, choosing to pursue an independent campaign for president. In the election, he finished third behind Republican nominee Ronald Reagan and Democratic President Jimmy Carter. He won support among Rockefeller Republicans, independents, liberal intellectuals, and college students. After the election, he resumed his legal career and helped found FairVote, an organization that advocates electoral reforms such as instant-runoff voting. He also won a lawsuit against the state of Ohio, Anderson v. Celebrezze, in which the Supreme Court struck down early filing deadlines for independent candidates. Anderson served as a visiting professor at numerous universities and was on the boards of several organizations. He endorsed Ralph Nader in 2000 and helped found the Justice Party in 2012. Anderson died on December 3, 2017 in Washington D.C. at the age of 95. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. #JohnBAnderson #The1980USPresidentialElection #USCongressmen #RepublicanParty #GOP #Illinois16thCongressionalDistrict #IndependentPolitician #PresidentialCandidates #AmericanHistory #USHistory #HistoryOfTheUS #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/presidential-campaign-tv-ads-19521984-dvds-2-dual-la195219842.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Complete Kennedy-Nixon Debates All 4 + Bonus Doc DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Howard K. Smith, American broadcast journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, antifascist and film actor (b. May 12, 1914) #dies of pneumonia in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 87. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys, the CBS radio broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his time at the network, most notably in the years before and during World War II, who achieved nationwide fame, and inadvertently became early examples of "celebrity journalism" in the days of radio and early television news. Smith was born Howard Kingsbury Smith in Ferriday, Louisiana to Howard K. Smith, a nightwatchman descended from a poor "gentleman-farming" family of Lettsworth, Pointe Coupee Parish (north of Baton Rouge), and the former Minnie Gates, the daughter of a Cajun riverboat pilot. Smith worked his way through Tulane University in New Orleans, studying German and journalism. After his graduation in 1936, with both Bachelor of Arts degrees, he signed on as a deckhand with a ship bound for Germany, where he briefly studied at Heidelberg University. In 1936, he spent a year as a reporter in New Orleans before securing a Rhodes Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1939. Smith became active in student politics, mostly protesting Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's seemingly soft attitude toward Nazism. While at Oxford, he was the first American to chair the Oxford University Labour Club, founded in 1919 to promote democratic socialism and is today the home of the Labour Party and of social democracy at Oxford University. Upon graduating, Smith worked for the New Orleans Item, with United Press in London, and with The New York Times. In January 1940, Smith was sent to Berlin, where he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Nazi propaganda in his reports, the Gestapo seized his notebooks and expelled him from the country. He left for Switzerland on December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was one of the last American reporters to leave Berlin before Germany and the United States went to war. His 1942 book, Last Train from Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War describes his observations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author William L. Shirer. Last Train from Berlin became an American best-seller and was reprinted in 2001, shortly before Smith's death. Unable to leave Switzerland, where he and his young wife spent most of the war, Smith reported whatever the Swiss government would permit. After the liberation of France, he began reporting on Germany and central Europe from Berne. By the winter of 1944-1945, he began sending vivid radio accounts of the German counter-attack in the Ardennes known as the Battle Of The Bulge, and he accompanied Allied forces across the Rhine River and into Berlin. Smith became a significant member of the "Murrow Boys" that made CBS the dominant broadcast news organization of the era. In May 1945, he returned to Berlin to recap the German surrender. In 1946, Smith went to London for CBS with the title of chief European correspondent. In 1947, he made a long broadcasting tour of most of the nations of Europe, including behind the Iron Curtain. In 1949, Knopf published his The State of Europe, a 408-page country-by-country survey of Europe that drew on these experiences and that argued "both the American and the Russian policies are mistaken"; he advocated more "social reform" for Western Europe and more "political liberty" for Eastern Europe. Despite these criticisms of Soviet policies, Smith was one of 151 alleged Communist sympathizers named in the Red Channels report issued in June 1950 at the beginning of the Red Scare, effectively placing him on the Hollywood blacklist. In 1959, Smith hosted a 21-week public affairs series entitled Behind the News with Howard K. Smith. Topics included Nikita Khrushchev (a two-parter), the St. Lawrence Seaway, Fidel Castro, and unemployment in distressed areas. In 1960, having established residence earlier in Bethesda, Maryland, Smith chaired the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. In late 1961, Smith left his job at CBS when a dispute erupted over a documentary called Who Speaks for Birmingham?. This in-depth investigation concerned the battle between civil rights forces and the police of Birmingham, Alabama. Smith, an advocate of desegregation, concluded his commentary at the end of the program by recalling the admonition commonly attributed to Edmund Burke-"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Smith was told to remove the Burke quote from the end of the broadcast. Network president and founder William S. Paley declined to support Smith over the matter, and Smith promptly left the network after twenty years of service. Smith declared that his hatred of discrimination stemmed from living in the acially segregated American South and from watching the Nazis in Europe during the world war. Smith moved to ABC at a time its news division was a distant third among the Big Three networks. After the 1962 mid-term elections, Smith presented a documentary entitled, "The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon" as part of his Howard K. Smith: News and Comment series (1962-1963). Smith referred to Nixon's "last press conference" after his disastrous losing campaign against Democrat Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr., for governor of California. In that exchange, the former vice president famously told reporters that they would not "have Nixon to kick around any more." Smith included in the broadcast an interview with Nixon's longstanding nemesis Alger Hiss, a convicted Cold War perjurer. