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2015 GM issues a recall of over 81,000 vehicles due to potential power steering problems; 2006 and 2007 models of the Pontiac G6, Chevrolet Malibu, and Malibu Maxx are affected.

It is St. Valentine’s feast day today.

2014 The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, now the world’s largest solar energy plant, opens in the Mojave Desert; the $2.2 billion plant, owned by Google, NRG Energy, and BrightSource energy, spans five square miles and can provide power to 140,000 homes
2014 Italy’s Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party
2013 Bankrupt carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world’s largest air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines
2013 U.S. Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi
2012 A new statue of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s late leader is unveiled in the capital of Pyongyang
2012 Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University
2011 Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas
2011 China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected
2010 Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine’s presidential election
2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1991 “Mule Bone” opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1990 Alan Ayckbourn’s “Man of the Moment,” premieres in London
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder “Satanic Verses” novelist Rushdie
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia
1982 “Night of 100 Stars” takes place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1980 “West Side Story” opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances
1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
1980 U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

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