1989Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie. Khomeini declares Rushdie’s novel "The Satanic Verses" as blasphemous towards Islam.

2002“the first and greatest crime was the aggression itself…” Acting as his own lawyer, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic launches his defense against war crime’s charges. Milosevic’s case before international tribunal in the Netherlands faces many delays because of his poor health. More than four years later, Milosevic dies in custody while still on trial.

2003Dolly, the sheep, the first mammal clone from an adult cell is put to death at six years old. The sheep meets her end after premature aging and disease marred her short existence.

Today in history, February 14th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press