On this day: February 14

2010: Jockey-turned-crime-novelist Dick Francis, who wrote more than 40 international best-sellers, usually centered around horse racing in England, dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

2008: Former Northern Illinois University student Steven Kazmierczak opens fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb, Illinois, school, killing five people and injuring 21 more before committing suicide.

2004: In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the glass roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people and wounding more than 100 others. Engineer Nodar Kancheli, who had designed the structure, first claimed that terrorists likely attacked the attraction, but the cause turned out to be a faulty design.

2003: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult in 1996, is put to death at age 6 because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis.

2000: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. The spacecraft would orbit the asteroid several more times before finally terminating its mission by touching down on the asteroid on Feb. 12, 2001.

1999: John Ehrlichman, who was counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs under President Richard Nixon, dies of complications from diabetes at the age of 73 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ehrlichman was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. He served a year and a half in prison for his crimes.

1992: The comedy "Wayne's World," starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, opens in theaters. The movie, based off a popular "Saturday Night Live" sketch, grossed $121.6 million in its theatrical run, placing it as the 10th highest-grossing film of 1992 and the highest-grossing film ever based on a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Director Penelope Spheeris is seen here at a reunion of the film's cast in April 2013.

1989: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie (pictured), the author of "The Satanic Verses," calling the book "blasphemous against Islam."