TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

■ On Feb. 14, 1967, Aretha Franklin recorded her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” at Atlantic Records in New York.

ON THIS DATE:

■ In 1876, inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. (The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.)

■ In 1912, Arizona became the 48th state of the

Union as President William Howard Taft signed a proclamation.

■ In 1913, labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was born in Brazil, Ind.; college football coach Woody Hayes was born in Clifton, Ohio; sports broadcaster Mel Allen was born in Birmingham, Ala.

■ In 1924, the ComputingTabulating-Recording Co. of New York was formally renamed International Business Machines Corp., or IBM.

■ In 1929, the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were gunned down.

■ In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian forces reached the Rhine River in Germany.

■ In 1984, 6-year-old Stormie Jones became the world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient when the surgery was performed at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

■ In 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” a novel condemned as blasphemous.

■ In 2012, a fire broke out at a farm prison in Honduras, killing 361 inmates.

■ In 2013, doubleamputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa; he was later convicted of murder and served nearly nine years of a sentence of 13 years and five months before being released from prison in January 2024.

■ In 2017, a former store clerk, Pedro Hernandez, was convicted in New York of murder in one of the nation’s most haunting

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