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February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 320 days remaining, 321 in Leap Year s.
Events
- 842 - Charles The Bald and Louis The German swear the Oaths Of Strasbourg in French and German language.
- 1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry Of Bavaria as King of Germany .
- 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor .
- 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a Heretic .
- 1575 - Henry III Of France marries Louise De Lorraine-Vaudémont .
- 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister .
- 1779 - James Cook is killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands .
- 1797 - John Jervis, 1st Earl Of St Vincent & Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in the Battle Of Cape St. Vincent near Gibraltar .
- 1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
- 1804 - Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire .
- 1831 - Ras Marye Of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills dejjazmatch Sabagadis in the Battle Of Debre Abbay .
- 1843 - The event that inspired the song '' Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! '' is held.
- 1849 - In New York City , James Knox Polk becomes the first President Of The United States to have his Photograph taken.
- 1854 - Texas is linked by Telegraph with the rest of the United States , when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed.
- 1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. State .
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a Patent for the Telephone ,as does Elisha Gray .
- 1879 - The War Of The Pacific breaks out when Chile an armed forces occupy the Bolivia n port city of Antofagasta .
- 1886 - First trainload of Orange s left Los Angeles via the Transcontinental Railroad .
- 1895 - First performance of Oscar Wilde 's last play '' The Importance Of Being Earnest '' at the St James's Theatre in London ).
- 1899 - Voting Machine s are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal Election s.
- 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
- 1900 - , 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State .
- 1903 - The United States Department Of Commerce And Labor is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and Dept. Of Labor ).
- 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. State .
- 1912 - In Groton, Connecticut , the first Diesel -powered Submarine is commissioned.
- 1918 - '' Tarzan Of The Apes ,'' The First Movie featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan character, is released.
- 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian Calendar ( 1 February according to the Julian Calendar ).
- 1919 - The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- 1920 - The League Of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois .
- 1924 - The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.
- rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois .
- , Russia is liberated.
- 1943 - World War II: The Battle Of The Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia .
- ese revolt on Java .
- 1945 - On the second day of the Bombing Of Dresden In World War II the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin Fire-bomb ing Dresden , the capital of the German state of Saxony .
- 1945 - Bombing Of Prague - probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
- 1945 - Chile , Ecuador , Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations .
- 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS ''Quincy'' , officially starting the U.S. - Saudi diplomatic relationship.
- 1945 - Fascism was destroyed in City of Mostar,Bosnia and Herzegovina(then:Yugoslavia) thanks to partisans(Dalmatinaska birgada,Hercegovacka divizija).
- 1946 - The Bank Of England is nationalized.
- 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic Computer , is unveiled at the University Of Pennsylvania .
- 1949 - The Knesset ( Israel i parliament) first convenes.
- 1949 - The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada . The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec .
- 1952 - VI Olympic Winter Games open in Oslo , Norway .
- 1956 - The XX Congress of the Communist Party Of The Soviet Union starts in Moscow . In the last night of the meeting, in a secret session, Premier Nikita Khruschev condemns Josef Stalin 's crimes.
- , Lawrencium , is first synthesized at the University Of California .
- 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes Television viewers on a tour of the White House .
- 1966 - Australian currency is Decimalised .
- 1979 - In Kabul , Muslim extremists kidnap the American Ambassador to Afghanistan , Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
- 1980 - XIII Olympic Winter Games open in Lake Placid, New York .
- 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the '' CBS Evening News ''.
- 1981 - Stardust Disaster . A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
- 1985 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon .
- 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the India n government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster .
- 1989 - Iran ian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a Fatwa encouraging Muslim s to kill the author of '' The Satanic Verses '', Salman Rushdie .
- 1989 - The first of 24 Satellite s of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
- 1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama Abortion clinic bombing.
- 2000 - The spacecraft '' NEAR Shoemaker '' enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros , the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
- 2002 - '' The Tullaghmurray Lass '' sinks off the coast of Kilkeel , County Down , Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board.
- 2004 - 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.
