February 14 Events |
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February 14th, 2008 (February 14 2008) | Event | Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured. | |
February 14th, 2005 (February 14 2005) | Event | Lebanon s former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the country to fall into chaos. | |
February 14th, 2005 (February 14 2005) | Event | Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City. | |
February 14th, 2004 (February 14 2004) | Event | In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. | |
February 14th, 2002 (February 14 2002) | Event | The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board. | |
February 14th, 2000 (February 14 2000) | Event | The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. | |
February 14th, 1998 (February 14 1998) | Event | Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing. | |
February 14th, 1996 (February 14 1996) | Event | China launches a Long March 3 rocket, carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite. The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village. | The Rock Quotes |
February 14th, 1994 (February 14 1994) | Event | Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting. | |
February 14th, 1990 (February 14 1990) | Event | 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India. | |
February 14th, 1989 (February 14 1989) | Event | Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. | |
February 14th, 1989 (February 14 1989) | Event | Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie. | Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes |
February 14th, 1989 (February 14 1989) | Event | The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. | |
February 14th, 1983 (February 14 1983) | Event | United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud. | |
February 14th, 1981 (February 14 1981) | Event | Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people | |
February 14th, 1979 (February 14 1979) | Event | In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. | |
February 14th, 1966 (February 14 1966) | Event | Australian currency is decimalised. | |
February 14th, 1962 (February 14 1962) | Event | First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House. | |
February 14th, 1961 (February 14 1961) | Event | Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California. | |
February 14th, 1956 (February 14 1956) | Event | The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin s crimes in a secret speech. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
February 14th, 1949 (February 14 1949) | Event | The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time. | |
February 14th, 1949 (February 14 1949) | Event | The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. | |
February 14th, 1946 (February 14 1946) | Event | The Bank of England is nationalized. | |
February 14th, 1945 (February 14 1945) | Event | World War II: On the second day of the bombing of Dresden , the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. | |
February 14th, 1945 (February 14 1945) | Event | World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden. | |
February 14th, 1945 (February 14 1945) | Event | President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship. | |
February 14th, 1945 (February 14 1945) | Event | World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. | |
February 14th, 1944 (February 14 1944) | Event | World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. | |
February 14th, 1943 (February 14 1943) | Event | World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. | |
February 14th, 1943 (February 14 1943) | Event | World War II: Battle of the Kasserine PassGerman General Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia. | Erwin Rommel Quotes |
February 14th, 1942 (February 14 1942) | Event | Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore. | |
February 14th, 1929 (February 14 1929) | Event | St. Valentine s Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois. | Al Capone Quotes |
February 14th, 1924 (February 14 1924) | Event | The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded. | |
February 14th, 1920 (February 14 1920) | Event | The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois. | |
February 14th, 1919 (February 14 1919) | Event | The Polish-Soviet War begins. | |
February 14th, 1918 (February 14 1918) | Event | The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar). | Julian Quotes |
February 14th, 1912 (February 14 1912) | Event | Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. | |
February 14th, 1912 (February 14 1912) | Event | In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned. | |
February 14th, 1903 (February 14 1903) | Event | The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor). | |
February 14th, 1900 (February 14 1900) | Event | Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country. | |
February 14th, 1900 (February 14 1900) | Event | Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State. | |
February 14th, 1899 (February 14 1899) | Event | Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections. | |
February 14th, 1879 (February 14 1879) | Event | The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta. | |
February 14th, 1876 (February 14 1876) | Event | Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
February 14th, 1859 (February 14 1859) | Event | Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. | |
February 14th, 1855 (February 14 1855) | Event | Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas. | |
February 14th, 1849 (February 14 1849) | Event | In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. | |
February 14th, 1835 (February 14 1835) | Event | The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio. | Jesus Christ Quotes |
February 14th, 1831 (February 14 1831) | Event | Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay. | |
February 14th, 1804 (February 14 1804) | Event | Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. | |
February 14th, 1803 (February 14 1803) | Event | Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void. | John Marshall Quotes |
February 14th, 1797 (February 14 1797) | Event | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. VincentJohn Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. | Horatio Nelson Quotes |
February 14th, 1779 (February 14 1779) | Event | James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. | |
February 14th, 1778 (February 14 1778) | Event | The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. | John Paul Jones Quotes |
February 14th, 1743 (February 14 1743) | Event | Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister. | |
February 14th, 1556 (February 14 1556) | Event | Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic. | |
February 14th, 1349 (February 14 1349) | Event | Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. | |
February 14th, 1076 (February 14 1076) | Event | Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. | |
February 14th, 1014 (February 14 1014) | Event | Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany. | |
February 14th, 1009 (February 14 1009) | Event | First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. | |
February 14th, 0842 (February 14 0842) | Event | Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages. | |