Feb. 14 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1779, British navigator and explorer James Cook, first known European to reach the Hawaiian Islands, was stabbed to death by island natives while investigating the theft of a boat. In 1849, James Polk became the first U.S. president to be photographed while in office. The photographer was Mathew Brady, who is famous for his Civil War pictures. In 1859, Oregon was admitted as the 33rd member of the United States. In 1903, U.S. President Theodore