- 2005 - Lebanon 's former Prime Minister , Rafik Hariri , is assassinated, prompting the Cedar Revolution ( Intifada Of Independence ).
- 2005 - Seven people were 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 .
Births
- 1404 - Leone Battista Alberti , Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472 )
- 1483 - Zahir Al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah , Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530 )
- 1602 - Francesco Cavalli , Italian composer (d. 1676 )
- 1680 - John Sidney, 6th Earl Of Leicester , English privy councillor (d. 1737 )
- 1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle De La Chaussée , French writer (d. 1754 )
- 1701 - Enrique Florez , Spanish historian (d. 1773 )
- 1763 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau , French general (d. 1813 )
- 1766 - Thomas Malthus , English economist (d. 1834 )
- 1812 - Alfred Thomas Agate , American artist (d. 1846 )
- 1817 - Frederick Douglas adopted as his birthday (d. 1895 )
- 1819 - Joshua A. Norton , Emperor Norton I of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico (d. 1880 )
- 1846 - Julian Scott , American Civil War artist and Civil War Medal Of Honor recipient.
- 1847 - Anna Howard Shaw , American women's suffrage leader (d. 1919 )
- 1848 - Benjamin Baillaud , French astronomer (d. 1934 )
- 1856 - Frank Harris , Irish author and editor (d. 1931 )
- 1869 - Charles Wilson , Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959 )
- 1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn , missionary (d. 1972 )
- 1890 - Nina Hamnett , Welsh artist (d. 1956 )
- 1894 - Jack Benny , American actor and comedian (d. 1974 )
- 1895 - Max Horkheimer , German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973 )
- 1898 - Fritz Zwicky , Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974 )
- 1903 - Stu Erwin , American actor (d. 1967 )
- 1905 - Thelma Ritter , American actress (d. 1969 )
- 1912 - Tibor Sekelj , Croatian explorer (d. 1988 )
- 1913 - Mel Allen , American sports reporter (d. 1996 )
- 1913 - Woody Hayes , American college football coach (d. 1987 )
- 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa , American labor union leader (disappeared 1975 )
- 1916 - Masaki Kobayashi , Japanese director (d. 1996 )
- 1916 - Edward Platt , American actor (d. 1974 )
- 1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman , American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- 1921 - Hugh Downs , American television host
- 1927 - Lois Maxwell , Canadian actress
- 1929 - Vic Morrow , actor (d. 1982 )
- 1931 - Bernie Geoffrion , Canadian hockey player (d. 2006 )
- 1931 - Brian Kelly , American actor (d. 2005 )
- 1932 - Alexander Kluge , German actor and film director
- 1933 - Madhubala , Indian actress (d. 1969 )
- 1934 - Michel Corboz , Swiss conductor
- 1934 - Florence Henderson , American actress
- 1936 - Fanne Foxe , Argentine dancer
- 1936 - Andrew Prine , American actor
- 1941 - Donna Shalala , American politician, educator
- 1941 - Paul Tsongas , U.S. Senator (d. 1997 )
- 1942 - Michael Bloomberg , Mayor of New York City
- 1942 - Andrew Robinson , actor
- 1943 - Maceo Parker , American musician ( P-Funk )
- 1944 - Carl Bernstein , American journalist
- 1944 - Alan Parker , British film director and writer
- 1945 - Frank Welker , American actor
- 1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo , President Of Nauru (d. 2003 )
- 1946 - Gregory Hines , American dancer and actor (d. 2003 )
- 1948 - Pat O'Brien , American sportscaster and television host
- 1948 - Teller , American magician ( Penn And Teller )
- 1951 - Kevin Keegan , Liverpool Footballer
- 1951 - JoJo Starbuck , American ice skater. Married Terry Bradshaw .