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment aired in the 10:30 Eastern slot on Sundays, opposite CBS's long-running quiz program What's My Line? hosted by John Charles Daly, who had been the first-ever ABC news anchor. ABC stood by Smith on the Nixon "obituary", but sponsors dried up for the program thereafter. It was revived in the 1963-1964 season as simply ABC News Reports. Smith was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 and was subsequently revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley. On June 5, 1968, Smith and fellow newsman Bill Lawrence were anchoring coverage of the California presidential primary that had stretched to 3 am. New York time. As the closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York had been shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaotic newsroom for several minutes until Smith was able to confirm the initial story and go back on the air with a special report. He and Lawrence continued at their anchor desks for several more hours for reports of Kennedy's condition. In the summer of 1968, Smith moderated a series of debates on ABC between conservative journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal. In 1969, the veteran reporter became the co-anchor of the ABC Evening News, first with Frank Reynolds, then the following year with another CBS alumnus, Harry Reasoner. He began making increasingly conservative commentaries, in particular a hard-line stance in support of the Vietnam War. He contrasted United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preemptive action against Hitler. During this period, his son, future ABC newsman, Jack Smith (April 25, 1945 - April 7, 2004), was serving with the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment in South Vietnam and fought at the Battle of Ia Drang. These commentaries endeared him to President Nixon, who rewarded him with a rare, hour-long, one-on-one interview in 1971, at the height of the administration's animus against major newspapers, CBS, and NBC, despite Smith's having broadcast his "political obituary" only nine years earlier. During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to Democratic United States Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie. The endorsement was written on stationery with ABC's letterhead. Nothing ever came of this controversy, however, and Smith kept his job. Notwithstanding his past temporary friendly relations with Nixon (who defeated U.S. United States Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for re-election), Smith became the first national television commentator to call for Nixon's resignation over Watergate. Smith remained as co-anchor at ABC until 1975, after which Reasoner anchored solo until Barbara Walters joined the broadcast a year later. Smith continued as an analyst until 1979; he left the network nearing full retirement, and as the Roone Arledge era was beginning at ABC News. Sources say that Smith was embittered over the reduction in time allowed for his commentaries and hence resigned after he criticized the revamped World News Tonight format as a "Punch and Judy show." Among honors which Smith received over the years were DuPont Awards in 1955 and 1963, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for radio journalism in 1957, and an award from the American Jewish Congress in 1960. In 1962 he received the Paul White Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association. Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself; The Best Man (1964), The Candidate (1972), The President's Plane Is Missing (1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name), Nashville (1975), Network (1976), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), "The Odd Candidate" (1974) episode of the television series The Odd Couple (playing himself), the "Kill Oscar" episode (1977) of The Bionic Woman (playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast), and both V (1983) and the subsequent 1984 television series. He appeared as the Narrator in the 1987 film Escape From Sobibor. Along with Last Train from Berlin, he wrote three other books, The Population Explosion (1960), the children's book Washington, D.C.: The Story of our Nation's Capital (1967), and a memoir Events Leading Up to My Death: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Reporter (1996). Smith's son, Jack, as an ABC correspondent received Peabody and Emmy awards for his coverage of technology; he was 58 when he died in 2004 of pancreatic cancer in Marin County, Calif. Smith also had a daughter, Catherine H. Smith of Los Angeles, by his March 1942 marriage to the former Benedicte "Bennie" Traberg (September 25, 1921 - October 29, 2008), a journalist originally from Denmark whom Smith called the most impressive person he had ever known, "far above presidents and generals." There were three grandchildren. Catherine Smith, who wrote her mother's obituary, quoted from Smith's 1996 memoirs Events Leading Up to My Death, that their relationship "was born in an atmosphere of acute crisis." With World War II heating up, recalled Catherine Smith, and both of them heading out of the German capital, they decided to marry just four days after their first date. Her young age required her return to Nazi-occupied Denmark for parental approval and the Danish queen's intervention to obtain travelling papers, but the couple reunited successfully three months later in Berne, Switzerland." Mrs. Bennie Smith managed her husband's career, handled the finances and investments, and helped with the processing of his publications. Catherine Smith noted that her mother was the one most responsible for the development of his patrician demeanor. "She was a formidable presence at his side and major force behind his success. She edited all his books and articles, and was his agent, negotiating all his broadcasting and other contracts. She arranged every aspect of what, in later years, became a very lucrative speaking career. When my parents traveled on the lecture circuit, she once laughingly told a Lansing, Mich. paper...: 'My husband never knows where his trips will take him .... It's not until we get