
14 February is the 45 (number)th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 320 days remaining, 321 in leap years. ==Events== * 1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor as King of Germany. * 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heresy. * 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont * 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * 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 (1797) near Gibraltar. * 1803 - Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall declares that any act of Congress of the United States which conflicts with the United States Constitution is void. * 1804 - Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. * 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, Louisiana and Marshall, Texas is completed. * 1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. So did Elisha Gray. * 1879 - The War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta. * 1895 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St James's Theatre in London). * 1899 - Voting machines are approved by the Congress of the United States for use in federal elections. * 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country. * 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 United Kingdom troops invade the Orange Free State. * 1903 - The United States Department of Commerce is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and United States Department of Labor). * 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. * 1912 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned. * 1918 - The movie ''Tarzan of the Apes'' is released. * 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar). * 1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago. * 1924 - International Business Machines corporation founded. * 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago. * 1943 - World War II:Rostov, Russia is liberated. * 1943 - World War II: The Battle of the Kasserine Pass - Germany General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia. * 1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java (island). * 1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The United Kingdom Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force began to fire-bomb Dresden, the capital of the Germany state of Saxony. * 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 US-Saudi diplomatic relationship. * 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 (Israeli parliament) first convenes. * 1949 - The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. * 1952 - 1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway. * 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized (Berkeley, California). * 1962 - First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House. * 1966 - Australia currency is decimalisation. * 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 - 1980 Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York. * 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from CBS Evening News. * 1985 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon. * 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. * 1989 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses (novel), Salman Rushdie. * 1989 - The first of 24 satellites 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 entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. * 2004 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal Park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. ==Births== *1483 - Babur, founder of the Moghul dynasty (d. 1530) *1602 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676) *1766 - Thomas Malthus, economist (d. 1834) *1819 - Joshua A. Norton, Emperor Norton I of the United States and Protector of Mexico (d. 1880) *1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, women's suffrage leader (d. 1919) *1856 - Frank Harris, author and editor (d. 1931) *1869 - Charles Wilson (physicist), physicist (d. 1959) *1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972) *1890 - Nina Hamnett, artist (d. 1956) *1894 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974) *1895 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973) *1898 - Fritz Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (d. 1974) *1903 - Stuart Erwin, actor (d. 1967) *1905 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1969) *1911 - Willem Kolff, Dutch inventor *1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croat explorer (d. 1988) *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) *1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, director * 1916 - Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974) *1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman, biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985 *1921 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist *1927 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress *1929 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982) *1931 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005) *1932 - Alexander Kluge, actor and film director *1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor * 1934 - Florence Henderson, American television actress *1936 - Fanne Foxe, erotic dancer * 1936 - Andrew Prine, actor *1941 - Paul Tsongas, former United States Senator (d. 1997) * 1941 - Donna Shalala, American politician, educator *1942 - Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City *1943 - Maceo Parker, musician (P-Funk) *1944 - Alan Parker, director, writer *1944 - Carl Bernstein, journalist *1945 - Frank Welker, American actor *1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, former president of Nauru (d. 2003) * 1946 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003) *1948 - Raymond Teller, magician (Penn and Teller) * 1948 - Pat O'Brien (sports commentator), TV sportcaster and host *1956 - Ken Wahl, actor *1959 - Renee Fleming, Canadian soprano *1960 - Jim Kelly, American football quarterback * 1960 - Meg Tilly, Canadian actress *1962 - Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist *1963 - Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor * 1963 - Zach Galligan, actor, starred in ''Gremlins'' *1967 - Manuela Maleeva, tennis player *1968 - Jules Asner, model, television personality *1970 - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor *1971 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer *1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football quarterback * 1972 - Rob Thomas (musician), musician (matchbox twenty) *1973 - Steve McNair, American football quarterback *1978 - Richard Hamilton (basketball), basketball player *1980 - Fatima Leyva, Mexico women's Association football player ==Deaths== *1400 - King Richard II of England murdered (b. 1367) *1405 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch and conqueror (b. 1336) *1523 - Pope Adrian VI, a Pope *1779 - James Cook, Kingdom of Great Britain naval captain and explorer (b. 1728) *1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782) *1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor and machine tool-maker (b. 1771) *1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875) *1943 - David Hilbert, mathematician (b. 1862) *1959 - Baby Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1898) *1969 - Vito Genovese, gangster (b. 1897) *1970 - Herbert Strudwick, champion Surrey and England wicket-keeper (b. 1880). *1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887) *1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, 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 (ornithologist), American ornithologist and namesake of the fictional spy (b. 1900) *1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936) *1994 - Michael Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923) *1999 - John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor (b. 1925) *2000 - Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., American Formula One driver *2003 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal (b. 1996) *2003 - Johnny Longden, jockey (b. 1907) *2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Tour-de-France winner (b. 1970) *2005 - Lebanese former PM Rafik Hariri killed in a car bombing in Beirut *2005 - Najai Turpin, boxer and contestant on The Contender (television series) ==Holidays and observances== *Denmark - Gaekkebrev - gift exchange by school kids *Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831) *Arizona - Admission Day (1912) *Oregon - Admission Day (1859) *International - Valentine's Day *Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Valentine *Catholicism - Feast day of Saints Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/2/14 Today in History: February 14] ---- February 13 - February 15 - January 14 - March 14 -- historical anniversaries ga:14 Feabhra simple:14 February
--User:Maveric149 22:56, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:February 14 selected anniversaries - Template talk:February 14 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:February_14_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- The birthday entry 1987 - Jon Herms, American Republican, pretty funny guy, witty was removed. Google turns up nobody notable with this name. --User:GaidinBDJ 13:20, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC) : Yeah, we often get vain vandals .... -- User:PFHLai 17:05, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC) ---- Someone needs to add the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797. : Done. -- User:PFHLai 17:04, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
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14 February is the 45 (number)th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 320 days remaining, 321 in leap years. ==Events== * 1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor as King of Germany. * 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heresy. * 1575 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont * 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * 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 (1797) near Gibraltar. * 1803 - Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall declares that any act of Congress of the United States which conflicts with the United States Constitution is void. * 1804 - Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. * 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, Louisiana and Marshall, Texas is completed. * 1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. So did Elisha Gray. * 1879 - The War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta. * 1895 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St James's Theatre in London). * 1899 - Voting machines are approved by the Congress of the United States for use in federal elections. * 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country. * 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 United Kingdom troops invade the Orange Free State. * 1903 - The United States Department of Commerce is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and United States Department of Labor). * 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state. * 1912 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned. * 1918 - The movie ''Tarzan of the Apes'' is released. * 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar). * 1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago. * 1924 - International Business Machines corporation founded. * 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago. * 1943 - World War II:Rostov, Russia is liberated. * 1943 - World War II: The Battle of the Kasserine Pass - Germany General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia. * 1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java (island). * 1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The United Kingdom Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force began to fire-bomb Dresden, the capital of the Germany state of Saxony. * 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 US-Saudi diplomatic relationship. * 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 (Israeli parliament) first convenes. * 1949 - The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec. * 1952 - 1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway. * 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized (Berkeley, California). * 1962 - First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House. * 1966 - Australia currency is decimalisation. * 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 - 1980 Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York. * 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from CBS Evening News. * 1985 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon. * 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. * 