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February 22: Henry Engelhard Steinway, who was born in Germany on this date in 1797, immigrated to America and established the leading piano company in his adopted country.

February 21: Confederate agent George Nicholas Sanders, who was implicated in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was born on this date in 1812.

February 20:Charles Feltman, who took a sausage and dressed it up in a bun, thereby inventing the hot dog, died on this date in 1910.

February 19: On this date in 1859, Daniel Sickles was acquitted of murder by reason of temporary insanity; he had killed the lover of his wife, Theresa Bagioli Sickles.

February 18: Glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany (of Tiffany lamp fame) was born on this date in 1848; his father, who founded Tiffany & Co., died on this date in 1902.

February 17: On this date in 1950, Charles “Mile-A-Minute” Murphy, who in 1889 became the first person to pedal a bicycle one mile in less than one minute, died.

February 16:Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest men in America, locked up his checkbook in a safe and died on this date in 1860.

February 15: On this date in 1961, championship ice dancer turned skating judge Harold Hartshorne was killed in a plane crash in Europe that wiped out the entire United States Figure Skating Team.

February 14: Martha Bullock Roosevelt, mother to president-to-be Theodore Roosevelt, and Alice Hathaway Roosevelt, TR’s wife, died on this Valentine’s Day in 1884.

February 13: Frankie Ward, the son of an admiral, was born on this date in 1877; he died three years later and was memorialized with a monument by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French (of Lincoln Memorial fame).