Event:
Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
More Notable Events on February 15: 1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
