1895: Oscar Wilde's final play, ''The Importance of Being Earnest,'' opened at the St. James's Theatre in London.
1929: The ''St. Valentine's Day Massacre'' took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
1959: The state Legislature was considering raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes to 5 cents.
1986: Aberdeen's See Radio Shack was offering daisy wheel printers for $599.99.
1989: Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of ''The Satanic Verses,'' a novel condemned as blasphemous.
2006: Attorney Harry Whittington, the man accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney, suffered a mild heart attack when a shotgun pellet traveled to his heart, but he later recovered.
Source: Dacotah Prairie Museum and The Associated Press
