Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Feb. 15. Discovery of a human skull in a wooded area near a crematory in northwest Georgia on this date led investigators to an unbelievable find. They found remains of another body, then another and another. By the time they finished, more than 300 bodies had been found, bodies that had been sent by funeral homes to the Tri-State Crematory for cremation but instead were stacked in sheds and in the woods. Relatives even received urns supposedly containing ashes. The manager of the crematory, Ray Brent Marsh, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of theft by deception. Advertisement "Remember the Maine!" On this date in 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded while at anchor in Havana harbor, killing 260 members of the crew and leading to a U.S. declaration of war against Spain. That -- despite a lack of evidence that Spain had anything to do with the blast, which may have been caused by poorly stored munitions aboard the ship and not by any criminal act. A bullet meant for President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt instead hit Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak on this date in 1933 in Miami. Cermak was killed. The assassin -- Giuseppe Zangara, 32, often described in historical accounts as a "fanatic" -- was convicted of the crime and executed a month later. Advertisement On this day in 1990, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was indicted on perjury and drug possession charges. Barry had been nabbed -- allegedly caught on videotape smoking crack -- during a drug sting. Upon his release from jail, Barry ran again for mayor -- and won. And in 1997, Tara Lipinski, age 14, became the youngest U.S. Figure Skating Champion when she defeated defending women's champion Michelle Kwan. A year later, Lipinski would shine at the 1998 Winter Olympics, bringing home the gold and becoming the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