ready to board the plane that he'll inquire 'Where are we going?' and then I will tell him.'" The Smiths lived at their Potomac River home in Bethesda, Md. from 1958 until his 2002 death from pneumonia, after which Mrs. Smith relocated to a condominium on Marco Island, Fla. She died at 87 of complications from hydrocephalus. The Smiths are interred at historic Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-kennedynixon-debate-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Leningrad: The Hero City Documentary On WWII DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II (The Great Patriotic War, The German-Soviet War): The Narva Offensive (February 15-28, 1944): -- The Narva Offensive begins, a campaign fought between the German army detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front for the strategically important Narva Isthmus. At the time of the operation, Stalin was personally interested in taking Estonia, viewing it as a precondition for forcing Finland out of the war. The 2nd Shock Army expanded the bridgehead in the Krivasoo swamp south of Narva, temporally cutting the railway behind the Sponheimer Group. Army General Leonid Govorov was unable to take advantage of the opportunity of encircling the smaller German army group which called in reinforcements. These came mostly from the newly mobilised Estonians who were motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation. The Soviet 30th Guards Rifle Corps and the 124th Rifle Corps, which resumed the Soviet operation, were exhausted by the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps in ferocious battles. The offensive was halted on February 20. Symbolically coinciding with the Estonian Independence Day on February 24, the fresh 45th and 46th SS Waffen Grenadier Regiments (1st and 2nd Estonian), destroyed the Soviet Riigikula bridgehead north of Narva. https://store.earthstation1.com/leningrad-the-hero-city-dvd-cities-at-war-wwii-russia.html

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Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP! Ethel Merman, American actress and singer, known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and for leading roles in musical theatre, known as "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage" (b. January 16, 1908) #dies of brain cancer at her home in Manhattan at the age of 76. On the evening of Merman's death, all 36 theatres on Broadway dimmed their lights at 9 pm in her honor. A private funeral service for Merman was held in a chapel at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on February 27, after which Merman was cremated at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel. In accordance with her wishes, Merman's remains were given to her son Robert Jr. Merman was interred in the Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, next to her daughter Ethel. Ethel Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann at 359 4th Avenue (today 33rd Street just off 36th Avenue) in Astoria, Queens in New York City in 1908, but later insisted that the year was 1912. Over her distinguished career in theater, she became famous for her performances in shows such as Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, and Hello, Dolly! She is also known for her film roles, in Anything Goes (1936), Call Me Madam (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Among many accolades, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Call Me Madam, a Grammy Award for Gypsy and Drama Desk Award for Hello, Dolly! Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm" (from Girl Crazy); "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Some People", and "Rose's Turn" (from Gypsy-Merman starred as Rose in the original 1959 Broadway production); and the Cole Porter songs "It's De-Lovely" (from Red, Hot and Blue), "Friendship" (from Du Barry Was a Lady), and "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", and "Anything Goes" (from Anything Goes). The Irving Berlin song "There's No Business Like Show Business", written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun, became Merman's signature song. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-andrews-sisters-old-time-radio-mp3-c3.html

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Today, February 15, 2026
February 15, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Raquel Welch, American actress, model, cultural icon, sex symbol and beauty (b. September 5, 1940) #dies of cardiac arrest at her home in Los Angeles while suffering from Alzheimer's disease, aged 82. Her remains were cremated by Gorman Mortuary Inc. in the heart of the the historic downtown Los Angeles area, and her ashes were given to her daughter Tahnee Welch. Raquel Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo, an aeronautical engineer from La Paz, Bolivia from a family of Spanish descent, and Josephine Sarah Hall, the daughter of architect Emery Stanford Hall and his wife Clara Louise Adams, a family of English ancestry. Welch was named after her paternal grandmother. Her cousin, Bolivian politician Lidia Gueiler Tejada, became the first female president of Bolivia and the second female non-royal head of state in the Americas. Welch had a younger brother, James "Jim" Tejada, and a younger sister, Gayle Tejada. Welch first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials. Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell. Her love scene with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles also made cinematic history with their portrayal of interracial intimacy. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance in The Three Musketeers (1973). She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in the film Right to Die (1987). Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list. https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html

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Today, February 15, 2026
February 15: National Black Girl Magic Day: -- Observed annually in the United States, the day celebrates the beauty, power, and resilience of Black women. The day also raises awareness of the issues faced by Black women, especially those that are discriminatory or racist. Activists look at corporate, medical, cultural, and social aspects of America and how they affect Black women. National Black Girl Magic Day hopes to bring change by example and create a future where every Black girl and woman gets equal representation to their White counterparts. Happy National Black Girl Magic Day to everyone! https://store.earthstation1.com/chasing-a-rainbow-the-life-of-josephine-baker-dvd.html