Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2016. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.

Today’s birthdays: Former Illinois Representative and presidential candidate John Anderson is 94. Actress Claire Bloom is 85. Songwriter Brian Holland is 75. Actress-model Marisa Berenson is 69. Actress Jane Seymour is 65. Singer Melissa Manchester is 65. ‘‘Simpsons’’ creator Matt Groening is 62.

In 1764, the site of present-day St. Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.

In 1898, the US battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.

In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that killed Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was later executed.

In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member US figure skating team going to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, died in the crash of a Sabena Airlines flight in Belgium.

In 1982, 84 men were killed when the oil-drilling rig Ocean Ranger, sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm.

In 1989, the Soviet Union announced the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after nine years of military intervention.

In 2011, protesters swarmed Wisconsin’s capitol after Governor Scott Walker proposed cutbacks in benefits and abolishing bargaining rights for most public employees.

Last year, a video purporting to show the mass beheading of Egyptian Coptic Christian hostages was released by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State.