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February 14
February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 320 days remaining, 321 in leap years.
Events
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1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
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1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
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1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
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1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont
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1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
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1779 - James Cook is killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
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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.
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1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
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1804 - Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
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1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
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1854 - Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed.
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1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
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1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. So did Elisha Gray.
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1879 - The War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
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1895 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St James's Theatre in London).
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1899 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
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1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
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1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
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1903 - The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and Dept. of Labor).
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1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
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1912 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
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1918 - The movie Tarzan of the Apes is released.
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1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar).
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1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
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1924 - IBM corporation founded.
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1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago.
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1943 - World War II:Rostov, Russia is liberated.
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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.
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1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
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1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force began to fire-bomb Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
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1945 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
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1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the US-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
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1946 - The Bank of England is nationalized.
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1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
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1949 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes.
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1949 - The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
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1952 - 1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway.
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1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized (Berkeley, California).
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1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
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1966 - Australian currency is decimalized.
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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.
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1980 - 1980 Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
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1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from CBS Evening News.
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1985 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
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1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
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1989 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
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1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
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1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
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2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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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.
Births
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1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder of the Moghul dynasty (d. 1530)
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1766 - Thomas Malthus, economist (d. 1834)
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1819 - Joshua A. Norton, Emperor Norton I of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico (d. 1880)
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1847 - Anna Howard Shaw , women's suffrage leader (d. 1919)
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1856 - Frank Harris, author and editor (d. 1931)
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1869 - Charles Wilson, physicist (d. 1959)
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1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
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1890 - Nina Hamnett, artist (d. 1956)
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1894 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974)
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1895 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
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1898 - Fritz Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
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1905 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1969)
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1911 - Willem Kolff , Dutch inventor
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1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croat explorer (d. 1988)
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1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, labor union leader (d. 1975 (disappeared))
- 1913 - Mel Allen, sports reporter (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Woody Hayes, American college football coach (d. 1987)
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1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
- 1916 - Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
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1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman, biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985
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1921 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist
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1927 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress
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1929 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982)
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1931 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
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1932 - Alexander Kluge, actor and film director
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1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
- 1934 - Florence Henderson, American television actress
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1936 - Fanne Foxe, erotic dancer
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1941 - Paul Tsongas, former United States Senator (d. 1997)
- 1941 - Donna Shalala, American politician, educator
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1942 - Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
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1943 - Maceo Parker, musician (P-Funk)
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1944 - Alan Parker, director, writer
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1944 - Carl Bernstein, journalist
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1945 - Frank Welker, American actor
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1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, former president of Nauru (d. 2003)
- 1946 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003)
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1948 - Raymond Teller, magician (Penn and Teller)
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1959 - Renee Fleming, Canadian soprano
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1960 - Jim Kelly, American football quarterback
- 1960 - Meg Tilly, Canadian actress
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1962 - Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist
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1963 - Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
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1968 - Jules Asner, model, television personality
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1970 - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor
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1971 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
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1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football quarterback
- 1972 - Rob Thomas, musician (matchbox twenty), television producer
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1973 - Steve McNair, American football quarterback
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1978 - Richard Hamilton, basketball player
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1980 - Fatima Leyva, Mexican women's soccer player
Deaths
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1400 - King Richard II of England murdered (b. 1367)
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1405 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch and conqueror (b. 1336)
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1523 - Pope Adrian VI, a Pope
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1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
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1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
- 1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor and machine tool-maker (b. 1771)
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1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
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1943 - David Hilbert, mathematician (b. 1862)
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1959 - Baby Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1898)
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1969 - Vito Genovese, gangster (b. 1897)
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1970 - Herbert Strudwick, champion Surrey and England wicket-keeper (b. 1880).
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1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, writer (b. 1881)
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1979 - Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
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1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
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1988 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
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1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist and the namesake of the fictional spy James Bond (b. 1900)
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1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
- 1994 - Michael Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
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1999 - John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor (b. 1925)
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2000 - Tony Bettenhausen, Jr. , American Formula One driver
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2003 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
- 2003 - Johnny Longden, jockey (b. 1907)
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2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Tour-de-France winner (b. 1970)
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2005 - Lebanese former PM Rafik Hariri killed in a car bombing in Beirut
Holidays and observances
External links
February 13 - February 15 - January 14 - March 14 -- historical anniversaries
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