- 1959 - Renee Fleming , Canadian soprano
- 1960 - Jim Kelly , American football player
- 1960 - Meg Tilly , Canadian actress
- 1962 - Kevyn Aucoin , American cosmetologist (d. 2002 )
- 1962 - Philippe Sella , French rugby player
- 1963 - Enrico Colantoni , Canadian actor
- 1963 - Zach Galligan , American actor
- 1967 - Manuela Maleeva , Bulgarian tennis player
- 1968 - Jules Asner , American model and television personality
- 1970 - Simon Pegg , British comedian, writer, and actor
- 1971 - Noriko Sakai , Japanese singer
- 1972 - Drew Bledsoe , American football player
- 1972 - Hiroshi , Japanese comedian
- 1972 - Rob Thomas , American musician ( Matchbox Twenty )
- 1973 - Steve McNair , American football player
- 1978 - Richard Hamilton , American basketball player
- 1979 - Antonio Chatman , American football player
- 1980 - Fatima Leyva , Mexican footballer
- 1985 - Philippe Senderos , Swiss footballer
- 1992 - Freddie Highmore , British actor
- 1994 - Paul Butcher Jr. , American actor
- 1991 - Matt Bullman , American Skateboarder
Deaths
- 1317 - Marguerite Of France , queen of Edward I Of England (b. 1282 )
- 1400 - King Richard II Of England (murdered) (b. 1367 )
- 1405 - Timur , Mongol conqueror (b. 1336 )
- 1523 - Pope Adrian VI
- 1676 - Abraham Bosse , French engraver and artist
- 1737 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot Of Hensol , Lord Chancellor Of Great Britain (b. 1685 )
- 1744 - John Hadley , inventor (b. 1682 )
- 1779 - James Cook , British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728 )
- 1780 - William Blackstone , English jurist (b. 1723 )
- 1808 - John Dickinson , American lawyer and Governor Of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732 )
- 1831 - Vicente Guerrero , Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782 )
- 1831 - Henry Maudslay , English inventor (b. 1771 )
- 1885 - Jules Vallès , French writer (b. 1832 )
- 1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman , Civil War General (b. 1820 )
- 1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan , Belgian mathematician (b. 1814 )
- 1929 - Tom Burke , American runner (b. 1875 )
- 1943 - Dora Gerson , German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899 )
- 1943 - David Hilbert , German mathematician (b. 1862 )
- 1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf , Iraqi communist leader
- 1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar , veteran leader of Pakistan Movement , (b. 1899 )
- 1959 - Baby Dodds , American jazz drummer (b. 1898 )
- 1969 - Vito Genovese , American gangster (b. 1897 )
- 1970 - Herbert Strudwick , English cricketer (b. 1880 ).
- 1974 - Stewie Dempster , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903 )
- 1975 - Julian Huxley , British biologist (b. 1887 )
- 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse , English writer (b. 1881 )
- 1979 - Adolph Dubs , American diplomat (b. 1920 )
- 1983 - Lina Radke , German athlete (b. 1903 )
- 1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky , Russian composer (b. 1904 )
- 1988 - Frederick Loewe , Austrian-American composer (b. 1901 )
- 1989 - James Bond , American ornithologist (b. 1900 )
- 1994 - Andrei Chikatilo , Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936 )
- 1994 - Michael V. Gazzo , American actor (b. 1923 )
- 1995 - U Nu , Burmese politician (b. 1907 )
- 1999 - John Ehrlichman , American presidential advisor (b. 1925 )
- 2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti , Hungarian footballer (b. 1922 )
- 2003 - Dolly The Sheep , first cloned mammal (b. 1996 )
- 2003 - Johnny Longden , English jockey (b. 1907 )
- 2004 - Marco Pantani , Italian cyclist (b. 1970 )
- 2005 - Najai Turpin , American boxer
- 2005 - Rafik Hariri , Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944 )
- 2006 - Shoshana Damari , the "Queen of Israeli song" (b. 1923 )
- 2006 - Lynden David Hall , British singer (b. 1974 )
- 2006 - Jackie Pallo , Famous British wrestler
- 2006 - Darry Cowl , French musician and actor (b. 1925 )
Holidays and observances
External links
February 13 - February 15 - January 14 - March 14 -- Historical Anniversaries
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