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quee basketball stars and big-name coaches into 10 championship teams. His financial wizardry allowed him to pay top dollar to get the best players and keep them together without a huge personal fortune.
• Buss built a glittering life for himself and the Lakers, playing a huge role in the NBA's move from a second-tier pro sport into can't-miss Hollywood entertainment while polishing his oddly nicknamed franchise into a glamorous global brand.
• Magic, Kareem and Big Game James. Kobe, Shaq and Pau.
• They were the stars, but Buss created Showtime.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2013. There are 315 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 19, 1963, the book "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, credited with reviving American feminism, was first published by W.W. Norton & Co.
• On this date:
• In 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
• In 1803, Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution.
• In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr, accused of treason, was arrested in the Mississippi Territory, in present-day Alabama. (Burr was acquitted at trial.)
• In 1846, the Texas state government was formally installed in Austin, with J. Pinckney Henderson taking the oath of office as governor.
• In 1878, Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for "an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines."
• In 1881, Kansas prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
• In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the U.S. military to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans. Japanese warplanes raided the Australian city of Darwin; at least 243 people were killed.
• In 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they began a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.
• In 1959, an agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence.
• In 1976, calling the issuing of Executive Order 9066 "a sad day in American history," President Gerald R. Ford issued a proclamation confirming that the order had (Continued on page 25)
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