On This Day:
Monday February 16, 2015 This is the 47th day of the year, with 318 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: lying and perjury Perjury is willful, knowing, and corrupt giving under oath of false testimony regarded as material to the issue or point of inquiry. All elements of the crime are essential for conviction. Criminal intent is required; a person who makes a false statement and then later corrects himself has not committed perjury. The testimony must be material to the issue of inquiry, since perjury on a point not material can be no more than a misdemeanor and may not be punished at all. The giving of false testimony under oath distinguishes perjury from criminal contempt. The latter is an obstruction of the administration of justice, usually in violation of an order of the court. Some perjuries that have the effect of obstructing the adjudication of a case may be given increased punishment for that reason. Generally, however, punishment is directed less against the effect of the perjury than against the disregard of the oath itself. Thus, a man who perjures himself numerous times during the ad judication of one case may be convicted of only a single perjury, though his punishment may be increased. One who knows of another's perjury and does not make his information known to authorities may be convicted of a separate offense of subornation of perjury. This offense covers anyone who is implicated in the perjury.
Holidays Feast day of Flavian, St. Juliana of Cumae, St. Onesimus the Slave, St. Gilbert of Sempringham, and Saints Elias, Jeremy, and their Companions.
Lithuania: Independence Day.
Events 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
1862 - During the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1868 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized, in New York City.
1918 - Lithuania proclaimed its independence.
1923 - The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham, for a peach tree.
1937 - Dupont patented a new thread, nylon.
1948 - NBC-TV presented the first daily newsreel telecast: "20th Century Fox - Movietone News."
1959 - Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile.
1968 - The nation's first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Alabama.
1985 - Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin issued Hezbollah's manifesto.
2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
Births 1893 - Katherine Cornell, the American stage actress who was called the "First Lady of the American Theater."
1903 - Edgar Bergen (born Edgar Bergren), American actor, ventriloquist, radio star.
1935 - Sonny Bono (born Salvatore Phillip Bono), American entertainer and congressman.
1959 - John McEnroe, American professional tennis player.
Deaths 1823 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter.
2007 - Robert Adler, co-inventor of the TV remote control.
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