1989 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses (novel), Salman Rushdie. * 1989 - The first of 24 satellites 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 entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. * 2004 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal Park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others. ==Births== *1483 - Babur, founder of the Moghul dynasty (d. 1530) *1602 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676) *1766 - Thomas Malthus, economist (d. 1834) *1819 - Joshua A. Norton, Emperor Norton I of the United States and Protector of Mexico (d. 1880) *1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, women's suffrage leader (d. 1919) *1856 - Frank Harris, author and editor (d. 1931) *1869 - Charles Wilson (physicist), physicist (d. 1959) *1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972) *1890 - Nina Hamnett, artist (d. 1956) *1894 - Jack Benny, actor, comedian (d. 1974) *1895 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973) *1898 - Fritz Zwicky, physicist and astronomer (d. 1974) *1903 - Stuart Erwin, actor (d. 1967) *1905 - Thelma Ritter, actress (d. 1969) *1911 - Willem Kolff, Dutch inventor *1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croat explorer (d. 1988) *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) *1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, director * 1916 - Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974) *1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman, biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985 *1921 - Hugh Downs, game show host, journalist *1927 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress *1929 - Vic Morrow, actor (d. 1982) *1931 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005) *1932 - Alexander Kluge, actor and film director *1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor * 1934 - Florence Henderson, American television actress *1936 - Fanne Foxe, erotic dancer * 1936 - Andrew Prine, actor *1941 - Paul Tsongas, former United States Senator (d. 1997) * 1941 - Donna Shalala, American politician, educator *1942 - Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City *1943 - Maceo Parker, musician (P-Funk) *1944 - Alan Parker, director, writer *1944 - Carl Bernstein, journalist *1945 - Frank Welker, American actor *1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, former president of Nauru (d. 2003) * 1946 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003) *1948 - Raymond Teller, magician (Penn and Teller) * 1948 - Pat O'Brien (sports commentator), TV sportcaster and host *1956 - Ken Wahl, actor *1959 - Renee Fleming, Canadian soprano *1960 - Jim Kelly, American football quarterback * 1960 - Meg Tilly, Canadian actress *1962 - Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist *1963 - Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor * 1963 - Zach Galligan, actor, starred in ''Gremlins'' *1967 - Manuela Maleeva, tennis player *1968 - Jules Asner, model, television personality *1970 - Simon Pegg, comedian, writer and actor *1971 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer *1972 - Drew Bledsoe, American football quarterback * 1972 - Rob Thomas (musician), musician (matchbox twenty) *1973 - Steve McNair, American football quarterback *1978 - Richard Hamilton (basketball), basketball player *1980 - Fatima Leyva, Mexico women's Association football player ==Deaths== *1400 - King Richard II of England murdered (b. 1367) *1405 - Timur (aka Tamerlane), Mongol monarch and conqueror (b. 1336) *1523 - Pope Adrian VI, a Pope *1779 - James Cook, Kingdom of Great Britain naval captain and explorer (b. 1728) *1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782) *1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor and machine tool-maker (b. 1771) *1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875) *1943 - David Hilbert, mathematician (b. 1862) *1959 - Baby Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1898) *1969 - Vito Genovese, gangster (b. 1897) *1970 - Herbert Strudwick, champion Surrey and England wicket-keeper (b. 1880). *1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887) *1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, 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 (ornithologist), American ornithologist and namesake of the fictional spy (b. 1900) *1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936) *1994 - Michael Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923) *1999 - John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor (b. 1925) *2000 - Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., American Formula One driver *2003 - Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal (b. 1996) *2003 - Johnny Longden, jockey (b. 1907) *2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Tour-de-France winner (b. 1970) *2005 - Lebanese former PM Rafik Hariri killed in a car bombing in Beirut *2005 - Najai Turpin, boxer and contestant on The Contender (television series) ==Holidays and observances== *Denmark - Gaekkebrev - gift exchange by school kids *Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831) *Arizona - Admission Day (1912) *Oregon - Admission Day (1859) *International - Valentine's Day *Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Valentine *Catholicism - Feast day of Saints Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/2/14 Today in History: February 14] ---- February 13 - February 15 - January 14 - March 14 -- historical anniversaries ga:14 Feabhra simple:14 February
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--User:Maveric149 22:56, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:February 14 selected anniversaries - Template talk:February 14 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:February_14_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- The birthday entry 1987 - Jon Herms, American Republican, pretty funny guy, witty was removed. Google turns up nobody notable with this name. --User:GaidinBDJ 13:20, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC) : Yeah, we often get vain vandals .... -- User:PFHLai 17:05, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC) ---- Someone needs to add the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797. : Done. -- User:PFHLai 17:04, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)
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